2014 Post-Election Special

Conversations with Bill Kristol

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🗓️ 11 November 2014

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This conversation features former senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and "Weekly Standard" political analyst and staff writer Jay Cost. In the first segment, Kristol, Abraham, and Cost analyze the results of the 2014 midterm elections, confronting myths advanced by the media and considering aspects that have gone underreported. In the second segment, Kristol, Abraham, and Cost assess the possible impact of the midterms on the open-seat presidential election in 2016.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, this is Bill Gristel. Welcome back to Conversations. I'm really pleased to be
0:18.6	joined today, three days after the election day 2014 with my old friend Spence Abraham, former senator from
0:26.2	Michigan, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party helped revitalize
0:31.1	it way back when we were younger and an old friend and
0:34.2	Jay Kost, a colleague from the Weekly Standard, a student of election, Spencer's a
0:38.0	student too, but you've run for office and been involved in them.
0:41.0	Jay has analyzed them both as an academic and a terrific
0:44.4	contributors to the weekly standard.
0:45.8	So thank you both for joining me.
0:47.9	So it's three days after this big Republican wave, and I think it was a pretty big wave, right?
0:53.0	I guess Republicans are one of the national vote by five points,
0:55.0	picked up what, eight or nine Senate seats, maybe a dozen,
0:58.0	plus House seats, control, I think 69 of 99 state legislative chambers now,
1:03.8	because of governorships.
1:06.4	I think most people would agree that,
1:09.0	about two things that contributed to it.
1:10.6	President Obama is unpopular,
1:12.4	and the Republican candidates on the whole didn't blow
1:14.7	themselves off.
1:16.8	Are those things right and what else should what know about what happened on Tuesday?
1:21.8	Well, let me start.
1:24.0	I think surely those are right.
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