Your Saturday forecast high 68 at Laughlin Bullhead City 69 Lake Havasu City 53 at Kingman mostly sunny 62 at Barstow and we'll take a quick look at our next four days.
There they go we'll see mostly sunny, partly cloudy skies each day. Sunday, Monday through Wednesday.
Temperatures will stay about 67 on Sunday back up to the lower mid 70s by Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday so a little bit milder weather in the forecast.
We'll see our overnight lows pushing back up to the 50s as well but still very dry forecast for us.
We'll get rid of these seasonally low temperatures and go a little closer to normal by midweek.
Hi I'm meteorologist Jason McLeve your Gold River Resort Hotel and Casino forecast.
Well showers and thunderstorms continue from the lakes down into the deep south of the Gulf Coast.
We'll see snow showers back up to our north and east in the forecast but things will stay pretty clear here.
Your Gold River Resort Hotel and Casino forecast 62 Ohio Barstow 68 at Laughlin Bullhead City 58 at Vegas 53 Kingman and 69 expected high temperature for Lake Havasu City.
We'll see mostly sunny, partly cloudy skies all the moisture should stay off to our north and to our east.
I'm Jason McLeve with your forecast.
Thank you.
Welcome back to Aviation News Today. I'm Spencer Dickerson. We're going to talk about presidential politics and congressional politics, and to do that we're pleased to have two of Washington's most respected insiders on politics in this town.
Bob Carr, former member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Michigan and past chairman of the House Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, and Ed Hamburger, who is a top staffer to Congressman Bud Schuster, the current chairman of the House Transportation Infrastructure Committee, and assistant secretary for government affairs in the last years of the Reagan administration. Gentlemen, welcome to Aviation News Today.
Let's first talk about presidential politics. We're two and a half weeks away from the election. The polls Clinton leads dull in the 15 to 19 percent range. Last year at this point Clinton led George Bush by 18 points, finished up winning the popular vote by 5 to 6 points.
We all know the only important poll is the one on November 5th, but let's talk about that margin, which is significant by any definition, the one that Clinton currently enjoys over dull. Ed, first to you, what has to happen in this election over the next two and a half weeks for Bob Dole to pull off the political upset of the century?
The political upset of the century might be a bit of an overstatement, but what has to happen is for people to start to focus on what this administration has been saying versus what it's been doing, including in the area of transportation where in putting people first, the president promised to create a Rebuild America fund, and one of the first things he did was put a 4.3 cent tax on gasoline and air fuel, aviation fuel, that didn't go to Rebuild America, it went to fund other programs.
It seems to me that the dull campaign needs to continue to hit away at the 15 percent tax cut. Obviously they're concentrating now on California with 54 electoral votes, and if that field poll is accurate and they're starting to get down now into the lower single digits, that to me is a major step forward.
Yesterday or this week, Roll Call, a very respected weekly newspaper in Washington, had the title of a story, GOP May Soon Dump Dole, quote unquote, try to save Congress. What's your reaction to that?
Well, I think that what you see in individual races is to take the phrase that Dick Morris coined, triangulation, where individual members, House and Senate members, are running their own campaign, all politics being local, as Tip O'Neill would say, and they're not tying themselves to the dull campaign and they're just running against the Democratic Congress.
Each member has to figure out how to get reelected in their own district or own state, and so I think you'll see some of that around the country.
Bob, we were talking a little bit beforehand. When you look at the poll, six out of ten voters today say they're happy with the economy. In 1992 at the same time, it was only three out of ten voters, so obviously the economy is stronger. But those polls also consistently suggest that Bob Dole is more honest and trustworthy than Bill Clinton in the minds of the voters.
What does that tell you? Is it telling us that the character doesn't matter for presidential politics anymore? It's just the economy, the pocketbook, how people feel about their own economic well-being?
Listen, I think there's a high degree of cynicism throughout the country for both parties and all candidates. For Dole and the Republicans to spend so much time and energy on the credibility issue when they are easily pricked themselves on the same issue, I think is a strategic error on the part of the Republicans in the Dole campaign.
It may be the only thing they're left with, and that's why they're doing it, but it is not going to move big numbers. I think that people do feel that the economy is well, that Clinton has performed admirably on both the economic and the foreign policy issues.