pressure on florida by taking the endangered species act out of the equation. if it will take aggressive action. it will take building reservoirs' as well. >> i would take that up next year. i think you have to do that. we had planned 17 reservoirs' north of the plant that when i was governor. we had funded the first. they would be complete by now if they had been followed through. there were canceled the first year after i left the governor's office. i think we have to get to this conservation effort. we need to have other kinds of storage facilities. what they that has not been taken up, the governor himself needs to have enough concern to get to the court and stand up and say, "your honor, this is our plan. this is what we are going to do. if we need you to appoint another mediator back and report directly to you to try to bring these parties together."

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and the governor's race. this from the chicago tribune -- tv attack ads field by out of state cash. rick pearson joins us on the fund from the chicago tribune thank you for being with us. guest: good morning. host: the present was campaigning yesterday and spent the night in his adopted home city of chicago, trying to push the democrats for alexa genoulias. what does this tell you about the democratic party and the obama presidency? guest: it's as awful lot about the conditions that exist in the white house about this predicted republican wave when the president has come back to his home town to quell that

enthusiasm gap that everybody sees for republicans. we have two very big races here in illinois. first is a highly symbolic race for his former u.s. senate race which is a very, very close race between the democrat and republican and you have a governor's race with governor pat quinn trying to combat the challenge from built brady. the governor's race is tainted by the rod but give it to impeachment and subsequent trial. it has been a democratic state. you have two races that are basically what our polling has shown in the margin of error. the white house is very much concerned. host: as you point out in the chicago tribune, $45 million is spent on chicago tv stations by outside groups. guest: not all that is by

outside groups but the bulk of that money has been by outside groups. that ranges from everything from the national congressional and senatorial campaign committee s two other groups that were co-founded by karl rove to the u.s. chamber of commerce. it is like everywhere else in the country, it has been virtually every local tv spot on any tv station. there is political ads and most of them are attack ads. host: president obama's reference to grant's heart. the president-elect declared victory over two years ago and he is asking for the magic to return. what happened? guest: in illinois and chicago like everywhere else, the story is the economy. you have an unemployment rate in

this state that is hovering around 10%. it has come down but still, it is all about the economy. quite frankly, i think the way the public gets his nose and the way technology has taken over, it is short attention span theatre. you basically had the president last night in chicago as he has during this series of weekend events all but asking for patience and give us two more years to fix the eggs. it is a question if the public as patients. in illinois, what we have seen in our polling is over last month, an enormous number of independent voters are shifting over and supporting republican candidates. i have a feeling that is really where the basis for these predictions of this republican waiver coming from very host: there are a lot of population

centers in illinois. if you take chicago and the suburbs, when the returns come in tuesday and you see the numbers come in, what will you be looking for and how will that give you an indication in the senate race of what night it will be for mark kirk vs. genoulias. >> the city of chicago is very democratic. you have the suburban cook county which does not include the chicago returns which had been republican but had flopped over to the democrats. you also have the six-county collar county area which are the ring counties outside chicago which are traditional republican but they have tended toward democrats. what i will look at, quite frankly, is suburban cook county. what we are hearing out there about early voting is that a number of early votes have been

casting their and they may be republican leaning. if that is the case, that is a symbol of what may be going on. we expected that the coward county republicans may turn out have a. . the city of chicago will turn out because we expect an enthusiasm that to occur there. in some wards, you have organizations that are already gearing up to try to the power brokers for the upcoming chicago mayoral election. many factors are at play here. host: that is another race and anotother issue and we will have

don't talk about that. it is crazy. host: thank you for the call. we're joined on the call from denver by a political reporter. a local race is the subject of a front-page story of "the denver post." the republican candidate and the democratic candidate who replaced ken salazar as the interior secretary. let me ask you about the influx of outside money. colorado has seen a huge amount, almost $30 million in this midterm election. guest: it has been something to behold. anybody in color of watches television has had a front-row seat.

it started back in our primary campaign. once the general election season kicked in, supporters for both candidates began to pour lots of money into both races. host: the voting takes place on tuesday, there is early voting in colorado. the governor's race is not -- has not generate as much interest as expected, why? guest: it generated quite a bit of interest early on when the governor decided not to seek reelection and the denver mayor gavin and a tea party candidate upset the former congressman scott mcinnis at the republican assembly. that was over the summer but there were a number of missteps which prompted tom tancredo to get into the race as an american constitution party candidate. initially, people looked at the race and thought it was not going to be competitive because

it was a three-horse contests. tom tancredo has cut the intodan mayes' support. he has polled 10% or less and tom tancredo has made it competitive. some polls have them within the margin of error and to the apartment sometimes has a 10% lead. host: what is the result of the turnout >> guest: the republicans we speak to are excited. i don't think it will have much impact. there are couple of races where there are other american constitution party candidates on the ballot. the fourth congressional district race between the incumbent and the republican challenger is one we will be looking at. it is how the american constitution party does there. it will be whether he pulls votes for himself. the secretary of state race

could be boon for the current secretary of state who was supported two years ago, a democrat. host: we're talking with a reporter from"the denver post." obama won in the greater denver area. that is an area that michael bennett has been focusing on for there was a cnn poll that indicated ken buck was doing better than expected in the suburbs outside of denver. what have you been seeing? guest: that as the frontline in this race. in almost always is in statewide elections in colorado. whoever wins the denver suburbs tend to win the race. republicans that i've spoken to feel very good about the male and early ballots they are seeking comment inarapho and jefferson county suburbs. thee republicans feel they have.

mr. strickland is at the podium. let's listen in. >> let me make a suggestion. we want health care for our people. we want jobs for our working families. we want a quality education for our children. we want affordable college for our young people. in ohio, we are grateful to the president and the vice president and senator brown and our democratic friends in the house of representatives.

they say the american auto industry. -- they saved in the american out of industry which saved thousands of jobs in ohio. we are grateful for resources that came to class so that we could hold down clege tuition. we are grateful for resources so we could educate our kids in quality schools. this is what has happened in ohio during this difficult recession. we have invested in education and we have competed and won a $400 million in funds from race to the top. we have competed for and won for her in million dollars to establish -- $400 million to create a passenger rail service

connecting our largest cities. we have passed an energy bill with renewable standards that is resulting in investments been made and jobs being created in ohio in the area of advanced energy. ohio is on the move. we have the sixth fastest economy in america. our unemployment has gone down every month for six consecutive -- six consecutive months. we must not -- we cannot -- or we will not turn back. [applause] a few more hours exist. on september -- november -- [laughter]

november 2nd when all the votes have been counted, ohio will remain a blue state. [cheers and applause] let me tell you a secret. let me tell you a secret. jon casey and mary taylor -- hear me out. they won the election in august. ted strickland will win in november. [cheers and applause] are you with us? will you work? will you believe?

will you vote? will you secure ohio and ohio's future? thank you for that. now it is my great privilege -- hear me out. i want you to hear the words that i am going to say. we have with us today the leaders of our nation. [applause] you will hear from the vice president and you will hear from the president. [applause] a few hours before this critical election, the vice president and

thpresident of the united states have come to cleveland, to ohio, and we are grateful. the vice president has traveled this nation and he has been to ohio many times. he is working hiheart out with the president to rebuild this nation, to get this ecomy back on track, to create jobs for our people, to make sure every american has access to health care. here in ohio we remember our friends. so, my friends, it is my pleasure to present to you the vice psident of the united states of america, vice- president joe biden. ♪

♪ ♪ >> hello, cleveland. hello, people. how are you doing, ladies? great to see you. man, i want to look like you when you girl. you were looking awfully good. great to be wi you. it is really good to be back in ohio with the best governor in the united states of america, to

read -- ted strickland. [applause] ted and i were raised at the same way, a simple proposition, really easy. you stick with the ones that brought you to the dance. they brought us to this dance, the president dan die. ted and i, we are here. back where i come from, cleveland is the kind of place on a much smaller scale from where i came from like i came from. it is the kind of people who are the backbone of this country. the kind of people who are just a straightforward, hard-working, play by the rules, and expected the other guy to play by the rules. [applause] is a state that because of gov.

strickland's leadership in columbus, a state that is on the march again. it is a state that has reestablished ielf as a global hunt for research, innovation, mafacturing like it used to be before the republicans took hold. all we need now is to keep ts momentum going. there's only one way to do that. that is for all of you that are here, you are the same people that made sure barack obama and i got to be on this stage today. we are asking you to the same thing you did for us. go out to your neighbors, sandy emails, make phone calls, knock on doors and make sure you are available to give people a ride it to the polls. i will tell you one thing -- if casey were to win this, the governor's mansion is going to be a very different place and

this momentum ted strickland has going will come to a screeching halt. that is no exaggeration. they want to do with the have always done. they have a whole different view of how people live. ladies and gentlemen, these guys want to continue to give tax breaks to companies to send their jobs to try now -- jobs to china. this is real. this is not just political talk. they do not think we should be giving tax credits for renewable energyay you can make the solar panels and reggie -- wind energy right here in ohio to create jobs. they do not think we should provide tax breaks to middle class families to help send kids to this great university.

that is what we are doing. they do not even want to make the middle class tax cut permanent unless we provide a $700 billion in tax cuts for their althy friends and a debt burden of $700 billion. mr. president, a lot of people here have been knocked down. they have been knocked down pretty hard by the economic policies supported by john, rob, and their republican friends. a lot of people have been hurt, but let me tell you something, mr. president. you know from being here, but these people are tough. these people do not stay down. i believe you all believe like i do in how i was raised. my dad used to say, "there's only one thing to do when you get knocked it down -- get up.

get up." when you get up, make sure the same thing does not knocking down again. [applause] we are getting out and we will make sure the bankrupt polies of the republican party did not knock us down again. we are getting out and we are sting up? to the leadership of president obama an because of thisreat governor, ted strickland. we are starting to get out of his god awful mess the republican party left us with the. we are creating jobs, making jobs -- making college afrdable, revving up arican research, finding new energy technology, and cures for disease. we are working. it is a distinctly american promise that the next generation will have a better than we had it been good we will leave our children and grandchildren

better off than what we inherited. mr. psident, it is because of you. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my partner, the president of united states of america barack obama. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> hello, cleveland.

hello, cleveland. [cheers and applause] thank you. are you fired up? it is good to be ba in cleveland. good to be back in ohio. it is great to be with a cwd that looks like it is fired up and ready to go. [cheers and applause] a few people i want to thank because they are doing outstanding work each and every day, the mayor of cleveland, thank you so much. thank you, frank. my dear friend, the attney general mr. cordray.

the state treasurer. some of the finest members of congress we have. congressman dennis kucinich. [applause] congresswoman die sutton. one of my favorite members of congress who cou not be here because she just had a baby yesterday -- well, his wife had a baby. [laughter] he is an outstanding young man and we expect to send him back to congress. his new baby girl's name is anna, by the way. -- emma.

i want to think the presidents of cleveland state university. -- think the president. [applause] i want to thank common for his wonderful performance. i want to thank congresswoman betty sutton who is in the house, i believe. is she he? hello, betty. and most of all, folks who will believ in -- leading ohio for many years to come, lt. gov. sher. [applause] and one of the finest governor's in this country, ted strickland. in the first lady frances strickland. [applause]

we are here for ted and lee and all the members of the congressional delegation. [crowd murmuring] marcia was not on the list. is she here? we love her. she is just not here, that is all. that is my girl. we were knowledge and those in the crowd, but we love her. she will do a great job. joe biden and dime -- i have been traveling all across the

country. there are a lot of places where we are doing a lot of great things. there are very few places where we are doing as much good work as we are doing right here in ohio. cleveland, in just two days you have the chance. [crowd chanting "yes we can."] [cheers and applause] >> i cannot hear you. did you just say, "yes we can"?

[crowd chanting] in two days, you have a chance toffect the state for years to come just a kid in 2008. you can confi conventional wisdom, the scale was dumb that says you cannot oveome the cynicism in our policy. you cannot overcome all the special interest and their money. you cannot tackle the biggest challenges in this country. in two days, you have the chance to once again say, "yes we can ." [applause] cleveland, there is no doubt that this is a difficult election. that is because we have gone through an incredibly difficult

time as a nation. no one knows that more than the people in cleveland and the people of ohio. for most of the last decade, middle-class families have been struggling. this just did not startne year ago or two yrs ago. between 2001 and 2009, t average middle-class family saw there and comes across the country go down 5%. the other side was in charge. between 2001 and009, job growth was slower than any time since world war ii. meanwhile, the cost of everything from health care, sending a child to college, they kept going up and up. to many families could not send their kids to college. to many families could not go to the doctor when someone got

sick. to many americans were working two, three jobs and still could not make ends meet. a whole lot of people could not find a job at all. these problems were then compounded by the worst economic crisis, the worst financial crisis since the great depression. think about it. we had a recession that was so bad we lost 4 million jobs before joe and i were even sworn in office. then we had another 750,000 jobs lost in the month we took office. 600,000 jobs the month after that. 600,000 the month after that. almost 8 million jobs before our economic policies could be even put into place. when joe and i got to washington, our hope was that

both policy -- both parties uld put politics aside to meet this once in a generation challenge. although we are proud to be democrats, cleveland, we are prouder to be americans. [cheers and applause] we had confidee and continue to have confidence that there are republicans out there who feel the same way. the republican leaders in washington, well, they had a different calculation. their theory was, "you know what? the economy is so bad and we made such a mess of things that rather than cperate we will be better off just by saying to everything. we will be better off not even trying to fix the economy. people will get angry and frustrated, and maybe two yrs from now they will have forgotten we were the ones that caused this mess in the first place." [applause]

in other words, their basic political stregy has been to count on you having amnesia. [laughter] they are betting that all of you forgot how we got here. well, cleveland, it is up to you to let them know that we have not forgotten. it is up to you to remember that this election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading us out of it. if they win this election the chair of a republican campaign committee promised to pursue the same agenda they pursued bore i came into office. we know what that agenda is. you can describe it very quickly.

you basically cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires. you cut rules for special interests. but then you cut middle-class families lose to fend for themselves. you do not have a job? tough luck. you do not have health care? too bad. you are on your own. you are a young person who cannot afford to go to college? yourself up by your own bootstraps. you are on your own. this is an idea, this notion of theirs, to turn a record surplus into record deficits. you hear them talking about cutting debt and deficit? these of the people who ran it up in the first place. these other people who allowed a wall street to run wild. these of the people who nearly destroyed our economy. -- these are the people whom nearly destroyed our economy. i do not want to relive the past.

we have be there before. we have tried what they are selling, and we are not going back. we are not going back. [cheers and applause] cleveland, imagine if the republicans were driving the economy like a car. they drove it into the ditch. this is a very deep, steep pitch. joe, ted, and i had put on our birds and -- boots and go down there. it's muddy, dusty, and hot. republicans fled the scene. [laughter] now they are on the street looking down.

we call them down the hall and they say, "no, that's all right." lurpies andnking s kicking dirt in the ditch but that's ok. we kept on pushing. we kept on pushing. we kept on pushing. [cheers] finally, we got that car back on the level ground. it is pointing in the right direction. it is a littleanged up and it needs to go to the body shop. it needs a tuneup. but at least at this point in the right direction. just as we are about to go, we look back and who is it? it is the republicans.

they say, "we want the keys back." cleveland, we cannot give them the keys back. they did not know how to drive. you cant give them the keys back. they can ride with us. we do not want to go back in the ditch heavier noticed when you want to go forward, what do do with your car? you put it in "d." when you go backwards what you do? you put it in "r." i do not know about you, but i want to go forward. [applause] because of the steps we have taken, we no longer face the possibility of a second of depression. the economy is growing again. e private sector has created jobs nine months in a row.

you heard ted describe his job record here in the state of ohio. massively expanding access to education, green and job growth, building infrastructure to put people back to work. that is at his record. -- that is his record. we have a way to go. i know there are a lot of people who are still hurting. i know there are families that are still hanging by a thread. it keeps me up at night. it keeps the show up at night. it kee ted up at night. that is what we are fighting to fix. you know what? the way to fix it is not to go

back to what got us here. it is to move forward with policies getting us out. [applause] ted, lee, and joe, and i we have a different ia about what the next two years should look like. it is an idea rooted in the belief of how this country was built. we did not come from wealth. we did not come from fame. our families understood that in america, if you work hard, if you are responsible, if you do the right thing that you have a chance. [applause] our family has taught us that government does not have all the answers to our problems. government should be lean and efficient. we cannot waste taxpayer dollars

especially at a time as tough as this one. in the words of the first republican president, abraham lincoln, we also believe that government should do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves. we believe in an america that rewards hard work and responsibility and individua initiative we believe in the free-market, buwe also believe in a country where we look after one another. i am on my brother's keeper. i am my sister's keeper. that is the america i know. that is the america joe knows. that is the america ted matters. that is the america you know. th is an america that invests in its future and in its people. that is an america that is billed to compete in the 21st century. -- built to compete.

the jobs and businesses of tomorrow will end up in countries that educate their workers better, then build the best infrastructure, that has the strongest commitment to research, technology. on what that nation to be the united states of america. -- i want to that nation to be the usa. i want that to take pla right here in cleveland. that is how we will rebuild. [applause] there is absolutely no reason that china should have better railroads, singapore should have newer airports. we are the nation that built the trans-continental railroad. we build the interstate hiway system. right now we are seeing thousands of people working to rebuild our roads, railways, right here in ohio and all across the country trying to start to rebuild infrastructure

for the 21st century of putting people to work and doing the work that america needs to be done. we have seen an america where we invest in home grown in a -- innovation and ingenuity where we export more than we import, where we make it easier to start a business or patent and invention. we do not wish to keep giving tax breakso companies shipping jobs overseas. i want companies and giving tax breaks that are investing in cleveland, dayton, ohio, and in the united states of arica. investing in small businesses, american manufacturing is coming back. investing in clean energy companies. i do not want to wind turbines built in asia or europe. i want the bill right here in a merica by american workers. [cheers and applause] that is the jurors in this

election. we seek in america where every citizen has the skills, the training to compete with any worker in the world. we cannot allow other countries to outpace us in education. we used to be number one in the rate of, which a college graduation rates. we used to be at the top of math and science now we are ninth and 25th in math and sciences. that is unacceptable. we may historic investments in education just like ted has done here in ohio. we said by 2020 we would be number one in the proportion of college graduates. [applause] now, remember i said this election is a choice. the other side's main economic idea is to provide $700 billion

worth of tax cuts to the top 2% of earners, the wealthiest americans. it would be an average of $100,000 for millionaires and billionaires. i want people to succeed. i think it is wonderful if people get rich. i want everyone to have the ance to get rich. you do, too. i think that is great. that is part of the american dream. the way they want to pay for these tax cuts is to cut education by 20% and to bar the rest from other countries. -- borrow the rest. do you think china is cutting education spending? is it germany cutting education by 20%? they are not because they are not playing for second place.

they are playing for first place. you know what? the united states of america, we do not play for second place. we did not play for ninth place or 24th place. we play for number one. that is what we have to do in education. [cheers nad applause] that is why we committed tenof billions of dollars that had been going in unwarranted subsidies to banks and we said that money to where it needs to be going -- to students right here in cleveland state and across the country, increasing access to pell grants, increasing college scholarships. that i why we want to make permanent the new college tax credit worth $10,000 in tuition reef for each young person going to college. that is the choice in this election. that is what america is about. that is what we believe in.

[applause] we see an america where corporations are fretting and profitable, but they are living up to their responsibilities to treat consumers fairly in a plea by the rules like everyone else. that is why we want to make sure insurance companies could not jack up premiums for no reason or denying coverage just because you're sick. that is why we made sure credit card companies could not haiti within fees are penalties. -- hit you wh hidden fees or penalties. we do not want taxpayers on the hook for the irresponsibility of wall strt banks. we see an america where we do not pass down a mountain of debt to the next generation. we have to go after this $1 trillion deficit i inherited when i took office. we will do so in a responsible way, not by cutting education by 20%, not by cutting our

children, seniors, veterans, or middle-class families. we will not do it by borrowing another $700 billion to give tax cuts to people who do not need them. we will do it by asking this of all americans. this is the america we believe in. we had a lot of wk too over the next few years. ted has a lot of work to do here and in ohio. lee has a lot to do in washington. we need to work together. democrats and republicans and independents to get this all done. you know what? so far we are not seeing that from the other party. i guess they are feeling cocky. the republican leader of the house says, "this is not a time for compromise. the republican leader of the senate saihis and main goal -- his main goal is to win the next

election and beat me. [crowd boos] think about this. his priority is not to create jobs and get the economy moving or reduce the deficit. his top priority is to win the next election and we have not even finished this one. [applause] you know, that is the mentality we are fighting against, clevand. that is the kind of politics w have to change. those are the politics that puts scoring points ahead of solving problems. that is where all of you come in, each and every one of the. the only way to fight that kind of politics, the oy way to manage the millions of dollars of negative advertisements that have been pouring down your throats using these fund groups, of millions of dollars worth of advertisements -- the

only way to fight that is millions of voices warning to finish restarted in 2008. [applause] we need to get cleveland out to vote. we need to get everyone in ohio out to vote. in ohio, you can vote early. there is early voting just a few blocks from re. you can go right after this rally. if everyone who fought for change in 2008 shows up to vote in 2010, we will win this election. i am confident in that. [applause] but a lot of you got invved in 2008 because you believe we were in a defining momenin our history. that is what joe believes. that is what i believe. you believe that we were in a time where the decisions we make

do not just affect us, but will affect our children, our grandchildren for decades to come. that is the reason so many of you knocked on doors, made phone calls, and some of you cast your vote for the very first time. as i said at the time, changes not easy. power concedes nothing without a fight. throughout the past 20 months, we have been pushing, working, and i have had a great partner in joe biden. i could not have had it any better. [applaus i have had a great partner in ted strickland. you could not have a better governor than him. [applause] we have made progress, but i know that sometimes as we are grinding out with a change and

adsre is all the negative and pundits and there is still a lot of unemployment says sometimes people feel discouraged. i know the bill -- the excitement of election night with beyonce and bono. that was fine, but now it seems like work all the time. then you guys see me on tv and you think, "he is getting really gray. he is startingo look old." [laughter] [applause] look. [applause] cleveland, i want you to remember this. do not let anybody tell you this

fight is not worth it. do not let anybody tell you that you do not make a difference. because of you there is a woman somewhere in ohio who no longer has to choose between losing her home and treating cancer. because of view, somewhere in ohio there is a parent who can look their child in the eye and say, "yes, you are going to college. we can afford it." because of you, somewhere in ohio there is a small-business owner who kept their doors open in the depths of the recession. because of you, there are nearly 100,000 brave men and women who are no longer at war in iraq. [applause] do not let them tell you that change is not possible. here is what i know.

it has alwayseen hard to bring about change in america. think about it. this country was founded on heart. we started off as 13 colonies had been to battle the most powerful empire. a lot of people said we could not do that. then they decided that we would try a new form of government. it was by and for the people. they said, "we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and out by our creator with certain inalienable rights and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." that idea had not been tried before. there was the uncertainty of this- of success. they knew it was worth trying.

over decades they had to work to make that idea real. ey had to abolish slavery, and get women the right to vote, give workers the right to organize. [applause] all of that change was hard. imagine if our parents, grandparents, great grandparents had said, "this is just too hard. i am discouraged." what if they had given up? what if people had called them names o worse and they said th could not do it? they said, "yes, we can." they understood that the only thing that prevents us here in america from achieving our dreams, the only thing that might prevent us is if we do not try. the only reason we are here is

because past generations have been unafraid to push forward even in the face of difficulty, even in the face of uncertainty. that is how we came for war. that is how we came through the depression. that is why we have civil rights, workers' rights, women's rights. that is the spirit we need today. [applause] cleland, the journey we began to gather was never about just putting -- putting a president in the white house. it was about building a movement for change at indoors. it was about realizing that in the u.s.a. if we are willing to fight for, work for, and believe in it that anything is possible. cleveland, i need you to keep on fighting. i need you to keep on believing. i need you to knock on some doors. i need you to talk to your neighbors. i need you to talk to your friends. i nee you to go and vote early.

i need you to get your friends to vote. if you are willing to step up to the plate, ted will win this election. lee will win this election. we will rebuild our middleclass. we will recla the american dream for future generations. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ sun coming up over new york city school bus driver in a traffic jam starin' at the faces in the rea

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>> a couple of statistics here on the president. i believe this is his of 11th visit to ohio. also ohio newspapers have reported that some candidates have spent $25 million on this race. why is the ohio governor's race some important facts >> it is a

bellwether state throughout the country. it went for bush in 2000 and 2004 pay it will be in place during the next presidential election for shore. the governor is considered a moderate. he played a critical role in helping connected the obama ticket to some more democrats in ohio that generally voted for hillary clinton in the primary. the governor plays a key role in helping obama when those votes again in the next presidential cycle. >> to a your colleagues -- two of your colleagues have a story that says these men running for the governor house don't agree

on just about anything. the governor says there is almost nothing we agree on, almost all the way back from our days in congress. talk about their different approaches to governing. >> the republican challenger comes from a business background. he was in congress for a number of years and left and went into the private sector. he vows to approach government like a business, he talks about the state department of development as the economic engine and it essentially privatizing it. gov. strickland has strong ties to unions and trade unions especially illegal cleveland and toledo areas. he has pushed for a prevailing wage laws and may differ on economic issues quite a bit. social issues, you have not heard that much about, but they

both basically focus on their party's platform. strickland is pro-choice and his opponent is pro-life. but those issues were not as common as they were four years ago. on economic issues, they are far apart. >> national and statewide polls have the republican head by a slim margin. what are you learning about the get-out-the-vote efforts for those who have not already voted? >> it is probably unprecedented for a midterm election. the ohio party likes to point out there are largest party in the country and have amassed a big get-out-the-vote effort throughout the state. they are hindered by some scandals in the cleveland area involving a local democratic party there and that may be why you see a push in that area with the president's visit and some other things. there a local party has been crippled by the scandals that

have rippled through cai hope the county, where cleveland is located. -- tie hogan county. the republican hails from the central ohio, which is a split area between democrats and republicans. it is likely that his presence on the ticket will help republican candidates. for strickland to when and democrats to do well, they need a strong vote in the cleveland area. >> in the senate race, the margins for the republicans seem to be much wider. >> that was decided at the beginning and was arguably decided the primary level. the democratic nominee for set face a primary challenge and it was a brutal primary, leaving him and his opponent somewhat

bloody. it left fisher without much money in the bank and he was never able to recover. the republican nominee did not have the primary, so he waltzed through with a lot of money and has been ahead of%. >> thank you for briefing our audience -- he has bee >> we were on the road to speak with a candidate. >> we are under obama care now. >> i am here to bring our

country back. john maynard is the guy to do it. >> he is a lot better than what we have in there. a lot better. >> i believe he will be a good leader. if they can compromise, that would be great. if they cannot, they will have to take a stand for what is right. >> and he has strong values that i share. he has experience in washington

d.c. as well as in ohio. >> he is outspoken. he is strong for constitution policies. you cannot demand that all people have health care in this health-care bill. he will stand for better fiscal control of what we have now. and he will get this mass of debt on our back. we are very supportive of where the two party stands. you are seeing millions of people across the country like us that feel that way. the the business is coming from policy getting away from court, individual bedrock american principles. this country is different than what it was 10 years ago.

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thanks for helping us with this election. there is no candidate who has run a better campaign and jim. i am proud of him and his team. i am proud of all of you and the job you are to win on his behalf. we want to send a message that we will be packing. [unintelligible] [applause] it will send those democrats where they belong.

back in february or march, we will go to the health care summit. when we have ideological differences or philosophical differences, he says, that is what elections are for. he was right. if you are tired of all of the spending and the government takeover of everything in america and tired of obama care, that is what elections are for. [applause] the other day, the president was giving an interview in talking about people who disagree with him. those that disagree with him as enemies.

i have watched the than george bush reserve said word for dictators around the country. for the president to use that word, enemies for those that oppose his plan of record government, those that believe we should have a more accountable government -- i have a word for those people. for those that would have the audacity -- the fight -- to fight for our constitution and allow freedom -- do you know what the word is? patriots. [applause]

i want to say to all of the patriots, if you have differences with what is going on in washington. elections are for that. what is happening here is happening all across our country. get is all around the state and the country . it will be real difference if i am elected to be in the house. i am talking about different than what republicans were doing. [applause] it is time to get serious.

it is time to get serious about the problems that face our country. it is time to fix the congress of the united states. no more 2300 page bills that no one has ever read. [laughter] it is time for us to fix congress. if we do not fix congress, its ability to fix the big problems in our country is not going to happen. i grew up in america where you can do what you want to do.

i was there because i believe in our country and the great opportunities for our citizens, unlike any other country in the world. if we do not hold this government accountable, those opportunities will not be there forever kids and grandkids. this is a fight that patriots are having all across the country. god bless all of you and god plus the united states of america. [applause] [unintelligible]

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[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [horn honking] >> i kind of agree with congressman. >> what specifically? >> the constitution is not a living document. it is set in stone from the beginning to the end. >> i think he would have a strong, forceful leadership based on what i have heard and read. he is carrying that forward based on what he said today. >> ford would be change in the right direction. change to conservatism.

change to get away from the socialism and we want our constitution to be safeguarded and the law of the land safeguarded. i want our freedoms to be safeguarded. >> i think he will be an awesome leader. lower taxes. he will not tax everybody to death. >> i like him. i think he would be a cut a person. he is a politician. you have to wonder about his comments. many came to hear him speak. it seems like a lot of opposition to the president. right now it seems many people

are very upset. there is a lot of anger that is often visceral. many cannot explain to me the exact details of the polity -- policy. many are upset with the president and those in congress. >> the local content of vehicles are on the road covering the campaign 2010 events. our live election night coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern, around the country. victory and concession speeches. watch of a live coverage on c- span. today on washington journal. the national association education with karen white. also a look at house and senate

races. first the conservative perspective and later a look at the top congressional races. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> in addition to the campaign coverage and archive debates, there is a lot more in the c- span library. the american story and everything we have feared since 1987. it's all free in indexed online whenever c-span library. this week on q&a. historians look at the upcoming elections.

>> richard norton smith, how should one look at this midterm election historically? quite obviously, many will see it as a referendum on the obama presidency. many people will be looking for aspects of the election to tell you which direction the republican party is going. we're the conservative movement is going in america.

we have a very unusual set of circumstances. we have a war -- a couple of wars that are unpopular among the president's own pace. it is contributed to this much talked about a phenomenon and enthusiasm gap. you also have this age old problem of an economy. interesting enough, they attribute responsibility for the weakness in the economy to the bush presidency. but they do not give rocco, credit for avoiding something much worse.

obama credit for avoiding something much worse. if you lose hope for the future for americans, he will not do well in the polls. >> same question. >> it reminds me of 1994 with newt gingrich and bill clinton came in. the pendulum swung to the left. bill clinton got hit hard by gingrich in that movement. it forced the clinton and fenestration to move to the middle but i think what we will see is the merit of the tea party midterm. there is no denying that the politics this year is the tea party movement.

the question will be can the democrats hold onto the senate? if harry reid and barbara boxer can't hold onto their seats, it will not be -- can hold onto their seats, it will not be seen as this letter. -- as a slaughter. i guarantee the book for sarah palin will be number one. she has a reality show coming out. she has some steam behind her using the tea party as her basic platform. the election in 1994 is the one closest, because the democrats that comes in with some sort of mandate -- clinton had the ross

perot factor, which changed the election in 1992. this time, obama was able to win states like indiana, north carolina, virginia. i do not think he can win those states and more we still live in the age of reagan. to make a difference, he will probably have to do what clinton did. >> that point is well-taken. a couple of differences going in and coming out. we think of newt gingrich, it makes sense. they had a sense that there was a semblance of an alternative program. this republican congress or

republicans in congress have been laid to come to the idea that we have -- late to come to the idea that we have to put something forward. the master politician bill clinton who had been in the forefront of those moving the democratic party back to the middle of the road so comfortable in stealing republican of those welfare reform is an example. he took conservative themes and made him his own -- made them his own. he also had republicans to work with him. i do not think the west wing would have let barack obama move

as far to the right as bill clinton did. even if he did, i am not sure he would find willing partners in a bipartisan way. >> i agree with that. you could argue that president obama has moved away from his progressive phase. he did a lot of compromising on health care. he did not close guantanamo bay like he said. we are still in iraq and afghanistan although winding down trying to conduct of both. he is angry at his face and angry that they do not understand him having to move to the center or to the right to get things done.

obama was close to bennett. he was a conservative. after he left, nobody wants to do business with obama. a difference between 1994 is i think fox news has moved this political agenda. the tea party movement has a form there. look at the news stories such as: beck pushing the spokesperson for the tea party movement. gingrich did not have that back in 1994. history will show the t party and fox working together to turn back this obama agenda. he did the right thing by bailing out gm. i think the stimulus was right. but over that first summer, he

did not take the right serious. when they started town hall meetings and the tea party movement started, it was left at by the east coast elite. they are not laughing anymore. that was needed to deal with the health care quicker. it ate up a lot of capital within the democratic party. many democrats do not want to be in a photo opportunity with obama writes down. >> barack obama is of great tradition in many ways. democratic presidents always have problems with the left wing of the party. we talk about the challenger ted kennedy.

one person said the problem with some liberals as they always want their bosses -- but kissed all of the time. it is interesting. i do now know if there is the course funding pressure from the right. there probably is. in many ways, obama may soon not to be a part of it. >> some make mistakes. there are some dissatisfied people with washington. in a lot of it has to do with lobbyists. it has gotten out of control. it is a ripe time for a third- party movement in this country. i am surprised if this country

started yet. in 2012, it would be 100 years since theodore roosevelt created his third party movement. extremists are dominating both wings, when nobody knows who that central spokesperson is for america. .

we have all watched it, but i think it is exhausting people, because french ships are not based on politics. -- french shiiendships are not n politics. 25 percent of the people think obama is muslim -- who are those people? it is ugly out there. when politics get that ugly, fat people start looking for a third way. a lot of third parties are constructed two-tier reaction. ross perot was an odd duck, and

he did that well in 1992. this could be a three-way presidential race. >> the obvious contender would be mayor bloomberg. the deck is stacked against the kind of civil, thoughtful, substantive, pragmatic, consensus-seeking campaign that we may all live here too. but it is very difficult to imagine in this political climate. the great in depressing change. the 1960's were not era of good feeling. the prevailing mood on capitol hill was you thought all day, civil to one another at night. at the end of the day you try to

find common ground. you were politically rewarded for making something happen. today it seems as if it is the exact opposite. the political process exists through the primary system, cable-tv, internet. success is keeping an things from happening. >> that is right. there is a lot of blood on the track. it was embarrassing what was done to bill clinton. look at how george w. bush was a televised by the left. the rights are capping there is something about the media culture now that people are

really rejecting in a fundamental way. they do not have a voice of how to let people hear that frustration. >> it is revealing when you stop to think about this president's zero rising. they have all been characterized as polarizing. what is it about the last 30 years of american politics and culture that has produced results? >you have to believe the media play a separate role in that period to go if you had asked me a president that one would like to see, i would say white eisenhower. i think you need someone who has a stature of being allied supreme commander, and where i'vare the eisenhower president?

eisenhower felt that interstate highway system and did a lot of great things for infrastructure in this country. we need someone that focuses like that. and we're tormenting ourselves too much in this country and not finding a way to unify. iraq and afghanistan could have been unit hours -- beautifierunt many think that iraq pas was a mistake. >> there was a consensus and we went through the generation that voted for ike and kennedy.

there were going to interconnected late this so right solution and transforming changes. it was a water coronation. we spoke the same language in many ways. 50 years later it feels exactly the opposite. it is a terribly fragmented country. lindsay lohan is going to kill. what ever trivial -- the polarization of america is dangerous. the trivialization is worse. >> what do you think it would feel like if you are back inside the white house in 1934? fdr was just elected in 1932. depression was upon them. factor in the immediate thing. hal will look differently if you

were f.b.r.? -- how would it look different if you were fdr? >> 25 percent unemployment. it was a much rougher game that he had. our wars have been taken many more american lives than a raft or a afghanistan. we have to be careful to not keep thinking are times are uniquely 0 pressly. he was able to use media and radio and connect the country through its voice. to have a man in a wheelchair struck with parole will. to look at his arm vaunted 33 in fighting his own personal oldest in showing innovation. that was an area of a leak

government was that answer. -- that was an era where people believe the government was that answer. it was a totally different energy we are dealing with. everything is better in america for the average person that was in the 1930's. we have electricity. more people with medical access. we should never lose sight of this just because we're trouble right now. our better days are coming. let's get some kind of leadership that could work on consensus. it is not working with the right

and left paradigm is. >> a franklin roosevelt controlled the nation's agenda to a degree that a modern audiences would find that astonishing. he decided what was news. he decided what was of the record, will was off the record. he enforce that. he had the nation's press corps in washington sit inside the oval office. that is where he had his press conferences. he had them for morning newspapers and afternoon or evening newspapers. he controlled the flow of information in a way that any modern president would envy. >if you look at the current and the last president, very differing agendas, and both producing polarization. in i sink cable-tv, which

enshrines conflict, consensus is not daunting. at the very least, it is all about reducing arguments to a level of simplicity. it was a different culture. everything doug says is true. you cannot overestimate the emotional bond that proclaimed -- that franklin roosevelt built almost overnight. it is easy to sentimentalize, but the reality is after three years of seeming inaction,

frozen unconcerned of an administration and the nation's spiraled ever deeper, suddenly the boy yet, optimistic man with a flair for action try something. if it does not work, we will try something else. roosevelt paid capital. i think it is one lesson. great presidents do not manage crises. they use them. they exploit them to build the emotional bond. lincoln -- when i think at churchill and the battle of lexington. i am not sure we have seen that from recent presidents. >> one unified factor in the

country is armed forces. people love the troops. they love our soldiers and feeling army, navy, marine, doing an incredible job. i think there is unity there. i had an opportunity to talk to president obama not long ago. we were talking about was surprised them and was a process -- was surprised them. that is a big part of american life, the reference we have towards the soldiers. i find the federal government has made mistakes, but they have been herculean in the 21st century. we have people checking what drugs are safe and what are not safe. we of clean air and water standards.

i do not believe it is good to be anti-regulatory. look at what regulatory kids do, at the peace bill. -- a bp spill. this constant descanting on the federal government that is going on right now, i think it is not a historical and is playing on people's fears and emotions. people tend to forget, because in the later years barry goldwater became a favorite conservative. he became very outspoken on the number of things, like gay rights. many work places.

that is reality. -- many were racists. one of the things that i think this contributing to the ferocity of the anti-government phenomenon, i think it is too simple to say it is race, but there is a sense that the rod is being taken out from them culturally. we live in the society they did not recognize. in or that their parents certainly would not recognize. they see marriage as being redefined. they see their view under assault sometimes from government policies. generally they were read the federal government, often with

the best of intentions, can produce the worst results. i think it is the vague but intensely felt discomfort with the course of history that is a significant part of what is going on right now. to cut the federal government has wasted a lot of tax dollars. -- the federal government has wasted a lot of tax dollars. housing projects that never should have been built. but if you're just good to spend the time looking at the mistakes federal government has made and not recognize we live in this incredible country. you travel all around. firebrick communities and how lucky we are to be alive in the united states in the 21st century and talf protected we are in this country and tell privilege we are to live here. we could take that privilege internet on the government's lead helped us get where we are.

i teach history. in the end, the government its push into doing the right thing. have mistakes been made? sure, but the constant dogging of the federal government, i did not find it helpful. >> if you listen to the conservative talk shows, the anchor you both talk about is often on the rights, the way the government spends their money. in other words, the things you like about the government, that is one of the reasons they are angry. >> this will sound odd. part of the dead man mike here is that this president, and frankly his predecessor,

overton a second great depression. there are all sorts of studies out now, economists right and left, who will tell you that if the hated bailout costs and the stimulus, which by the way west so it vanished to become a majority. the fact is -- >> i will give you a specific example. how many people out there know that a significant part of it was tax cuts? another factor -- people understand building things. people would rally around a new deal programs about -- they know

the infrastructure in this country has been neglected. mean -- that could have been and nationally unifying assertive forward-looking program that would have addressed the immediate crisis. but the impression that a lot of us people have is the president outsourced much of the stimulus program to his allies on capitol hill. i think they mismanaged its. >> that becomes politics. i think the obama administration needs to get something going. and what people are doing now is complaining. have our country has to endure.

our country has had a lot worse times than mild recessionary terms. there is a lot of positive things going on in the private sector, a research universities. just to pick on the federal carter meangovernment -- the ple to look go around. what we need is some leader -- maybe there is 25 percent of the people that think he is muslim and there is a lot more racism that we think.

the rhetoric is getting fierce and ugly. i am not saying where our country is headed in a positive way with all. humana ago there is a reason they call it the greatest generation. they dealt with enormous crises. they demonstrated extraordinary characters in the process. i am a boomer. how do not feel particularly proud of a lot of rumors that work at 9.5% unemployment. it is the role of government to address that, but to put it in context with earlier economic threats to the survival of the country, -- one idea -- imagine how things might have been different if barack obama is his

first week as president has said i am quite i am a different kind of liberal, i know right now we're spending money to meet the emergency. we cannot sustain that. we all know that. maybe say jimmy carter and colin powell. they will come back to me in 18 months, they will work with every government program and we will examine not only what we spend put the rationale for spending it. it would at least bought him time -- it would have at least bought him time. it would have sent the message to his allies on capitol hill

that we are going to sink or swim as 20 percent true liberals. >> i mentioned eisenhower before, and this did you worry will be the 50th anniversary of his farewell address. the oil industry is a government. you cannot even be too punitive with bp. the government is so linked with money that the frustration of the tea party people is i am turtired of it. what happened to the individualism? where are minority rights and individual rights headed in this? there is identity theft and the

internet of information, i do not that we have learned how to control it properly. obama is president at a time where everyone wants their thing. we are the facebook generation. let's go work. let's go put in a 12-hour day. work is good. let's get rid of the mirrors. what is missing is a sense that we're all in this to the other, but the overriding model of what is enough for me might somehow be superseded by what is in this for us. >> you are really saying that fdr had a better and the country had it better because he could control the media.

decode that and he was handed a crisis that he did not have to explain. three years in which the american people car rid of the gods of wall street -- three years in which the american people call rid of the costs of wall street. we did not go over the cliff and this crisis. in a curious way, what i continue to find astonishing is that with all of their raged generating committee party and others at so much of it is directed not washington, and relatively speaking so little of it is directed at wall street. >> where did we have the greatest individualism in the country? to go back when theodore roosevelt was president. -->> back when theodore

roosevelt was president. people judge you on your individual activities and behaviors. everybody wants -- to try to work and everyone is off on three-day vacations. people do half days. we're not making things in this country anymore. i think it is from our success. the marvel of it has made as a nation of very high expectations. i am hopeful our students are getting the dark warning like there are no jobs for humanities majors. they are looking at how do we

go and volunteer my time working at a national park. maybe this new baby boom generation will be a little less preferential. there are even getting tired of facebook already. there's something in the air with the people in their early 20s. this new generation. i am amazed they're not angry at us baby boomers for squandering so much of their heritage. prosperity is greater test of humanity. how over and over again neutral the worst of us and we respond

with the best. -- over and over again used wrote the worst at us and we respond with the best. if i could make id wave a magic- teddy roosevelt was bemis because he accomplished things. he challenged. he did things. he wrote books. he became a trust investor and environmentalists. astronauts became famous because they risk their lives in exploring the heavens. certainly today forget the same for 15 minutes. -- the fame for 50 minutes.

it has diluted the way politics are covered. it is a malignancy. i do not know how you cut it out. >> i think we are at a point now where people are looking for -- we are not looking for a collective issue with the infrastructure. what about the war on cancer? why doesn't our country put all of our resources -- who wouldn't want to pay a few extra tax dollars for real war on cancer? everybody that is listening right now is affected by cancer. let's do something big together as a country. unfortunately depose/11 relax auction -- the post 9/11 reaction did not do it.

johnson tried it. the doctors asked me if i would rather be alive in 1933 or today which modern medicine, i would much rather be alive today. think of dentistry. real things. we take it for granted. even sitting here in the air conditioning. we have it easier now appear ye. if we have wars of the unified people -- @ linney to fix something like a war on cancer and really go after it. our medical facilities in this

country are the best in the world. >> i could not agree with you more, but the practical difficulties of implementing such a policy. i do not mean to single out this president. in any modern president. a conference are many obstacles. the notion that a president could rally on issues of moral authority. there are so many incident critics and people making a living -- in some critics and people making a living awfulness whenever the president says. take>> i think we need to -- instead of constantly trying to push these parties apart, which

may have to bring our politicians back to the other. i do not think it can be done on a lot of issues right now, but i think we can pick something big that we focus on and get everyone involved with it. to coax the me throw out one idea about fundamental reform of the political process. if you couldn't wayve the magic wand and take the redistricting process of away and turn it over to a computer or judges, imagine how overnight that could change the political landscape. if you had districts are were not decided and political primaries, but if you are redistricting the country to

recognize the majority of americans are not ideologically- driven, that they do want to find common ground, that they are addressed as finding solutions, rather than slogans. wouldn't that be an enormous step in the right direction? >> yes. it would be. the midterms are getting over. i think president obama and would be the democratic nominee. and the republicans -- i do not think there pledged for americans did it. i think they have done a marvelous job with to party movements of expressing public dissatisfaction with the way things are growing in washington, and they're really think lobbying -- i used to love being in d.c.. every time i of lobbyists here, you deserve feeling like you and

to get out of the nation's capital. is not feel that when i am in denver or seattle. it is a lot of money being managed. there raise money so they annual banquet dinner so there kopit's growth -- so their coffers grow. we do not have a leader that is a unifier. president obama is a historic figure, but clearly he has not been able to unify the country for a number of reasons. >> i wonder, because we do not know what will happen on tuesday, but i wonder if there are people in the why has the dark consoling themselves. jack kennedy look forward to writing goldwater for obvious reasons. i am wondering if the obama

administration and from the very beginning, i really putting limbaugh and deatbeck does havea strategy to encourage a lot of the cold water. obviously they would like to run again. the real test will be whether the republican party falls for that, or whether it is a conservative candidates who may not set their hearts pounding but is susceptible because they want to bee to win badly enough. it is not hard for president obama to get back to 50% after the midterm. then you have the republican party having to be hit when somebody.

-- having to beat somebody. you have palance ghraiin. if she wins iowa, and maybe mitt romney peter in new hampshire, she will win south carolina because she has the right. and obama win a unpaid live looks good. -- and obama winning looks good for obama. it may be the only thing that saves the obama administration, maybe someone that is able to center the party. >> aha what you will see over the next three years is not bill clinton -- i think you will see harry trumam.

in failing to understand that america had been transformed by the new deal. >> i will make a prediction. obama will put hillary clinton on his eyes president. joe biden will go on and be secretary of state. you are dealing with an obama /clinton. it would be historic. the republicans are putting pailin or wrongly. obama/clinton could be hard to be, particularly of unemployment drops down at 8.9% in chile but mint. >> it is interesting that use a

sarah palin and it wrongly in the same breath. iand mit romney in the same breath. >> a lot of people would view that almost an act of desperation. is it necessary to boohoo is pale it -- if they live is the republicans -- if palin is the republican candidates. >> hillary clinton deserves it. she has done a great job of secretary of state. they need someone who will run for president. it is her moment. it would unify the clintons still have great inroads in blue-collar communities.

and bill clinton has done a marvelous job and for the democrats in the past few years. >> it could be seen as a mistake. >> a unifies the obama or brand and unbranded she will be unified democratic party. the republican party that has people angry at mr. romney and and have been angry all this time. all i am suggesting is let's keep in mind it is easy for them to score points, republicans, in this midterm, but obama still has an excellent chance of winning the second term. >> and i will make one prediction. >> i think if she decides not to run and just as a cheerleader on the side, keeps her job at fox

news. romney has healed himself very well in the past few years. no. the somebody that -- maybe somebody that is an evangelical coming in. it is all about employment. who could win ohio quest? john cassings is the future of the republican party. he said they could be president. the question arises, what would define 2012? our peopldo people want somethi?

start forward to 2012. >> before we wrap this up, i want to show you an interview we had over the last couple of months with the president. let's watch this. >> is quietly came in and stole a bunch of historians. and what is your relationship with history? i know your history with 9 of them. >> when you occupied as office, you are constantly reminded that you're just one of a series of people dedicated their livestock presenting the country and making our democracy function. is a very humbling experience.

just remind results of the things i have to live up to. then having the chance to talk personally to some of the historians ends up being helpful to provide perspective. particularly in this 24-hour news a cycle that we live in here in washington, so much of the attention is on the ups and downs of politics. my job is to constantly remember that what i do here is on behalf of not just tomorrow, on behalf of the next- generation. >> and u.s. news after the first meeting, until well said the onlcantwell said those attending were doug'l;asas

brinkely. >> i attended both of them. i was very proud to be there. mr. roh -- michelle and barack obama's is co-host of a book club. we talk about john adams and jefferson. we talked about john kennedy and lincoln. i do not think we influence the president. i looked at more as he read presidential biography as a hobby. there is nothing that secretive. i see he uses this as a form of relaxation. it helps to remember what other presidents went through. at the is very healthy the

president does this. >> let me ask richard to respond to this. this is from gary wells wrote this just a couple of weeks ago. it is time for me to break assessments i have observed for over a year. on june 30, i was invited to dinner with president obama and three end of his staffers to discuss what history could teach him about conducting the presidency. i was that shortly after by several news media what went on there and i replied it was off the record. i have argued elsewhere the imposition of secrecy to ensure the president gets candid advice is a cover for something else, making sure that what is said about the people's business as our reach the people. i went along this time since the president said he wanted this dinner to be a continuing thing. kerry wellgaryry wills was not

invited to the second dinner, either that or you did not intend. >> i think this is a wonderful idea first of all. quite frankly, far be it for me to pass judgment on garry wills, but i am old-fashioned enough to look upon it as a guest. i think if you are a guest in someone's house, including the people's house, you probably adhere to your hosts expectations. i did not make the cuts. i want rhodopes fonce wrote a pr "light magazine."

i think it is a great idea for any president inside the bubblehead to try to get outside the bubble, to look for the prospective of history that it provides. >> gary wills said the only thing it achieved is the silencing of the main point that the war in afghanistan would be for obama as the imam was for johnson. >> richard nil this. a ticket as a handshake agreement off the record. -- i took this as a handshake agreement to with off the record. i can promise you none of us got

into a huge deal with president obama on anything. it was anecdotal stories about the past. it would be no different than a wonderful said major on c-span where we talk about past presidents. i do not think any of us had any influence on the president and afghanistan policy. we talk about vietnam in a historical way. this president was very smart. there were not any of us that were being policy advisers who. it was all a lighter historical clear than that. >> i do not think we can talk about restoring stability to washington if we do not practice it ourselves. that includes if we're lucky enough to be invited to a dinner at the white house. >> last president.

-- last question. which president has a historian closest to them? >> i think john kennedy. he was probably the model because arthur was involved in policy. it was weighing in on the bay of pigs and the cuban missile crisis. inhibi >> example of ronald reagan then his -- and his historian. and i think what president obama has decided instead of having one historian the way clinton had a branch or kennedy and fletcher that he would have a group of eighth or so of us. to kill anybody take notes? >> no.

this was dinner really. -- did anybody take notes/? >> president ford gave john hershey unlimited access to the office for a couple of weeks early in his presidency. richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, in june for the discussion. -- thank you for the discussion. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> for a dvd copy of the program, called the number on your screen. in 43 transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org

>> cspan's local content vehicles are on the road in the final days leading up to tuesday's midterm elections. on saturday we travel to west virginia 40 party express events. -- for a tea party express events. >> we have been going to a lot of disparate places today. tonight we will be in harrisburg, pennsylvania. out to delaware and new hampshire. finishing key races in key states where we want to rally people of the notion that this is the time to make a difference. it started out on the west coast. it has been coming across the

country. what is happening here is there will be a series of speakers in singers. making sure if people are born to do absentee ballots, they get them in on time. major you talk to all of your friends and neighbors to for dissipate. the biggest issue really is the economy, the jobs. a lot of pain. it is an indictment the obama administration who said we understand there is a recession. here is our solution. they propose a solution of new federal debt and a lot of spending. it really has not worked. everyone is that we want a change. the executive board exchanges for people they are addressing. they are all hosts of the

election. we will have to increase the who is in force, and sarah palin with us. >> we need to make sure in every nook and perhapin this nation pe reasserts the economy of three markets in liberty for all of us. [applause] >> i am here because i am one of the tea party organizers. they were so nice to bring their buses here. we're down here to support them and effort to get control of the government, because it is completely out of control. from what we gather from the people here, everyone is upset that the government is spending

money into our future. they are taking our kids' future away from us. somebody has to pay the debts. also, a healthcare. it is a disaster for so many people. we want it repealed. most of the people we're talking to want it repealed. we did not wanted adjusted or partially repealed. the entire thing has to go. >> 6 government spending is out of control. we need to take people off of the government programs. >> the government it ashaspendig out of control. >> why did you decide to come out to the rally today? >> wheel well with the mckinley for congress campaign. -- we help out with the kckin ley for congress campaign.

we're trying to show there are people out for the conservatives. >> i do not want my kids and grandkids -- i want my kids and grandkids to have the same freedoms that i have. >> i really think the two-party is the best thing to happen to this country. -- think the tea party is the best thing to happen to this country. they will hold them responsible. that is what we need, responsibility and the country. i hope t they get the right people and their. >> with a great program for you. inspirational music. most of all, we come to stand the other for the love of our country. [applause] >> here is the message today in

a nutshell -- i did not want you to pick up a day after the elections, look in the mirror, and say i was ordered done more. do not have that feeling next wednesday. i wish i would done more. now is the time to do it. if you have not already talked to everyone of your family members, get down and vote in do it right. everyone at church and the barbershops, or wherever else you're coming across people who, but should they get out and vote. make sure they get out and return our country to city. [applause] -=- return our country to sanity. >>, limited government is only solution. >> tea party express is so glad to be here today. i had people reach out to me a couple of weeks ago, and begged us to come here to support john

reiner for u.s. senate. we're here to support him up as governor for the state of west virginia. >> we happen to all 55 counties in west virginia, and we have talking about everything, about how we as a prize -- despised cap and trade, appealed obama care, -- repeat obama care. [applause] this country was made on free enterprise, hard work, and a bottle of the american dollar, and we will bring all three to the forefront very quickly. big deal. [applause] -- thank you

we have a very special guest today with us. do you know who it is? i gave it away. this is a great honor, but i have with us the 2008 vice- presidential candidates. the governor and the best governor that alaska has ever had. we will see hurt soon in 2012 -- sarah palin. [applause] >> hello, west virginia. it is so good to be here. the election, november 2, is finally going to be turned around in the country.

i a hideous this change to tea party americans. it is you have made that message loud and clear. both parties having to rethink the way they have been doing business. knowing they will be held accountable now because of the tea party americans. that is enough. no more status quo. a more business as usual. [applause] >> i am not an african american. i have a message for mr. obama -- your policies have failed. come tuesday, your fire. -- you're fired.

[music playing] stand up for freedom and liberty. >> ladies and gentlemen, it has been a great day out here. a lot of people have set god bless the country. -- said god bless the country. let's sing is. -- it. [applause]

>> seized and local content vehicles are on their road covering c-span 2010 in the final days leading up to the midterm elections. -- c-span is covering local content vehicles on the road covering c-span 2010 in the final days leading up to the midterm elections. coming next, "washington journal." this morning on "washington journal" karen white. also a look at house and senate races. first, a conservative perspective with david keating.