you're running a political campaign of any kind in ohio, do you make the face of that campaign john kasich? mr. buyers remorse? mr. 33% approval rating? apparently you do. the campaign to keep governor kasich's law stripping union rights, to stop it from being repealed, features john kasich personally at every turn. this is going to be voted on in ohio tomorrow. kasich and the republicans and out of state conservative groups dumping money into ohio right now to help kasich, they want ohioans to vote tomorrow to keep the law stripping union rights. they want people to vote yes on issue 2 to keep the law. their campaign is not working. mr. unpopular's signature policy turns out is very unpopular. this is the polling on the repeal effort over time for john kasich's union stripping bill. this is how public policy polling, as you can see there, as polled on it over time. this is between 50% and 60% there. people who want to repeal john kasich's union stripping law. here's how it looks in the quinnipiac polling. again, the repeal kasich's anti-union rights law side appears to be doing well and d

and i think what john kasich did tonight, he took the high road in defeat. kasich, you know what you need to do? you need to go visit with the other radical governors that are out there. going up to michigan and visit your buddy, mr. snyder. go on over to wisconsin and tell walker if you want to keep your job, you better tread lightly on the working folk of america. better tell chris christie, he likes to walk around with a tremendous amount of bravado and toss himself around, oh, we cut teachers, we're going to straighten out the teachers union. you're going after the fabric of america. i wonder if the right wing republican governors understand who you're going after. do you really believe that people who make $50,000 a year, that have a goal just to pay off their home, and to have some kind of retirement and maybe be able to see the doctor with a little bit of health care, do you really think they're the enemy of the economy in this country? do you really believe that with your heart? do you really believe that you can't go to the wealthiest americans in t

john kasich did the same thing by a degree and did the math wrong and won't be divided.eachers, when you get together and you're over a coffee on a saturday morning, what are teachers saying? >> we're overwhelmed by the audacity of this campaign. against us. against all public workers. but we won't take it lying down. we're in the streets, we're in the schools, we're working with your children. we're doing really difficult work. it's largely thankless work. and we're not going to stop regardless of what happens with senate bill 5. we will not be made the victims. we will not be made the enemies. >> jack, what does this mean for 2012? >> i think you're going to see a shift in the way our members vote in 2012. we're going to take over the state house again. as a thank you from columbus firefighters local 67 for helping us get our message out, this is something i think john kasich will never get. >> i appreciate that. very much. you guys have been awesome. look at that. huh? does this make me an honorary firefighter? >> absolutely, brother. you're welcome here any time. >>

this is between 50 and 60% there, people who want to repeal john kasich's law. h's anti-union law rights side is doing well and better over time heading into tomorrow's voting. so now at the end alongside the tide of outside money from every conservative group you've heard of and some you haven't, the conservative groups are switching up their spokes people. turns out ohioans don't really like john kasickasich? sarah palin is lending her endporsment in ohio. also pat boone. pat boone. don't like john kasich or sarah palin, do you like pat boone? they have him doing robocalls now. there's fox news personality former arkansas governor mike huckabee who is not only against union rights in ohio, he has tactical advice for ohioans against them, too. >> make a list of 10 family members, 10 friends, 10 neighbors, 10 folks you have worked with in the past and call them and ask them, are you going to vote on issue 2, and are you going to stroet for it? if they say no, well, you just make sure they don't go vote. let the air out of their tires on election day. that's up to

romney saying at the time, "i stand with john kasich." then just a couple of weeks before the big vote on john kasich's union-stripping law, mr. romney scheduled a campaign event, an event at a phone bank in ohio to fire up republicans fighting to save john kasich's bill. at that campaign appearance, mitt romney refused to say that he supported the measure. even while he was there. cnn's peter handly tweeting at the time, "incredible moments in politics. romney visits ohio gop phone bank to rally troops opposing sb-5 repeal, but refuses to take a position on sb-5." after getting just flogged on the right -- flogged in the press -- for refusing to say he supported this thing, even while supposedly rallying its supporters in ohio, a day later, the romney campaign came out and said, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, he's 110% behind it, we guess. so mitt romney's last known position on the ohio union-busting issue is that he's 110% for the union-stripping bill. now that that thing has lost by 22 points in the polls in ohio, stay tuned! maybe we'

walker's one of three new republican governors in big swing states, john kasich in ohio, and rick scott in florida are the others, whose approval ratings are in the negative territory. both states, those states, could well determine the election, and unpopular republican governors could be very good news for president obama. >>> and with enemies like these, who needs friends. michele bachmann's new web ad makes a devastating case against every viable republican in the race. in other words, it doesn't include her. it's so good, she's done the democrats' job for them. more must-see tv tonight in the sideshow. >>> and let me finish with the two things driving the republican presidential race -- hate and indifference to experience. >>> we start with herman cain. michael steele is the former chair of the republican national committee. he's now an msnbc political analyst. and dana milbank is a columnist for "the washington post." gentlemen, let's go straight to the tape, as howard used to say. here's herman cain yesterday answering a question from the editorial board of the "milwaukee journal

if john kasich -- >> fairness. >> if scott walk around john kasich and everybody else says, listen, the right. the numbers don't add up. people working for the government shouldn't pay 0% into retirement and we pay 5, 6, 10, 15%. when you take it a step further and say we'll use this opportunity to crush unions and collective bargaining you're right, harold. we said it in real time. that's when you bring in ideology. that's what happened. >> the number of people unionized in the country, the number continues to fall. it shows a lot of republicans you can't trample the rights of working people. you have talked about the occupy effort. all of these efforts played into the people saying it's not fair to treat working people that way. john kasich got the message and in due respect to john he said, i hear, i will abide by it. >> he said, quote, it was too much, too soon. i think he realizes that. one other interesting element to the story, a dry run for the obama campaign. obama for america has grassroots support in ohio for weeks to get it repealed. they did in a big margin. 62-38 was the v

governor john kasich earns almost $150,000 a year. 's $10,000 more than what ted strickland was earning when he was governor. kasich is still eligible for an automatic 3% annual raises which senate bill 5 eliminated for public union workers. republicans in ohio are no different than any of the other republicans across this country. they think shared sacrifice means sacrificing middle class americans, need to do more than the top 1% or 2%. joining me now is sue taylor, she is the president of the ohio federation of teachers. jack real is the president of the columbus firefighters union local 67. jim gilbert, president of the fraternal order of police, capital city, lodge number 9. sean grayson, the general counsel for afscme number 8. sue, to you think the republican legislators earn their pay as opposed to you folks? >> i don't know one teacher or one children's service worker who went into our job to get rich. and if merit pay and pay for performance is based on whether i believe i'm doing my job like it is for governor kasich, then t

in the first place last year, john kasich would lose his seat in ohio by another huge margin, by 18oints. john kasich, lucky devil, was not on the ohio ballot for recall last week, but his twin, wisconsin republican governor scott walker, is. or at least he could be. starting momentarily. there have been some misconceptions about the scott walker recall floating around recently. we'll clear those up on debunktion junction, that is straight ahead. [ male announcer ] in 189, a small town pharmacist set out to create a different kind of cold remedy using powerful medicine and natural ingredients from around the world. he called it vicks vaporub. today, the vicks journey continues. introducing new vicks nature fusion cold & flu syrup. powerful multi-symptom medicine flavored with natural honey instead of artificial flavors and dyes. so you can feel good about what you take to feel better. >>> the occupy wall street movement will be two months old this week. and it proceeds in american politics right now on two tracks. the first one, the one easiest to see on the national level but proba

>> voter fraud, discussed by people like john kasich is the biggest law in american politics.most of what people consider voter fraud could be dealt with easily if we had very open, very easy access to the polls. most times when something is called voter fraud, it's usually a mistake by somebody trying to get through a convoluted process. that's really what's going on in ohio now. the secretary of state is trying to confuse things in the final minutes of this election process. and that's a very unsettling thing. because it's happened in ohio before. we had a lot of problems in 2004 in the george bush versus john kerry race. ohio's secretary of state seemed to game the process from several different angles. >> it seems this law that's now in effect is all about discouraging people to vote, which obviously can become habit forming and the next thing you know, we have 2012 and it's their effort to suppress the vote and just, you know, purchase as many people as you can getting to the polls on the republican side. out-advertise big time, get your base out there and beat those that

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to reinstate union rights and 36% of ohio voters have voted against union rights with governor john kasich republicans. now, last night when we covered the lead-up to this vote in ohio with columnist connie schultz, we played a little sound of one of the fox news celebrities who has been in ohio campaigning for the republicans and governor john kasich's side on issue 2. this was sound that we played last night of mike huckabee speaking recently in ohio. >> make a list of ten family members, ten friends, ten neighbors, ten folks you work with or have worked with in the past and call them and ask them, are you going to vote on issue 2? are you going to vote for it? if they say no, well, you just make sure that they don't go vote. let the air out of their tires on election day. tell them the election has been moved to a different date. that's up to you. how you creatively get the job done. >> mike huckabee obviously joking if you know anybody in ohio that's going to vote to reinstate union rights and vote no on issue 2, tell then the election is a different day. ha. tell them the election is

. >>> in ohio it's the fourth quarter, and governor john kasich is fumbling his cleveland brown references. tonight, van jones is in ohio, where it's ground zero for workers' rights. >>> and in massachusetts tea party hatred is on full display. we'll show you the nasty exchange between an angry righty and senate candidate elizabeth warren. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. republicans' calculated campaign to sabotage president obama, well, it hit a new low today. a few hours ago the senate democrats came up nine votes short of passing the rebuild america jobs bill. the bill would have created thousands of construction jobs by investing $50 billion in rebuilding america's roads, bridges, and airports. not a single republican voted for the bill. backstabber joe lieberman and sellout ben nelson joined with the republicans to kill the bill. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell objected to the bill because it would put a new tax on america's richest 345,532 people. >> i'm sure that it is the case that most americans support raising taxes on high-income individuals. my

voters rejected governor john kasich's antiunion legislation by a huge margin. and in mississippi, the so-called personhood antiabortion amendment went down to a crushing defeat. none of this, of course, guarantees success next year. but they're probably smiling in the white house tonight. also, the herman cain camp seems to have settled on a strategy, accuse the accusers. they're going after the women who have made charges against him. how big of a deal will this be in tonight's republican debate? and how long can this go on? >>> plus, here's a good lesson from republican john walsh on how not to treat a constituent. >> hang on. >> quiet for a minute. quiet for a minute! >> what did i say -- >> or i'm going to ask you to leave. you need to listen. i'm going to ask you to leave. >> well, we've seen that before. what got joe walsh so upset? we'll find out in the "side show." and recognize this guy? >> i'm chris matthews of msnbc's "hardball," with me is senator barack obama. thanks for spending a few moments with us. you, sir, are great. >> i don't think that's m