Posted on 10/05/2008 7:56:08 PM PDT by epow
ASHINGTON — The following is a partial transcript of the Oct. 5, 2008, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: With one month till Election Day, the national polls are interesting, but political insiders are focusing on the electoral map, especially on the battleground states.
For more, we're joined by master strategist and Fox News contributor Karl Rove.
And welcome back to "FOX News Sunday."
ROVE: Good to be here.
WALLACE: Let's start with the latest Rove electoral map out just this weekend. Let's put it up on the screen.
Karl, you have Obama continuing to make gains. He's now leading in states with 273 electoral votes, three more than he needs to be elected president. McCain leads in states with 163 electoral votes in 102 states. Those in yellow are still toss-ups. What stands out here?
ROVE: Well, first of all, in the last several days, new polls — there have been 39 new state polls. We're now getting every week an avalanche of polls. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end we aren't getting more than 100 state polls a week. Related
In the last few days, we've seen Minnesota flip from undecided or toss-up to Obama, and we've also seen New Hampshire with its four electoral votes similarly follow into the Obama camp.
The race is also tightening in — with some states that are critical, with states for McCain to win. Ohio and Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, and Virginia, Florida...
WALLACE: Let me...
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Frankly I'm worried, very worried. This is beginning to look like 1996 and Bob Dole all over again, except that if Omama wins it will be a much worse disaster than Clinton being elected to a 2nd term in 96 because he was kept somewhat in check by Gingrich and a Republican majority Congress. But if Obama wins he will have Reid & Pelosi backing up his agenda with a Democrat majority Congress, and possibly with a filibuster proof Democrat Senate majority.
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Why do I get the feeling Rove isn’t too keen on McCain winning ? It isn’t anything specific he said, but just everything he’s been saying lately.
These polls are ALL wrong. Palin is bringing out EVERYONE for her events.....she is going to win it for McCain.
It’s not over ‘til it’s over.
Rove made some good points of what McCain needs to do:
“Well, you have - you have to do two things, and that’s why it’s difficult, because you have to do two things, not one thing.
One is you have to talk about character, values and views of Obama in a way that people consider to be fair and relevant. And second of all, the McCain-Palin ticket needs to give voters a positive agenda so that the people who are concerned about his - Obama’s qualifications have something to hang their hat on.”
Why worry over polls? There isn’t anything we can do about them. All you can do is go vote and see what happens.
Unless you have money to make a contribution or time to volunteer, then by all means go ahead and work for the campaign. Worrying doesn’t help anything.
Okay, Karl, tell us how well you did in 2006 when YOU LOST BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS and pissed away the conservative base.
Tell us how you would have spun the $700 billion giveaway to the DNC’s money-men on Wall Street.
Or how you mastered the Dubya Cringe where, every time the media yells at you, you curl up in the fetal position and whine “Please like me...”
Which is exactly what the McCain camp hasbeen doing, Karl, so what’s not to like?
Taking Geography lessions from Obama?
Because it is a fact and you can take it to the bank. He also was pushing Romney for VP along with Bush and Cheney. Do I believe they don't appreciate Gov Palin being the GOP pick for VP? You betcha I do. Kathleen Parker was also a Romneybot for what it is worth. If Rove said the sky is blue, I would go check. His electoral map is garbage IMHO!
I agree with plenty of what you said above - However, this is garbage - Say anything you wish about POTUS GWB (and VP Cheney for that matter) but neither of them care what the MSM thinks of them. At all. And neither particularly care at all for meida itself and what it can be used for. That is obvious.
I’m concerned. But, we did come into this knowing we were the dark horse. In fact, it looked much more bleak in March than it does now.
Gov. Palin has brought us some hope, but she’s not a miracle worker. And I do believe that even if we lose, we haven’t seen the last of her on the National front, not by a long shot.
Yeah, I’d like to see Rove handling strategy and Rollins handle attacks. I, especially, like reading and listening to Rove.
No, he wants the republicans to win he just doesn’t know if McCain can do it! However I do not take to much from polls this year.. In a normal year yes I would be worried. But with Barry running 6% nationally when he should be up 15% or 20%. I don’t think Obubba is goin to win!
I have the feeling that we will learn from history not yet written, that Bush & Co. had a method to their madness, even if I did disagree and flip out into a rage over it sometimes.
Bush does hold his cards close to his chest, no doubt.
With all due respect, it wasn't Rove that pissed away the conservative base. It was Gingrich, DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Livingston, Ted Stevens, Arlen Spector, Lindsay Graham, and the disgusting attempt by Republicans to out-pork, out-take, and out-Bush-Bash the Democrats.
The Republicans imploded from a lack of any ability to show fiscal or personal restraint. They let 10 years of being in charge go to their heads, and they were their own worst enemy.
If you can show me where Rove was leading investigations trying to equate panties on prisoner's heads at Abu Ghraib with electric leads to the testicles, inserting earmarks into legislation, taking bribes, and resigning his position rather than fight the charges, then I'll retract my remarks.
Can you show ME where Rove was leading the charge, trying to defend my brothers in arms from being called murderers by Murtha & Co., explaining why Agents Ramos & Campeon are behind bars for performing their duties, and justifying the flood of undocumented migrant citizens (some of them Muslim terrorists) across our open southern border?
Ramos and Compeon have only themselves to blame for not following basic procedure. I don’t see them as heroes, but incompetant.
And Bush (at the direction of his "brain," Rove?) was rubber-stamping every piece of pork shoveled his way by the Republican Congress. He finished the job his father started, that of gutting the Reagan Revolution and sabotaging the Republican Party.
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