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Political Gabfest - Slate: Gabfest Live Questions

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of the Political Gabfest live inauguration special. John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz answer questions from the audience.


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0:00.0

All right, now to your questions. We have a microphone right there, and I suppose those of you up above can sing your question. But we're going to take questions to the three of us about...

0:15.2

Do people have to come up to the mic, or can they just raise their hands?

0:19.2

The mic, apparently, is the way to go.

0:21.5

About anything.

0:24.3

Or you can Blackberry us.

0:26.8

Come on down.

0:28.7

No questions that are too hard.

0:31.1

Right.

0:32.1

Okay, my name is William Bailey, and I'd like to ask all of you guys,

0:35.4

how long do you think the honeymoon will last?

0:37.4

How long does Obama have to get his agenda and the legislation he'd like to ask all of you guys, how long do you think the honeymoon will last? How long does Obama have to get his agenda

0:40.0

and the legislation he'd like to see passed through

0:42.7

before that window closes in which he has a chance to do that?

0:48.6

You're the Poloka comments.

0:50.9

I don't know.

0:51.5

You know, these poll numbers are extraordinary.

0:53.2

And what's interesting is, and so I've been occasionally accused of being obsessed by polls, except that I'm

1:01.0

only slightly less obsessed than the politicians he's going to be dealing with. And his numbers

1:05.5

are incredible on this specific question, which is people really are patient, as can be, about what they expect from him.

1:11.9

They think the next year is going to be worse than last year. They expect things to take a long

1:16.0

time to get right. But what they want from him and really want from Republicans and Democrats

1:21.8

and Congress is some sense that people are trying to get things done and not engaging in the old

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