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so enter chris christie. earlier today, msnbc analyst jonathan alter lit up the political internet with this tweet. breaking, chris christie is conducting focus groups in preparation for a possible run for 2012. reporting later his groups were doing their own focus groups and made them seem semi-authorized by christie, adding it was just wishful thinking. what about paul ryan? as wisconsin congressman paul ryan comes to a final decision about running for president, several top national conservatives are encouraging him to join the race. ryan is expected to decide on the run in the next two weeks. if it's not chris christie, if it's not paul ryan, is there anyone, someone else out there on the right ready to run, ready to enter this race? now, we've seen more than a few polls showing the winning republican seems to be none of the above. but sure, it would be easier for the white house if rick perry or michele bachmann top the republican ticket, but there is so far no democratic primary in this election cycle.

they are not doing focus groups. >> yeah. >> that's what the chris christie team tells us. >> i madench of calls after i saw jonathan's tweet, too, and got the same thing that no real movement in christie world, flattered by the calls, not completely, completely shutting the door. no focus groups, denying it on the record. i think i know what you know. >> let's talk about vacations, not that you are going or i'm going on vacation but president obama tomorrow is going on vacation. >> yeah. >> the family vacation, no one begrudges him a vacation, just asking about the optics because of the location, you know. we know that in 1995 facing a re-election and some problems at home bill clinton went to wyoming, camping in wyoming remember than martha's vineyard. >> right. >> which was not his normal venue. >> is there any virtue to having another choice other than martha's vineyard, rather upscale? >> you know, andrea, first of all, let me say i'm in your camp on this, the idea that the president isn't allowed to play golf or go on vacation seems to me to be ridiculous. we all need some down

. >> chris christie not taking any excuses. >> get the hell off the beach. you're done. have you maximized your tan. >> juliet: well then. >> dave: tell us how you feel.

do you feel the nomination of a presidential candidate like "national review" -- like chris christie would hasten that process and help them transition into republican states? >> i wish i could share your optimism about the northeast. you have senator pat toomey of pennsylvania who was amazing. [applause] >> scott brown a little off the reservation but to have a republican in the center and chris christie, you are seeing that traditional northeastern labor union dominated model of government breaking down. that is what chris christie is about trying to fix and you can see a democrat like andrew cuomo trying to fix it in new york. maybe i shouldn't be so pessimistic. ideally i would want a presidential candidate who is not a southerner because there is too much southern iteration to republican party and chris christie is a little different or someone from the midwest or the upper midwest but chris christie is likely not going to run and a candidate from the upper midwest because tim pawlenty is not doing so great. to you have any favorites in the field? >> not in the northeast but joh

add chris christie to this debate. what about that guy, how much fun are we going to have with that guy? the truth is, karl rove knows, the republican party -- >> gentlemen. >> disastrous disarray. >> james moore earlier tonight on this program, and on my radio show earlier today said that rick perry is going to waltz to the nomination. michael medved, are you okay with that? >> it's not true, it's wide open, and with very strong potential new candidates. there will be a huge rush if paul ryan gets in. >> all rights we'll have you back. i like the mix. great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >>> today, i went out and interviewed a man on the street. hey, that's me. >>> later, the queen of the tea party wishes a happy birthday to the king of rock 'n' roll. the problem is, she did it on the day of his death. >>> wisconsin result, in district 22 we have a major development, the associated press is now projecting bob wirch the democrat incumbent from district 22 will hold on to his seat. the other race is sun de

new jersey governor chris christie. as you might imagine, not mincing any words in his evacuation order. >> you know, i saw some of these news feeds i have been watching upstairs of people sitting on the beach in as bury park. get the hell off the beach in as bury park and get out. you are done. it's 4:30. have you maximized your tan. get off the beach. >> he has got a good tan. >> he does have a good tan. he is coming off vacation. remember with the snow storm i'm going to disney. i promised my kids. i'm putting on my suit, taking off my tie and make sure new jersey doesn't get slammed. >> dave: he learned from cory booker the newark mayor stay here, tweet, do whatever you have to do to manage this thing. 370,000 people evacuate from the new york area. do you think they have left? >> juliet: times square is pretty empty. >> dave: sure, no one sought and about. >> juliet: shots from last night. people weren't going to the shows. >> dave: broadway is dark tonight and all day sunday. >> juliet: not going to be as busy. >>

get off the beach. >> well, tough love from chris christie there.ere the political winners and losers as hurricane irene stormed up the east coast? let's ask our monday mega panel. washington examiner tim carney and others. welcome, gang from across the country. nice to see you having survived the storm, all of you yourselves. christian, start with you. president obama seeming cool and collected. showing up, making states. cutting his visit to martha's vineyard a little short. how do you assess his pros and cons and whether it will help and hurt him? >> i think help him. what we've always known at president obama, he has a cool, controlled style nap works well in a crisis and i think he handled it exactly right. the fact is i think the hurricane turned out to be a little less devastating than people thought and maybe, you know, had we not been on tv right now, because new york was the way new orlean was during katrina, people might have want add more emotive president. given what actually happened, i thought he handled it well. he's good in a crisis

yes, chris christie made his youtube moment for yelling at people at town halls. >> romney, chris christie're going to go back, we have governor o'malley. thank you, as with us for your time. and always make sure you read first read every morning. states between north carolina and maine are all preparing for the worst from hurricane irene. in maryland up to 150,000 residents and visitors have been asked to leave the popular vacation destination of ocean city. we're now joined by the state's governor martin o'malley on the phone. governor o'malley thanks for joining us. tell us the latest in maryland and how your state is preparing for this oncoming hurricane? >> well, chris, as you mentioned, we are preparing for this category 2 to give us a real blow to the side there. in ocean city. and really, across our state as it passes by. it's a category 2. it's a killer storm. it is a very, very dangerous storm. and with the chesapeake bay, there is a tremendous amount of likelihood between the flooding, and the tidal surge, that a lot of the lower lying coastal areas, especially in the lower bay,

could run for the whole enchillada in four years. >> it wouldn't be a week if we didn't talk with chris christieent, run for vice president. what makes christie such an attractive candidate to so many? >> he's a heart throb for the conservatives who love his confrontational style. they feel like he was on the cutting edge of taking on public sector employee unions before it was sexy, when scott walker did it in wisconsin. they like his style and attitude. the problem with chris christie is he represents new jersey, which is not going to be a swing state. his popularity in his own state is not very good. he has baggage in other areas, including his health. so le definitely be talked about on the short list. the other problem with chris christie, which he's noted himself, you would not someone local and loud. if you're the president, you wouldn't want him as your vice president. >> all right. appreciate your time. >> thanks, craig. >>> right now, about 2000 people paying tribute to the 9/11 terror attacks. they started their annual trek last night. the group is aware of its effect on traffic but t

i quote chris christie, this is crap, and moreover he's tired of dealing with the crazies.d shutting down the federal aviation administration was maybe not the most responsible way to deal with political negotiations. she was reportedly the only congressional republican who was serious about working out a deal to fund the faa, to get furloughed employees back to work and allow the agency to start up again. she was not afraid to say why she disagreed with her republican colleagues who were willing to let the faa stay shut down. she said "i am a fiscal conservative and i'm trying to make the cuts that are necessary, trying to do the things that are right, but i have to question those who are saying we are going to not be in favor of essential air service. we are going to waste a billion dollars to not let a bill go through that keeps the aviation trust fund and faa going. that does not add up." kay bailey hutchison not afraid to do the math and say when her own party's fanatical decision on the faa doesn't make sense to her. she said i'm not going to play this, it makes no se

chris: questions about the possibility of chris christy coming in or anyone else. you sound like now they're more likely to get behind mitt romney? >> they are hungry for another candidate. if they should get either paul ryan or chris christy into this race this ed do this. i think they both want to run more than at any other point but i think the hurdles are so high at this point they'll probably stay out. >> doesn't perry make it much harder for them to come in? >> i think so. >> it certainly makes it harder for sar hay palin to come in -- sarah palin to come in. chris: we asked the meter, 1 of our regulars, could perry actually fire up the right if her the nominee? could he fire up the right and statement appeal to the centrists? john, you said he could. >> i said he could and i think it's going to be the huge challenge for him and i think there's a chance he can't but he's going to have to deal with that. if you say that he can't then there's no chance he can win a general election and i think in the mood of the country with the economy as bad as it is he might

chris christie is monitoring the situation from the regional operations intelligence center in ewing, new jersey. he joins us right now. governor christie, thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks for having me, jake. >> the hurricane made landfall in new jersey shortly before 6:00 this morning. your state's just beginning to weather the storm. what are the early reports telling you? >> earlier reports are very difficult, jake, we have over half a million now without power. we have 15,000 people in 45 shelters across the state. 250 roads are closed, and we are going to look at a record flooding situation here, both at the shore and inland, so my message to the people of new jersey, the eye of the storm is still over the state. we are far from out of the woods on the storm itself and i urge people to stay inside their homes. one report we have this morning of a woman missing is someone o went out in her car. drove, got out of her car and into the water. and was swept away in the water and is still missing. please, stay in your homes until the storm completely left new jersey. then we'l

new jersey governor chris christie sugged it could be tens of billions of dollars in new jersey alone're joined by bertha coombs. some have said this could be one of the most costly hurricanes in this country ever? >> it's too early to put an estimate on. some analysts say it's costly but at this point it doesn't look like it will rank among the top ten hurricanes. obviously the biggest being katrina at over $100 billion. and hurricane andrew back in 1992 in florida at $45 billion. this one is in the range of $7 billion in losses and less than half of that actually ensured. remember, you have the issues you're seeing there with the water. flooding is covered under separate insurance as opposed to wind damage. if you're a homeowner you know this is a big distinction when there's a hurricane in particular that's what's covered by the other insurers. the biggest damage of course, is where the storm first made landfall down in the carolinas. the estimates right now are looking like about $1.5 billion there. again, these are early estimates. and then the big estimates appear on the northea

. >> jonathan, what about, what about chris christie? >> you can't ever rule chris christie out. think you can rule him out jumping in at the last minute for president. >> you think he is still in this thing? >> there is so much pressure on him. you have republican operatives who are, they are focus grouping for chris christie and then bringing him the results to try to pressure him to get into the race. those are not authorized by the christie organization. and chris christie is still saying that he is not going to run. but what rick perry's entrance shows, craig, is that you can get in late and still be a form able candidate. >> ten second before we have to get out of here, ken, what about paul ryan? any chance at this point paul ryan gets in the fray? >> i just don't see it. a representative with low name i.d. nationally and no national fund-raising network and his number one achievement or the thing he's most known for is the budget plan that democrats have shown an ability quite successfully by saying it will end medicare. >> it's not demagogue. it would end medicare and tur

chris christie.alk about chris christie has not gone away no matter how much he says he won't do it. he actually threatened a while back to kill himself if they wouldn't stop it and they're not stopping it. >> they're not stopping it. e.j., if the republican primary does pull candidates to trigt, is that the president's best hope? as we talked about with robert gibbs, this bumper sticker slogan isn't there right now. >> no. i think this race is shaping up to be a fundamental choice. we have really had a long consensus in tis country about the government having certain responsibilities to e economy. that includes, by the way, right now to stimulate it. ani am hoping the president comes out very strong with a stimulus program. these republicans really want to bring us back to the guilded age. my favorite ronald reagan line is when he jed once in my administration the right hand doesn't know what the far right hand is doing. what you've got in the republican party right now is a conservative, mitt romne

chris christie has the advantage he's basically a blue collar republican. he says what he means, he's in your face and republicans love that. they see what he's doing in new jersey and they want to see that happen in washington. paul ryan's case, they regard him as one of the smartest candidate, intellectual candidates, whether or not they run, i have no idea. i would tell you that they would be very powerful entries in this republican contest, because they've got all three ps. ey've got plans, they've got principles and seen as being electable. >> one last note on paul ryan, i don't see a lot of candidates embracing the ryan budget. you say he has a plan, but is that plan an asset or liability? >> it's an asset. >> you saw what happened with newt gingrich, you saw what happened when he challenged it and came after him. the primary voters saying to washington, enough is enough. one last point. those are two candidates who knkn how to talk positive. there's a lot of negative in what jon huntsman said. republicans don't want to hear republicans attacking othe

between ryan and chris christie, do you see one of them getting in?ace for one more person to get in. there's still time to do it. there's enough energy and enough fund raising capacity still sitting on the sidelines to quickly mobilize. it's not going to be easy. it's hard to put together these national organizations quickly. one reason romney is the front-runner is because he's done it before. he never shut down his doors. we are in a unique moment. there are a lot of people standing around saying is this it? september will be interesting. if no one else gets in in september, three debates, perry with romney and bachman and the others. voters are going to say is this it? there's one more window after that. one more window before the earliest filing, the michigan primary, they have a couple weeks to get in. >> wasn't rick perry supposed to be the guy to energize the republican field? we had the last debate, then perry got in. >> then capping the fed chair. rick perry has been in the race for a handful of days. it's too soon to say this guy isn't the

there's word today paul ryan and chris christie may yet reconsider running. we'll ask the "hardball" strategists tonight. >>> plus, maybe the best story of the day. tea tax. at least two congress mist, believe it or not including paul ryan decided if their constituents want to ask them questions, they should pay for the privilege. that's one way for a brave tea party type to avoid tough questions. let's see our "hardball" strategist take that one on. >>> and let me finish tonight with what we know. that the republican presidential candidate will run against government, and what we don't know. what president obama will campaign for. we start with president obama fighting back today. cynthia tucker is a pulitzer prize winning columnist >>> and shawn smith teaches international relations at yale. thank you both for joining us, cynthia and shawn. the interesting question. the president has three options. put up a big harry truman-type plan. big and democratic. lots of jobs, lots of spending, borrowing, but do it the democratic way. put people to work. dare the re

republicans who are unhappy with their presidential candidates are trying to coax new jersey governor chris christiethe race. after today, they may change their tune, because today the fitch rating agency officially downgraded new jersey's bond rating from double a to double a minus. christie's staff has been lobbying to get new jersey's rating upgraded. they claimed their recent pension and benefit overalls put their state in a better fiscal position. obviously the ratings agency disagreed. this isn't the first time this happened to christie, standard & poors downgraded the rating. and christie blamed the democrats for not passing his draconian budget bill. he strong armed legislation through this summer. there is no doubt that this time the fault for the state's credit downgrade rests completely on the governor of new jersey chris christy. now we'll see if republicans are still blaming the president for the nation's s&p downgrade. we'll apply the same blame and standard to their savior from the swamps. >>> as for the candidates, with their hats already in the ring. rick perry says the president's

prominent new york republican, business guy and fund-raiser had a meeting of people to encourage chris christie the meeting, people felt people like chris would be interested and have to look at it again and people talked to paul ryan and i get the sense from some of them, maybe it is wish of thinking they are so enthusiastic about him or christie jumping into the race what they get out of the conversations is what they want to nor but there is enough chatter we have to give it credence and looking at the schedule of sarah palin, after labor day, i think she has a campaign style schedule, post labor day, that is either going to be accentuated of her celebrityhood or, lay the predicate for running or president. martha: you are a very influential person and you say that and talk about the candidates who claim they don't want to run people think you are not satisfied with mitt romney urich perry or michelle bachmann. >> no, what i said is we have a good field, but, obviously there are people talking to these people who are walking away, saying i think there is a chance paul ryan will run or sarah

. >> lawrence, your standing ovation for chris christie's comments in your "rewrite" tonight itself earned a standing ovation. it was so perfectly done. >> hey, the guy deserves it. i'm not expecting him to get another one any time soon, but this was the night. >> well done, my friend. thank you. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. today was one of those days when even people who do not pay attention to business news and economics news were forced to pay attention to those things. today was a day that every tv network became a business news network. >> take a look now, down 407. 407. massive plunge. >> red across the board. the dow jones industrial average down more than 400 points. >> the dow jones industrial down more than 450 points. nasdaq down right now 117 points. >> down nine of 10 days. >> we have the s&p 500 down more than 4%. our biggest loss since 2009. >> hearing words like alarming, panic, devastating. >> rather panic-stricken selloff continues. look at that. 476.54 down, and going further down. >> now the dow is down more than 500 points. on this session a

we'll be able to keep you safe and take care of you once the storm passes. >> thanks to governor chris christiethey have a big cleanup ahead of there. >> they do. that's the situation in new jersey. across the river, the east river is beginning to overflow right now. abc's chris cuomo has been reporting this. you can see yourself leading to a foot of water in battery park. not far from there is sam champion in lowermanhattan. we are beginning to see the water rise there, sam. >> it would be the exact right time. here we are with battery park behind us. that is the tip of manhattan. we are in a high tide cycle right now. this is when we expected to see water breech that area and m me that move up against, not only that sea wall there, but alson the road surfaces on the lower east side and the real concern was, once we saw that happen, how much water would get there. how much sea water would get into this area. d could create problem was power and some other big problems in this area if we get much more. we'll continue to watch that. let's show you the radar though, this is where the heaviest lan

we're going to hear from new jersey governor chris christie. he'll give us the latest on that situation, very hard hit. he will take to the podium. we'll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. >>> meantime, slaervermont has n a big hit. the governor joins us now on the telephone. governor what is the situation in your state right now? >> well, we're being absolutely pummeled in the state of vermont. irene is dumping huge loads of water on us. we virtually have flooding from the southern end of the state to it northern end. it's now running up to the northern end of the state. virtually the entire state is impacted. we have over 100 roads closed. extraordinary washouts of bridges, roads, homes. one loss of what we believe to be a loss of life. we're still hopeful that a young woman was standing next to the river in wilmington and last seen by her boyfriend floating down the river. we haven't been able to locate her, or her body. so we're just really in tough shape up here as so many others are doing what the states are. >> and we understand

new jersey governor chris christie says today is the last day to prepare.el's adam burg is in asbury park and mike taibbi is in sag harbor, new york. let's begin with the situation where you are, adam. >> reporter: it's the calm before the storm. it's a warm day. temperatures in the 80st. this is the calmest moment. as early as 5:00 p.m. tonight we're going to close this beach down. it will be closed at least until 9:00 a.m. monday. hurricane watches extending into new england. a hurricane warning means 36 hours into that particular spot you can expect hurricane force winds. we're talking a day, day and a half. it's a large system. it's lost a little steam as far as sustained winds. it's still a strong category two hurricane with wind speeds at 105 miles per hour. the problem with this system it's so large that those swells and that surge will be rolling in. we'll see a high tide saturday night and another high tide saturday morning and that would probably be the worst of it. >> adam, thank you for the update. i just received a note that president obama is

do you think chris christie gets in? >> i thought a while ago the field was set.'m not so sure now. i think there were... >> are you hearing that chris christie wants to get in, the governor of new jersey? >> i put credence in rumblings to that effect. i think if you're him, if you're paul ryan, if you're sarah palin and you're looking at the dynamics right now, of course you're weighing the possibility of getting in. one of the things that factors in is 39% approval rating. if you're a republican you're probably thinking in 2016, i can't wait because there will be a republican in the white house and i don't want to run in a primary. if you're going to run for president, it kind of speeds things up a little bit. >> reporter: let me ask you about some of the controversial comments that have been made by the newest entrants into the field, the texas governor rick perry. he's made some comments especially in his book fed up. he referred to social security in his book as, "a crumbling monument to the failure of the new deal." he compared social security to a, "bad dis

they traced the epicenter of the earthquake a governor chris christie's aerobics class. cheap shot and comedian andy borowitz reports that billionaire televangelist pat robertson said this on his seven hundred club today that it was only a mild earthquake because yesterday's mile of the east coast earthquake was god's revenge on people who act to get robertson said all across the eastern seaboard there are men who get manicures where designer i wear and know about thread counts god made this somewhat gave a lighter finds this somewhat like gay like behavior confusing and he responded by getting mildly he was is a borowitz report but let's assume neither irritated god nor governor christie is to blame for the earthquake then who is it a couple of choices president obama of the nature smite him while he's on vacation he didn't leave town you know or eric cantor the epicenter is right in the middle of his district is he responsible for cutting and and he's responsible for cutting funding to the u.s. geological service and disaster. we just reported at the daily caller hotte

now to new jersey where governor chris christie is talking. let's listen in. >> as part of the team is our fema coordinating officer big vogel. bill has been already instrumental in helping us move through this part of the process and having him here representing fema as a toms river native is particularly helpful to us. bill, thank you very much, for being here and being part of the team. secondly, this morning, i conducted a series of conference calls with mayors and local officials in atlantic, monmouth, ocean and cape may counties. the purpose of the phone calls was, first, to allow them to communicate to us about issues they might be of concern to them where they either had not gotten responses from the county oem and to get reports from them on conditions on the ground and those four counties where we have ordered a number of mandatory evacuations. the good news is that people heeded my subtle advice yesterday. they are off the beach. people have left the shore, the evacuation process has been successful. over a million people have left

chris christie, i didn't even feel like i needed to say the state because we all know chris christie. and in michigan, rick snyder, new republican governor of michigan just passed sweeping reforms that are going to effect every kid in the school system in detroit. this is just something, to me, that the millennials get implicitly, and i think we just need to start, start really screaming it from mountaintops when we have the next opportunity which will be in the next presidential election cycle. the other issue that always ranks highly are with millennials is the environment. and i argue in my book that we need to make a very strong case for a conservative environmentalism. incidentally, the republican party has a pretty good history with environmentalism; teddy roosevelt, richard nixon. i think that we can talk about climate change, and we can acknowledge that climate change is happening, but it's also an inexact science. we know that the cover of "newsweek" in 1975 showed that the globe was going to freeze over. we can acknowledge and talk about it in if a reasonable way -- in a rea

well joining me right now, we have new jersey governor chris christie who has weathered through this storm. governor, a very good morning. let's talk about how good it is in new jersey. where do sthangsd? -- where do things stand? >> the storm is almost passing out of new jersey. the northern half of our state is covered now still by the storm. but we're about half a million people who have lost power and that number is growing a little bit. about 15,000 people in 45 different shelters. 250 roads are subject to closure. but, we're able to move a million people off the jersey shore in 24 hours without incident and i think that that helped us present significant loss of life along the shore line. so, so far we're cautiously optimistic about the way things are at the shore. we're going in to make an assessment. what we're concerned about is inland flooding and that flooding could be record flooding in new jersey because of all the rain and the fact that we've had one of the wettest augusts on record in new jersey before hurricane irene. >> i know it's hard with this storm drain systems

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chris christie was right. it's crazy! thank you for your responses this morning.

chris christie talks about the government unions and the teachers' unions that way. and i don't even think ronald reagan would have talked about teachers' unions the way christy does. no republican could talk about these government employees working for a failed system, by the way, without spending 20 minutes weeping about some schoolteacher they had once. not chris christie. and amazingly, the people like it. and he inspires others like scott walker. >> host: arnold is in smyrna, tennessee. you're on with ann coulter. >> caller: hello. how you doing, ann? >> guest: fine, thank you. >> caller: yes. um, i have a couple of questions, but first i have an invitation for you. um, i would like to invite you to go to my web site. it's love god is love.org, or you can read and download for free a book that i co-authored, and the c in co is capitalized. and the title of the book is define 9/11 inter-- divine 9/11 intervention. i think you'll find it interesting, especially pages -- excuse me, i stutter. pages 31 and 32. >> host: all right, arnold. >> caller: here's the questio

and chris christie is -- the base loves chris christie and what he's done with the union. >> the bigtory is and this goes to you, david, when governor huckabee was thinking about it and mitch daniels was thinking about it, it looked as though president obama was untouchable. he was going to run away with this thing and let something happen and now looks so vulnerable, this field is continuing to grow. don't you see that playing a role here? >> first of all, no one at least from our side has positioned ourselves as untouchable or obama being untouchable. when you say -- >> i'm just saying analysts have said that. >> i'm saying that would be a misperception and that we are going to do everything we can to put our record forward but going back to the republican field, again, there's a lot of indecision, "the wall street journal" was lamenting last week that the g.o.p. does not have a candidate that can get them not only through the primaries but also through a general election much that's all being called into question with more possible entries and perry not being the panacea that ever

also chris christie. so does marco rubio. but i personally hope paul ryan. rick perry? he has a wonderful story to tell of what he has done in texas. the flirtation with rick perry also represents one thing in the republican field that is an expression that many folks like yourselves are not comfortable of -- comfortable with the field of candidates as it is now. we hold the rest of do your thing gain will hear us loud and clear. please get in. the republican party needs you. >> thank you for enlightening us on the millennials today. we appreciate the background that was very helpful. but my question is, first, i am a proud reagan republican my first vote was 1980 when i was 18 voting twice. that is a commentary today because they are not going to the polls and that is not something you spoke to. so my question is, what is it the republican party can do to attract them to the polls and? >> it is true they're not going to the polls for republicans but they are going. they were 18% of the electorate 2008. if they turn out the same, there were 50 million who were eligible