there's another famous that no other political party, i'm a democrat. the great thing about the party is the ability to win in all these places. but if the people you elect are just going to go back to washington to vote against all the key planks of what the party is for, then i think you have to question isn't worth having? and i think that played out so much when i was down here in arkansas during the lincoln primary, where people were saying okay, what does it mean to be a democrat and what does it mean to be democrats in a red state or red leaning state? and i don't think that debate has been resolved yet. i think one thing that is hopeful and the book ends with a section on taxes, which is that you can't just be cyclical. you have to take a long? of this stuff. and i was one of the smart and 13 dead and is one of the things the obama people have tried and are trained to do, which is to look long term. where are the demographics changing? were the opportunities? in my mecca during four years, but start organizing. and do for example texas, tons of v

i think it did redefine democratic party politics in arkansas by showing there is a challenge that can be mounted on the left of a democratic elected official in arkansas. i've never seen that challenge mounted before. what do you say about that, do you think it weakened blanche lincoln going into the next in november? do you think it weakened the democratic party? do you think the left should have tactically held their fire to try to preserve that senate seat? >> no. i think primary challenges are fair game. if the left or moderate wing of our party wants to challenge somebody, i think it's fair game and in many ways makes the winner a little bit stronger. i know when bob casey and i squared off in 2002, people said this is going to wreck our chances. i came out of that election much stronger, much better known and the republican never had a chance looking back. i think that's fair and appropriate. that's all over. this is four weeks to go, maybe having a republican congress. with this republican party is a very frightening prospect. we need to all of us get over it, get out to vote.

than the democratic party. then, in 2008, the obama presidential campaign and democratic party structures launched an unprecedented campaign targeting religious groups. it appeared the god gap might be starting to close. but now observers say it's widening again, and that is hurting the democrats in this election. according to a survey by the public religion research institute, voters across all religious groups are showing less support for democratic candidates than they did in 2008, and those declines are especially significant among white tholics and inline protestants. gibson says there has also been a loss of support within the jewish community. >> 78%, almost 80% of jewish voters backed obama in the 2008 election, but his approval rating is down to about 50% among those same voters. that's a reliably democratic bloc that has really fallen off. >> reporter: insiders say the democratic national committee has been struggling over how to assimilate faith-based outreach into its overall campaign strategy. dnc

we have democrats running as conservatives, not even identifying their parties in their own ads like nsion in west virginia. you have democrats defending seats they typically don't have to defend. then what we have is this bumper sticker argument which is what's going on here and instead of getting into it let's talk about what's needed toed a vance the economics, getting out of this recession and get this country back on track. so while we can sit there -- >> if you want to get beyond bumper sticker answers then you can't start the nation's problems on january 20, 2009. >> i never did. i never did. >> well, you did implicitly when you suggest that the economic collapse or lack of jobs is due to obama exclusively. >> i never suggested that, marc. don't even try it. >> david, why don't you practice allowing me to finish a point. the fact is the democratic party isn't solely responsible for the crisis, not solely responsible for the job crisis. we have had decades of deregulation, of exporting jobs, flawed tax policy which burdened the middle class, hurt the working poor and benefitted

among opposition parties, 21.5% said they support the liberal democratic party. 2.6% backed new komeito and support for your party was at 4.2 points. earlier nhk world's senior political reporter gave us some insight on this survey. >> the survey shows many japanese people are disappointed with the way kan handled the chinese trawler captain arrest and release issue. >> that's right. well, the government could have just released him. i mean, deported him just like former governments have done, but kan chose to hold the captain accountable under japanese law. then all of a sudden his government released him, so many japanese see this as a a flip flop and are unhappy with kan for caving in to chinese pressure. >> there are other issues at home that led to the sudden drop in kan's popularity, too, right? >> right. many japanese also feel that kan is not taking a positive stance on clean politician. former dpj secretary general ichiro ozawa is to be indicted over a political funding scandal and there is a demand that he testify before the diet over the issue. but kan is leaving it up to oza

they are not a party that stands for workers. democrats stand for workers, we stand on the side of workers, and we have to say that to the american people over and over again and point out the disparity that republicans want to create. >> congressman blackburn, if i had to guess, i was given a blind test, one of the parties is using we're the party of paychecks as the slogan, i would guess that was the democratic party. it seems like that's an attempt to adopt basically democratic party rhetoric for republican campaigns, and in your pledge to america, there is a section on health care. the first provision of your pledge to america section on health care is repeal the obama health care bill. the second provision in the health care section of your pledge to america is restore most of the obama health care bill. all the regulations on insurance companies, all of the mandates on insurance companies are in your pledge to america. why would you pledge to do something in the next congress that you already have voted against in this congress? >> l

it is also a reminder to the democratic party. a reminder that you cannot take hispanics for granted. you cannot think you have folks in your corner, in your back pocket and their interests like any other interest of hoekstra the u.s., that their interests should not be met with a substantive response. the latino community like any other folks in the u.s., they are going to vote with the party that meets their needs. tavis: does that mean you think the democratic party has taken hispanic voters for granted? >> i think from time to time, there have been times that the democratic party has probably not paid as much attention to the community, not been as responsive as i could. i will say that having said that, that is calling a spade a spade, they have been much more responsive and much better on the issues generally than the republican party has. i saw that ad that ran in nevada or almost ran by a republican operative, encouraging hispanic voters not to vote. that is the kind of dirty tricks that do not belong in any election cycle

the president whether he likes it or not, is the spokesman for the democratic party. if he keeps doing what he's doing, that helps a lot. but it's true the republicans have succeeded in mobilizing the democratic base. that's something you never want to do if you can help it is to mobilize the other guys. republicans have succeeded in doing that because of the tea party. >> governor howard dean. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me on. >> senator jim demint tries to elect candidates while opposing a policy that would limit government tracking of the sex lives of unmarried women. >>> and in tonight's rewrite, carl paladino explains why he loves forwarding racist e-mails. it's simple, he says, i'm human. ♪ [ heather ] businesses need a reliable financial partner. one who can stay in sync with their moves. my job at ge capital is to get bobcat all the financial and business support they need. we provide financing for every bobcat dealer in north america. together, we've rolled out over 100,000 machines to small businesses all over the country so they too

but, you know, they should listen more to governors, the democratic party. we're the ones creating jobs, renewable energy, movies in my state. ed rendell in pennsylvania has created a lot of jobs. look at success stories in the states, in the grass roots with mayors, with county commissioners. it's not just the washington d.c. party. >> schieffer: all right. well, governor rendell, you're up there in what is always a key state, pennsylvania. a lot of those suburbs around philadelphia that the president carried last time out looks like he's going to have the candidates, democrats are going to have real trouble there. what is it that has caused this drift away from the president in your view that we saw so many independents were for the president in 2008 and also so many young people who so far despite that big rally that we saw out there in wisconsin haven't shown much interest in this election. its going to be hard for all democrats if that... those groups don't turn out this time around. >> well there's no question, bob. i think part of it is perception. i

the conservative democrats and you say that you know the democratic party actually wants to be progressive wants to than actually wants to push their policies through without a bunch of pork then all centrally they need to ditch the conservative democrats they need to make their rank smaller so they can be i guess more philosophically in line with what it is to be a democrat but the only problem with that is you know if you have fewer people then you don't have the vote so how would that work. well i don't necessarily true i mean i wasn't calling it a purge of all moderates and conservative democrats what i was saying is that the most reactionary democrats in the caucus who are consistently voting against obama's agenda and are running around blasting nancy pelosi on the campaign trail now are doing the party more harm than good because they're not bringing them any votes but they're severely undermining the democratic brand and weakening legislation at key moments and if you actually look for example at the reagan or bush two presidencies i mean they never

the president whether he likes it or not, is the spokesman for the democratic party. that helps a lot. but it's true the republicans have succeeded in mobilizing the democratic base. that's something you never want to do if you can help it is to mobilize the other guys. republicans have succeeded in doing that because of the tea party. >> governor howard dean. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me on. >> senator jim demint tries to elect candidates while opposing a policy that would limit government tracking of the sex lives of unmarried women. >>> and in tonight's rewrite, carl paladino explains why he loves forwarding racist e-mails. it's simple, he says, i'm human. >>> breaking news. there was an interruption in the middle of the presidential speech tonight. no, not a heckler. a problem with the prop department. [ beeping ] [ beeping ] [ eli ] it's go time. ♪ ♪ lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. y

it's not remotely competitive with the democratic party as party. s are blowing republicans way with a base that is donating frequently in small amounts when ever they can. conservatives are trying to make up the lost ground with outside groups. with the help of a handful of very, very rich people. 250 hourks plus people giving human-sized donations to the democratic party. on the other hand, you have three guys. three billionaires funding the outside spending group funding. maybe money will win the day, determine how everything works out. maybe three billionaires can decide this year's e lebss. or maybe all the tiny little fishies in the shape of the big fish will eat the big, fat billionaire fish. this year's elections are very fun so far. [ male announcer ] learn about a free trial offer from abilify. if you're taking an antidepressant and still feel depressed, one option your doctor may consider is adding abilify. abilify treats depression in adults when added to an antidepressant. some people had symptom improvement in as early as one to two wee

more independents favor the democratic party more than republican party. more have a positive more than negative view of contributions imdrafts make to this country. prefer democrats over republican for the need to change the country and prefer democrats over republicans for the need of people like me and democrats support gay marriage. so there's a lot of evidence that says while independences have swung towards republicans, it doesn't present the swing of the mainstream of the approach toward government and the conservative idea that government has a very little role to play. 2012, i think it means yeah the democrats will be whacked. we'll see a degree of that on election day. there's some range of possible outcomes there. looking toward 2012, i'm not so sure if i was republicans i would be measured drapes yet in the white house. as i was pointing out at the beginning and david is also, this election outcome will be very much driven by the preferential in this election. they probably will win that battle but that doesn't mean the views of people have chan

song said the current government led by democratic party -- by the democratic party is adopting the same policy towards north korea as the previous administrations led by the liberal democratic party. the envoy reiterated north korea's stance that the abduction issue was settled with the 2002 pyongyang declaration signed between the two countries. >>> now, north korea staged a military parade on sunday in central pyongyang to mark the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling workers' party of korea. north korean leader kim jong-il's third son, kim jong un, who was recently chosen to succeed his father, was in the reviewing platform for the massive parade at kim ill sung square. the north welcomed western media to broadcast live coverage of this event, something that is rarely permitted. earlier, nhk world gave us some insights. >> first of all, what can you tell us looking at the footage of this parade? >> a few things, actually. first, north korea was trying to show that the transition of power from kim jong il to his son, kim jong un, has been proceeding successfully. in 2012 nor

people who are most committed to progressive political action have been the most loyal to the democratic party what's going to make a shift forward for the country hopefully hopefully the working people will fight off their reactionary and quasi fascist forces who call themselves tea party and other absurd names that have nothing to do with what they really are hopefully . the. obama administration will begin to itself with labor and progressive forces radically improve on the united states used to present health care legislation as the beginning for a real national health care legislation and most of all most of all. a policy of the kind that roosevelt launched in one nine hundred thirty five when social security unemployment insurance national labor relations act and a whole series of was eventually adding three years later in minimum wages fair labor standards begin to provide legislation to create a real public sector and called bail out the people begin to invest in the masses begin to invest in labor this brings us to my last question you have said before that you believe that barack oba

whether or not the republican party gets that the message is not strictly an anti-left, anti-democratic party one. i don't think that the republican party gets that there is true discontent with the establishment republican party. >> can we talk about sarah palin for a moment? you heard my little commentary earlier. >> mm-hmm. >> do you think that sarah palin is bad for the gop? >> absolutely not. we live in the 21st century. it is a media age. and conservatives exist almost exclusively in the political realm and don't understand pop culture. she uses facebook and social media better than anybody. she's a kingmaker like oprah winfrey helped to make barack obama and anointed him, sarah palin has already shown that she has anointed women. women, women, women. >> but the most important aspect of sarah palin's career is that she captures this sense of grievance that average people have. whether she has a right to it or -- i don't think she does. but remember, one of the biographies of her is called "the persecution of sarah palin." and this has been the motif of her career. >> every time i speak

what is the democratic party's approach? >> we see right now, of course, president obama spending a lot more time on the campaign trail and vice president biden. the president this sunday will be in philadelphia for the second of four large ralies he's holding around the country and his message really is aimed at his base. the democratic base in particular. you can't sit on the sidelines. it's inexcuse to be sit on the sidelines. you may be disappointed with me, he's saying, you may not like everything i've done. gwen: don't make me look bad is one thing he said. >> and the alternative is worse. he's getting out there talk about the pledge to america, the republican platform and saying, ok, you may be unhappy with me but look at this. it's a strategy that they think is going to help close the gap in these final few weeks. there is some indications that maybe there's some dispute that. but it's the only tactic at this point. they're not going so much for the independents as their own base. gwen: what about the republicans? >>

. >> you know, i think that's the toughest part for the democratic party right now. he's not at the top of the ticket, but putting him on mtv and all this stuff, it's really, it's making the mid-term election a lot more of a national race and that's definitely i see in a cleeolleg that one of the toughest problem we have is so many students are

their going to stay home and they enjoy the fight right now. >> she said, i'm the base on the democratic party. i'm am dibral democrat. and whenever i was chair or person of the party in california. i was always disappointed of what everybody was doing. and so she's practical. >> her hope is that the base will be pragmatic once shay though is -- the voter as stark choice. >> isn't it something of a guilty trip? if you don't come out and vote, just trying to dish mean. you may be agitated with the president's words. gwen: here's the question. people keep saying is that they're concerned about the economy. and their concerned about their livings. when john boehner glive as speek speech and talks about i'm going to make sure that the votes about the appropriates committee work a different way. nancy pelosi says go ahead. bash me up. i don't care. any of economic issued that people are concerned about. do we hear about that? >> the only way i would contradict that. process is starting to matter. particularly interested in process during health care and how they move the bill and read the bill and

on not one of these issues does the democratic party get more than 50%. licies move the country in the right direction. on any of these circumstances not one of them, do the democrats get 50%. the word for that is trouble. >> yeah. this should be a huge wake-up call for official washington. and especially republicans as well because they see their approval rating isn't high either. they don't think they're going to improve the economy. what you've got is a set-up for an even more different stalem e stalemate. if any republicans out there, especially the leadership, think they've been good, they've been a lot more lucky than good. they've been benefiting from the anger but it doesn't translate to an endorsement. >> they don't like the democrats or the republicans. are we looking at almost guaranteed gridlock? >> perhaps we are. this is so much about the economy and jobs, i think. again and again and again, you look around the country and there are people not doing as well as they think they ought to be doing and they're upset about that. they voted for chan

how many are you going to vote for the democratic party? opinion polls suggest there are many more will -- women like them. these are the housewives here. women are more likely to turn out than men at the election. the president is doing all he can to reach the women, by hosting a series of backyard chats. >> we are looking at what has happened to women in the economy. >> the majority of women voted for his party in 2008. >> democrats were more appealing to them because of issues of education and with regards to the economy. >> it could be bad news for the democrats if these women turnout the polls in america. bbc news, illinois. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank h

people who are most committed to progressive political action have been the most loyal to the democratic party. live from moscow this is our t.v. where it is six thirty in the morning glad to have you with us let's get right now a new wave of demonstrations in france over the raising of the pension age by two years sixty two as the parliamentary national assembly finally approves a bitterly contested bill however public support for widespread union disruption which has been crippling the country costing hundreds of millions of euro day appears to be falling. leaders' summit has agreed to outline measures for stricter financial discipline and new ways of handling financial downturns including that needed to change the lisbon treaty to allow for bailouts for budget busting nation is also over. european commission and european parliament plans to up the news of budget by almost six percent but some nations opposed to as they seek to impose are spending cuts at home. more fears of home grown terrorism us following the arrest of an alleged terror suspect in an f.b.i. sting but critics say the autho

tom running on a very aggressive anti-immigration platform as a third-party candidate is now running nearly even with the democraticominee, and the republican candidate is below 10%. and that anti-immigrant, sort of conservative third party mentality will probably feed into some degree into ken buck's future in that race. that's another dynamic in colorado. gwen: let's go to illinois, your former home state. where we have a senate race between alexei, who is a great friend of the president, and mark, a former congressman -- current congressman. and they're bumping noses right up against each other. >> and there's no race in america that has a higher share of undecided voters than illinois. it's some 15%. gwen: are they still undecided? >> or they won't vote. and the race there is so personal and so nasty. but there really has become a sense of, you know, voters may not want either one of them. but what's happening underneath that electorate is there's years of scandal in illinois. there was just a big trial. rod blagojevich, of course, his first trial, now he's having a second trial next year. there's a lot of dist

radical by no means a socialist but someone who was identified with global labor wing of the democratic party obama raised the hopes of tens of millions of people and while he has not delivered he is not sarkozy he is not the new british government he has pursued a counter cyclical keynesian policy of pumping large sums of money into the economy the united states does not have. a welfare state in the european sense do you feel like it nourishes sort of becoming a trend in the united states because we know for example recently there have been polls out that are saying in the united states nearly half of the population is believe that the federal government paul poses some kind of threat to u.s. freedoms and civil rights americans are the most media saturated society on earth they are bombarded with counterfeit opinions that come from the mass media to them and they are encouraged to believe that these are their their ideas whose ideas are reflected in the media is that they are the russians the ideas of the right the far right and the center that would be considered conservative in the europea

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when you look at other democratic leaders in the party, his poll numbers are the best. it is president obama doing enough to get african-americans specifically -- because they are part of the democratic base -- to turn out? guest: he is. he was on radio. there was a big event in philadelphia. he was at the congressional black caucus meeting a few weeks ago. he just did an interview last week with a group of african- american columnist from the country that people are talking about. so, he is out there communicating with people very directly. at the same time, it is not just about barack obama. each one of these candidates has to run his or her own race. when did you don't want to have happen is to have candidates who rely on barack obama to rescue them in the last few weeks. so these candidates have had to communicate with voters directly. the ones who have been doing that should see a pretty good turnout and those who have not might catch it on the chin. if you are a candidate, you still have to go out and get the voters to vote for you. host: what is the best way? gues

it is not even remotely competitive with the democratic party as a party. mocrats are blowing republicans away with a base that is donating frequently in small amounts whenever they can. conservatives are trying to make up all of that lost ground with outside groups. with the help of a handful of very, very rich people. on the one side you've got 250,000 plus people giving human sized small dough nations to the democratic party in a single month. on the other hand you've got three guys, three billionaires financing more than 90% of karl rove's outside campaign group spending. maybe the billionaire strategy will work. who knows. maybe money will win the day, maybe money will determine how everything works out. maybe three billionaires really can decide this year's elections. or maybe all the tiny little fishies when they get together in the shape of a big huge fish will eat the big fat billionaire fish. this year's elections are very fun so far. . - marry me. - be my wife, please. ( bells tolling ) ( all cheering ) ha ha ha! announcer: introducing the kohler

the more popular tea party republican sharron angle, thus, helping reid. democrattz helps a third party opponent to siphon voteses from republican pat meehan. democrat giannoulias helps a long-shot libertarian to try to take votes from republican opponent kirk. some democrats openly disclose their efforts, but for othersment ties are hard to fi find. you'd think this flyer was put out by conservatives. it calls iowa's republican candidate for governor terry brandstat, liberal, like clinton and nancy pelosi. but it's the democratic go governors association behind the ad hoping to split republican votes. >> couric: a few choice words for the president may have cost one candidate dealer. here's tonight's campaign 2010 hot sheet. bashing the president can, apparently, backfire, especially if you're a democrat. earlier this week, frank caprio, who is running for governor of rhode island, said mr. obama could "shove it" after learning he wouldn't get a presidential endorsement. since then, caprio's lost 12 points in the polls and he's now running third. truth may be the