michael morris.lot of young catchers come up. it was a remarkable year. >> unfortunately it wasn't a dmv sweep. orioles manager buck showalter was nominated for the -- award but narrowly lost to oakland's a's manager. it was four points deferential. >>> ernie and some other wizards brass in attendance at tonight's wizards bobcats game. maybe he wanted to see firsthand how bad his team is. i wish i had better news for you tonight, i really do. the wizards held the lead for most of the first quarter. things went downhill after that. the bobcats held them. the wizards remain winless on the season, losing to the bobcats by 16. >>> the redskins have had plenty of time to think about their recent slide. analyze what's been going wrong. now coming off the by week, the second half of their season doesn't get easier. five of their last seven games are against divisional opponents, starting with philadelphia. a mike vickless philadelphia possibly. sunday the skins will go up against the rookie quarterback nick

the other players really stepped in when key players got hurt with michael morris and storen went down my catcher went down. and everybody really produced. it was just a remarkable year. actually, i didn't think they overachieved, they just played at their ability. >> so a great season for the nationals, a terrible season for their division foes, the miami mar lirks ns. the marlins have reportedly agreed to send jose raus, mark burley and john buck to toronto. yeah, that's a big trade. meanwhile, in the nba, the wizards down in charlotte looking for their first win of the season and they layed an egg. this might have been the most painful part for everybody. a contortionist who can evidently deal with all kinds of pain. we need a replay. watch this. no, look, how do you do that? i have no idea how he handles that pain. hopefully, we'll be able to show that to you again tomorrow. >> must have been a special wardrobe thing. >> you know what? i didn't even think about that fact. this was not a good game for the wizards. mar ter martel webster knocks one down. the guards shot 6 for 37 in t

the young players stepped in when key players got hurt like werth and michael morris.e had a lot of young catchers come up and everybody produced and it was just a remarkable year. >> the wizards not producing the same accolades. i wish i had better news now. the wizards held the lead for most of the first quarter but things went downhill after that the bobcats held the wiz to just 29.8% shooting. the wizards remain winless on the season losing. >>> the washington redskins prepping for their second half of the season. they start with philadelphia this weekend. sunday the skins will go up against rookie quarterback and if they want any shot of winning the season, the skins need to play their best football starting now. >> we control our own destiny so to speak. we need a little help somewhat. if we come out and play and get a couple wins going, you know, we're -- [indiscernible] >> we'll have the latest from ashburn coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. that's a quick look at sports this morning. i'm kristen berset. have a great wednesday. >>> general john allen's nomination for

key players got hurt like werth, michael morris. my catcher went down. we had a lot of young catchers come up and everybody really produced. it was just a remarkable year. >> obviously, a great evaluator of talent. and he has said that bryce harper might be his favorite player of all time. harper also got some hardware recently. the kid won the national league rookie of the year award last night. he bats .270 with 22 home runs and he did it all while just 19 years old. the second youngest winner of the nl rookie of the year award. one month older than dwight gooden. >>> interestingly enough, the crew from mlb network asked davey johnson if he wanted to guarantee a world series win. rerk he said during spring training, you can fire me if we don't go to the postseason. he said, sure, i'll guarantee it. it is my last year's manager any way. you can fire me or not. talking football. you know what the 3-4 defense, one of the most important places is safety. the redskins could be getting a two-time pro bowler back this weekend. brandon merry weather. he is hop

. >> i do not break edge anything that michael or dick morris said about any election. anybody who does this knows how hard it is to do. i agree with michael that anything between the range he talked about was entirely reasonable and consistent with the data before us. i am an analyst and a partisan. an analyst when i write and a partisan's heart. when i wrote my piece, i took hours to put the data together. what i concluded what i had to write, i could not write for an hour because i was sick. one thing i would like to say about our friends on the right is one i did publish it, the comments on the national review online said i should be let out of the conservative movement. one person accused me of peddling fear. i had a more favorable reaction on the dailykos than national review. >> were there as many as obscene comments as i got? >> a lot of commentators -- >> look, there is hyper partisanship on the left, there is hyper partisanship on the right. what i did not get was an obscene comment but somebody said, i sounded reasonable. how could i work for the hacks at aei.

. >> michael: each one o, this guy is a turkey, oh my god i forgot about this one. this is the dick morris turkey. >> it's going to be--well, you can call it a landslide or not but 325-223 is pretty landslide landsliding in my view. >> michael: i predict that dick morris will predict that he'll get a pardon. >> yes, probably. i like the fact that he has landslideing like its action in present tense. he's absurd. >> he has made himself irrelevant, dick morris, if he has not already been pretty irrelevant. we go now, like i said before, there is this guy. donald trump. our turkey trump. >> i have a deal for the president. a deal that i don't believe he can refuse. $5 million. the check will be given within one hour after he releases all of the records so stated. >> michael: brett, what was he going to do for that hour? >> i have no idea. i just love how they pull back. the entire nation was like that empty office he was in because no one responded, no one was listening. people--you know, with him he's the kind of guy that he's a turkey like sheep you want to sheer a lot of times. >> you know

. >> the people who are projecting a governor romney win are dick morris, michael barone, newt gingrichy will take florida, virginia, north carolina. >> i agree. >> i think romney gets 279 to 281 or 286. >> i'm sticking with you. >> i agree with his analysis from the micro view. >> my personal guess is you'll see a romney land slide 53% plus in the elect yool, 30 on elect oral votes plus. >> all of my thinking says romney big. not even close. 300-plus electoral votes. >> 321 electoral votes. >> what was it in 321. >> to 217 in that scenario. >> that would be great. >> which would be a mandate. a giant, giant spanking. >> good evening, dick. what do you think? >> we're going to win by a land slide. >> president obama's most high profile supporters coming to terms. >> mitt romney is going to do well and i think he's going to hold his own and beyond. >> i'm telling you 35 days out this cat is in good shape and whatever he's doing i think he should keep doing it. >> romney will win in a land slide. >> he will be 3 to 6 points ahead in iowa. >> let's see what the humans are saying. >> i don'

romney win are dick morris, michael, karl rove, joe galer, someone you told me about and rush limbaugh i heard in that sound bite. >> but it's two different universes. either the traditional liberal media and pollsters of right and they believe there will be a huge obama turnout, but i was very struck yesterday when the new york times reporter said the states he had been this last week, his phrase as the organic enthusiasm was all for romney. there was a mechanical machine for obama and there was organic enthusiasm for romney. my experience in politics is organic enthusiasm, the whole wave effect always beats the mechanics. >> is there anything either candidate can do between now and the polls closing tomorrow night? >> oh, yeah. romney is doing it. >> so there still is something to be done? >> when romney goes to pittsburgh tomorrow in the middle of coal country, with obama's war against coal. obama is appealing to eastern ohio, he's appealing to the people in pittsburgh, but he's also appealing to western virginia wishes is coal country, and places like kentucky and missouri and sout

then you have those of us, karl rove, you know, dick morris, michael barone, joe gaylord, myself, whoe been at this a long time, we believe with high unemployment, high price of gasoline, the mess in benghazi, and the fact that i don't know of a single mccain voter who has switched to obama but i know a lot of obama voters who have switched to mitt romney. so my guess, i've said pretty openly i think romney's going to win but i think there are literally two parallel universes competing right now over the nature of america. >> if mitt romney loses, and obviously it's very, very close, but if he does lose, i appreciate it's a hypothetical, where do you wish he had gone harder that may have guaranteed victory? >> i can't comment until we see the returns tomorrow night, just because you're asking me a question that we have to see how close it is, what the circumstances are. i love the fact that he's campaigning in pennsylvania. i know that i was born in harrisburg, i know that the rally he had last night in bucks county was historic. i think going back into pittsburgh tomorrow is very gut

george will, michael barone, dick morris all predicted a landslide for romney. are any of them likely to pay for being wrong? >> that's the why bookies are sort of morally preferable for pundits. the bookies have to pay. and i guess i have been heartened, i was heartened by at least the initial reaction in right wing pundit world, that some of them seemed shell-shocked, as opposed to being in denial and saying, the election, the win for the progressive side generally seemed to be so profound, that they were able to kind of move beyond what they would've preferred to say, which i think somehow this is all a fraud. somehow it didn't really happen. so, we'll see if they pay, including karl rove with his consultant fees. >> you were candid over the three years of the obama administration about his weaknesses, his failures and his flaws. but a few months ago, you wrote that you saw obama improving and you thought he would be a better second term president. why? >> part of my argument is that everybody fails in the first term as president because it's too big a job. a

. >> as somebody -- i don't begrudge anything michael or dick morris or anybody says about the election. anybody who does this knows how bleeping hard it is to do. i would agree a with michael that anything between the range that he talked about was entirely reasonable and consistent with the data that were before us. as a partisan, i sat down -- i'm an analyst and a partisan. an analyst hat when i write and a partisan's heart. and when i sat down on sunday to write my piece, i went, i took hours to put the data together, i wrote it, and when i concluded to myself what i had to write, i couldn't write for an hour because i was sick, okay? but one thing i'd like to say about our friends on the right, too, is that when i did publish it, the comments on national view online basically said that i should be read out of the conservative movement. and one person accused me of peddling fear porn. [laughter] i think i had a more favorable reaction from the viewers on the daily cause than i did on the national resaw online. [laughter] -- review online. [laughter] i think that -- yeah. >> did you

. >> you know there, was one really ridiculous player in the elections, michael and trish and that was dick morriss is his major prediction of how the election would turn out. >> it's going to be, well, you can call it a landslide or not but 325-223 is pretty landsliding in my view. >> okay, that was a foolish and ridiculous prediction. he lost. he's allowed to make a bad prediction. he's a journalist, an analyst. let's listen to her justify it. >> i hope people aren't mad about it. i spoke what i believed, and i think that there was a period of time when the romney campaign was falling apart. nobody thought there was a chance of victory and i felt that it was my duty at that point to go out and say what i said. at the time that i said it i believe that i was right. >> he said that fox news, he said this last week, does not have an agenda. if they don't have an agenda they should not have people like that on air saying they have an agenda. they should fire dick morris. the elbow of the day on dick morris. look at me, delivering my first

karl rove, michael barone, dick morris, a whole group of us frankly misunderstood what was happening% unemployment or approximately 8%, with gasoline the price it was, et cetera, that it would be almost impossible for obama to get reelected. he deserves enormous credit. his campaign deserves credit, and the fact is republicans are going to have to do a lot of rethinking at the presidential level. >> about what? the republican party has to change and rethink what? >> well, let me make one more point though. there were two mandates last night. speaker john boehner and the house republicans got reelected in a very substantial way, and i think speaker boehner can claim a mandate fully as much as the president. so the near future of this country, the next year or two is going to be a question of how those two mandates work things out together, not how we assume that obama has a blank check just for his single mandate. i think it's very important and republicans have to start understanding that at the house level, and at the governorship level, we've done very, very well as a party. in the

people who've been watching too much fox, people they should be held accountable, george will, michael perrone, morris. >> tray is one of our cosponsors >> said jonathan martin birdied two of the decent "politico" where he called a polling kill his son. what he meant was in 1972, polling kill on the upper west side of manhattan said she only knew one person -- >> president -- >> he carried every state of massachusetts. i think something like that less extreme version because obama didn't do as well as mix and come something like that was going on when he had serious people. i accused hewitt the conservative radio talkshow host at me dinner in new york, which he now owes me that romney would win with more than 330th of rowboats. >> to get back to the main subject of a present about obama, one of your "confidence men" and he did a piece about four, five, six days ago was that obama did not mobilize his army of supporters well enough in the first turn in order to truly be who he was. >> it is an error of looking connecticut folks in the white house and some of it was uncharted territory. there is a gap b

. >> i don't begrudge anything that michael or dick morris or anybody said about any election becausenybody who does this with any degree of seriousness knows how bleeping hard it has to do. i would agree with michael that anything between, you know, the range he talk about was entirely reasonable and consistent with the da that that was before us. as a partisan, i sat down, and well, i'm an analyst and a partisan. when i write and a partisan's heart, and when i sat down on sunday to write my piece,

morris. under 15 seconds to go. 'canes up. michael rocco a second chance and he cashes in. jake mcgee -- they win 41-40, and in dramatic fashion down in charlottesville. >>> navy midshipman in alabama visitingal troy trojans. troy up 21-14. snap tom anthony, call that a lot of real estate, guys. 44-yard touchdown. trojans 28-14 lead. mideast, not quitting this one. third quarter, navy down ten. keenen reynolds pitches to gg green and gg is gone, gone. 59 yards. navy pulls within three, 31-21. light now it is 41-31 in the fourth quarter, late. >>> and martin, high school class of '84. a classy class of '98. alma motters, coaching. an kochtia up. look at turner. tied at 20 at the half. wilson puppi ingpulling away in second half. finds taylor over the middle. 74 yards. wilson wins 40-20. some h 26720 love coming up aftn absence of 21 years, wilson returns to the turkey bowl. >>> all right. the outlook for maryland basketball is about as bright at chuck bell the forecast. anyone following gary williams better have their stuff together, and if last night is any indication, mark

interestingly, michael barone and dick morris also agree, and karl rove is not quite as bullish, butnk that romney is going to win. i think that the presidents get the last poll number. he's at 47. obama is at 47. gallup, he's at 48. rasmussen he's at 48. that suggests to me somewhere between 51-49, which is i think where rove is, to 53-47, which is where i am. so at 53-47, romney will carry over 300 electoral votes. >> dee dee, i assume you quote different sources in your analysis of the way this is going? >> i don't spend a lot of time quoting dick morris and karl rove when i'm doing my analysis. i agree it's all going to come down to turnout and i think that the obama campaign from the very beginning of this race has made an argument that they were going to focus on winning in the battleground states. you have to keep in mind, almost half of voters have already gone to the polls in those states and the president is leading by a substantial margin. romney will have to make up a lot of ground if he's going to win in the key battleground states. i think that there's been a slight edg

romney partsons, but those watching too much fox, should be held accountable, george lill, michael barone, dick morris -- >> is trey here? wrote a good piece -- >> john martin wrote a piece in "politico," and in 1972, pauline living in manhattan, a great film critic -- >> how could nixon -- >> i only know one person who voted for him and carried every state but massachusetts. i think something like that, less extreme version because obama didn't do as well as nix nixon, but something like that was going on with serious people. i had a bet with a conservative radio talk show host who bought me dinner in new york, that he nows owes me, that romney would win with more than 330 votes. >> ron, to get back to the main subject of what we learned about obama, one of more thesis in "confidence men," and then an op-ed piece five or six days ago is that obama did not mobilize his awemy of supporters well enough in the first term in order to truly be who he was. can you explain that? >> well, it was an area of some regret, certainly looking back by folks in the white house, and some was, as we say, uncharted terr

. >> i just can't resist saying i put michael in a different category than dick morris, but -- [laughter] that aside, on the supreme court, we don't know what vacancies there will be. we have several justices in their 70s. you know, in this world today, being in your 70s, thank goodness, does not mean that you're approaching the end of your life. we also know that we've had justices with health problems. we know we have justices who smoke too much and may be have other vices that could have an impact, but, you know, tables don't help us very much. there's a good chance that in the next four years, there's one, two, or three vacancies. some depends on when they emerge. if you have a 55-45 democratic senate, and there's a vacancy, barack obama has a little more leeway to pick somebody with a stronger ideological edge than if it's it a 51-49 senate or one that goes the other way. i think your much more likely in any event to get somebody who would be somewhere in the broad center of legal discourse, and there are a lot of operations -- options out there. in many ways, more interesting, is t

morris. under 15 seconds to go. up five, flag on fourth down gives uva and michael rocco a second chance. rocco cashes in.e mcgee wows -- win this dramatic fashion. 41-40 the final. >>> west virginia visiting oklahoma state mountaineers coach used to be on mike gundy's staff. pick it up second quarter, cowboys up 21-7. gino smith will find tavon austin. guys, that's pure speed. west virginia within seven. fourth quarter now, oklahoma state up 48-34, trying to add to that. hands off to jeremy smith, and that's even more speed. 21 yards to mountaineers fall to the cowboys, 55-34. >>> navy down in alabama visiting the trojans. pick it up in the third. navy down ten. keenan reynolds out to gigi greene. you like that, guys? gigi is gone, gone. 59 yards. bye-bye. 31-28. navy pulls to within three. the trojans battle back. fourth quarter, troy in its own -- detroit in its own handoff. faking the handoff. the four-yard touchdown, they beat navy 41-31. >>> d.c. united's first trip back to the post season in five years has been memorable to say the least. two ejections, a goal, snowstorm delay, and will still missi

. >> as somebody -- i don't begrudge anything that michael or dick morris said about any election, anybody who does this they need to how bleeping hard it is to do. i would agree with michael anything between the range he talked about was entirely reasonable and consistent with the data before us. as a partisan, i sat down -- i'm an analyst and a partisan. an analyst when i write and a partisan's heart. and when i sat down on sunday to write my piece, i went -- i took hours to put the data together. i wrote it, when i concluded to myself what i had to write. i couldn't write for an hour. i was sick. one thing i would like to say about our friends on the right, when i did publish it, the comment on the national view basically say that i should be out of the conservative group. one person accused me of peddling fear -- i a more favorable reaction than national review. i think what that -- [inaudible] [laughter] yeah. [inaudible] many obscene comments as i did? no. from either group. [inaudible] from the left commentators, a lot of comments. >> no. oh no. look. there's hyper partisanship on t

watching too much fox, people like, you know, they should be held accountable, george will, michael barone, dick morris -- >> i think it was -- is trey grayson here? >> yeah, trey wrote a good piece about this. >> trey is one of our co-sponsors. >> so jonathan martin wrote a terrific piece in politico where he called it cealism, and what he meant was that in 1972 pauline kale, living on the upper west side of manhattan, the great film critic -- >> curtis dixon of -- [inaudible conversations] only knew one person who voted for her. >> for nixon, and he carried every state other than massachusetts. so i think something like that less extreme version because obama didn't do as well as nixon, but something like that was going on. when you had serious people -- i had a bet with hugh hewitt, the conservative radio talk show host, he bet me dinner in new york -- which he now owes me -- was that romney would win with more than 330 electoral votes. >> ron, to get back to the main subject of what we've learned about obama, one of your three cease both in -- theses both in confidence man and an op-ed five, six da

we'll be joined by michael barone and he sounds like dick morris predicting a romney landslide. he talks about the advantage he continues to see. he knows the counties in every state very well. big advantage in early voting for the republicans. now it's not that mitt romney winning the early volunteering vote. he is hanging tight and keeping it even. you tell me that doesn't historically happen. >> democrats win the early vote and lose election day but they win elections because they win the early vote. we don't know how many of these votes are republican cannibalizing and how much it changes the outlook. at the gauge of voter enthusiasm this the strongest indication we have that republicans who in the past haven't done this is fired up and ready to go. they are marching and doing this. this has got to hearten the romney campaign. instead of going into election day having to win by a big margin in the votes that are cast on tuesday. now, they just need to win. that is better place to be in. >> one final question. paul krugman comes out with a piece that you are stupid if you rep

michael barone predicted romney would win. peggy noonan said all signs pointed to a romney win. dick morris. listen to this. >> in florida "the times" says obama will win by one, but their sample has seven points more democrats than republicans, so that poll is off by a factor of eight. so instead of obama winning by one, romney would win florida by seven. in virginia they have obama winning by two. but they have eight points more democrats than republicans, and historically there's one point more republican than democrat. that's off by a factor of nine. romney wins ohio -- wins virginia by seven. >> so you are standing by your prediction of a romney landslide? >> absolutely. romney will win this election by five to ten points in the popular vote and will carry more than 300 electoral votes. >> we're talking about a real phenomenon here. you have people like neil newhouse, not just right wing crazy people, who were saying this election was in the bag. it was going to be a glorious victory, overwhelming victory. smart people all saying overwhelming. what was their world view that convinced th

michael shure is in "the war room" war room. that's where we'll turn to. >> i was wondering as i listened to your intro, who is wrong more dick morris or bob?gh. >> cenk: bob might be dick morris' nickname. >> that's what we should be calling him bob. this is what the map looked like going into the races yesterday. they were down. they had the democrats at 21 seats up and two independents who would caucus with them. joe lieberman and bernie saunders won. they got 25 yesterday if you include from maine they have not said who he will caucus with. it is presumed he'll caucus with the democrats. he's a bit of good news today. races we looked at yesterday. you mentioned the jon tester race you mentioned the heitkamp race todd akin lost missouri by 16 points. >> cenk: that is an ass kicking. >> it doesn't get more legitimate than that. then indiana where richard mourdock lost by six points. the amount of money spent and we discussed this ad nauseam. the amount of money spent in two senate races by linda mcmahon who lost to murphy, and then that tester race, you look at the state of montana. you look at the senate race, so much of what they got an

morris. >> just put the two of them in a room and lock the door and say you two fight it out. >> bill: michaeld strong obama supporter, but there have been many times in the first four years when i said barack obama, you are not coming through, and fighting the fight. you are too timid and don't have enough backbone on some public option, right? through it away. beneficiary's taxes, never going to renew them, gave them another two years. are we going to see a stronger more backboned obama in the next four years? >> i think we will. we'll get some hints today when he gives this speech about the fiscal cliff. of course he's going to be conciliatory and bipartisan and so forth, but he needs to say, also, you know, these are my lines in the sand and i'm the president, and there is only one president, and i'm going to set the terms of debate here, and if the republicans stall on the tax increases for the upper brackets, i think he needs to get out there every day, and say the republican party is threatening to tank the economy to protect the top 1% of americans. >> bill: and name them and blame the