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and bret, it s not just congressman debby wasserman schultz who is feeling bullish, house speaker nancy pelosi, is sure she will maintain her position, so are they reading different numbers or just optimistic talk? part of it, alisyn, is optimistic spin, trying to fire up the base, trying to get folks out to the polls because the key thing is the ground game for both parties to be able to get your folks out to vote, and with the thought of republicans and the enthusiasm on the republican side, really, going to be a wave. the question is whether it will be a ripple or a tsunami and democrats are trying to, trying to stoke their partisan base to see if they can get them out. according to harvard, the enthusiasm gap right now is 57% for republicans, 43% for democrats and the tea party off the charts. i want to ask you, you also have eric cantor on today s show. ....
good morning, bret. let s ask you about that. you re speaking with debby wa wasserman schultz, democrats are on the march, but the new york times saying not so fast. not just the new york times, the nonpartisan handicapping organization is looking at all of these races across the country. and just friday they moved 12inp to lean republican and republican from tossup down in new orleans. he s the sole hope, really, of, or one of the only hopes of democrats to pick off a republican incumbent. but, political reporters are well respected and moving the other way and we re going to ask debby wasserman schultz about the enthusiasm gap and her depiction of it as we re just 23 days from a big mid term election. ....
Losing control of the house and senate. that s the bottom line. that s where president obama comes in today is the second of four big campaign rallies, headlining president obama, like the one in madison, last month. you see the crowd about 17,000 people showed up. the idea is to try to relight the fire that got president obama elected. transferred to dems on november 2nd. joining the president today in philly will be vice-president joe biden, a rare onto appearance by them. they have some work to do. a new poll out by the washington post and harvard university highlights the challenge and it finds tea party supporters and conservative voters, the most energized for the mid terms with just 22% of democrats saying they re evening interested in this election and get this, only 17% of liberal democrats saying they re interested. so, those are the folks the president will be talking to today in philly. back to you guys. thanks so much, julie. yeah, and it s interesting that he s going ....
Groups are going to control this election. is that fair? probably not. i don t buy any of these figures. i think that both parties are going to end up with way more money we re hearing from either side mainly because of the third part from the citizen united thing and it s apparent that the third party ad we ve seen an explosion in these things this year and this is raising the ante for both parties and i don t think we re ever going to get a good accounting from either party. it s clear that s the tone, what they want to tell the democrats, they ve got to come out and beat the big conservative groups, is that accurate. it s not accurate. obama and dems are bamboozling voters. you ve got to put your money out on the vote. trying to energy. energy the base. and it s surprising to find out the democrat have jut spent the republicans, in the ....
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