the civil rights act, voting rights act, medicare, education, a remarkable period. there were three elections. 58, 60 come and 62. there were 24 new members elected, 11 of the same party. you only had 11 seats the changed hands. if you compare the 1950s and 1960s, two decades juxtaposed, you get total different readings about their performance. a lot of things happen. the assassination of an american president, manages to muscle things through to get things done. things are always happening in our country. so before people run and decide that it s ever going to get better this is the worst time ever, we need remind ourselves there have been other periods and come back. each generation has to discover how it operates and functions in its time innocent. even with today the modern technologies that exist in information. i totally agree the awesome and dreadful responsibly of raising money for charities to get elected or reelected. i w
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captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) welcome to the report. thank you for joining us, everybody. stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) ed willees and gentlemen, thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. thank you, ladies an gentlemen, thank you for joining us. and more than that, ladies an gentlemen, thank you for feeling at me. (laughter) nation, we are less than five months away from picking our next president. and at this point, it s anybody s election. lucky ducky. oh, i m sorry, not anybody s, i m sorry, herrmann, either obama or romney s election. because the latest gallop poll has them separated by less than a percentage point. in 2004 we had an equal equally close race between bush and kerry. that year bush won because 11 states had anti-marriage ballot initiatives that drove conservatives to the polls. kuz nothing gets value
captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) welcome to the report. thank you for joining us, everybody. stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) ed willees and gentlemen, thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. thank you, ladies an gentlemen, thank you for joining us. and more than that, ladies an gentlemen, thank you for feeling at me. (laughter) nation, we are less than five months away from picking our next president. and at this point, it s anybody s election. lucky ducky. oh, i m sorry, not anybody s, i m sorry, herrmann, either obama or romney s election. because the latest gallop poll has them separated by less than a percentage point. in 2004 we had an equal equally close race between bush and kerry. that year bush won because 11 states had anti-marriage ballot initiatives that drove conservatives to the polls. kuz nothing gets value v