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Before the election. We will be showing this again tonight at 8 00 eastern time tonight. Tune in on cspan. [general chatter] gov. Kasich fall is here. Good afternoon. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is a real pleasure to be here today in Old Town Hall in bow. I have been your quite a few times. Im sure not nearly as often as many of you in the audience. We appreciate you taking the time to come out for governor kasichs townhall meeting. I would like to begin by asking marge welch to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all. Thank you very much, marge. Thank you all for coming out. It is my pleasure to take just a moment to introduce someone im proud to call a great friend, john kasich. I was first ele ....
Day, howion for the enthusiastic are you about voting . 202 5853880. Republicans 202 5853881. Independents 202 5853882. And if youre outside the u. S. , 202 6280184. A very good sunday morning to you. Headlines in the pages today isut voter enthusiasm, here New York Times. The papers in minnesota, the star tribune the mood of voters , chile and uncertain. Gap gives the gop midterm momentum and this story from the wall street journal. Overstate voter enthusiasm, we want to bring in the reporter who wrote that story to talk about the issue of voter enthusiasm. You, heading into tuesday, which group of voters are more enthusiastic . If you look at people who are more enthusiastic come a these are people like men over the age of 50, tea Party Supporters, Senior Citizens across the board. That is particularly interesting beca ....
I had those little scissors. [laughter] listen, four years ago, the democrats lost the governors rate by 20 votes per precinct. 20 votes. 20. That was your cousin pookie not voting. That was jim, who was like drinking beer and setting up his fantasy football for next week, and he didnt vote. That is what happened. 20 votes could decide whether millions of hardworking pennsylvanians get the raise they deserve. Those 20 votes could decide whether teachers get the support they need and whether our kids get a fair shot. 20 votes. Your vote matters. It decides the course that pennsylvania will take, so i am not just asking you to vote, because i know all of you are going to vote. You have got to get involved. There are organizers here. As you are going out, you should try to hook up with them and talk to them about volunteering. Go to voteforpa. Com. Volunteer. Make some phone calls. Knock on some doors. Grab people you know. The election is too important to leave it to somebody else. It is ....
Throughout campaign 2014, cspan has brought you more than 130 candidate debates from across the country in races that will determine control of the next congress, and this tuesday night, watch cspans live Election Night coverage to see who wins, loses, and which party will control the house and senate. Our coverage will begin at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with results and analysis and also seek concessions speeches in some of the most closely watched senate races across the country. Throughout the night and into the morning, we went to hear from you with your calls, facebook comments, and tweets. 2014 Election Night coverage on cspan. Coming up next, two Campaign Events in pennsylvania. Kentucky senator rand paul and president obama in philadelphia. Republican senator rand paul was in pennsylvania on friday. He spoke at the ann ....
But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily see the wisdom in Winston Churchills famous comment that what he liked most about americans was that they usually did the right thing in the end. They just liked to exhaust all the alternatives first. Ive learned that stability is not a static phenomenon, and that regimes which do not offer their citizens a sense of political dignity and economic possibility ultimately become brittle and break. Ive learned that change in the middle eas ....