and the democrats are disillusioned.ng the people who are still democrats, they're not following the news about the election the way they were four years ago. fewer of them say they care who wins the election. republicans have a plurality, an advantage on both of those issues. four years ago democrats, they were ready to go. now it's the republicans who are more ready to go. the democrats have to get things going. >> suarez: andy, is that different from previous cycles? if you're a supporter of the party that's in power at a time when americans are feeling pessimistic, isn't this just a natural outgrowth of what's going on in the country? >> it's partly a natural outgrowth but we've had a lot of shifting around. we had three or four national elections where we've gone from democrats win, democrats win, republicans win. now the republicans are ahead. there's a lot of volatility. even at a time when the public is pretty polarizedded. >> suarez: give us a quick look at your very telling statistics on young people. >> a good

democrats enacted it. democrats will fight to preserve it. some republicans want to replace the guarantee of social security with a gamble of private accounts. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for social security. vote for president barack obama. [. [cheers and applause] and the hard fought rights of women are on the ballot. democrats trust the judgment of women. we reject the republic assault on women's reproductive health. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for women's rights, vote for president obama. and our democracy is on the ballot. democrats believe we must cush the influence of special interest on our political institutions. democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests. we must build the economy from the middle out, not the top down. to change policy for the middle class, we must change politics. democrats will work to overturn citizens united. [cheers and applause] while republicans support opening the flood gates to special interest money and suppressing the right

they don't ask the same thing as democrats. aren't there pro-life democrat, and they have a singular ideology viewpoints. >> i thought things were more narrow, but in terms of singularity, i think it was the republicans name me a pro-life democrat. >> well, they didn't speak, but they're there. >> they are? >> and if the issue is, how the media covered this. and pat goodell was writing, and name three stories that should have gotten attention and didn't. valerie jarrett, white house aide gets secret service protection, how does that happen. dav david plouffe, he was with on with george stephanopoulos and a national security advisor that is 172,000, and pension at 55 years old. still working and 148,000 a year more from, from what's left of fannie mae, none of those stories got any traction at all in the mainstream media. >> and hats off to john carl, media note. for putting out one of the three steel workers trotted out in front of the democratic national convention who got up there and said, you know, mitt romney is bad becaus

democrats enacted it. democrats will fight to preserve it.republicans want to replace the guarantee of social security with a gamble of private accounts. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for social security. vote for president barak obama. and the hard fought rights of women are on the ballot. democrats trust the judgment of women. we reject the republican assault on women's reproductive health. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for women's rights. vote for president obama. and our democracy is on the ballot. democrats beef we must curb the influence of special interests on our political institutions. democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests. we must build the economy from the middle out. not the top down. to change policy for the middle class, we must change politics. democrats will work to overturn citizens united. while republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and depressing the right to vote. it's just plain wrong. we believe in the govern

democrats enacted it. democrats will fight to preserve it.republicans want to replace the guarantee of social security with a gamble of private accounts. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for social security. vote for president barak obama. and the hard fought rights of women are on the ballot. democrats trust the judgment of women. we reject the republican assault on women's reproductive health. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for women's rights. vote for president obama. and our democracy is on the ballot. democrats beef we must curb the influence of special interests on our political institutions. democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests. we must build the economy from the middle out. not the top down. to change policy for the middle class, we must change politics. democrats will work to overturn citizens united. while republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and depressing the right to vote. it's just plain wrong. we believe in the govern

but this is a huge ideological difference between the republicans and democrats and the democrats saidwell last night. they said you are in the government. >> this is the part that's amazing to hear from republicans again and again. this notion that somehow they have the answers. 8 years you had control of the government. 8 years. you passed these policies that helped create this crisis. mitt romney does not have one policy different than george bush. >> i strongly disagree with you on that one. >> you talk about the deficit. i don't see the have you cans willing to negotiate about the deficit. >> they have. what do you think paul ryan has done with his budget. >> i know the budget. you cannot -- i don't care what paul ryan says ... you cannotific the budget without revenue and cutting spending. when paul ryan says it can happen without tax, without revenues and some times of -- >> 40 cents of every dollar we are spending is borrowed money. we can't sustain that. megyn: i have got to leave it at that. thank you, ben, chris, a pleasure. what happens now that the pentagon has accused a n

pro-growth democrat.g everybody in the democrat days we had a balanced budget and surplus. >> reporter: the election cycle has seen the superstar fundraiser, surrogateer and kibitzer in chief go off message on the bush era tax cut and romney's tenure at bain capital. >> a man who has been governor and sterling business career cross the qualification threshold. >> what it means they will have to put everything off until early next year. that is probably the best thing to do right now. >> tonight the former president will praise mr. obama decision-make progresses we as he has in the campaign ads focus on the killing of usama bin laden. >> i thought to myself i hope that's the kale would have made. >> an on the economy. >> president obama has a plan to rebuild america from the ground up. that is what happened when i was president. >> the relationship hit bottom in the 2008 democratic primary when mr. clinton defended his wife against the obama forces. >> i think they played the race card on me. we now know f

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he had two with a democratic complete democratic congress. look where we are?mney you look back, say okay, large, long-"time" experience in the private sector. everyone including president clinton called it a sterling business record. by every measure he was successful. two, salt lake city olympics. in dire need of help. turns it around. huge sort of national pride. three, governor of massachusetts. came in, took a failing state. balanced budget. >> 47th out of 50 in jobs. >> he walked into office, walked out of office as number 30. he has an amazing record. >> 47 out of 50 in jobs. >> success, success, success. track record. >> let me address a couple of the points that sean just made. jenna: brad, if you could, go back to the question though. >> sure. jenna:. jenna: i can't should we trust the president with another four years of our lives here? >> i'll tell you, tell you exactly why, jenna. the middle class should trust him for a few reasons. one, he won't raise their taxes by $2,000 a year like paul ryan and mitt romney are proposing to do. he will. >> said

democrat. good morning. >> caller: good morning, thanks for taking my call. >> host: why do you think washington is so divided? >> caller: axle rohde hit the nail on the head. mitch mcconnell and his first statement said we're going to do everything in our power to make this guy a one-term president. they spent all of the money in eight years that bill clinton built up as a surplus. it was gone. so when obama came in the office with big ideas, health care reform, drawing down the wars, there was no money to do these things. but the -- it's like the opposite of "two santas." there's no santa. no money. they know it. thank you. >> host: berkeley springs, carl is on the line for the republicans. hey, carl. >> caller: hey, good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: one reason i see -- yesterday morning i was watching your program. your moderator read a tweet saying that people at the republican convention were throwing peanuts at a black camera person and saying this is the way we feed animals

democrats need to tear that down. they hope democrats will give president obama the benefit of the doubt. >> the republicans kept returning to that line about president obama saying that you did not build the business. they say obama does not respect private enterprise. do you think republicans need to counter that explicitly? >> from democrats, you hear that mitt romney wants to bring back george bush policies. they have to say that we cannot run against george bush anymore. he is not on the ticket. the american people don't want to go back there. >> that's a great point. the message is that people cannot trust mitt romney or paul ryan. >> are you still there? >> i am. >> before our colleague had a baby, and early important story, she wrote that one problem with the obama campaign is that he has not said give me four more years and i will do x. what do you think? >> i think that is the hardest part about his campaign. they have a difficulty about what they will do another four years. if he wins, they will have to end

can the democrats make a case that will swing the race? >> tonight is an opportunity so they are bringing in their heavy hitter, bill clinton, the first and last democratic president since fdr to be elected to two full terms. >> mr. clinton will put barack obama's name in nomination with his speech tonight. the first time one president has done that for another. maybe that will take the democrats minds off the rain on their parade. this was to be the scene of president obama's acceptance speech tomorrow, the home of the carolina panthers, they were, there were going to be 65,000 people and fireworks, but now the forecast is for thunderstorms and the event is being moved back here to this much smaller arena. >> the president arrived in charlotte this afternoon but his trip from washington was delayed by, what else? the weather. he is expected to make a brief appearance here in the arena tonight. a little bit earlier we saw a picture of the president's wife, the first lady, michelle obama taking in the speeches here, she brought the house do

but the democrats were comfortable being democrats last night. >> this is much more of a president obamant. at the rnc, governor romney was more like a last ditch guest. he is the center of this party, so to me this is all built around him. i think that's the difference. there was not a lot -- i think there was excitement for mitt romney, but not in the same way that there is for president obama. but you're right about the 6:00 to 10:00 and the 10:00 to 11:00. >> i thought it was going away. >> this to me is part of the choice issue, this is part of the democratic party needing to frame this election not as a referendum, but as a choice. and particularly that line from mayor castro about my mom worked in civil rights so i could hold a microphone not a mop. that's exactly the point they're trying to make, that the next generation of people coming forward will have the opportunities to be leaders, not just workers, all the the workers as well. >> coming bac we asked who was first lady to address a political convention. the answer is eleanor roosevelt, she spoke at the 1940 democratic conve

so we have the democrats under control. we will have more on the democrats in a minute. the republicans are on the road. paul ryan is in the battleground state of ohio today. we understand that governor romney, the presidential candidate for the republicans, is behind closed doors working on the first debate preparation for the first debate the two candidates will have. the wisconsin congressman stepped up the line of attack against the president of the united states asking the crowd, are you better off today than you were four years ago? vice president am -- vice presidential nominee compared the president to president carter. you cannot look at the suffering problems or the debt crisis, and jobs lost and say we are better off than four years ago. as a matter of fact, president obama's record is worse than jimmy carter's record. look at unemployment. in the cater presidency, in july of 1980 the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent. for the last 42 months under president obama it has been above 8 percent the entire time. >>shepard: the democrats are knocking that down sayin

you don't want to get tangled up in the 1990s democrat, obama democrat argument.ant to take it to the republicans. >> i don't want to get tangled up in that right now. listen, i'm not a partisan. if i think deregulation of the financial industry is bad when the republicans do it, i think it's bad when the democratic president who signed that into legislation president clinton did too. the republicans want to go about the deregulation, you are part of the problem. we've forgotten about what clinton did wrong in his personal life. that was so long ago. we even forgot about eight years of bush. but the truth is we shouldn't forget those things. and we should talk about those things and not forget when bill clinton is talking tonight. >> if you take the hypocrites out of politics, there ain't nobody left. >> i'm here. i'm here. >> but i think to your point, pete, look speeches can be wonderful for a night and sort of dissipate over time. if bill clinton's speech is going to have resonance beyond tonight, i believe he has to tackle some of those obvious differences. if

>>> coming up, the role of religion at the democratic national convention. plus, a novelist who's also a catholic deacon on how faith is reflected in his work. >> major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to religion, community development, and edution. additioal fundinglso provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. the jane hensen foundation. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome. i'm bob abernathy. it's good to have you with us. for today's start of our 16th year on the air. president obama accepted his party's nomination for re-election at the democratic national convention in charlotte is week lat week our managing editor kim lauten reported on religion at the republican national convention. today, the democrats and religion's sometimes controversial role at their gathering. >> in accepting the democratic nomination, president obama sounded sev

is the democratic national convention will now come to order! (cheers and applause) >> reporter: the highlight tonight will feature first lady michelle obama addressing the convention. >> ifill: ray suarez is down there among the delegates where he'll be everyday and every night all week. ray? >> suarez: gwen and judy, the convention, as harry noted, was gaveled into order by debbie wasserman schultz and will turn to official business and housekeeping but now as official t official delegates are making their way into the hall it's well and truly under way with a parade of speakers including the first woman bishop of the african methodist episcopal church, the leader of the international service employees international union, mary kay henry, and the first woman three-star general in the u.s. army, claudia kennedy. it's interesting, they get to make the rebuttal case as the republican had their convention last week but you can already hear a mirror image of america being presented by the speakers of this convention. earlier financial journalists a

democrats enacted it. democrats will fight to preserve it.republicans want to replace the guarantee of social security with a gamble of private accounts. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for social security. vote for president barak obama. and the hard fought rights of women are on the ballot. democrats trust the judgment of women. we reject the republican assault on women's reproductive health. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for women's rights. vote for president obama. and our democracy is on the ballot. democrats beef we must curb the influence of special interests on our political institutions. democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests. we must build the economy from the middle out. not the top down. to change policy for the middle class, we must change politics. democrats will work to overturn citizens united. while republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and depressing the right to vote. it's just plain wrong. we believe in the govern

the democrats, 5500. again, tomorrow night, which was scheduled to be at the bank of america football stadium, dislike it was four years ago in denver where president obama, accepted the nomination in a big football stadium, this will be the site for there's a night as well. the plans have changed. concerns about the weather. time warner cable arena, that begins at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. our preview show is at 4:00 p.m. throughout the day we will be live from charlotte, day two of the democratic national convention. we are pleased to have in our charlotte studio another guest. this is a professor with the university of north carolina, charlotte, martha kropf. guest: hello. host: banks for joining us. i want to start with north carolina. which candidate right now is going to win the 15 electoral votes? guest: it is a tossup. the polls indicate they're neck- and-neck and romney with the slight convention bump from last week. posted a candidates have been neck-and-neck all summer. it's going to be a nail bi

chaos breaking out at the democratic national convention. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as you may know the democratic platform omitted the word god and did not state that the city of jerusalem is the capital of israel. that has caused much fear and loathing. and earlier today under immense pressure the democratic leadership decided to reverse itself and attempted to get on the right side of god and jerusalem. the convention chair is los angeles mayor antonio vigarossa who almost had to beg the delegates to stop the madness and bow to god. >> all those delegates in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. in in the opinion of the -- let me do that again. all of those delegates in favor say aye. >> aye. all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> i guess -- >> you have got to rule and then you have got to let them do what they are going to do. >> i will do that one more time. all those delegates in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> in the opinion

a rising star in the democratic party is set to deliver the keynote address at the democratic nationalntion tonight. he is the san antonio mayor, julian castro. he rose from what are no doubt humble roots all the way to harvard. more on his story in the gop's huge polling gap with hispanic voters coming up. as fox reports live coverage continues from the democratic national convention in charlotte. stay with us ation for events to. well somewhere along the way, emily went right on living. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for every eventuality. ...which meant she continued to have the means to live on... ...even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. [ male announcer ] it started long ago. the joy of giving something everything you've got. it takes passion. and it's not letting up anytime soon. at unitedhealthcare insurance company, we understand that commitment. and always have. so does aarp, an organization serving the needs of americans 50 and over for generations. so it's no su

>> the harm for democrats is from the other side, from people and independents looking into democraticarty and only seeing a conglomeration of caucuses rather than a united message. in some ways i think this actually harms the democratic message because what republicans do often is talk about you know, entitlements and special pleading and they make the argument that half of the people in the country get checks from the government. and i think that the message that the subliminal message there, the dog whistle, these are all of these caucuses getting their little bit? >> i agree, i don't think -- that's a problem with the republican attack, i don't think that's a problem with the democrats can change by getting rid of caucuses. >> we'll keep this going, obviously, i agree with you ryan, what the strategy is, get rid of the caucuses or do you -- it sounds like you're saying create another one that would be more inclusive in a way. join the cnn election roundtable with wolf blitzer and the cnn political team. you can submit questions and get answers in real time, it's live virtual chat a

welcome you to the live coverage of the 2012 democratic national convention. so we begin the democratic party turns to make its case to the american voters. tonight's program will emphasize the major themes of president obama's reselection campaign captured by firstç lady michele obamaç and we'll bailiff you tt with -- bring you that with other speeds. >san antonio mayor julio castro plus other major speeches tonight. on-line you can find our 24 hour live stream coverage events inside and outside the hall. >> ifill: let's get started right down to the floor to ray suarez who will be with us tonight and the rest of the conventions. ray suare. >> suarez: we will hear from senate majority leader harry reid of november and house minority leader nancy pelosi of california. later on there will be video tributes, the first to fermenter president jimmy carter and one to the late senator edward kennedy of massachusetts. and of course much later tonight as judy mentioned, the keynote from the 37 year old mayor of san antonio texas, hoolian julit trocastroand michelle

nobody else did that. >> he articulated what the democratic party is doing. >> belva: the democrats are saying this was a starting point. i didn't need anybody who said the message is what we heard in the auditorium. one group, though, that has seemed satisfied was the gay community. >> yeah. >> belva: they were repeatedly called to the front. what about that move on behalf of the president to bring them into community and their response to it? >> there may be a backlash, right, joe? >> in the hall and gay community, it was huge. big week for folks and gay folks. the first time the democratic party platform acknowledged or endorsed same-sex marriage in the platform. i got to north carolina a couple days early and went to a black church. the supporters four years ago, you know what, they say they are not for gay marriage. they will not vote. they will not vote for romney. this could hurt them in swing states. already anti-same-sex marriage are organizing against. >> north carolina, it is guts for the democrats. he won the state by a mere 14,000 votes. this is risky what he is doing. then

democratic party. interest groups that comprise the democratic coalition. for much of the last 80 years, one of the largest of those constinchancies is organized labor. providing the money and organizing power necessary it compete with the well funded gop. but the influence of organized labor within the democratic development has eroded within recent years. the latest example is the very location of the democratic convention next week, charlotte, north carolina. for the first time in a generation, the democratic convention is being held in a state that forbids private unions from arequiring workers to pay union dues, making it impossible to unionize. north carolina is also one of two states in the country, along with virginia, that makes it illegal for the state to collectively bargain with public sector workers. not surprisingly, north carolina has the loetest rate of unionization of any state in the country. the choice of charlotte prompted an outcry from many labor leaders who see it in the long lit

we are here in charlotte, north carolina with about 20,000 democrats here, part of the democratic --l convention. we're here at the time-warner cable arena where tonight's festivities will include speeches by elizabeth warren, and vice president joe biden. we're coming to you live of course, on current tv and on your local progressive talk radio station whether you are listening or watching join the fun and give us a call at 866-55-press, and if you go to current.com and join our chat room, you can talk about all of the issues we're talking about, the speeches last night with your fellow full court pressers across the country. peter ogburn is here with me in charlotte, north carolina. partygoer extrordanaire. >> when in rome go to parties. >> bill: that's right. in washington dan henning, and here joining us the ranking member of the house budget committee, rep meanting maryland's eighth district good to see you congressman chris van hollen here in charlotte. >> it's great to be with you. >> bill: it was very very exciting i thought yesterday. what a line upof speakers duval patrick,

the democrats, 24.rs, our private economy has produced 66 million private sector jobs. so what's the job score? republicans, 64 million. democrats 42. now sh now, there's a reason for this. it turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both lawyerly right and good economics. why? because poverty, discrimination and ignorance restrict growth. when you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. it hurts us all. we know that investments in education and infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. they increase good jobs and they create new wealth for all of the rest of us. now, there's something i've noticed lately, you probably have, too. and it's this. maybe just because buy grew up in a different time, though i often disagree with republicans, i actually never learned to hate them the way the far right that controls their party seems to hate our president and a lot of other dem

democrats are not going to design a plan on the backs of beneficiaries. we are not going to stand by and see more tax cuts for billionaires' what people like my mother have to go without. is personal. that is not going to happen. we have an opportunity -- there is the framework of these plants. hey, give the senate credit. the at least -- led by dick durbin -- they said, all right, we know of compromise has to be done here. but we cannot seem to get the other guys to the table. i would like to see that happen before the interim session. but right now it has been gridlock. let me be clear about that as well. you have seen the report and the book by thomas mann, ornstein and mann. clearly the obstructionist nature of what the republicans have done here is the prime cause of not moving forward and everyone else in the world who is unstable and would like to invest their money here -- all it requires is the government, in this case congress, working together. >> let me ask you a little bit about connecticut politics year. your colleague in the house, chris mu

democrats that can't be afforded caramels almanac?ave to do in planning goes on a year in advance -- look at the weather patterns. they knew when they planned this thing. bill: well republicans took a risk with tampa, florida. with hurricane isaac. it was downgraded to a tropical storm when it was on land. as a democrat, how do you think this place? doesn't rain on the parade here in charlotte? remark this is absurd. >> i am in charlotte right now. it has been raining on and off all week. it is drenching, and like a monsoon yesterday. this notion that they have to cover for the fact that not enough people want to go and see barack obama -- this is pure, bright right wing politics. [talking over each other] >> in 2008, people stood in a snowstorm to see this guy. >> they wouldn't have done it in a snowstorm. i believe that god is speaking. maybe they spoke to republicans because two and conventions in a row -- they had to cancel. this is ridiculous. >> politics at whether? come on, i'm already hearing from people in charlotte that volu

now he's a rising star in the democratic party, tapped to give the keynote speech at the democratic convention. the same speech an unknown barack obama gave in 2004. >> you get talked about as someone who could be the first hispanic governor of texas, maybe even the first hispanic president of the united states. can you handle that kind of pressure? >> i would be lying if i said that's not flattering. it's flattering to everybody. but the biggest mistake i can make is to believe the press, to believe the hype. >> he was elected mayor in 2009 and re-elected with 82% of the vote. now he's 37, the youngest mayor of a top 50 city in the united states. he's also used to the baby face jokes. >> i think one of the funnier things that has happened to you when you first met president barack obama he jokingly asked if you were the intern. >> that's right. >> you being asked to do the speech is that making up for that jab. >> i don't know. i don't know. i always got the age jokes at different points in my career. >> is it still happening? >> every now and then. but i'm starting to get the gray hair from

i grew up in a democrat home. and daddy, and i didn't know anything but democrat and my daddy would always say they weren't going to vote and he'd always come in... he was a farmer and he'd always come in, he and my brother, $4, $2 each to pay the toll tax. so they wanted to vote so much. >> suarez: a lot of people don't remember that poor people had to find a couple dollars that they could scrape together to be able to vote. >> yes. he took it out of his pocket. he made us a good living. we had a big farm, ten hands on the farm. he doesn't wasn't a... we were all right, you know, as far as finances but he always took that money, i remember that so much, and then whenever it was time to vote he would get the buggy out and put the horses to it and mama and daddy would go off to vote. and you know we didn't understand, little children, why they were doing it and we'd cry why was mama and daddy going? you know, they stayed at home with us, they didn't go like parents do now, of course, you know, most of them had to t

and looking through the public republican party and the democratic party, the democratic party is wayar ahead of the republican party on this one. within your own party you are having dialogue including senator mccain's daughter meghan mccain and here you have herbert hoover's great granddaughter speaking of this and i think the republican party will be forced to put this somewhere in their platform as these younger people are getting older and they become the party leaders. i think this is a generational thing. i see it with my sons. what was not accepted 50 years ago, to them, they look at this and go why wouldn't you be able to marry? this makes no sense. i don't bat at and an eye if my friend is gay. i think the republican party will be forced to change and i agree with the young leaders. >> we have to talk again after credits. that is it for this edition of to the contrary. follow me on twitter@bonnie erbe and to the contrary and check out our website web web where the discussion continues and whether you are agree or think to the contrary, please join us next time.

there is backlash from a key democratic constituency for holding the democratic national convention here. we are lacking in union workers here. >>reporter: north carolina is the right-to-work state. the union membership here in north carolina is the lowest by percentage in the country at less than three percent. organized labor is not happy. today, this is a celebration ahead of the convention with the union flare. plenty of music, food, and family fun, open to the delegate and members of the public for free. rather than spending on the convention they spent $8 million last time around with organizing labor spending more on more grass root activists such as this one. but today in toledo it is clear thatted afl-cio president is strongly behind the democratic ticket. >> mitt romney is doing the wrong things. what he is doing is beneath the dignity of the american people. we will not let him win. >>reporter: organized labor is not happy with the location but they are clearly behind the obama and biden ticket. the contracts have allowed for union workers to get some of the work here in the w

looks to me like the democrats -- please. the democrats this week have a real challenge.x of antidemocratic rhetoric for months now. the republicans led by their candidate over and over say i'll send you the party of europe, of foreignness. we're going to be next greece. you're socialist. it seems to me what you did tonight you've shown you're clearly american born, your ideas come from the needs of real americans, they're not imported from a strange foreign place that romney kept talking about. that reminded everybody that it's different than they say it is. >> exactly. if you look at the convention last week, which basically they put their convention on a fact free diet because you heard speech after speech that basically mischaracterized and lied about president obama's record. it was an anti-obama convention instead of a pro-romney convention. what michael talked about, you would hope from being fortunate that that experience allows you to empathize with those who aren't, and it would make help you to make sure you went to bat for people who you needed to reach behind

not just democrats.ot just the folks who would be in the kind of presumptive base, but to talk to everybody, and make a case that this was their government, and their campaign. and that's what elizabeth warren is doing, and i respect her for that. >> are you done with politics? would you rather -- run for another office? >> maybe one day, but i've finished my term. >> stay in office or something else? >> i don't have any plans. >> i heard you made a visit to iowa? >> made a visit to a bunch of states because the obama campaign asked me to do it and i'm proud to do it and will continue to do it. >> deval patrick, we look forward to your speech tonight and thanks for taking time to be ob. >> good to are with you. >>> how many city the hosts a nominating convention more than once. the answer is six. philadelphia, chicago, san francisco, los angeles, miami and new york. not boston. how about that? they've all hosted multiple conventions. we'll be right back. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf's