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And more americans realize that. you will see a change. especially in the americans of hispanic descent. >> greta: why have the democrats been able to connect, get their convincing message to the hispanic community than the republicans? if you look at the poll numbers now, between 2008 and now, its up 6 points, give or take in the polls, favoring the democrats more than in 08. so what happened. >> a couple of things. it wasnt that long ago that george w. bush did very well among hispanic america...

North carolina. were going to work hard there, work across the board. its naturally a red state. i think 08 was an anomaly in north carolina but doesnt mean we dont have to roll up our sleeves, do our work and do a turnout program on absentee ballots and get our job done there, whether its the economy and other issues that hamper the president in north carolina, were going to do pretty well. >> reince priebus, thanks for coming on. are we in for another summer of wild swings on wall street? co...

And george w. bush. the irony is that its the opposite. >> you have that record on the one hand, the romney record we dont know exactly what his policies would be, but you can see why he wants to push back because there we do have something, and he said 08% of the companies they invested in had growth in revenue. that was coming from bain itself. not growth in employment. and it also didnt say what happened after bain got rid of those companies. so its possible they goosed up the revenues in the...

>> simply put, that does move. no number is a fixed number. for example, in florida, in 2004, there was a net republican advantage in terms of the exit polls. in 08, a net democratic advantage. so right now we looked at registered voters in theses reg five-point edge. later down the line well look at likely voters. that may show a narrowing gap, which probably would have had we looked at that at this point. likely voters tend to edge republican a little more. i thinks that the kind of dynamic we...

Standards into the schools. and now the republicans seem to want to abandon only the most interesting parts of the bush legacy. you know? >> the, you know, education, right? barack obama is probably the first democratic president to seriously tick off the teachers unions on big issues. this is not an issue where he is a traditional democrat, right? theyve embraced race to the top, accountability, charters, right? hes in some sense legitimateized that for all democrats in the country. it struck m...

Then it is a quest to win two traditional battleground states, ohio and florida. both of you voted red for bush cheney in 04 and turned blue for obama. redistricting cost ohio 2 electorial votes. florida picked up two. they add up to 47 electorial votes. if romney prevails in florida and ohio and takes back the three red states we mentioned earlier he has to poach from the obama-biden column one of these eight states. half of them as you can see voted for bush cheney before turning blue in 08. j...

With me now, politicos jonathan martin. start wit ads, because in many ways it sort of tells us a little of the story of wheres, where theres talk about the battleground and where theyre actually putting, you know, walking the walk. the one state that seems to be the exception, wisconsin. everybody is ignoring wisconsin now. >> for now. the count ends in early june. youll see both sides playing. people forget this. wisconsin, 2004, very, very close race between bush and less than 50,000 votes be...

Plan is to do exactly what john mccain would not let us do. another quote, we recommend hitting barak right between the eyes. that speaks right to what maria was talking about with the super pacs. >> once again he has been president for the last three and a half years. but if they talk about reverend wright, you foe, during the last campaign in 08, there were own 10,000 articles written about reverend wright. what more is there to know this is. >> maria, i think that what we are trying to deal w...

Obamas campaign message. karen, susan and jimmy, well get into the merits and lack thereof of private equity and capital and capitalism a little later when peter shiff is heard, but in the meantime, politics is as clean as politics can be, and you have to have your guys saying the right stuff, dont you, jimmy? >> well -- >> its not fun if they dont say the right stuff. >> if you cant say anything nice, keep your mouth shut, right? thats what my mama used to say. look, when youre a surrogate for ...

Bitter. when they first said in the campaign in 08 that were not going to have any lobbyists, i thought, i dont hate them. they represent people and interests. they were not doing anything untoward. plus, when you release those visitor log, its not like every lobbyist is walking into the oval office. a lot of people, for example, if theyre in the financial business, they might meet with those of the financial and business committee to have their input. i never thought it was a good idea to demon...