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Consider it more of the same—investors are optimistic, yet struggle with re-entering the market.
According to a new survey from Franklin Templeton, nearly two-thirds of investors believe the U.S. stock market will be up in 2013, yet "a lingering bias toward risk avoidance continues to impact their willingness to invest more aggressively." In fact, despite a fourth consecutive year of positive returns from the S&P 500 Index, 69% of U.S. investors plan to pursue a more conservative strategy or make no changes to their investments this year.
The mutual fund giant's 2013 Global Investor Sentiment Survey polled 9,518 investors in 19 countries across Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas, including 501 in the U.S., on their current attitudes toward investing and their expectations for 2013 and the decade ahead.
"Despite investors' overall positive outlook, it appears that avoiding loss, rather than achieving higher returns, is still a top priority," Greg Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Franklin Templeton Investments, said in a statement. "Clearly, the market volatility over the past five years has reinforced a preference among investors for capital retention over investment gains. As seen in recent years, this risk avoidance has led many investors to remain on the sidelines, missing opportunities. Working with a financial advisor can be the best resource for evaluating all sides of the risk equation."
Contributing to investor risk aversion is an erroneous perception of market performance by nearly a third (31%) of American investors who incorrectly believe the U.S. stock market was flat or down last year. In reality, the S&P 500 Index was up 16% in 2012.
Uncertainty about the markets is causing some investors to avoid stocks altogether, the survey found, with 37% responding that they think they can meet their long-term investment goals without investing in stocks, even though stocks have outperformed bonds, gold and cash over the long term. Additionally, 43% report that they are skeptical or pessimistic about the U.S. stock market.
Investors cited concerns about government fiscal policy and the state of the global economy as the most common reasons for their reluctance to invest in 2013.
In several instances, responses from younger investors notably diverged from older counterparts.
More than half (57%) do not see stocks as essential to meeting their long-term investment goals—the highest percentage among all age groups—and younger investors have a 14% smaller allocation to stocks than their older counterparts. Younger investors were also more likely to be conservative in 2013.
Younger investors do, however, show a greater willingness to invest abroad going forward, planning to invest only two-thirds of their assets in the U.S. this year—a smaller amount than other age groups.
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Zara Phillips, British Olympic equestrian team silver medallist and the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, was on Queensland's Gold Coast as ambassador of the Magic Millions Racing Women initiative.
Kate Waterhouse caught up with the 31-year-old to chat about her upbringing, dealing with the paparazzi, and starting a family.
What was it like growing up in a royal family?
When I do interviews, I hate talking about my family a lot because they are my family and that's all I can say. It's the same as it was for anyone else - obviously, people don't quite believe me. Yes, we were in the public eye but we are still a family and growing up is the same. We were very lucky in the way that we had great places to go and great opportunities and hopefully all of us have used them and learnt from them, but then again, it's just family.
Do you have to deal with paparazzi everywhere you go in Britain?
No, I live in the country with the horses so I can get around at home, unless I'm going somewhere public or I'm with the family in London or doing stuff for sponsors - then there is media. But otherwise I'm lucky, I get left alone.
What is the strangest thing you've ever read about yourself?
One of them was last time I was here, they said ''your royal thongness'', and everyone was like, ''Oh my God, she is wearing thongs!'', and I was like, ''Why is that so weird that I'm wearing thongs?'' There have been loads [of strange things written] but most of the time it's when people misquote you, it's frustrating … The worst thing is, you know how people say ''today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper''? It isn't true any more, because it's all on the web so it always comes back up.
Do people sometimes not recognise you and treat you differently once they realise who you are?
Sometimes. This week I went through customs and I had my riding boots with me, so I had to go through the system and they had to clean my boots and the lady looked at me and said, ''Oh I just realised who you are.''
It's quite nice when people don't recognise you, and obviously it's a good thing for me because then they are relaxed.
What made you agree to be involved in the Magic Millions?
It's close to me; I love horses and I love racing. Plus, being in a hot country like Australia, it wasn't hard to twist my arm!
Is your husband involved in horse racing?
Funny you should say that. My husband [rugby player Mike Tindall] and two other rugby boys and their trainer own this horse together. The reason is, we were all at the sales at Cheltenham races and they were at the table, drinking away, with horses coming and the last lot comes in - and he swears that he didn't have too much alcohol in him - but it was the end of the night and he starts bidding for this horse and I was like, ''What is he doing?!'' so now the four of them are involved. It's a funny story, but that's why I'm not taking him to the sales again, he's dangerous!
What is an average day for you?
I get up and I've got seven eventers to ride and then I've got three pointers. I ride every day until they are done, doing fitness, jumping or dressage, so every day is different.
What was it like winning silver at the Olympics?
It was the best experience of my life … We would have loved to have taken the gold home, and we were really close. When the first result came out I was disappointed … but then when you get [the medal] around your neck, you think, ''This isn't so bad!'' You stop moaning and shut up [laughs].
Given Will and Kate are having a baby, are you planning on starting a family any time soon?
Yes, hopefully. I'm trying to see if we can plan it in … but the trouble is I have really good horses at the moment. It would be easier if I didn't have any good ones, so you could kind of go, ''OK, flag this year.'' We will see what happens.
What do you do for fun?
I watch my husband play rugby and I play hockey sometimes. Otherwise, I just stay at home and chill out, nothing special really. We are active all the time so when we are at home, we like to chill and be lazy.
Where do you see yourself in five years' time?
Hopefully I will have done another Olympics. That is what I'll aim for.
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The death of a spouse is always a tragedy, but for seniors, that tragedy can spur some significant life changes. And one University of Alberta researcher says the choices they make are something policymakers need to pay attention to.
Sociologist Lisa Strohschein says that losing a partner can precipitate the need for the surviving spouse to leave the residence they once shared. And the bereavement period is often key for them or their family members to decide whether it makes sense for that person to continue living alone or whether they give up living independently.
"Two people can take care of each other; they can share the burden of household tasks and may share income sources that allow them to live the kind of life that allows them to live independently," she said. "What this study shows is that, in fact, bereavement is a triggering mechanism (for the surviving spouse to move out of independent living)."
Strohschein's research noted that these seniors choose to either move into an institution or to reside with family members, most often their adult children. She says that when it came to these decisions, men and women were both equally likely to having to move when their partner died. She also noted that immigrants to Canada were more likely to reside with their families than their Canadian-born counterparts. Yet, she says, more needs to be done to help seniors make the final choice of where to live, but when to move should be left to the seniors themselves.
"Perhaps we can do a better job of providing services and/or counseling for recently widowed seniors to help them make decisions that are going to be right for them," said Strohschein, "and provide more services for those ones that really do want to move out of independent living who say, 'I can no longer bear these burdens,' to ensure that they are supported."
Strohschein says that understanding the processes that lead to seniors' decisions to leave their homes is important for the government to acknowledge, especially with an aging population. She says that developing processes and putting services in place would allow these people to retain their independence and their dignity in their twilight years, which is critical to ensuring the system does not become needlessly taxed.
"How do we delay that onset of moving a person to institutional care, care that tends to be quite costly, and can be depersonalizing for the person who's receiving it," Strohschein said. "As people come towards the end of their lives, how do we give them the most ability and the greatest dignity to exercise their right or their need for independence?
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"Big Love" star Ginnifer Goodwin has broken off her engagement to Joey Kern, People reports. According to People's anonymous source, the high-profile Hollywood couple amicably decided to split a few weeks ago.
The pair had planned to wed this fall, after Kern, 34, proposed to Goodwin, 32, in December with a ring he'd designed himself. Now that the wedding's off, they plan to remain friends, according to People.
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The petite brunette, who also starred in "He's Just Not That Into You" and the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line," was introduced to the scruffy blond actor by a mutual friend, and the couple dated for two years before they decided to get hitched.
Prior to Kern, Goodwin dated former "American Pie" star Chris Klein, who had formerly been engaged to Katie Holmes, for two years before amicably parting.


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Microsoft is holding a special Windows Phone 7.5 Tango launch event in China to celebrate the introduction of Windows Phone to the country, according to some invites the company sent out throughout the press. Seeing that Tango has paved the way for entry-level devices such as the Lumia 610 — which will likely play a huge role in emerging markets such as China — to exist by lowering the hardware requirements and making some software-side compromises, it is only right that an event be set aside for it.
As we had just reported on earlier today, there's going to be another event taking place exactly a week from this one; Nokia are hosting a special launch event to celebrate its entry into the Chinese market, during which the Finnish phone manufacturer is expected to announce the specific devices, carriers, and availability dates of its products in the region.
They won't be the first company to introduce a Windows Phone to China, however; as we know, HTC launched the Triumph — essentially a rebranded Titan — in China earlier this month, beating Nokia, LG, and ZTE to the punch.


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Re: Mobile Web Sitesdale Feb 18, 2012 3:33 PM (in response to wordperfect)
Wow thats about 20 questions and a year and a half with no answers? They're some good questions... can you answer some for the rest of us yet? There are 3400 views so a lot of interest with no answers?
Well I have recently optimized my site for mobile and those are good questions and the numbers you mentioned have grown to millions! I understand that mobile sites can be submitted to google seperatly but not yet sure if my mobile optimized needs submitted seperatly. My current cpanel nor google analytics does not track mobile access seperatly, but I do get more visitors every day since optimizing and that with no advertising.
My site is also too big for mobile but the optimization removes advs and shows only articles, so its good.
You can see what i mean if you go there on your smartphone. If the site doesn't immediatly adjust, there is an on screen button, bottom right.
dale is webmaster at:
Re: Mobile Web Sitesvnavguys Feb 18, 2012 3:07 PM (in response to wordperfect)
I have two large yahoo stores that everyone wants me to convert to mobile friendly. I have taken the approach of taking a step back and not being in such a hurry. Here is why, I would ask yourself, is your target demographic mobile dependent? Here is what i mean. I target products for men. My age group is not social, they do not facebook or tweet or really even respond much to email marketing. So spending the moeny to target or make my sites more appealing for a small segment does not make sense for me today.. However it might next year or the year after since things change so much. For the cost (and for some reason its expensive) it does not make sense for me. I would do better publishing a catalog. Its primal, men want something to hold that is tangible and somewhat old school. If they were "techies and geeks" that would be different. But that is how I look at it for now.
Re: Mobile Web SitesModerator_JoleK Feb 19, 2012 9:14 AM (in response to vnavguys)
I can see and totally appreciate your point of view on this, Ken.
Anyone else think this avenue is a good approach?
Re: Mobile Web Sitestimberdoodle Mar 1, 2012 10:30 AM (in response to vnavguys)
mr VNAGUYS i would like to hear some of your thoughts on a wood working sales suggestions like you offerd in another thread.. i tried to find the way to contack you personally but ti appears to not be available.. so if you would contact me i would appreciate it thanks Larry
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Re: Mobile Web SitesModerator Jim Feb 20, 2012 8:21 AM (in response to dale)
I end up doing a lot of texts per month too, but it's not a constant thing. Someone texts me and I send back an "ok" or if someone's at the store and asks me what we need I'll write out a shopping list. After a while, if you're particularly active, everyday use can get you in the hundreds range over the course of a month. It's not that surprising and only going to get worse now that phones (like my Windows 7 phone) can track a conversation from e-mail to facebook to ims to text without missing a beat depending on where I am and who I'm talking to at the minute. I'm sure with the technology, sometimes you won't even be aware that you're texting when you're just talking to friends "in chat."
Re: Mobile Web Sitesbigcloudmedia Feb 23, 2012 10:19 AM (in response to wordperfect)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Hi wordperfect.
The clients that I have setup with mobile friendly sites (i.e. sites that will automatically change in layout / format to create a specific experience on the mobile device) have seen an increase in visitors but they also tout their new mobile sites to everyone, every chance they get, effectively driving traffic there. I think that making your site mobile friendly would not hurt business and it just increases the ways your website can be used by the masses. Will having a mobile website create this super crazy jump in visitors, probably not but it could lead to it very easily. It's all about convenience now and honestly, with the continuing trend of people doing more browsing, etc. from their phones, offering that convenience of a mobile friendly website, when your competitors don't (or don't do it well), could lead to more visitors and ultimately more sales. A good article on mobile trends, etc. is here http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/30862/Mobile-App-Usage-Trumps-Web-Browsing-at-94-Minutes-a-Day-Data.aspx
In answer to your questions:
Does Google currently provide this in their analytics?
Yes. Mine does so hopefully yours does too. I think this change happened within the last 2 years so at the time of this posting, the mobile web was just starting to gain. Now it is defiinitely a hot trending topic.
Do your ANAYLTICS show if it is a fixed connection or Mobile?
Yes. Most analytics programs recognize visitors from mobile devices and provide information on those visitors accordingly now. They may not have at the time this was originally posted.
Does anyone know if GOOGLE are planning to add a differentiation for this, seeing as it is supposedly such a "hot " market?
In my google analytics, this has already been applied and mobile visitors can be specifically targeted and analyzed.
I hope that I my answers helped.
Be blessed.
Re: Mobile Web SitesCraig Parker May 2, 2012 11:00 AM (in response to bigcloudmedia)
Mine might not be the best approach, but I went to a % based width on everything instread of fixed, with some specific mobile/regular things (mostly font sizes) spelled out in the css. If anyone wants to have a look, it's here: http://www.doopensource.com/wp-content/themes/doopensource/style.css
I'm no expert, but it seems to be working. The mobile vs regular code starts at line 78. It wasn't that difficult, but I can see that a full width header image might cause an issue. I don't post a lot of images on that site, but I imagine there might be some trouble there too. I'm not sure as it's all a new method for me.
What really ought to happen is some new platform to come out that will screw us up a bit further...
I read a few on line articles that all urged me to make my site"mobile friendly" claiming there were thousands of mobile users who were just itching to buy from me.
Well OK, I don't actually "SELL" and I guess they all had an axe to grind as they were offering their services to perform this modern miracle for me., However most of the articles were several years old. So if there were thousands then, there must be one or two more now.
Interestingly, despite the alleged huge money and business I am missing out on, when I checked several other sites, quite well known, I found they suffered the from the same problem as I. Namely the site was too big for the screen size and navigation was a pain.
So I guess my question is,
Second question, how can you ID if a visitor is using a mobile browser or not?
Does Google currently provide this in their analytics?
Mine NEVER show mobile, 98.8% use WINDOWS and probably 99% if those use IE
I don't seem to be able to find this inof in the "Internet Provider" drop down either.
Am I missing something, or am I just not getting mobile visitors
Can anyone with higher traffic comment on this?
Do your ANAYLTICS show if it is a fixed connection or Mobile?
Does anyone know if GOOGLE are planning to add a differentiation for this, seeing as it is
Might be nice as they seem to have cut out the "Key words" now!
Still not sure if that is a deliberate policy or a result of the Google move out of China.


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PASSINGS: Donald A. Glaser, Jewel Akens
Donald A. Glaser
Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Donald A. Glaser, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley physicist who invented a device called the bubble chamber, which allowed researchers to track the paths of high-energy atomic particles after collisions and which played a role in the discovery of new atomic particles, died in his sleep Thursday at his Berkeley home, the university announced. The specific cause was not given.
Glaser, a longtime UC Berkeley professor of physics, as well as of molecular and cell biology, won the 1960 Nobel Prize in physics for the bubble chamber, which allowed scientists to track the movements of electrons, protons and other particles. He did the research leading to his prize-winning invention while at the University of Michigan, where he began teaching in 1949.
The device, which Glaser compared to a "pressure cooker with windows," worked by superheating a liquid such as xenon. When a particle passed through the liquid, it left a trail of bubbles that could be seen and photographed.
Glaser later turned his intellectual curiosity to molecular biology and later to neurobiology. In 1971, he joined two friends to found Cetus Corp., a biotechnology company that developed cancer therapies, among other research. In 1991, it was sold to California-based Chiron Corp., which later became part of Novartis.
Donald Arthur Glaser was born Sept. 21, 1926, in Cleveland, the son of Russian immigrant parents. He completed his bachelor's degree in physics and math in 1946 at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland while also playing viola with the Cleveland Orchestra, according to a UC Berkeley press release. He earned a doctorate in physics and math from Caltech in 1950.
Jewel Akens
Singer had hit with 'Birds and Bees'
Jewel Akens, 79, the R&B crooner whose song "The Birds and the Bees" vaulted him into short-lived fame in the mid-1960s, died Friday of complications from back surgery at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, said his wife, Eddie Mae.
Akens began his career in the late 1950s, working with Eddie Daniels and guitar legend Eddie Cochran, and later recorded singles with the Four Dots doo-wop group.
In 1965, he was singing with an ensemble called the Turnarounds when record producer Herb Newman brought them "The Birds and the Bees," written by his teenage son. The rest of the group disliked the tune, but Akens decided to record it solo.
It became an instant hit, rising to the No. 3 spot on the Billboard pop chart in 1965.
"Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees," went the catchy tune, which was later covered by Dean Martin and others.
"No doubt you're already singing the chorus," wrote the Vancouver Province in 2002 when it featured the song on a top-10 list of one-hit wonders.
None of Akens' later singles enjoyed the success of "The Birds and the Bees," but he went on to tour with the Monkees in the 1970s and performed into his 70s.
Jewel Eugene Akens was born Sept. 12, 1933, in Houston, the seventh of nine children in a working-class family. He became interested in music early in life, singing for the church choir as a child.
In 1950, Akens moved with his family from Texas to Los Angeles, where he graduated from Fremont High School. There, he met his future wife, Eddie Mae, whom he married in 1952.
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'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Friday, November 2nd, 2012
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November 2, 2012
Guest: Nate Silver
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: It is a real privilege to be able to do this
show live just after the NBC Universal telethon for hurricane Sandy relief.
Thank you for staying with us for this next hour.
On a personal note, I just want to say a personal thing about this
crisis. As for myself and those of us who work here on this show, we have
been very lucky and very blessed this week as this disaster has unfolded in
the communities we all live in. Everyone on our staff is safe. Nobody has
been injured. Our families are OK.
A lot of us have property damage and no power and no water. Almost
all of us, I think, have been living out of suitcases to one degree or
another, but we are all safe and that`s what`s important. I want to thank
everybody who has been asking, you`re all very nice. But we`re all all
I do want to show you one thing though. Look at this video. This was
taken this morning by our friend Jessica Rodriguez (ph) who is a producer
on this show and has been from the beginning. Most nights, Jessica would
be responsible on the show for making sure a piece of video like this made
it on air.
But today, she was at home in Lindenhurst, New York, on Long Island
because this is the street where Jessica lives. This is what her
neighborhood looks like as of today, four days after the storm made
Jess was at home today working to assess the damage, clean up her
flood-damaged home and to help her neighbors. While she was at home, hey,
a New York congressional delegation made her way down the block. Jessica,
you can see she was wearing her staff sweatshirt from the show, her "TRMS"
sweatshirt, when New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand came up to talk to
In Lindenhurst, Jess`s block, this little flip cam video, this is the
best way we know to show you how we all feel about this story that we are
in the middle of. This disaster just indiscriminately took lives and
uprooted lives and ruined a lot over a huge area affecting millions of
Americans, in a big area of the East Coast, but also really specifically in
this one part that we all live in, which is the most densely-populated
place in this country, which means we`re forced here in this particular
part of America to be very interconnected, to be interdependent, to know
thy neighbor because thy neighbor is very close to thee.
And that is how we like. It`s part of the reason you live and you
work in a place like this. Everyday, we strive to take a wide view, a fair
view of what`s happening in the world to do our best job at communicating
useful information to you about the news and politics and the world that we
are in.
But if you have been sensing some personal urgency in our telling this
particular story, it`s just because we cannot hide it. It`s true, which is
why I say it`s a privilege to do this show this night, following the big
telethon to raise funds for the hurricane Sandy relief effort.
I may never endorse candidates, but virtue of working here, I`m
allowed to tell you how wholeheartedly I personally endorse this message,
that if you have the means to do so, even at a very small level, if you
have the means to do so, you should donate to help the relief efforts for
this disaster.
If you want to donate by phone, the number is easy to remember. It`s
Online, you can go to redcross.org. Or you can donate 10 bucks by
text. Just text the word redcross to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
When the power came back on in parts of Lower Manhattan tonight, late
this afternoon and early tonight, you could hear the cheering from the
lower east side of Manhattan. Sweet relief, it`s been a long week.
And I`ll tell you, there was some cheering here at our offices in
Midtown, too, when we saw that footage come through, when we saw the live
feed come through. Throughout the night, the lights have been coming on in
some of our homes as well, which is a cause for e relief and lots of
gratitude and, honestly, still lots of worry and consternation over the
places that are still a long way out from coming back.
So, I think a point of personal privilege, and ask, if you have not
donated, think about whether you can. Easy to remember, 1-800-HELP-NOW.
All right. I will leave it there. There`s a lot to get to tonight.
The New York City marathon was cancelled.
The Obama administration has announced plans to distribute up to 22
million gallons of gas and diesel in the recovery zone, which has been hard
hit by fuel shortages.
And, oh, by the way, there`s a presidential election in four days and,
yes, there are some news about that, too.
That`s all ahead this next hour. But thank you for indulging here.
We`ll be right back.
MADDOW: It is now four days until the election and we have officially
reached the point where the campaigns both start pounding their chests and
saying we`re going to win, we`re sure of it. Both sides do this and I`m
not exactly sure why they do this, other than the fact that trash talk is
always fun in sports and in politics.
But, I don`t know, I mean, maybe there`s a sense of people who haven`t
decided even at this late point in the game will want to side with the guy
who`s going to be the winner. But that`s it, so each side tries their
hardest to make it seem like they are obviously going to be the winner.
But regardless, both sides do it every year, in the last few days before
the vote in particular.
So, that`s why you`re seeing David Axelrod making a bet on MSNBC that
if President Obama does not win Michigan and Minnesota and Pennsylvania,
he, David Axelrod, will shave off his big, famous, cop mustache.
He`s betting his face. That`s how confident he is, because this is
the time in the campaign when you`re supposed to project confidence.
On the Republican side, it`s been a little more complicated this year.
After a bad week of polling for Mitt Romney, top staffers from the Romney
campaign held a conference call with reporters this week in which they
enumerated all of their reasons why they see Mitt Romney as a shoo in to
beat the president on Tuesday, despite all the latest battleground state
They suggested that their secret sauce that`s more important than the
polling is that Mr. Romney is winning independents. So there. Polling
smolling, Romney has this thing in the bag.
Karl Rove, who is running the biggest dark money operation for the
Republicans this year, therefore as influential as ever, Mr. Rove took to
"The Wall Street Journal" this week to patiently explain to all these
people who don`t understand that these numbers that look so bad for Mr.
Romney do not matter or they are wrong, or they are wrong and they don`t
matter, because he says Democrats are not winning early voting by enough.
And he says the polls make assumptions about turnout that he describes as
He also describes some intangible stuff that makes him believe that
Romney is going to win, things like crowd size and closing arguments.
According to him, all of that together shows that Mitt Romney is totally,
definitely going to win this thing.
So, both sides are trying to convince the country that it is obvious
that they are going to win. And I think it is worth listening to the
arguments and checking to see if these arguments are based in good sense.
But honestly, it is also worth recognizing that every campaign on both
sides does this every time.
For example, here is how this particular phenomenon looked the day
before the election in 2008 when this sort of bragging that we get every
year was being done by prominent John McCain Republican surrogate named
Mitt Romney.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Inside a campaign, what do you get on the inside
that we don`t get on the outside because you`re doing your own polling?
MITT ROMNEY (R), THEN-MCCAIN SURROGATE: You see the widest array of
polls. You look at Mason-Dixon, for instance, that came out yesterday.
You take that apart, it`s close to the internal polls. It shows that John
McCain is leading in the states that he`s got to lead in, like Ohio and
Florida. We`re going to pick up Pennsylvania. We think we`ve got a real
good shot in Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada.
You know, that`s the pathway to victory for John McCain. We`re
excited. We`re hoping to see a lot of people out there in Chicago on
election night with Barack Obama experiencing a long, cold night, as they
learned that John McCain surprisingly won.
MADDOW: It`s nice he wishes physical discomfort on his political
enemies there at the end, just gratuitously throwing that in even though he
wasn`t asked.
But notice what exactly he was so confidently predicting there. The
day before the election in 2008, it was Mitt Romney. Day before the
election, and again, these were his predictions for states that John McCain
was definitely going to win.
ROMNEY: John McCain is leading in the states he`s got to lead in like
Ohio and Florida. We`re going to pick up Pennsylvania. We think we`ve got
a real good shot at Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada. You know,
that`s the pathway to victory for John McCain.
MADDOW: See how all those states were blue? His confident
predictions that John McCain was going to win Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Nevada in 2008 were wrong in every
single instance. They lost every single one of those states, even though
he seemed like he was going to win all of those states the day before the
And he didn`t say that he just felt like they were going to win. He
said they have the polling data that showed they were going to win in all
those states, and they did not win in any of those states.
So, this is just part of the way the game is played, right? It`s just
bluffing. And that is important context for understanding what`s going on
in the last four days of the campaign.
There are patterns to how presidential elections end. Some of the
same stuff happens every four years. Specifically, in 1992, the Republican
candidate was Poppy Bush, George H.W. Bush. The day before the election
that year, he went and campaigned in Pennsylvania. And then the next day,
he lost Pennsylvania.
The next election, 1996, Republican candidate was Bob Dole. Right
before the election, Bob Dole went and campaigned in Pennsylvania. And
then Bob Dole lost Pennsylvania.
In 2004, the Republican was George W. Bush and the day before the
election, George W. Bush went and campaigned in Pennsylvania. And the next
day, George W. Bush lost Pennsylvania.
Last time around as well the Sunday before the election, there`s John
McCain campaigning in Pennsylvania. And then John McCain loses
Right before the election, you can set your watch by it. The
Republican presidential contender will go and campaign in Pennsylvania.
And every year, the media responds by saying, wow, the Republican is going
to Pennsylvania. Maybe the Republicans are going to win Pennsylvania this
year. Does this mean the Republicans are planning on winning Pennsylvania
this year?
And the Republicans say, yes, we`re going there because we`re going to
win Pennsylvania and then they lose it every year. The reason they do this
every year is because they want to be seen as super confident. They want
to be seen as so confident they are expanding the map.
They want to create the impression that not only are they going to
win, they`re going to win big. So, they don`t even need to go to any of
these so-called battleground states. They have locked all those up.
They`ve already got the meat and potatoes. They are going for gravy.
They go to exotic states that nobody thinks they`re going to win because
they are going to win those states too. It`s going to be a landslide.
It`s trash talk, right? You can understand why they are doing this,
but there`s no reason to pretend that it`s unprecedented and there`s no
reason to just write down their spin about what they`re doing, instead of
checking the facts about whether their argument actually makes sense.
Checking the facts is easy to do. Look at the polling in
Pennsylvania. There have been two dozen polls in Pennsylvania since August
1st. Of those two dozen polls, of those 24 polls, how many does President
Obama lead in? Twenty-four of the 24, every single one.
And look at the rest of Mr. Romney`s campaign schedule. Yes, he`s
taking the one trip to Pennsylvania that Republicans always take. But
other than that, he was in Ohio and Wisconsin today. He was also scheduled
to be in New Hampshire, Iowa and Colorado in these final days. And he just
spent the last couple days in Florida and Virginia.
That means the map is not expanding. Not if you can`t afford to walk
away from any of your battleground states to move on to more exotic
locales. He`s still slogging it out in the places that he has to win,
where he`s not sure he is going to win.
All of this "we`re going to win" stuff, it is a fake. It is a fake
out, it`s a bluff, it`s trash talk. And there`s nothing wrong with it. It
happens every year. You should just know that it`s a dependable part of
the end of presidential campaigns.
But every once in awhile, at the end of a presidential campaign, this
expected feint, this attempt at a fake out, that everybody knows is coming,
every once in awhile it`s revealed as a fake out. Every once in awhile,
you get from the campaign a little inadvertent admission that they actually
know they are going to lose. At least they know they might lose. At least
they are making plans based on an expectation that they very well could
And when that happens, we know from insiders on campaigns past that
it`s very unsettling to the campaign. It makes everybody upset and hope
people do not notice it happened. That`s what happened in 2008, right? It
was right before the election and pro-Palin conservatives started talking
to the press publicly floating her plans for after the election. Not as
vice president, but after the election after John McCain and Sarah Palin
Their plans for her were published by "The New York Times" seven days
before Election Day. "If McCain loses, she could emerge as a standard
barer for the movement in 2012. Her prospects in or out of government are
the subject of intensive conversations among conservative leaders. They
are signs that she too is making sure she`s well-positioned for the future
if she and Mr. McCain lose."
That was a week before Election Day in 2008, Sarah Palin`s plans for
saving her own skin once she and John McCain lost the election were being
leaked to the press ahead of the election, by her allies. And we know from
people who are inside that campaign, it caused enormous tension inside the
McCain/Palin camp.
So imagine how this went over this week in the Romney campaign, right?
Context here you understand. Publicly, the Romney campaign is on their
"we`re going to win" tour. Their "pay no attention to the polls" tour.
Their "We`re even going to win Pennsylvania" tour.
That`s what they are saying publicly. That`s their public message.
But meanwhile, the "Associated Press" publishes a story that`s eerily
similar to that New York Times" piece from 2008 about Sarah Palin`s post-
election defeat plan. This time, of course, Paul Ryan, whose post-election
future is being leaked about by his supporters who are fairly, clearly
assuming that Romney and Ryan are about to lose and they need to think of
something else for Raul Ryan to do because he`s not going to be busy as
vice president.
Quote, "Publicly, Ryan and allies maintain that momentum is behind the
Romney/Ryan ticket, but Ryan`s biggest boosters realize he can write his
own ticket, win or lose on November 6. These Ryan allies spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss private proposals they were preparing for
If Romney loses, Ryan will be seen as a White House contender in 2016,
just like Sarah Palin was in 2012. For the next few years, Democrats would
lay traps forcing them to take sides on measures that could come back to
haunt him during a presidential bid. That`s why some of Ryan`s biggest
boosters are considering why it wouldn`t be better for Paul Ryan to resign
from the House. He could write a book, saving America is a theme often
bandied about -- or he could teach at a university."
Days before the election, Paul Ryan`s supporters are leaking their
plans to the press for what they want Paul Ryan to do since he`s not going
to be vice president. What they want Paul Ryan to do once he and Mitt
Romney lose the election next week.
I sort of can`t believe it didn`t get more attention when it came out
yesterday afternoon. Not only must it have caused some dyspepsia inside
the Romney campaign, but it is also the purest and most direct rebuttal of
that campaign`s own rather heroic efforts to project some super human
confidence about how much they think they are going to win on Tuesday.
Joining us is a man who is in the business of knowing who is going to
win on Tuesday, Nate Silver, editor of the "FiveThirtyEight" political
calculus blog for "The New York Times." He`s the who author of real
excellent new book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail,
But Some Don`t."
Nate, thank you for being here.
NATE SILVER, NEW YORK TIMES: Yes, thank you, Rachel.
MADDOW: A lot of headlines say that since Mitt Romney is going to
Pennsylvania, that must mean that Pennsylvania is in play. From the
numbers, do you believe Pennsylvania is in play?
SILVER: Well, you had the list of 24 polls and none had Romney ahead.
There have been some polls done by the state Republican committee in
Pennsylvania that had Romney up a couple points there, but no public
pollster has had him with a lead all year. So, it`s not just that Obama is
up there, but it`s a state where it`s been very stable and very consistent
in the polling.
I think it might be more in play because I don`t think they are
conceding Ohio, but they are worried about it, and they need maybe a better
plan B potentially.
MADDOW: Have you ever seen -- is there even at least sort of a famous
circumstance in which all the polls consistently all yearlong point in one
direction and a partisan poll correctly predicted the results?
SILVER: Yes, that poll is almost always going to be wrong, especially
when there`s a consensus of 15 or 20 polls. Maybe when you`re in a Senate
race or something, or a House race, where the public polls aren`t as good.
But the public polling is pretty reliable in Pennsylvania. We know what
the respected party bases are and where they live. This is a state that
teases Republicans. It`s a state where it`s hard to -- they can get up to
49 percent pretty easily, but it`s hard to get to 50 percent, unless
there`s some play I should say because of the hurricane and where the power
outages might be, that could affect things potentially.
But apart from that, I think it`s more sign of a campaign that doesn`t
like its electoral map very much.
MADDOW: What about this mantra we have been hearing on the right. It
really sort of has stopped in the last few day, but we were hearing it in
the last couple of weeks, this idea that Mr. Romney has momentum heading
into the Election Day. So, you shouldn`t look at the raw numbers. You
should appreciate there`s momentum movement in the numbers that indicates
that he`s going to win. How do you assess that?
SILVER: Well, I mean, today was an emphatic proof that he does not
have momentum, there were 19 polls released today in battleground states.
And Mitt Romney led in zero of those polls. There were two ties and Obama
led in 17.
That`s not what we were seeing two weeks ago where Romney pulled ahead
in Virginia and Colorado and Florida and had Ohio down to maybe a one-point
lead for Obama. So, if anything, Obama has momentum. He was declared the
winner by voters of the final two debates. I`m not sure how this hurricane
is playing for him, but his numbers seem to have ticked up. And that`s why
all these states that seem to very toss uppy couple of weeks ago now seem
like they are more firmly in the president`s favor, at least in the
MADDOW: Nate, let me ask you, and I didn`t warn you I was going to
ask you this, but you have been the subject of a lot of criticism in this
last week in particular, as if the polling model that you built at "The New
York Times" and the way you explain the polling is somehow biased or wrong
or evil.
I feel like you are waging a one-man war against innumeracy in terms
of explaining to people how polling works and how averaging works. How has
this week been for you?
SILVER: It`s been -- it`s been kind of a trip in some ways, right,
where all of a sudden, you become a subject of conversation yourself and
there`s this kind of celebrity level attached to it that`s very new for me.
But there are other Web sites that do the same thing that we do, even "Real
Clear Politics" and pollster.com and others. And they all show basically
the same thing.
There`s no way you can slice and dice the data in Ohio or Iowa or
Wisconsin right now and say that Romney is winning there. In fact, the
polls would have to mess up by quite a bit for that to occur. And that
could happen. There have been years like 1980 in which the race went way
differently from the polling.
But we`re now in the phase where it`s no longer a question of who is
ahead in the Electoral College and the polls, so much as will the polls
just have a bad year and they could, and we account for that possibility.
But that`s why you see some conservatives now, the smart ones, are no
longer bothering to say that we`re winning in these states. They are
saying that we think the polling is categorically wrong. You never know
it`s right, but usually, it`s wishful thinking.
MADDOW: Nate Silver, you`re a man at the center of the storm in a way
that I bet you did not expect to be. But thank you for continuing to be
cogent and rational and patient throughout all of it. I really appreciate
SILVER: Thank you, Rachel.
MADDOW: Thanks, Nate.
All right. Nate`s new book is called "The Signal and the Noise: Why
So Many Predictions Fail, But Some Don`t."
All right. Some things do not change. Bruce Springsteen will always
be awesome at benefit concerts. David Axelrod will probably always have a
giant cop mustache that looks like a push broom.
And voting in Florida will always be a mess, apparently. This year,
it is already to a degree you will not believe. That is just ahead.
MADDOW: Since there`s five minutes between now and Election Day on
Tuesday, as best I can tell, and since we`re already not sleeping, we
figured why not. Let`s do a brand new live show on Sunday night.
Please join us for a special live Sunday night pre-election RACHEL
MADDOW SHOW at our regular time, 9:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on MSNBC.
Sunday night.
We`ll reinvent weekends for next year. There`s too much going on for
that now. Sunday night, 9:00 p.m., we`ll be here live. Put it in your
DVR. Thank you.
MADDOW: OK, September 10th, 2002. Florida voters go to the polls for
a primary. What they find is a mess. Fancy new voting machines do not
work. Poll workers do not show up. Entire polling places do not open.
Because voting that day is hard the lines are surprisingly long,
Florida`s governor at the time is Republican Jeb Bush. He orders the polls
to stay open for two extra hours to help everybody that wants to vote vote.
That was in 2002.
In 2008, Florida again sees epic lines at the polls. Not just on the
day of general election, but even in the days before that during the time
for early voting. People waited through lines that stretched for three
city blocks.
This is what it looks like in 2008 even during early voting, which is
supposed to make voting easier and the lines shorter in Florida.
Florida`s governor during that election was also a Republican, Charlie
Crist. And in the fact of those lines, he declared a state of emergency at
the polls. Republican Governor Charlie Christ ordered the polls to stay
open longer so people could vote. He said, quote, "I have a responsibility
to ensure that the maximum number of citizens can participate in the
electoral process and that every person can exercise the right to vote."
The Obama campaign thanks the Republican governor when he did that and
then with a boost from early voting, Democrat Barack Obama won the state of
Florida and he won the presidency. Oops.
Last year, Florida`s new Republican governor, Governor Rick Scott
decided he was not going to make that mistake again. Rather than expand
opportunities for voting, the way Florida`s two previous Republican
governors had done, the new one, Republican Governor Rick Scott, decided he
would cut the days for early voting almost in half in order to make voting
Look, at least that`s how it works. Tada! Long, long, long, long,
long lines for early voting in polls places across Florida, except this
year, it`s long lines with no relief in sight. We have been getting
pictures like this for voters who live in Florida, ever since early voting
started in the state.
This is how democracy works in Florida this year. Look at this. Get
in line. Wait and wait. Wait an hour. Wait four hours. Wait five hours.
Yesterday, Florida Democrats and the nonpartisan group the League of
Women Voters asked Republican Governor Rick Scott to do something about the
long lines. They asked him to add a day of voting to open the polls on the
last Sunday before the election when many African-Americans usually plan to
carpool to go vote after church.
Governor Scott said no. Florida`s governor said, quote, "Early voting
will end on Saturday night, but I want everybody to get out to vote." Mr.
Scott wants everybody to get out and vote. Just get in line, three, four,
five hours, let`s see how long we can make you wait. Let`s see if you
actually end up voting. Get in that line going out the door, around the
Governor Scott is looking at five-hour waits for his constituents
already, for the people he was elected to serve. Five-hour waits, and he
has no sign of any desire to fix it.
Listen. The more opportunity people have to vote, the more likely
they are to vote. High turn out favors Democrats. Low turn out favors
Republicans. This is not rocket science.
To the extent that voting in Florida this year is a debacle, it is a
manmade debacle. It is a debacle by design. In some towns, the ballot
this year in Florida is 10 pages long. And filling it out takes lower and
with fewer days to vote, well, yes, magic, you get really long lines.
But that`s the way it goes in Florida now. Leading up to the
election, Florida Republicans cut the time for early voting in half. So
now, Floridians stand in long lines. They pass new restriction on
registering voters, so thousands fewer new voters signed up in the state.
And Governor Scott has tried to purge the voter rolls in Florida,
challenging voter registrations into the final weeks before the vote.
In south Florida and Palm Beach County, 30,000 ballots were printed
wrong. Clerks have been copying what the voters marked on to new ballots
that can fit into the tabulating machines. Dozens asked for absentee ball
the lots and still haven`t gotten them days because the election, because
Palm Beach screwed up the barcodes that tell the post offices where to
deliver them.
The situation might be worse in nearby Broward County, the Democratic
stronghold where voters have waited for weeks for absentee ballots to
arrive in the mail, and 300 ballots got returned to the county as
You can say that Florida`s election is another debacle in the making,
were it not already a debacle right now. And it is.
Joining us is Joy Reid. She`s managing editor of TheGrio.com and an
MSNBC contributor who`s been reporting on the unfolding election mess in
Joy, thanks for being here tonight. It`s nice to have you here.
JOY REID, THEGRIO.COM: Great to be here. Rachel. And yes, all
Florida -- Florida will not be moved aside by Ohio as important and crazy.
MADDOW: Well, we believe in the power of Florida here because Florida
has demonstrated its power in these things. In terms of what I just
summarized there, does that all strike you in terms of your latest
reporting as what`s most important to keep an eye on right now in Florida?
And what is your latest reporting on the missing absentee ballots on some
of these other issues?
REID: Yes, absolutely, Rachel. So, in the last couple hours, I made
a couple phone calls down into south Florida, and discovered that
everything you said is absolutely accurate, with one exception, there`s
actually one more county. Apparently, Miami-Dade County is also having
issues with people who requested absentee ballots.
And, you know, keep in mind, some of these people requested that
ballot a month ago. They requested it the beginning of October and still
haven`t gotten them. And if an absentee ballot is not turned in by 7:00
p.m. on Election Day on Tuesday, that is postmarked that day, that means in
the office, in the hands of election workers on that day, it won`t count.
And then the next wrinkle, Rachel, is that people who ordered their
absentee ballots but then decided to just show up at a poll and try to vote
will be made to vote on provisional ballots because there`s no way for the
election workers to verify that person didn`t mail if an absentee ballot.
And Florida does not exactly have a strong record of counting provisional
MADDOW: Why does the government not do more to make voting easier? I
mean, we saw Rick Scott take action here more aggressively than other
Republican legislatures did and governors did. He did essentially on his
own. He ordered that early voting be cut.
Has there been any -- has there been any argument from what they have
done that is respectful of voting rights?
REID: No. I mean, actually, you talked about Charlie Crist, Rachel,
earlier and the fact that he did sign that executive order extending voting
hours. That was the beginning of the end of Charlie Crist`s tenure in the
party. It was the beginning of the rupture with his party, because
Republicans in the state blamed Crist for Barack Obama winning the state.
So when I spoke with the former head of the Republican Party of
Florida, a guy named Jim Greer (ph) who is now in his own world of trouble
over some charges about some apparently illegal sort of money things that
he was doing, but when he was running the party, he told me that Republican
consultants came to him and said, we want to craft a bill to get rid of
early voting if we could or severely cut it because in the worlds of the
consultants, according to Jim Greer, all it does is bring every African-
American out from under a rock, that is a quote, and get them to vote for
Democrats. They don`t for us. It doesn`t help us.
So the Republican legislature which in 2010 became more Tea Party,
more conservative, there`s no margin in it for them to increase access to
in-person early voting. What they did is they passed a law that didn`t
touch absentee voting, which Republicans tend to dominate in, but severely
limited the early vote period.
So just to give you some numbers, you were talking, there were 96
hours -- there are 96 hours this year total to vote. There were 120 hours
in 2008.
And already in the state, 3.46 million people have voted, and when you
looked at the numbers, that`s almost as many votes as Barack Obama got by
himself. And in the last presidential election, 4.3 million voters, almost
half of the people who voted, voted early. So, this is really a problem.
MADDOW: This is a problem and this is a problem not looking ahead to
Election Day. It`s a problem already in the way that it`s affecting people
who are trying to early vote. I feel like I`m not the "Drudge Report" and
I`m not a Web site, but if I could put a siren over my head, I would.
Joy --
REID: I`d wear one too.
MADDOW: We`ll have to get them, like little hat or something.
Joy is managing editor of TheGrio.com, MSNBC contributor, it`s great
to have you here. Thank you.
REID: Thank you.
MADDOW: All right. We got one more big story for you tonight about
politics, about something that is essentially trying to be disappeared down
the memory hole. Something that is refusing to go down the memory hole
even though they are trying to shove it there. Hold on, that`s coming up.
MADDOW: A flurry of new polling from the all-important swing states
today. All these polls are just released today.
In Colorado, President Obama up by four. In Iowa, President Obama up
by four. In Wisconsin, President Obama up by seven points. In New
Hampshire, the president leading in six points in one poll. Leading by one
point in another.
In Ohio, President Obama leading by two points in one poll, and by
three points in another poll. In Virginia, President Obama leading by one
point. In Florida, President Obama leading by two points.
One state that`s not a swing state this year but that President Obama
made into a swing state in 2008 is the great state of Indiana. That year,
Indiana flipped from red to blue in the presidential contest. President
Obama is not necessarily expected to pull off the same thing this year in
But this year there`s a really hot race in Indiana in the Senate,
after a Tea Party primary cost longtime Republican Senator Richard Lugar
his Senate job, the Republican candidate in Indiana ended up being the guy
on the left side of your screen, Richard Mourdock. He`s up against
centrist moderate Democrat named Joe Donnelly. He`s the guy on the right
side of your screen.
Since Mr. Mourdock said that when woman are raped and become pregnant
as a result of that rape, that is something God intended. Since he made
those remarks at a debate a few weeks ago, in very, very, very, very red
state Indiana, the Republican candidate Richard Mourdock is now behind in
that state Senate race. He`s now losing the race by double digits.
Here`s the interesting thing about that poll though. It`s a poll in
Indiana, which almost never happens. It`s really weird, but nobody
nationally ever really knows what`s going on in Indiana politics because
they don`t really poll in Indiana, at least not that much. In Indiana, it
is illegal to make automated calls for telemarketing purposes and for
public opinion surveys like polling. You can`t use an auto dialing device
unless, one, the subscriber has consented to being contacted, yes, right,
or two, a live operator gets right on the line and gets consent that way.
And since that makes traditional polling hard and expensive, there is
very little polling in Indiana. It`s kind of weird detail about this
election, right? But while we`re on the subject of weird details, check
out this ballot in North Carolina.
North Carolina is one more than a dozen states where they have
straight ticket voting. So, that`s where you say, all right, everybody
with an R next to their name, or everybody with a D next to their name,
that`s who I`m voting for. I want all the Republicans or I want all the
But there`s a bizarre catch to straight ticket voting in North
Carolina. North Carolina is the only state where voting for a straight
ticket does not include the presidential race. So you have to vote for the
straight ticket and then in addition to that, you also have to cast another
vote for president. If you just vote straight ticket Democratic, you do
not cast a vote for Barack Obama for president. Counterintuitive, right,
but you have to do that separately in addition.
So it`s not really straight ticket voting. It`s straight ticket plus
the president voting.
OK. I said weird details. Here`s something even weirder. Vermont --
this is Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. He`s a Democrat. He`s the hands
down favorite to win the most votes in the governor`s race this year, in
the since that he leads in the polls right now by more than 30 points.
But that may not be enough. The Vermont state constitution requires a
candidate for governor to get 50 percent plus one vote. And even though
Governor Shumlin is leading by 30 points, he has four opponents. So if
those four opponents get a combined 50 percent of the vote between,
Governor Shumlin will not be reelected no matter how big the margin he wins
In that case, with nobody getting 50 percent, it would be the state
legislature that would pick the next governor of Vermont. That could
happen. It has happened very recently.
MADDOW: Some of the most interesting still undecided races from
yesterday`s elections after the governor`s seat, this afternoon, NBC News
declaring Peter Shumlin the winner in Vermont, Vermont`s first Democratic
governor in eight years. What`s interesting about that is that even though
Peter Shumlin, the Democrat, won, he did not get 50 percent of the vote.
Under Vermont`s state rules, that means technically, the legislature picks
who wins the race.
MADDOW: That`s how he got elected in the first place. Two months
after that, the Vermont legislature did what Vermonters had already done.
They picked Peter Shumlin to be governor. The final vote in the
legislature was 145 to 28, which means 28 people in the legislature voted
to elect somebody who the people of Vermont did not vote for, a gentle
reminder that states run elections not the federal government.
Elections are sometimes messy and governed by weird rules. But they
are always fun and worth whatever efforts it takes, even if that effort
this year includes filling out two bubbles, two of them, two. I`m looking
at you, North Carolina.
ROMNEY: The question for this election in my view is this. Do you
want to stay on the same course we`re on, or do you want real change?
Because we represent real change.
Paul Ryan and I plan on putting in place real change from day one.
Accomplishing real change is something I don`t just talk about. It`s
something I`ve done. The question of this election comes down to this: do
you want more of the same or do you want real change? And we pick real
MADDOW: Spare change? Real change. That was Mitt Romney`s closing
argument today in Wisconsin and Ohio. A vote for me is a vote for real
And tonight, just outside Cincinnati, the Romney campaign attempted to
underscore that message by holding a big mega rally in a giant town square
in Westchester, Ohio, a mega rally featuring nearly 100 governors,
senators, congressmen, mayors and other Republican luminaries, 100
Republican surrogates all there in person, to talk about the real change
that you will get if you elect Mitt Romney.
So who exactly did Mitt Romney enlist to sell this message of what
real change he`s offering America? The headliners were George W. Bush`s
secretary of state, George W. Bush`s secretary of labor, George W. Bush`s
homeland security director, George W. Bush`s budget director, and last but
not the least, the current Republican speaker of the House.
Mitt Romney, change you can believe in if you really liked George W.
Bush, and if you like the current Republican Congress. Then we`re the kind
of real change you`re looking for. Who cast this thing, the Democrats?
One of the reasons that the message of real change resonated so much
back in 2008, one of the reasons that that actually worked for Barack Obama
in that election is because the country writ large had ceased to be
delighted by the George W. Bush administration. And it wasn`t just the war
in Iraq or the great recession, or at least wiretapping, or torture, or,
or, or.
It was also stuff like this. This is the U.S. State Department`s
annual report on global terrorism from 2003. Every year, the State
Department would put together a report like this, detailing incidents of
terrorism around the world. And the next report after this one, the one
that was slated for 2004 showed that despite the Bush administration`s
claims that we were winning the war on terror, despite those constant
claims, the number of terrorist attacks had gone up to its highest level in
the two decades the State Department had been publishing this report.
What was the Bush administration`s solution to that problem? Their
solution was to stop publishing the report. The Bush administration just
eliminated that annual terrorism report once it included something very
politically inconvenient.
The Bush administration had a habit of doing this. If you don`t like
the data being provided, get rid of the data.
A year earlier, the Bush administration, which was a big proponent of
charter schools, they were faced with a new report from their own Education
Department showing that charter school kids were falling behind public
school kids.
How do you deal with your own administration`s data on underperforming
charter schools? Well, you cut back on the data that you collect about
charter schools. The Bush administration just announced they would be
collecting less data going forward.
In 2003, after the Bush administration Labor Department report
detailed mass layoffs in the manufacturing sector, the Bush administration
just announced they were going to stop publishing information about mass
layoffs in the manufacturing sector. Their approach was essentially, if we
get rid of the data pointing to a problem, maybe the problem wouldn`t look
so bad. If the report tells you something you don`t want to hear, the
obvious move is just to get rid of it.
This was just a hallmark of the George W. Bush administration and it
appears to be one of the things that Mr. Romney liked very much about the
George W. Bush administration, at least appears to be one of the things
that he`s promising to bring back. You don`t like the data presented?
Then kill the report.
After the totally, unimpeachably, nonpartisan and widely respected Tax
Policy Center did a report that concluded that Romney`s tax plan would be
great for rich people and would hurt everybody else, the Romney campaign`s
response to that was to go guns blazing against the nonpartisan Tax Policy
Center, just attacking them as an institution. You don`t like the message,
shoot the messenger.
Last month, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the
unemployment rate was going down, do you remember what the response was on
the right? The right started attacking the Bureau of Labor Statistics as
if they were the problem because they said the unemployment rate was going
It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would argue about how
best to deal with some factual things, some problem facing the nation.
Now, Republicans do it differently. They do it differently than everybody
else. This is not a mirror image problem on both sides.
Republicans do a specific thing. They refuse to acknowledge that a
factual thing is a factual thing. And this phenomenon on the right that we
got so familiar with under George W. Bush administration, that they are
still doing, it was brought to a whole new level last week when it was
revealed by "The New York Times" that a nonpartisan tax report was
withdrawn by a federal agency because Republicans protested its findings.
The federal agency in question here is the Congressional Research
Service. They`re kind of the gold standard. Essentially, Congress`
internal think tank. Members of Congress have a question about policy or
some issue, it`s the Congressional Research Service that looks into it for
them and they issue a report on it in response to a member of Congress
asking for that report.
The Congressional Research Service is as nonpartisan as it gets in
Washington. They are nothing but the facts, integrity is unimpeachable.
And a little more than a month ago, they issued a report on tax policy.
They found that there is no connection between lowering the tax rates on
millionaires and billionaires and creating economic growth. There`s no
evidence whatsoever that if you cut taxes on the rich that that makes the
economy grow.
And that`s a problem, right, because that is essentially Mitt Romney`s
whole reason for living. This is the Republican Party`s economic reason
for existing. It`s all premise on this idea that if you cut taxes on the
rich, the job creators, right, that will jump-start the economy. This is
the whole basis of the party` economic philosophy. It`s the entire
economic basis on which Mitt Romney is running for president.
This is why congressional Republicans pledge their first born children
to a man named Grover. And here comes this nonpartisan, highly respected,
unimpeachable agency that says, you know what? We look into it, it turns
out the whole thing is bunk. Giving rich people a tax break doesn`t help
the economy but it sure does help rich people.
So, what do you do if you`re the Republican Party? Well, you pressure
that agency into burying the report which is exactly what Republicans in
Congress did this fall. "The New York Times" is reporting that surely
after Senate Republican aides started complaining about the report and its
findings, the Congressional Research Service, this august, widely respected
institution quietly withdrew their entire report, reportedly against the
advice of their own economics experts.
This is amazing, right? If a report tells you something you do not
want to hear, get rid of the report, especially if that report is coming
out on the eve of a big election and it debunks your candidate`s whole
economic argument.
Luckily, breaking news, the report does still exist. You can find it
right now. You can read it right now. It`s not written very long, and
it`s written in plain language. You can find it right now at
MaddowBlog.com and there`s nothing that Senate Republicans can do to stop
That does it for us tonight. We will see you again on Sunday night.
Yes, I said Sunday night. We are doing a special live edition of this show
on Sunday night, because -- well, isn`t it obvious?
Now, it`s time for "THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O`DONNELL." Thanks
for being with us tonight. Have a great night.
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