Leo Gerard on the success of the get out to vote effort over Citizens United. Share your thoughts with us on Facebook and on Twitter using EdShow. We are coming right back. Last night was clearly an historic victory for President Obama. He is only the second Democrat since World War II to win a second full term and he did it against great odds.
The inside story is remarkable. Romney would be busy trying to capture the Republican nomination and would not be able to have the money to defend himself. The plan was surgical and methodical and it resonated, as an accurate portrait of a corporate raider. That had to be pretty emotional. All those workers knowing that they were going to get a successful conclusion. The Obama campaign kept the Romney campaign off balance for nearly the entire stretch of this campaign.
Or am I wrong on that? And that was a point that was off- plan, by any measure, because, remember, going into that first debate, everyone was talking about whether Barack Obama was going to close the deal that night.
That he would, you know, sort of wipe Mitt Romney out. And I have to emphasize, what I saw last night, as well as what I saw traveling around the country over the few weeks before the campaign, was the evidence of something very significant. When you talk about spending early, and investing early, that investment was not merely in TV ads, Ed.
It was in building an infrastructure, and in building a relationship, working with trade unions in places like Toledo, and Flynt, and Janesville, Wisconsin, and that paid off. And we saw the Romney economic model on full display and it was rejected last night. I mean, how much did that kind of a story and the outsourcing play into the decisions last night? Ed, you know, some of the people who won last night, not just President Obama, but as you move down the ballot, were people who were all in for some of these great struggles of and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin was in the capital, with the protesters.
Sherrod Brown, in Ohio, turned his campaign over to the movement in that state to overturn their anti-labor law. And so, you really saw something begin a very long time ago. And there were a lot of people who were hard-pressed, who got engaged politically, in defense of their own labor rights a year and a half ago, and transitioned that into this campaign. Now, the interesting thing that happened, in this campaign, is that Mitt Romney showed himself to be precisely the sort of person that they had been fighting.
I heard it over in Wisconsin. Remember that at the Republican convention, Paul Ryan talked about or tried to blame President Obama for the closing of the G.
Last night, Janesville voted for Obama and Biden over their own hometown candidate. Thanks so much. Then, ballots and bigotry. Last night, America put a stop to an extreme right-wing agenda. We stopped Planned Parenthood from being defunded.
We stopped Roe v. Wade from being overturned. We stopped health care reform from being repealed. Women were the key in ensuring a second Obama term, 55 percent of women voted for the president. Down-ballot efforts by extremist candidates were stopped. Women turned out in big numbers in support of McCaskill.
The female vote also turned out for Donnelly. Predictably, Rush Limbaugh lashed out at the gender gap. Massive gender gap, unchanged from Unmarried women backed Obama 68 percent to 30 percent.
They thought Romney was going to take away their birth control bills. Terry, congratulations is in order. I know your organization put a lot into this election, because a lot was at stake. Now, did the war on women cost Mitt Romney this election? And Mitt Romney deserved to lose, because he was right in the thick of waging this completely shameful war on women. And so, yeah, the war on women absolutely cost them this election. Maybe never?
And we are going to continue to defeat them in election after election after election until they do get it. The entire Republican platform needs to change. I have never seen, honestly, such a viciously anti-woman set of policies as what is contained in the Republican platform. He voted for the Blunt Amendment and against paycheck fairness. Because, I think the American people do get this, the majority do get it. It will be a matter of time. And I think what really helped the Democrats is that the Democrats were willing to talk about it.
President Obama talked about his support for the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is the next step after passing Lilly Ledbetter, that we need to do. President Obama talked specifically about understanding the challenges that women face, when you work an entire lifetime at unequal pay.
Elizabeth Warren gets that. Tammy Baldwin gets it. Lois Franklin in Florida gets it. Tammy Duckworth in Illinois. I mean, these candidates understood it. And the more they talk about it, the more women understood, yes, this is a candidate that I can trust. This is a candidate that I can work with. I think the more we talk about what is the impact on women of these various types of policies, the better the policies will be, for sure, and the more we will begin to put elected officials in who really care about the welfare of all Americans, not just one-half or a little less than one-half.
That number goes to And those are the winners. Big pick ups for the Democrats, no doubt. Stay with us. White Guy. Have a nice lunch. Leo Gerard of the Steelworkers will tell us how it all happened.
The Republicans are dealing with a new reality. Hispanics, Latinos, blacks and Asians lifted President Obama to victory. Their votes made the difference. In fact, when it comes to non-whites, Mitt Romney lost by a massive margin. This is how the race was won. Whites make up 72 percent of the vote. Most of them voted for Romney.
Thirteen percent of voters are black; 93 percent of them voted for President Obama. Ten percent of voters are Hispanic or Latino; 71 percent of them voted for the president of the United States. Romney barely cleared 25 percent among all of those minority groups.
The face of the nation has changed dramatically just since the last presidential election. Listen to this. The U. Census says more than half of the growth in the total population over the last 10 years was due to the increase in the Hispanic population in America. And the voters, many of them, feel that this economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff.
Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. People feel that they are entitled to things. And which candidate between the two is going to give them things? This is the emotional disconnect for the Republicans. They want a candidate who gets it. One in five voters said the quality which mattered most was the candidate cares about people like me.
They voted for President Obama over Romney 81 to President Obama made a connection with Americans, not just white folks in America. Great to have both of you with us tonight. I know both of you worked tirelessly on behalf of democracy, no question about it. Nina, let me talk to you first here on this issue.
How does it feel to deliver the state of Ohio, knowing that the deck was stacked against you? I am so happy, not only for the great state of Ohio, but for this country. Because if you can do it in this election, with so much money thrown against your senator, Sherrod Brown, and the governor, of course, and the secretary of state both Republicans, what does that tell you? Is this the template? And it shows that when good people get together for righteous causes, we can make a difference.
This really played big. And I said all along that -- in fact, we went down there and covered this -- that the bread basket of victory was going to be south Florida, that there had to be a huge turnout in the Latino and African-American community.
And that is exactly what happened. And as a matter of fact, we, both African-American and Hispanics, turned out in huge numbers. As of last night, in the morning -- or this morning, I should say, we were still voting in Miami. They put every obstacle against us. They reduce our voting days from 14 days to eight days. They put so many Constitutional amendments on the ballot that they thought were going to bring out the Evangelicals. And guess what.
So we stood in line for a long, long time. I was there on those lines. My arms hurt from passing out water to all these people in these lines for hours. Some of them, six and seven hours waiting. But we never gave up. We stood in the lines. There was one person in Miami Beach who was years old. That was the oldest person in Miami to vote. And that was a Colombian American man.
We had young people, a huge amount of young people that voted. We had everybody voting. It was such a colorful line. And it was very positive.
In two different parts of the country, in Ohio and in Florida, well advertised how important these two states are, the obstacles thrown up against the people, and we have the videotape to prove it and the results to prove it, that you can overcome, that if you have the will, if you have the determination, if you have the heart and the desire, no matter what it takes, democracy can win.
You know, Republicans tried to suppress the vote, but instead they motivated the vote. And that guy that was talking about people want stuff -- well, the stuff that people want, they want liberty and justice for all. They want to be able to live out their measure of the American dream. That is what America is all about.
This is why President Obama won in Florida and in Ohio. Their leadership, their unselfishness, their community work is exactly the remedy and the solution to defeat billionaires who think that they can own our government.
Nina Turner, Annette Taddeo, great to have you with us tonight. I admire both of you and thank you for your work. Did he really do that? I guess he did. Romney was going to win.
They all had their own ways of getting around the numbers. Karl Rove used his whiteboard. Donald Trump took to Twitter. Limbaugh was Limbaugh. Their narrative was, the numbers are skewed. Expect a Romney upset. Or in the case of Dick Morris, a Romney landslide? And no one was adamantly as wrong as Dick Morris. My goodness. Romney will win this election by five to ten points in the popular vote and will carry more than electoral votes.
It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history. Tell us what that polling outfit was? Is it safe to say that he is the worst political pundit ever? I thought Obama would be buried in a landslide. And sorry about that.
I was wrong. Now, why is he still smiling? Ninety eight percent of you say yes; two percent of you say no. Coming up, this election was about the big money of Citizens United versus -- what -- the boots on the ground. Who won? What if they do it twice a day, we might let them start out with breakfast as well too and a little extra orange juice. These people are nuts. It totally failed. And his TV show is not doing very well, either. Republicans attack the poor every chance they get.
They consistently go after Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment, and other programs that lift people out of poverty.
Now, this is a real "I told you so" moment. What we have seen in recent days is Ryan talked about hostages. Stop nominating people. Earlier today John McCain said that he wanted to help the unemployed on the Senate floor. What is with McCain? One of the biggest priorities the American people have is addressing income inequality. When was the last time you were Republicans out of the blue all of a sudden is so concerned about unemployment benefits?
Get your cell phones out. I do want to know what you think tonight. The question is, do you remember Republican ever caring about the unemployed? Text A for Yes, text B for No to You can always go to our blog at ed. For more on this, let me turn to my friend Congressman on the Democratic side John Larson of Connecticut. Congressman, good to have you with us tonight. Great intro, by the way.
You add to it. LARSON: Well, you know, here -- you know, and the other thing is -- well, this is all the underpinnings for the true message. Social Security and Medicare are not entitled. And then, what they would call entitlements which are actually the insurance that people have paid for and have earned. And we have got in the public needs to be.
I believe that to be the case and to listen to the litany of things that you just went through. Jack Kingston is a better person than that.
What is the plan that the Republicans have? Why would they pass a bill that would hurt people? Why would Congress do that? Yeah, if we can pick a hostage. This is the why Americans hate Washington.
This is the whole thing because those 1. And so. Those people who are wondering, am I going to get late off? Am I going to have a job? Will I be able to matriculate and find another job?
How about staying in congress and getting the job done? How about an infrastructure bill that would get about -- rebuilding the country, putting people back to work, roads, bridges.
These are things that are neither Democrat or Republican, they are very much American. And this is why, as you point out, the Americans are so angry, because they see congress down here twiddling ph and diddling and not getting much. Congressman John Larson, you have a great holiday. Thanks for speaking up. I appreciate it. We always want to hear what you have to say this. Plus, the conservative media is defending a Duck Dynasty patriarch for nasty comments.
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This is a good one. CRUZ: The new town has been nasty partisan politics. CRUZ: And the nasty partisan politics from this administration really does go to Is it any louder?
We got that -- I got that feeling. I could feel hours on this. What do you mean let them be? Give me a break. No question about it. Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty, fabulous show because people watch it, right?
They are defending it. Well, let me start up by saying I love Duck Dynasty. I acknowledge. The issue here is that Phil is claiming that his bigotry is backed up by Christianity even the gospels. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice. Jesus never said anything against our gay brothers and sisters. Saint Paul has taken out of context in Romans. You shall not lie with a man as with the woman, right? This guy is violating the bible.
This was not just a comment. This was an explanation of a belief system. So people are going to be watching it starting at January thinking, "Oh, I thought this guys got suspended. This is what he believes. Where does it live all this? And by the way, good to GQ for having this interview. His free speeches completely protected, but the thing about being grown up says there are consequences for what you say. So, no one is infringing on his free speech right.
I thought that the GQ interview were really went fishing looking for something hot and controversial for this. And I would like to see this be in time for Mr. Robertson to open up his heart, recognize that hating gay is the opposite of Christianity and the values of Jesus and maybe he could be a real leader in terms of accepting people. They send him off to counseling and change his belief system?
Robertson but there is a chance. Thank you so much. Coming up. My favorite segment, Ask Ed Live. They always come in. I appreciate it very much. Our first question comes from Shelton Robert Hart. But I have thought about doing as many shows as I possibly can from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota in See and feel and let me do that.
See the crew here works so hard. They need some more time off. Our next question is from Amy Johnson. She wants to know, "How is that turkey dinner when -- with Wendy and the president? The president last night at the White House, I was there, you know, with Michelle, the First Lady and they were taking pictures as we go through a line and what not. Nobody in the world cooks turkey like the guy at the White House.
So I went right to the Turkey Bar when I got there. I went to the Turkey Bar three years ago. I went to the Turkey Bar two years ago. I went there last night. They got great food there. It was kind of cool. And so, we went and took our picture with the president. The president asked my wife, "Wendy, how are feeling? Stick around, Rapid Response Panel is next. A theater collapsed in Central London leave dozens of people injured.
The theater was packed with about people for an evening holiday performance when the collapse occurred. At this point, officials say, seven people where seriously injured, more than 70 others were also hurt.
All those who were trapped inside had been freed. The police say it is unclear what caused the collapse. Stick around and we will be back in just a minute. I have -- really have not. I will look carefully at what I think I can do and make that decision, you know, sometime next year. You heard it folks. Get ready for another year of speculation and rumors about the future plans of former Secretary of State and First Lady, Hillary Clinton, and a Senator from New York at one time.
Gosh, that could be a few weeks, right, by the calendar. At this point it clear, Clinton has considered the leading Democrat for the race. Schweitzer sure sounded like a candidate during a speech in Iowa in front of people where he took a thinly veiled jab at Clinton about the Iraq war. And George Bush got a bunch of Democrats to go to that war. I was just shaking my head in Montana. She might have been one of those. So, here we go, the race is on. Joining me now, Rapid Response Panel.
Great to have both of you with us. I think he said a few other thing, they are also very intriguing.
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