temporarily averted, president obama made it clear, one of his next big priorities is to get an immigration bill passed. we should finish the job of fixing our broken immigration system. there s already a broad coalition across america that s behind this effort of comprehensive immigration reform from business leaders to faith leaders to law enforcement. senate bill, the senate rather passed a bill earlier this year that creates a path to citizenship for the estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the united states. also allows more high skilled workers to get visas. it also boosts security oo along the u.s.-mexican border. republicans in the house have their own plan and want to deal with it more piecemeal, if you will. maria cordona is a political strategist, adolpho is a former spokesman for the romney/ryan ticket.
we have one house. that s it. a lot of people are putting forth a theory. i actually think it has merit, when you give the president the 2% increase that he s talking about, the rate increase on the top 2%. all of the sudden, the shift goes back to entitlements. is that what happens, dave? you ve heard that described in some quarters as a doomsday strategy, although it s quite good for republicans. they would basically punt, like he described it, on tax rates and say that in january, now that we ve given you what you campaigned nont eed on in two e. they think they have a better argument now. republican pollsters will point out that the senior citizens who are told by many a campaign ad that paul ryan and mitt romney would kill medicare voted for the romney/ryan ticket.
in. that s unusual that a republican would be elected. yet statewide, he was not able to persuade the people to go on the romney/ryan ticket. right. five of eight congressional ticks went solidly republican. only three went democrat. yet, statewide, a democrat won the senate and the president was re-leaked, yet, in fact the last time a republican won in wisconsin, it was close in 2000 and 2004, the last time a republican won was 1984 with ronald reagan. last night, my youngest son, now literally older than i was the last time a republican won in the state of wisconsin. we will see about the future. but it s one of those where we are very, very independent. it is true in wisconsin. you know, it will be interesting. i obviously supported mitt romney and paul ryan. but the other interesting aside from this. i said long before the presidential liquids, as important as it was, that states, state by state was going to make the difference. now we are up to 30 republican
so imagine how this went over this week in the romney campaign. publically, the romney campaign is on their we re going to win tour. we re even going to win pennsylvania tour. that s what they are saying publically. that s their public message. meanwhile the associated press publishes a story that s eerily similar to the sarah palin s post-election defeat plan. this time it s paul ryan whose future is being leaked about by his supporters who are fairly, clearly assuming that they are about to lose and they need to think of something else for paul ryan to do because he s not going to be business i si as vice president. publically ryan and allies maintain that momentum is behind the romney/ryan ticket, but his biggest boosters realize he can write his own ticket. these allies spoke on the condition to discuss private
camp. so imagine how this went over this week in the romney campaign. publically, the romney campaign is on their we re going to win tour. we re even going to win pennsylvania tour. that s what they are saying publically. that s their public message. meanwhile the associated press publishes a story that s eerily similar to the sarah palin s post-election defeat plan. this time it s paul ryan whose future is being leaked about by his supporters who are fairly, clearly assuming that they are about to lose and they need to think of something else for paul ryan to do because he s not going to be busy as vice president. publically ryan and allies maintain that momentum is behind the romney/ryan ticket, but his biggest boosters realize he can write his own ticket. these allies spoke on the condition to discuss private proposals they were preparing