Blasio now the mayor of new york city. de blasio draws all eyes to new york city lab, populist ideas. what s going on in democratic politics? the idealogy of both parties is disappearing, i think, and now we re seeing a move here where the democratic party is more united in what it stands for these days. it has moved to the left a little bit in the same way the republican party, which used to have idealogical adversity inside the party, liberal republicans, conserving republicans, were seeing one idealogy inside the republican umbrella. i think that s what s going on in the republican party. the question is, where we have much more stark choices i remember in 2000, gore and bush were trying to sound like the same candidate, and i think that s why we ended up am a tie. we have not had this clear of a
Blasio now the mayor of new york city. de blasio draws all eyes to new york city lab, populist ideas. what s going on in democratic politics? the idealogy of both parties is disappearing, i think, and now we re seeing a move here where the democratic party is more united in what it stands for these days. it has moved to the left a little bit in the same way the republican party, which used to have idealogical adversity inside the party, liberal republicans, conserving republicans, were seeing one idealogy inside the republican umbrella. i think that s what s going on in the republican party. the question is, where we have much more stark choices i remember in 2000, gore and bush were trying to sound like the same candidate, and i think that s why we ended up am a tie.
the idealogy of both parties is disappearing, i think, and now we re seeing a move here where the democratic party is more united in what it stands for these days. it has moved to the left a little bit in the same way the republican party, which used to have idealogical adversity inside the party, liberal republicans, conserving republicans, were seeing one idealogy inside the republican umbrella. i think that s what s going on in the republican party. the question is, where we have much more stark choices i remember in 2000, gore and bush were trying to sound like the same candidate, and i think that s why we ended up in a tie. we have not had this clear of a divide between the two parties idealogically, perhaps, in a couple generations. what does that mean? i think it means the gridlock we get in washington because it s so hard to find compromise when you re so far apart. here s de blasio talking about some of the inequality he
Work with a democratic president to create something and build something that has helped america for the last 50 years. we know that our medical care system, including our insurance system, needs reform. obama took the republican plan, not the public plan, not the so called socialized medicine plan, bill, and he built this thing that is going to work out over time and we re going to get it right eventually. okay, bill. franklin roosevelt is rolling over in his grave to be compared to barack obama. franklin roosevelt was a serious legislator who had southern democrats, liberal republicans. people who thought you couldn t manage congress. he proved he could. won a huge re-election victory and huge off year legislative victories. barack obama lost the democratic majority in both houses of congress in 2010. couldn t get a democratic house in 2012. thank god from a conservative point of view that barack obama is no franklin roosevelt. gene robinson, i heard you chiming in. you ve written a piece that
Say, conservative democrats left. they were voted out of office. right. jon: there aren t a lot of liberal republicans left. yeah. i think that s exactly right. and i would expect to see particular particularly on the republican side the people who were elected in 2010 as part of the big tea party surge to continue to vote the way that they believe that their constituents wanted them to vote when they were sent to washington. i mean, some of the reasons people forget this. you go back, and everybody s fond of saying elections have consequences in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election, but, of course, elections have consequences going back to 2010 as well. and these are people who were voted, sent to washington in order to, in effect, to blow things up, to do things differently. so it s not necessarily surprising that you got these conservatives in the house of representatives who are saying, you know what? i told my constituents that i would read every bill that s presented to the house of representatives. we take three days to do this. and when that doesn t happen, you can bet i m going to raise a stink. i think that s a healthy impulse. if you look at what business as
Of the vote, as has economic reality and war and peace and major scandal and other fundamental factors. but i do think we re more polarized today than we have been before. i do think a much larger percentage of the electorate has decided well in advance of an election. there have been other periods like this in american history, but think about most of the past centu century, the 20th century, for example. you had loads of conservative democrats who could either stick with their party or defect to the republicans. you had loads of liberal republicans who could stick with their party or defect to the democrats. hey, there are almost no conservative democrats left, almost no liberal republicans left. so you don t have the same kinds of fundamental effects within the general electorate that can produce a major shift even at the end of a race. paul, do campaigns recognize what you ve written about here? do they ever of think the fruits of all of their labor, all the money poured into the political
From going to college. your successful neighbor pays lots of taxes to subsidize the system. nowhere before we are told that because your neighbor has a nicer car than you he must have stolen it outs of your drive way it s the kind of garbage you hear in europe all the time. there it is, he s not one of us, he s european, he s not really and american. obama has a european kwrad about stuff. what enables people to go to college are pell grants pushed by liberal republicans and democrats. what enable people to go to college are tax incentives and pay back loans easier, that s what obama has done in this country. megyn: good debate. thank you both. a stunning increase in the number of americans now on food stamps, on the number is only expected to go up. stu varney is here with the disturbing new record. a new book promises to blow the lid off of fast and furious,
Republicans, i m a liberal. pretty dramatic. based on a social a social context, not necessarily an economic one. that s what you say? foreign policy. you believe that social noneconomics? i want to see how many are voting here. a number. people who identify who are registered and identified as republican republicans, much more conservative in the past. i think a tree glows brooklyn here, something we didn t expect, liberal republicans, thank you, rachel, they doak cyst. this dough exist, we have found them today. and you know, looking ahead to what we are going to learn tonight, 20 points was the margin by which john mccain won voters in 2008 in the republican primary who cared most about the economy. if you cared most about the economy, by 20 points, you went for john mccain where are those voters going tonight in new hampshire? we have got the chief strategist from the mccain campaign on our panel here in new york, hearing from steve schmidt and the rest of our panel, plus a top romney supporter around one-time rival,
Candidate. well, there is a clear female candidate but she only got 5% of the vote. you know, because gender really wasn t an issue. she didn t have an explicit appeal to women or issue discussion that particularly appealed to them. did she make the issue, you know, i m the woman in this race too late? because she was making that argument. she made it late. i think that message didn t come through. all right. and real quickly, the headline about ron paul is who voted for him? huge! he had those who said they were for the true conservative and he had moderates, liberal republicans and those who hadn t voted in caucuses before, steve, it s a story that s developing. we ll have to watch it in new hampshire, south carolina, and florida. very good. thank you very much for breaking down the numbers today. thank you. you bet. all right, straight ahead on this wednesday, he orchestrated the comeback of president bill clinton so does dick morris think that newt gingrich can do the same thing after abysmal
Candidate. well, there is a clear female candidate but she only got 5% of the vote. you know, because gender really wasn t an issue. she didn t have an explicit appeal to women or issue discussion that particularly appealed to them. did she make the issue, you know, i m the woman in this race too late? because she was making that argument. she made it late. i think that message didn t come through. all right. and real quickly, the headline about ron paul is who voted for him? huge! he had those who said they were for the true conservative and he had moderates, liberal republicans and those who hadn t voted in caucuses before, steve, it s a story that s developing. we ll have to watch it in new hampshire, south carolina, and florida. very good. thank you very much for breaking down the numbers today. thank you. you bet. all right, straight ahead on this wednesday, he orchestrated the comeback of president bill clinton so does dick morris think that newt gingrich can do the same thing after abysmal