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Sep 4, 2012

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00:00:00 KEY FACTION OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS WHO WILL HELP DECIDE THIS ELECTION.
00:00:06 I LIKE THIS CANDIDATE, BUT THIS PARTY, ARE THEY GETTING TOO EXTREME?
00:00:11 PART OF THE WHOLE ARGUMENT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN MAKING IS THIS SO-CALLED WAR ON WOMEN THAT I AM SURE YOU HAVE HEARD LATELY.
00:00:19 THE REPUBLICANS ARE ACCUSED OF BEING BEHIND THE WAR ON WOMEN BECAUSE OF THEIR VIEWS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PAY FOR CONTRACEPTION FOR WOMEN AND WHETHER OR NOT ABORTION SHOULD BE ILLEGAL AT ALL STAGES OF PREGNANCY AND OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:00:34 YOU HAVE THESE SOCIAL ISSUES THAT DO SCARE AWAY IN OF HENIN VOTERS.
00:00:41 AND IN PARTICULAR, THEY SCARE AWAY FEMALE INDEPENDENT VOTERS.
00:00:47 AND WOMEN OUTNUMBER MEN WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING.
00:00:51 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CONSTITUENCY THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO HANG ONTO.
00:00:54 THAT IS PART OF THE WAR ON WITHIN MANTRA HAS BEEN USED -- WAR ON WITHIN MANTRA HAS BEEN USED SO OFTEN AND SO LOUDLY WITH DEMOCRATS, AND TO SOME SUCCESS AS POLLS ARE SHOWING.
00:01:11 HOST: AS SOMEONE TWEET THIN, WOMEN SHOULD BE REMINDED OF THE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
00:01:18 LAST CALL COMES FROM FLINT, MICH.
00:01:22 , JOHN ON THE DEMOCRAT'S LINE.
00:01:24 CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:01:28 FROM MY NEIGHBOR IN MICHIGAN WHO WAS JUST ON THE LINE, WE HAVE A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR NAMED SNYDER WHO HAS TIED THE UNIONS HERE, BASICALLY, TRYING TO BREAK THE UNIONS.
00:01:39 AND YOU HAVE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHERE I CAN JUST SAID -- AKIN JUST SAID THAT A WOMAN CAN BE RAPED.
00:01:57 IT IS A STATEMENT LIKE THAT THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MAKES, AND THEN THEY ATTACK THE UNIONS CANNOT -- ATTACK THE UNIONS, THEY ATTACKED THE GROUND ROUTES PERSON JUST WORKING.
00:02:12 THEY DO NOT WANT TO PAY DECENT WAGE.
00:02:14 THEY WANT YOU TO WORK IN A RIGHT TO WORK STATE WHERE THEY CAN FIRE YOU IF THEY WANT TO.
00:02:19 IT IS AMAZING THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS A PROBLEM.
00:02:24 IT BLOWS MY MIND.
00:02:26 IF YOU DO NOT MAKE OVER $250,000 A YEAR OR MORE PROFIT FOR YOU TO BE -- FOR YOU TO BE A REPUBLICAN CAUCUS YOU ARE BACK -- FOR YOU TO BE A REPUBLICAN, YOU ARE WRITING YOUR OWN HAND.
00:02:42 HOST: 1 ISSUE THAT IS A LITTLE LESS DANGEROUS FOR REPUBLICANS IS THAT MANY ARE SIDING WITH REPUBLICANS WHEN IT COMES TO THE REFORMS SURROUNDING HOW THE UNIONS ARE PAID AND HOW THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR OWN PENSION FUNDS.
00:03:01 THERE IS A TREND TOWARD MORE OF A REPUBLICAN WAY OF THINKING ON THAT JUST BY THE ELECTORATE.
00:03:07 THE OTHER ISSUE BE BROUGHT UP, WHICH IS TODD AK THE SONI OF CANADAN,, , -- TODD AKIN, THE SENATE CANDIDATES, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
00:03:24 HE HEARD THE PARTY BY MAKING A STATEMENT ABOUT LEGITIMATE TRADES.
00:03:29 THERE ARE CERTAIN CANDIDATES THAT HURT THEIR CHANCES.
00:03:33 AT ONE RACE THAT IS SO CRUCIAL -- AND ONE RACE IS SO CRUCIAL AND ACCURATE THEIR CHANCES OF A MAJORITY IN THE SENATE.
00:03:43 THE UNION ISSUES, HOWEVER, LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN WISCONSIN THIS YEAR.
00:03:47 THERE WAS A BIG RECALL ELECTION FOR RAW PLEBEIAN THE -- REPUBLICAN GOV.
00:03:54 SCOTT WALKER.
00:03:55 AND HE MANAGED TO STAY IN OFFICE.
00:03:57 THE PUBLIC SIDED WITH HIM.
00:03:59 I THINK YOU WILL SEE A TREND CONTINUING LIKE THAT, IN PART BECAUSE THESE PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS ARE DRAINING THE TREASURY OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO THE POINT THAT THEY ARE GOING BANKRUPT.
00:04:11 THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF A TREND TOWARD REPUBLICAN THINKING WHEN IT COMES TO UNION ISSUES.
00:04:19 HOST: OUR GUEST IS THE CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER NEWSPAPER, WASHINGTONEXAMINER.
00:04:32 COM IF YOU LIKE TO READ YOUR WORK.
00:04:34 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" THIS MORNING.
00:04:37 WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP THE PHONES.
00:04:39 THIS IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.
00:04:44 KEEP DIALING IN AND TRADING IN ITS, ETC.
00:04:51 -- TWEETING IN, IT'S CETERA ABOUT 9:30 A.
00:04:57 M., THEY WILL HAVE POLLSTERS BRINGING TRENDS.
00:05:02 WE WILL BRING YOU THAT LIVE AS WELL.
00:05:04 THE MAYOR OF CHARLOTTE, ANTHONY FOXX WILL BE OUR GUEST A LITTLE LATER ON.
00:05:11 AND THEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHARLOTTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT SOME ISSUES IN THE EVENT OF HAVING A CONVENTION.
00:05:22 THIS IS ABOUT FIRST LADIES GIVING SPEECHES ON BEHALF OF THEIR HAS BEEN PRESIDENT'S IN THE "WASHINGTON POST" AND TONIGHT IS MICHELLE OBAMA.
00:05:34 SHE IS THE CLOTHES ARE FOR THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN, AND ALSO THE CLOSING SPEECH THIS NIGHT.
00:05:42 LIVE GAVEL-TO-GAVEL COVERAGE BEGINNING AT 5:00 P.
00:05:44 M. EASTERN TIME.
00:05:45 WE WILL STAY WITH IT UNTIL THE CONVENTION IS OVER FOR THE EVENING.
00:05:49 OUR PREVIEW PROGRAM BEGINS FOR THE TIME WARNER CABLE ARE RENOWNED AT 4:00 P.
00:05:55 M. EASTERN TIME.
00:05:57 -- THE TIME WARNER CABLE ARENA AT
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