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Florida a Must-Win for Romney?
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Historian Douglas Brinkley on the state of the economy, the Presidential election and the Olympics.
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- Date Aug 6, 2012
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-- -- -- My favorite time of the -- -- about social for excellent.
Sums into what our unemployment rate close -- -- this now goes back up to a point through December to stock market.
She rolls over 200 -- just on Friday -- this kind of disconnect or somewhere noon.
-- -- if there is split its its server roller coaster of -- people in the market's been doing well -- seen over the last few years.
So there's still a lot of investor confidence this country.
Any go around like I do I've been up and Ohio California.
-- -- Nebraska recently in the street -- this country still very real on the inner her natural resources alone just the natural gas.
-- Captain America so I'm always pretty bullish on the the country but I'm always -- -- about the politics.
A -- New Mexico and spent a lot of time and sexism.
Are -- and anybody who's gonna vote for Obama and I run into a lot of -- reported for the present last timers sorry.
I'm not gonna more foreign.
This time -- relies on -- conducting the definitive.
-- -- -- That kind of armed group and Ohio.
And I would factor for months the elephant talk -- series spurred Ohio near Toledo.
People agree it's a part count.
And I went up there -- spent one month with all my old friend first look at the little library and then I was living open an island with -- Likely kids call put -- it's in middle -- -- But I talked a lot of people Ohio -- -- amazed how many undecideds there are.
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Money and everybody -- people people -- what they think.
What Obama has going formidable that's -- is that GM bailout.
Well because it helps save the world champions -- plugged in Toledo or -- -- for him some of these.
-- -- auto companies and jobs.
But to what he doesn't have going for -- -- been president for almost a full term and nobody's saying they wanna vote for.
They're just sorts of Romney's got to make -- -- -- -- -- which he hasn't quite made yet.
So its side effect called -- title -- Saving zone.
Commercial for the -- and so on.
That is certainly -- team.
That that -- bailout of the auto thing with doubted he would of one Ohio which is the issue ridiculous around like caught.
Obama giving the speech in -- on the Ohio which is next to where -- was senators -- and that's following was he was something on pickup to big responsible plausible wasn't you know first saving General Motors Toledo would have been.
Bitter -- so back to some in the game there and it makes Florida.
I think really -- must on the win for Romney's that you might.
Concern to rethink the ruby Marco Rubio bit I thought it was going to be Portman but.
It might have to go forward and anything they -- to try to picture they they keep Florida.
Porting delay aren't -- -- programmer dogging.
Well almost into the same table I -- -- government on the solid impression on him I'm not.
-- -- -- a ball a broader Thompson.
That dollars a remember -- and there's going to say you know.
-- -- -- -- -- -- And yet Nancy Reagan called him.
When she wanted to somebody to edit Ronald Reagan's letters -- -- say personal -- impossible.
And when they yeah.
Watch Olympic -- also -- get a chance program honors unless.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Almost not not rich just a little bit dark kind of impact your key to keeping our 24/7 in my studies so.
-- -- catch -- a little bit of that that I haven't been in the and gross are trying to find myself watching things like kill.
You know Willem.
Soccer that you throw out Lehman of the -- the sport to do happen to catch that.
And the like all our brand smaller.
And I -- -- -- what to do with neighborhood kids -- -- but -- so we -- on watch and somebody bits -- Poland's support for US state.
Round every term but I haven't gotten -- and that emotional drama that.
Quite as much -- an appalling bull story a little bit you know but.
-- -- what's not fun now don't we don't have a political and ideological.
Clear arrival somebody who -- wanna -- like although I was after decision Serena Williams walked up on.
A plan that says -- Bid to Maria Sharapova plan for Russia and minimum -- subtle township.
Serena Williams is just amazing it's less daughter's doing gymnastics and -- you know they've certain there was she's watching it'll probably.
Little girls are certain looked up to some of these -- You know Olympic athletes realize there's -- -- very little gymnastics class and they thought which is -- to do a lot of baseball when it caught the India my son and I are gonna try to go to every Major League Baseball work.
It's pretty ambitious but we did the Cleveland Indians and and I just took with my father in my and so on -- three generations to Brinkley easily copy -- Game and then I'm going to be Astros next week in the in the ring intercept of that with and so we're.
Who -- around in these baseball stadiums.
And -- It is but I needed a -- west -- of bond with -- you know we're baseball cards and now.
Is trying to do it other ways split that he so -- to baseball outsource work.
And around acknowledged that there are more -- -- -- it's a brain and incorporated but well it's expensive.
-- there should be more enthusiastic.
But Simpson during the national and I thought.
Outside -- bond general policy.
It got its I never thought I'd find myself doing this but I'm traveling so much that I get free hotel with the least paying my airfare so performance on.
Consistent spend the days at Citi.
You know not now or give them the real crux of this currently.
Time -- international -- on picture costly if not a bottle washer.
Doug Brinkley learn and absorb Reuters.