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Economy. there is that famous james carville quote which remains in our heads because, you know, it s the economy, stupid. but the stupid part, using stupid as the direct address element, is important because there is nothing else that matters in an election like this. and in 1994 when the democrats lost everything, they lost the house, they lost the senate, no one saw it coming. there is no pundit who can raise his hand and say, i predicted that the republicans were going to win the house and the senate. all of the indicators now are worse. and the economy s much worse. the unemployment rate is 50% higher than it was when the democrats lost everything in 94. you know, you re interviewing vice president biden tonight. what is it? give us a teaser question here. what is an answer out of him that you re trying to get for your viewers tonight that you re thinking, you know what? i haven t heard this out of the obama/biden administration? he does have jurisdiction over looking over th ....
Together to do for all kid what we know is possible, thanks to the example of numbers of charter schools and growing numbers of traditional schools as well. it was so difficult, my mom taught for 25 years in an inner city school, very, very difficult to get resources. also the union was an important component in being able to help all of these students here. talk about unions and how they re working with teachers to achieve what you d like to achieve. well, ooh think ultimately, you know unions cropped up initially to represent, as you say, the interests of some of the most fundamental people in the picture, our teachers. i think what s happens is we ve got a deeply systemic problem here where, as i mentioned, kids face extra challenges and they re showing up at school systems that arguably haven t had the mission historically of putting kids who face extra challenges on a level playing field. so we ve got to move beyond blaming any one group in the system. i think what we re seein ....
That s not me. that is not me. i am not a perfect man, but this thing, i m going to fight. i feel like david against goliath, but i got five rocks and i haven t thrown one yet. traveling to georgia to attend sunday s sermons, she s here with us, professor of the university of pennsylvania who special identifies in african-american religious history. also edward wycoff williams an analyst, contributor to thegrio.com. i want to start with what the reaction was at the sermon yesterday. listen to some parishioners and what they said after bishop long finished his message. he never said anything specific about the situation. he just said that i guess you ....
reporter: in addition to complaining about the impact that the oil has had on tourism and the fishing industry and even the oil industry, she says that she misses the things of every day life that she once took for granted, even used to complain about, what she describes as her rut. she says she wants her rut back, jon. jon: you ve got the tests on hold, you ve got the oil still gushing, what are they doing about it? reporter: they are calling for additional skimmers into the area to deal with the additional oil that they anticipate will continue gushing out of that weapon. they haven t offered any guarantees as to when the testing will begin or when even the attempts to shut down the cap on the well will begin, so they are calling in additional vessels to deal with collect being the oil as it rises to the surface, jon. jon: jonathan serrie in grand isle, louisiana for us, thank you. jenna: we talked a lot about this it s one of the world s ....
George bush. you don t want to go back to the time of george bush. the problem is that s two years ago at the time of the election and people are tpoeb used on unemployment numbers, on the unpopular legislation as it s going to be a really hard message to sell. jon: doug, you re a pollster, 37 seats would need to change hands in order for republicans to take over, do you see that many as being within striking distance for republicans. i do, they are within striking distance. kate makes a very good point. elections are choices. do you want the democrats who arguably haven t done as well as anyone would have want he them to do or go back to the failed policies of the past? that s what the election is going to be about. so robert gibbs should focus more on the choice at hand and the republicans really haven t put forward an alternative platform yet, what their strategy is on jobs and revitalizing the economy. so before we put the election to bed let s have an election, let s have a cont ....