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There are three congressional districts in play here that you should watch closely on Election Night in order to see how the rest of the country will vote.
Yes, he held firm on independents but he's upside down with independents. that's a problem because that was a huge part of his winning coalition. >> let's put the president up here with an approval rating. president bush was 88%. obama was at 55% at this point in his first year. they lost 67 seats in the obama midterm. joe biden was 50%, cloint 47%, and trump lost a ton. if we do something, we can get that up to 52 or 53. we live in a very different climate next year than we do if it's at 50 or it starts sliding the other direction. >> and you're happy to sit between two democratic presidents ...
Because you were born with a thyroid condition or you had a lump taken out of your breast or you have diabetes or arthritis or something. so it's real health insurance for real people that you can actually use that covers tens of millions more people in this country. oh, the horror. that's what republicans decided was the end of the world when barack obama was president. that's a big part of how they did so exceedingly well in the 2010 midterms. well, now, we're about to have the next first midterm election following a new president being elected, and now here is the problem for republicans. h...
An icon of the civil rights movement, targeted near the capitol by opponents of health care reform. >> last time i saw anything like that was back in 1960. >> in a separate incident, representative barney frank, who is openly gay, was heckled with anti-gay slurs. >> i'm not a lobbyist with all kind of money to stuff in your pocket. >> debates have been especially passionate from the start. raucous town halls, talk of death panels, and a chance to bring the president down. a bunch of finger-pointing at the so-called tea party movement, antitax hikes and big government, and today insisting its l...
Anti-gay slurs. >> i'm not a lobbyist with all kind of money to stuff in your pocket. >> debates have been especially passionate from the start. raucous town halls, talk of death panels, and a chance to bring the president down. a bunch of finger-pointing at the so-called tea party movement, antitax hikes and big government, and today insisting its loosely alined members have nothing to do with the slurs. that was 2010. heading into the first obama midterm, the first congressional election after barack obama was elected to the white house. and as i say, the pendulum was always poised to swing ...