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Stealing Texas

The Democrats' efforts to turn Texas blue, Battle Ground Texas, has gone full ACORN.

This week we learned election workers in San Antonio engaged in voter intimidation. 

According to the San Antonio Express-News, two election workers were chastised for steering Hispanic voters to vote Democrat during this week's early 2014 primary voting:

"Two election workers at a Southwest Side polling site were chastised this week after Hispanic Republican voters complained the workers attempted to steer them to the Democratic primary.

Republican officials said one GOP voter claimed she was told Hispanics are supposed to vote Democrat.

[. . .]

Bexar County GOP Chairman Robert Stovall said the GOP received two complaints from Collins Garden, one from the Hispanic woman who claimed she was told 'you are a Hispanic, you're not a Republican.'"

In a written statement dated February 26, 2014, Chairman Stovall made the election workers' misconduct sound much worse than did the Express-News:

"Two days ago we had three separate instances of VOTER INTIMIDATION at the Collin Gardens here in Bexar County where Hispanic voters who asked for Republican primary ballots, but were being pushed Democrats ballots because they were Hispanics.  This unfairly stereotypes all Hispanic voters as being Democrat, when clearly there are not.  There are many Hispanic Republican voters and Hispanic vote who wish to vote a more Conservative option.

This intimidation is just another ACORN tactic used by Battle Ground Texas."

There are plenty of Hispanics in Texas who support conservatives. One organization looking out for their interests is the LIBRE Initiative, which has jumped on this story. Daniel Garza, Executive Director of The LIBRE Initiative released the following statement:

"The nonpartisan officials charged with protecting the integrity of the election process must not politicize it. This is a fundamental rule of our democracy. American Hispanics hold a diversity of views. They don't belong to just one political party. It's insulting and patronizing to act as if they do, and to try to tell them to line up behind candidates who don't reflect their views or advance their interests.

Elections are about the choices of individual Americans. If we can't count on election officials themselves to respect those choices, there are serious problems. The LIBRE Initiative recognizes the diversity of thought withing the Hispanic community, and continues to be committed to advancing those principles."

In the Express-News report, the voter intimidation is downplayed by Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen. He called it "an isolated but regrettable incident."

Is that all it is? 

In his statement, Chairman Stovall pointed to the "misappropriation" of voter information by deputy registrars working in Bexar County as Battle Ground Texas employees. That's a reference to Jessica Longoria, a Deputy Voter registrar in Bexar County, admissions on video that she and her paid Battleground Texas staff took data from new voter registration forms. You can watch Langoria's admissions in the following video:

As Stovall states, "It appears Texas laws were broken" by this malfeasance and flagrant abuse of personal information collected under the guise of registering voters.  Stovall has asked for a "full investigation into the facts is necessary to reassure the public as to the integrity of the registration process." He has also filed a complaint with the Texas Secretary of State.

I tend to credit Stovall's voter intimidation concerns.

After all, the Romney campaign had to request an investigation into potential election fraud in Virginia because of the shenanigans of the DC-based Voter Participation Center which mailed voter-registration forms to deceased relatives, children, and even pets.

Also in the 2012 presidential election the Colorado Secretary of State's Office investigated complaints that voting machines switched votes from Romney to Obama.

And there was the voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party members in 2012 and 2008.

Then there was the voter fraud practiced by ACORN in the 2008 presidential campaign in Ohio, Indiana and other states.

Hopefully, someday the lefties who say that voter ID laws and other anti-fraud measures are not necessary will be overcome by all the evidence of voter fraud and other instances of ineligible voting.

Grimes Leads McConnell 46 to 42

A new Herald-Leader/WKYT Bluegrass Poll, conducted by SurveyUSA, finds Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes leading Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell 46 percent to 42 percent among registered voters.

The four-point lead  is within the Bluegrass Poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. 

In the May 20, 2014 primary battle, McConnell leads his Republican challenger Matt Bevin, 55 percent to 29 percent margin among registered Republicans. But Bevin does almost as well as McConnell against Grimes, trailing her by five points — 43 percent to 38 percent. That is within the poll's 4.9 percent margin of error for the primary.

Bevin, hasn't gained any traction, despite support from some TEA Party groups. Only 10 percent have a favorable view of Bevin, while 17 percent have an unfavorable view. That leaves three-fourths of  the voters are neutral or have no opinion of Bevin.

In the most troubling sign for McConnell, the poll finds his job-approval rating was two points below the 34 percent approval rating the poll found for President Obama. Both have a disapproval rating of 60 percent.

McConnell trails Grimes badly among women, 49 percent to 37 percent, and those 18-to-34 by 43 percent to 34 percent. Among self identified Moderates, 55 percent have an unfavorable view of McConnell, compared with 15 percent for Grimes.

Stephen Voss, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky, says this race is up for grabs:

"This new poll confirms that Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat is up for grabs, and that the contest here will be one of the most exciting in the country. The voters are evenly divided right now, and so many of them are still making up their minds that the contest could swing in any direction.

[. . .]

People who think McConnell is doomed because of his high negativity ratings are probably reading too much into the numbers. Many of the Kentuckians criticizing McConnell are conservative Republicans unhappy with the sorts of compromises he's been making as a Senate leader, not the sort of voters who would be willing to send President Obama another vote in the Senate. The only way most of those voters are likely to help Grimes is if they stayed home on Election Day, denying McConnell sufficient support from his party base."

This may be a close election, but November is a long way off. 

ObamaCare will cost America more than two million jobs

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued a report this morning that finds ObamaCare will cost America roughly 2.5 million jobs through 2024.

According to the Wall Street Journal's Damian Paletta, the "rolling impact of the law will lead to 2 million fewer workers in 2017, 2.3 million in 2021 and 2.5 million through 2024." That will  represent a 1.5% to 2.0% reduction in the numbers of hours worked.

At the Washington Times, Stephen Dinan reports that this is "a major jump" in the CBO's projections and suggests ObamaCare's incentives are "driving businesses and people to choose government-sponsored benefits rather than work." In other words, businesses are cutting jobs due to ObamaCare regulations, and the fact that the Obama-economy, thanks in part to ObamaCare, will force millions of Americans to leave the workforce.

According to Dinan, the CBO also said that the inept ObamaCare roll out will result in only six million people signing up through the state-based exchanges, rather than the seven million the CBO originally projected.

I wonder how the Obamacrats are going to spin this one? Trying to convince everyone there is a difference between "people leaving the workforce" and "costing jobs" isn't going to cut it. It's desperate.

Majority believe Obama policies will fail

A new CNN/ORC poll released Monday, found that a majority of Americans -- 56 percent, now think Obama's policies are likely to fail in coming years. According to the new CNN poll, only 37 percent think Obama's policies will succeed will succeed.

The finding is a reversal from a year ago when CNN polling found 54 percent that President Obama's policies would succeed, while 39 percent thought they would fail. 

This is the result of Obama's governing incompetence being so clearly highlighted by the continuing ObamaCare implementation train wreck. 

This terrible news for Obama follows the recent Washington Post-ABC News poll that found that only 37 percent of Americans are confident that President Obama will make the right decisions for the country’s future, while 63 percent are not. And the CNN/ORC poll that found 53 percent of Americans believe that President Obama is "not honest and trustworthy." And another CNN poll that found that even the Obama base is turning against ObamaCare.

These awful poll results are also influenced by Obama's "broken ObamaCare promises," one of which earned him a lie of the year award. You can watch a compilation of Obama's broken ObamaCare promises in the following video:

In Super Bowl Interview Obama backs away from fundamentally transforming America

Image credit: FoxNews 

"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008

In his Super Bowl Interview with Bill O'Reilly yesterday, President Obama finally backed away from his infamously radically extreme comment about "fundamentally transforming the United States of America. In an exchange at the end of the interview Obama denied that he thinks "we" have to fundamentally America:

O'REILLY: "Mr. President, why do you feel it's necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity and success?"

OBAMA: I don't think we have to fundamentally transform the nation...

O'REILLY: But those are your words.

OBAMA: I think that what we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. Bill, you and I benefitted from this incredible country of ours, in part, because there were good jobs out there that paid a good wage, because you had public schools that functioned well, that we could get scholarships if we didn't come from a wealthy family, in order to go to college.

O'REILLY: Right.

OBAMA: That, you know, if you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care...

O'REILLY: They're cutting me off...

OBAMA: -- and for a lot of folks, we don't have that. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class...

O'REILLY: All right...

OBAMA: -- and work hard and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.

You can watch the exchange in the following video, beginning at the 8:43 mark:

So why would Obama, after five years, finally back away from his radical fundamentally changing America remark?

Has he decided, as George Will suggested Obama should in his excellent 2012 "Obama: the real radical" column,  to finally take a "first step toward accommodation with a country increasingly concerned about his unmasked determination to 'transform' what the Founders considered 'fundamentals?'"

Or, as I think more likely, has Obama surveyed the fundamental transformation he has already wreaked, considered the 2014 political outlook and decided his radicalism has gone as far as it now can?

In that October 1, 2013, "Obama: Transforming America" column linked above, Victor Davis Hanson discusses how much Obama has succeeded in transforming the United States in many areas including:

• Federal Spending;
• Taxes and Debt;
• Health Care;
• Interest Rates;
• The Presidency, with regard to scandals -- the Benghazi Deception, the IRS Scandal, the NSA Disclosures, the AP Monitoring and Fast and Furious;
• Politics;
• Energy;
• Race;
• Illegal Immigration;
• Foreign policy; and 
• Guns.

O'Reilly's interview has been called tense and contentious.  I didn't see it that way. What I saw was a well-prepared Obama smoothly pivoting on every question to his talking points. He made O'Reilly look bad. 

On the ObamaCare roll out train wreck: 

OBAMA: Well, I think we all anticipated there would be glitches, because any time you've got technology, a new program rolling out, there are going to be some glitches. I don't think I anticipated or anybody anticipated the degree of the problems with the Web site. And...

On not firing Kathleen Sebelius:

OBAMA: Yes, well, I -- I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable. But when we're...

And that was after several talking points putting a positive spin on ObamaCare's horrendous numbers.

On the political lie of the year, Obama's oft repeated, if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance:

OBAMA: -- you were very generous in saying I look pretty good considering I've been in the presidency for five years. And I think part of the reason is, I try to focus not on the fumbles, but on the next plan.

O'Reilly tried the hardest on Benghazi. If any part of the interview was contentious, it was Benghazi. Still I think Obama kept the upper hand:

OBAMA: -- Bill, listen, I -- I -- I've gone through this and we have had multiple hearings on it. What happens is you have an attack like this taking place and you have a mix of folks who are just troublemakers. You have folks who have an ideological agenda.

O'REILLY: All right.

OBAMA: You have some who are affiliated with terrorist organizations. You have some that are not. But the main thing that all of us have to take away from this is our diplomats are serving in some very dangerous places.

Then there was the politicization of the IRS:

O'REILLY: But no mass corruption?

OBAMA: Not even mass corruption, not even a smidgen of corruption, I would say.

All in all a good but mild interview for Obama; which is itself a fundamental transformation for the man who hoped to tame the oceans and change the world.

You can read the entire transcript below:

BILL O'REILLY: Mr. President, thank you for doing this.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Great to be with you.

O'REILLY: Really appreciate it.

I want to get some things on the record.

So let's begin with health care.

OBAMA: Yes?

O'REILLY: October 1st it rolls out.

OBAMA: Right.

O'REILLY: Immediately, there are problems with the computers.

OBAMA: Right.

O'REILLY: When did you know there were going to be problems with those computers?

OBAMA: Well, I think we all anticipated there would be glitches, because any time you've got technology, a new program rolling out, there are going to be some glitches. I don't think I anticipated or anybody anticipated the degree of the problems with the Web site. And...

O'REILLY: So you just didn't know when it rolled out that this was going to be...

OBAMA: Well, I don't think...

O'REILLY: -- a problem?

OBAMA: -- as I said, I don't think anybody anticipated the degree of problems that you had on HealthCare.gov. The good news is that right away, we decided how are we going to fix it, it got fixed within a month and a half, it was up and running and now it's working the way it's supposed to and we've signed up three million people.

O'REILLY: I don't know about that, because last week, there was an Associated Press call of people who actually went to the Web site and only 8 percent of them feel that it's working well, working well.

Why didn't you fire Sebelius, the secretary in charge of this...

OBAMA: (INAUDIBLE).

O'REILLY: -- because I mean she had to know, after all those years and all that money, that it wasn't going to work?

OBAMA: You know, my main priority right now is making sure that it delivers for the American people. And what we...

O'REILLY: You're not going to answer that?

OBAMA: -- what -- what we've ended up doing is we've got three million people signed up so far. We're about a month behind of where we anticipated we wanted to be. We've got over six million people who have signed up for Medicaid.

O'REILLY: Yes.

OBAMA: We've got three million young people under the age of 26 who have signed up on their parents' plan. And so what we're constantly figuring out is how do we continue to improve it, how do we make sure that the folks who don't have health insurance can get health insurance...

O'REILLY: OK...

OBAMA: -- and those who are underinsured are able to get better health insurance.

O'REILLY: I'm sure -- I'm sure that the intent is noble, but I'm a taxpayer.

OBAMA: Yes.

O'REILLY: And I'm paying Kathleen Sebelius' salary and she screwed up.

OBAMA: Yes.

O'REILLY: And you're not holding her accountable.

OBAMA: Yes, well, I -- I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable. But when we're...

O'REILLY: But she's still there.

OBAMA: -- when we're in midstream, Bill, we want to make sure that our main focus is how do we make this thing work so that people are able to sign up?

And that's what we've done.

O'REILLY: All right.

Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over, if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance?

OBAMA: Oh, Bill, you've got a long list of my mistakes of my presidency...

O'REILLY: But, no, really, for you...

OBAMA: -- as I've (INAUDIBLE)...

O'REILLY: -- wasn't that the biggest one?

OBAMA: But this is -- this is one that I regret and I've said I regretted, in part because we put in a grandfather clause in the original law saying that, in fact, you were supposed to be able to keep it. It obviously didn't cover everybody that we needed to and that's why we changed it, so that we further grandfathered in folks and many people who thought originally, when they got that cancellation notice, they couldn't keep it or not (INAUDIBLE)...

O'REILLY: It's in the past. But isn't that the...

OBAMA: So...

O'REILLY: -- biggest mistake?

OBAMA: Well, I, you know, Bill, as I said...

O'REILLY: You gave your enemies...

OBAMA: You...

O'REILLY: -- a lot of fodder for it.

OBAMA: -- you were very generous in saying I look pretty good considering I've been in the presidency for five years. And I think part of the reason is, I try to focus not on the fumbles, but on the next plan.

O'REILLY: All right.

Libya, House Armed Services testimony, General Carter Ham, you know, the general?

OBAMA: Yes. Right.

O'REILLY: Security in Africa.

OBAMA: Yes.

O'REILLY: He testified that on the day that the ambassador was murdered and the three other Americans, all right, he told Secretary Panetta it was a terrorist attack. Shortly after Ham, General Ham, said that, Secretary Panetta came in to you.

OBAMA: Yes.

O'REILLY: Did he tell you, Secretary Panetta, it was a terrorist attack?

OBAMA: You know what he told me was that there was an attack on our compound...

O'REILLY: He didn't tell you...

OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE)...

O'REILLY: -- he didn't use the word "terror?"

OBAMA: You know, in -- in the heat of the moment, Bill, what folks are focused on is what's happening on the ground, do we have eyes on it, how can we make sure our folks are secure...

O'REILLY: Because I just want to get this on the record...

OBAMA: So, I...

O'REILLY: -- did he tell you it was a terror attack?

OBAMA: Bill -- and what I'm -- I'm answering your question. What he said to me was, we've got an attack on our compound. We don't know yet...

O'REILLY: No terror attack?

OBAMA: -- we don't know yet who's doing it. Understand, by definition, Bill, when somebody is attacking our compound...

O'REILLY: Yes?

OBAMA: -- that's an act of terror, which is how I characterized it the day after it happened. So the -- so the question ends up being who, in fact, was attacking us?

O'REILLY: But it's more than that...

OBAMA: And that...

O'REILLY: -- though...

OBAMA: -- well, we...

O'REILLY: -- because of Susan Rice.

OBAMA: No, it...

O'REILLY: It's more than that because if Susan Rice goes out and tells the world that it was a spontaneous demonstration...

OBAMA: Bill...

O'REILLY: -- off a videotape but your...

OBAMA: Bill...

O'REILLY: -- your commanders and the secretary of Defense know it's a terror attack...

OBAMA: Now, Bill...

O'REILLY: Just...

OBAMA: -- Bill...

O'REILLY: -- as an American...

OBAMA: -- Bill -- Bill...

O'REILLY: -- I'm just confused.

OBAMA: And I'm -- and I'm trying to explain it to, if you want to listen. The fact of the matter is is that people understood, at the time, something very dangerous was happening, that we were focused on making sure that we did everything we can -- could -- to protect them. In the aftermath, what became clear was that the security was lax, that not all the precautions and -- that needed to be taken were taken and both myself and Secretary Clinton and others indicated as much.

But at the moment, when these things happen, Bill, on the other side of the world, people...

O'REILLY: It's the fog of war...

OBAMA: -- people -- that's -- people don't know at the very moment exactly why something like this happens. And when you look at the videotape of this whole thing unfolding, this is not some systematic, well organized process. You see...

O'REILLY: Well, it was heavy weapons used...

OBAMA: -- you...

O'REILLY: -- and that...

OBAMA: -- what you...

O'REILLY: -- that's the thing...

OBAMA: -- what you see -- Bill...

O'REILLY: -- heavy weapons coming in.

OBAMA: -- Bill, listen, I -- I -- I've gone through this and we have had multiple hearings on it. What happens is you have an attack like this taking place and you have a mix of folks who are just troublemakers. You have folks who have an ideological agenda.

O'REILLY: All right.

OBAMA: You have some who are affiliated with terrorist organizations. You have some that are not. But the main thing that all of us have to take away from this is our diplomats are serving in some very dangerous places.

O'REILLY: But there's more...

OBAMA: And we've got...

O'REILLY: -- there's more than that...

OBAMA: -- and we've got -- and we've got to make sure that not only have we implemented all the reforms that were recommended...

O'REILLY: OK.

OBAMA: -- by the independent agency...

O'REILLY: I...

OBAMA: -- but we also have to make sure that we understand our folks out there are in a hazardous, dangerous situation...

O'REILLY: I think everybody understands that...

OBAMA: -- and we...

O'REILLY: -- Mr. President.

OBAMA: No, but -- but, actually, not everybody does, because what ends up happening...

O'REILLY: I think they do.

OBAMA: -- what ends up happening is we end up creating a political agenda...

O'REILLY: Absolutely...

OBAMA: -- over something...

O'REILLY: -- and that's...

OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE)...

O'REILLY: -- that was my next question.

OBAMA: -- which Democrats and Republicans should be unified in trying to figure out how are we going to protect people (INAUDIBLE)?

O'REILLY: I've got to get to the IRS...

OBAMA: OK.

O'REILLY: -- but I just want to say that they're -- your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn't want that out.

OBAMA: Bill, think about...

O'REILLY: That's what they believe.

OBAMA: -- and they believe it because folks like you are telling them that.

O'REILLY: No, I'm not telling them that.

(LAUGHTER)

O'REILLY: I'm asking you whether you were told...

OBAMA: But -- and what I'm saying is...

O'REILLY: -- it was a terror attack and you...

OBAMA: -- and what I'm saying is that is inaccurate.

O'REILLY: All right.

OBAMA: We -- we revealed to the American people exactly what we understood at the time. The notion that we would hide the ball for political purposes when, a week later, we all said, in fact, there was a terrorist attack taking place the day after, I said it was an act of terror, that wouldn't be a very good cover-up...

O'REILLY: All right.

OBAMA: -- if that's what we were interested in.

O'REILLY: I've got to get to the IRS...

OBAMA: Yes.

O'REILLY: -- because I don't know what happened there and I'm hoping maybe you can tell us. Douglas Shulman, former IRS chief, he was cleared into the White House 157 times, more than any of your cabinet members, more than any other IRS guy in the history, by far.

OK, why was Douglas Shulman here 157 times?

Why?

OBAMA: Mr. Shulman, as the head of the IRS, is constantly coming in, because at the time, we were trying to set up the, uh, HealthCare.gov and the IRS...

O'REILLY: What did he have to do with that?

OBAMA: -- and the IRS is involved in making sure that that works as part of the overall health care team.

O'REILLY: So it was all health care?

OBAMA: Number two, we've also got the IRS involved when it comes to some of the financial reforms to make sure that we don't have taxpayer funded bailouts in the future. So you had all these different agendas in which the head of the IRS is naturally involved.

O'REILLY: Did you speak to him a lot...

OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE).

O'REILLY: -- yourself?

OBAMA: I do not recall meeting with him in any of these meetings that are pretty routine meetings that we had.

O'REILLY: OK, so you don't -- you don't recall seeing Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used...

OBAMA: Yes.

O'REILLY: -- at a -- at a local level in Cincinnati, and maybe other places to go after...

OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.

O'REILLY: -- to go after.

OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.

O'REILLY: But how do you know that, because we -- we still don't know what happened there?

OBAMA: Bill, we do -- that's not what happened. They -- folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this. I mean these kinds of things keep on surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them.

O'REILLY: But don't...

OBAMA: But when (INAUDIBLE)...

O'REILLY: -- think there are unanswered questions?

OBAMA: Bill, when you actually look at this stuff, there have been multiple hearings on it. What happened here was it that you've got a...

O'REILLY: But there's no definition on it.

OBAMA: -- you've got a 501(c)(4) law that people think is focusing. No -- that the folks did not know how to implement...

O'REILLY: OK...

OBAMA: -- because it basically says...

O'REILLY: -- so you're saying there was no...

OBAMA: -- if you are involved...

O'REILLY: -- no corruption there at all, none?

OBAMA: That's not what I'm saying.

O'REILLY: (INAUDIBLE).

OBAMA: That's actually...

O'REILLY: No, no, but I want to know what...

OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE)...

O'REILLY: -- you're saying. You're the leader of the country.

OBAMA: Absolutely.

O'REILLY: You're saying no corruption?

OBAMA: No.

O'REILLY: None?

No?

OBAMA: There were some -- there were some bone-headed decisions...

O'REILLY: Bone-headed decisions...

OBAMA: -- out of -- out of a local office...

O'REILLY: But no mass corruption?

OBAMA: Not even mass corruption, not even a smidgeon of corruption, I would say.

O'REILLY: OK. I got a letter from Kathy LaMaster (ph), Fresno, California. I said I would read one letter from the folks, all right?

OBAMA: All right.

O'REILLY: "Mr. President, why do you feel it's necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity and success?"

OBAMA: I don't think we have to fundamentally transform the nation...

O'REILLY: But those are your words.

OBAMA: I think that what we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. Bill, you and I benefitted from this incredible country of ours, in part, because there were good jobs out there that paid a good wage, because you had public schools that functioned well, that we could get scholarships if we didn't come from a wealthy family, in order to go to college.

O'REILLY: Right.

OBAMA: That, you know, if you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care...

O'REILLY: They're cutting me off...

OBAMA: -- and for a lot of folks, we don't have that. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class...

O'REILLY: All right...

OBAMA: -- and work hard and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.

O'REILLY: I think -- I -- you know, I know you think maybe we haven't been fair, but I think your heart is in the right place.

Projection for the game -- who's going to win the Super Bowl?

OBAMA: I can't make a prediction. I don't know. These guys are too evenly matched. I think it is going to be 24-21, but I don't know who's going to be...

O'REILLY: You don't really know?

OBAMA: -- 24 and I don't know who's going to be 21.

O'REILLY: Mr. President, thanks very much.

OBAMA: I enjoyed it.

Thank you.