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Helping the presidents case. it seems to me he had a career as a credible federal prosecutor. >> are you saying hes no longer going to be known as credible? >> he may be known as something else now. this is part of the challenge. >> he showed his true -- like the way he wanted to tip himself was when he was a surrogate for the president. >> hes already a different guy than he was in 08. >> oh, yeah. >> i dont agree hes helped objectively. theyve driven muellers numbers down a bit. >> p.r.-wise, ...

It certainly changed the way that candidates communicated with their base. it changed the way we thought about how we could communicate and influence candidates. >> one of the most enduring images of campaign 08 is this one of barack obama. >> that barack obama image, its here, there, everywhere it seems this year. >> when i met obama, he said, "i love this image, and how did you get it spread around so fast?" >> seeing the hope poster as a digital phenomenon was pretty amazing. it really made m...

Presidential elections. >> candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. >> while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. >> the obama campaign happened around the time when social media was experiencing a coming of age. >> barack obama created the movement behin...

Magazines, the greatest turn around in american history. anybody who goes on a google machine can see that you showed part that the economy 08 was here. went up and then it has been a steady, slow, gradual, economic increase. thats good news. but its good news from bush to obama to trump. >> sure. we can show that in the context of jobs f you want. so trump talks about all the jobs hes created. 3.5 million. but lets put that in some context and compare the last 18 months of obama where he create...

>> nancy began locking important papers, including the girls passports in her car. >> in february of 08, and it was awful. i had never seen nancy stressed out before. i had never seen her raise her voice in the house, and she was just miserable. >> miserable, stressed. each day uncertain. a painful struggle. an angry contest. >> she said this is just, i think, a game to show me how difficult its going to be. its his attempt to force me back into this relationship. >> then, as nancy was preparing...

That the economic policies of true conservatism and capitalism really bringing people to a point of liberty, where they were not forever completely enslaved to their group but they were looked at as individuals to. me this is the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals. liberals believe youre in a group, stay in your group, dont leave your group. if your group does okay, you are okay. conservatives believe our liberty is individual, god-given to each person. there are no limits...

It a shot. mark: and george w. bush was difficult? >> you never could get to him, he had such a palace guard, and great people, but they protected him and for them everything was whether it was good for him politically, not whether or not it was actually good in the policies of the state. mark: and then you decided at some point to run for president. >> that was a brilliant idea, wasnt it, mark, turned out well. mark: well, you know what? 2012. >> yep. mark: was rather bruising, the republican p...

Difficult? >> you never could get to him, he had such a palace guard, and great people, but they protected him and for them everything was whether it was good for him politically, not whether or not it was actually good in the policies of the state. mark: and then you decided at some point to run for president. >> that was a brilliant idea, wasnt it, mark, turned out well. mark: well, you know what? 2012. >> yep. mark: was rather bruising, the republican primary. what happened then? >> well, tha...

Primary. >> i was the runner-up to mccain in 08. on a dime to the dollar of what mccain and mitt romney had. mark: and 2016, a big field. >> yeah. mark: one of the things i noticed during that primary was you never took a shot at trump. >> no. mark: you ran on your message and that was pretty much it. why was that? >> first of all, donald trump was not my enemy. he was not even really my opponent. i looked at it that one of us on the stage was going to face hillary clinton. i thought id be the r...

True conservatism and capitalism really bringing people to a point of liberty, where they were not forever completely enslaved to their group but they were looked at as individuals to. me this is the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals. liberals believe youre in a group, stay in your group, dont leave your group. if your group does okay, you are okay. conservatives believe our liberty is individual, god-given to each person. there are no limits except the limits im willing ...