Cokie Roberts talks politics

 1 On media bias and the Obama campaign:

“The most disciplined campaign that I have ever seen in the history of campaigns.  They didn’t give us anything much to criticize … The other thing that was interesting about this campaign — I don’t think they cared that much about the media. ... All they were interested in was new media and new technology.”

2 On reshaping of the electoral map:

“You look at the youth vote — and of course we’ve been talking about the youth vote all year — and how they were all going to turn out and all that. But that didn’t happen. The percentage of young people voting was no different. The big difference was how they voted, and they voted overwhelmingly ... for Barack Obama. ... And generally if somebody votes for the same party for two elections in a row — that person stays with that party.”

3 On one-party government:

“The sin that is repeatedly committed by the party that has complete control of the Capital is the sin of overreaching. ... It happens, and then the voters in the next election say ‘Hold on, wait a minute, that’s not what we had in mind.’ And you get an election like we had in 1800 or in 1994. So it is actually to me a very exciting thing. It means that the system works.

• Coming up at the Chamber
  Boston Mayor Tom Menino will be the featured speaker at the Chamber’s Government Affairs Forum on Dec. 9, at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
  

Cokie Roberts, NPR’s senior news analyst and a senior political analyst for ABC News, was the featured speaker at yesterday’s Greater Boston Chamber Government Affairs Forum.