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Are about getting the base out and the republican base has not been fired up since 2004 and now they're fired up this year and democrats don't have a strong candidate in alaska, so it looks like who ever would win the primary would go on to win. there's expectation murkowski could run as an independent. it's causing some problems but in november turnout is going to be key and if you look at the enthusiasm gap between republicans and democrats, republicans are the ones fired up, the democrats are the ones deflated, even though president obama has accomplished much of his agenda. jon: isn't it t...

Undoing. i don't know if he will have to step down or anybody needs to have him step down. jim clyburn had an african-american return against him, joe wilson's campaign consultants managed his campaign. he got contributions from republicans. we receive this republican effort to interfere in the democrat nominating process. this could be one more effort on the part of not dawson, but some of the crazy people in the republican party. shannon: representative wilson's campaign manager says representative wilson is his only clients. he seems to be suggesting that's not the case. i want to ask you, ...

Years, conservatives as well as liberals, she spent so many years being careful, trying not to say anything on the controversial topics, she did write an article about the nominating process, itself, where she criticized. >> bret: there it is. the quote. 1995. "the current confirmation mess derives not from the role the senate assumes in evaluating judge bork but the subsequent abandonment of the role and function. when the senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues it takes on an air of farce and the senate becomes incapable of evaluating nominees or educating t...

Sure we can tell a lot. it is the unofficial start of the 2012 election and i think you see the g.o.p. in a stronger position on the generic ballot, 46-38 and whoever we put up against barack obama will have a strong showing, after passing historic health care legislation, the numbers are not where they should be for democrats, particularly, obama at a historic low, 45%. martha: it is interesting, bob, in some ways we're getting close to the election, look at things in political terms and other ways it is a long way away in terms of what could be happening in the economy by the time the decisi...

H.w. bush nominated senator john tower to be secretary of defense. deep into john tower's nominating process, serious allegations came forward about tower's personal life, including infidelity and particularly allegations about excessive drinking. in both the clarence thomas case and the john tower case, it was an absolutely mundane noncontroversial part of those controversies that went late allegations emerged about those nominees, as part of the fbi standard role in doing background investigations on nominees, in both of those case, the fbi reopened those background investigations and looked...