Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think... by Chuck Todd

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

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If Barack Obama goes on to win the election, there will be plenty of ink and video spent on chronicling the historic nature of the turnout among young voters and African-Americans. But as important as both constituencies have been to Obama - particularly in the primaries - it's Hispanics that could be putting him over the top on Nov. 4.

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Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry's speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates).

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The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

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The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate tries to run as something they aren't simply because the strategy dictates it.

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Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'

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Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.

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It’s just not true. This economy’s frustrating. This economy with COVID has been—I’ve got money and I can’t find something. But my God, there’s jobs, there’s good jobs.

President Biden is at 40. George W. Bush was at 39 percent in 2006. We know how that turned out, so you see that in the shellacking territory.

No, no, no, no, no, in national polling, it's extremely rare, because the way gerrymandering is worked, the way Democrats are packed into districts, you know, they have more than 85 percent districts and the Republicans do. The bottom line is generic ballot — if the Democrats are losing, it means they're going to get walloped. Last time in 2010, Republicans had a 2-point advantage that translated to 63 seats.

Look, 65 percent wrong track is a bad number.

If there's one thing that surprised me about the president's State of the Union, it was the lack of connecting the fight for democracy and freedom abroad with the fight for democracy and freedom at home. Today's Bloody Sunday, i was stunned.

If there was one thing that surprised me about the president's State of the Union was the lack of connecting the fight for democracy and freedom abroad, with the fight for democracy at home.

I'm curious, you know, to me, this momentof Bloody Sunday and what we'reseeing in Europe, there is aconnection.It's a fight for freedom, it’s afight for democracy.And Rev, it’s astatement Ithought we would hear from the president on Tuesday thatconnected the two.He didn't quite do that.

There was this focus group - and it’s qualitative, not quantitative - where swing voters, Trump-Biden voters seem to buy the idea that Putin would n’t have done this in Trump was president, how does the Democratic Party answer for that ? MSNBC'S CHUCK TODD SHOCKED BY BAD ECONOMIC POLLING, CLAIMS AMERICANS ‘ DO N’T FEEL FIRST WORLD ENOUGH' Todd then went out of his way to vocally reject the notion voters believe about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis.

If there's one thing that surprised me about the president's State of the Union, it was the lack of connecting the fight for democracy and freedom abroad with the fight for democracy and freedom at home. Today's Bloody Sunday, were you surprised?

The Republicans have been running on, ‘There’s a liberal bias in the media,’ if you say something long enough, there are liberals who say there’s a liberal bias in the media when you see polling now.

We had a robust debate about taxes, that’s the debate, the debate is what do you do this.

We’re not going to debate climate change, the existence of it. The Earth is getting hotter. And human activity is a major cause, period. We’re not going to give time to climate deniers. The science is settled, even if political opinion is not.

It sounds like you’re trying to put an asterisk on the 2020 election which only feeds this conspiracy nonsense that is wrecking this country, why did we have what we had here a year ago was this conspiratorial nonsense that leads people to the idea that there was something to this. There was nothing to this.

Andrew Cuomo career was either permanently over or almost permanently over, and Andrew Cuomo chose the path of almost permanently over, look, I expect in my lifetime, Andrew Cuomo, to probably run for office again. What that office is, I don't know. But that's what this resignation tells me today.