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Is this final? >> i think it is. in greenes defense, if he did win, he would be a strong candidate for time magazine man of the year. >> yes. >> i think it is largely done. there are two separate issues. one is you cannot essentially reject a democratic election because the outcome is so bizarre. there has to be some credible allegation of fraud or misconduct or error. there were none as far as we could tell. so you have to live with the result. you cant reverse-engineer or work backward from a ...

>> well, i think it is. first of all, in greenes defense if he he did win he would be a strong candidate for "time" magazine man of the year. >> yes. >> i think it is largely done. theres two separate issues here. one is you cannot essentially reject a democratic election because the outcome is so bizarre. there has to be some kind of credible or substantiated allegation of fraud or misconduct or error, and there were none as far as we could tell. so you just have to live with the result. you ca...

Work backward from a strange outcome. that said, i think its worthwhile some investigation look at the voting software be conducted irrespective of greenes candidacy. >> what about the investigation into the filing fee and fec filings he didnt make? what happens to those? >> i think the fec will process the complaint. the fec notoriously takes forever. in 08 there were sanctions. usually what happens is an fec complaint is filed, they go through it and after the election there are fines or sanct...

Able to balance their budget having so many business owners and americans feeling alienated. >> its not move to your left, you also have to talk to your base. the reality is here. if you lose your base, you can forget the center. have you to shore up your base and the core voters, lew look at the elections in new york, new jersey, massachusetts, the people who put him in office were not coming back to the polls, so beyond the independents, his own folks are not there. that contributes to the low...

Louisiana voters think president george w. bush did a better job handling the aftermath of hurricane katrina than president obama has done in the wake of the bp oil spill. >> oh! >> sean: look at the numbers 50-35 it is only going to get worse as time goes on. >> you know who i think is going to be the hero when this is all said and done? bobby jindal. he has led with determination. he has showed himself to be absolutely a rock star. >> sean: hes a leader. >> hes not playing for the cameras. hes...

Louisiana voters think president george w. bush did a better job handling the aftermath of hurricane katrina than president obama has done in the wake of the bp oil spill. >> oh! >> sean: look at the numbers 50-35 it is only going to get worse as time goes on. >> you know who i think is going to be the hero when this is all said and done? bobby jindal. he has led with determination. he has showed himself to be absolutely a rock star. >> sean: hes a leader. >> hes not playing for the cameras. hes...

Believed. democratic candidates and arkansas with blanche lincoln up for a tough one. kentucky trying to knock off rand paul. and sestak and nevada where hes got harry reid, indiana, ohio, missouri, new hampshire, and washington state. your sense of where bubba would be strongest, michael smirkonish? >> if i controlled his calendar, id send him to pennsylvania, and id send him to indiana as well and i would send him in search of working class white voters, those who pull the obama lever and who ...

Working class white voters who are really reeling in the face of this economy. hes never lost his credibility with any of them. i feel he was unfairly maligned in the 08 cycle, that fairy tale comment. i never saw any racial implication in the point he was trying to make. >> you mean when he said jesse jackson did well, too. trying to diminish the success early on of barack obama? gene? is that wearing out, that bad mark against it? >> it is wearing out. but i dont think there are really lingeri...

Editor with the gory details. >> i thought bailouts with unpopular. >> you would think. >> paul: why did democrats not take this opportunity to stop one. >> because i think theyve recognized what they have here is the permanent stimulus plan. >> how so, explain that. >> 787 billion in the stimulus. imagine if they erased it and written whatever you wanted to spend and thats where we are with fannie and freddie, this is a vehicle to redistribute wealth by the housing system. >> everybody thinks t...

Editor with the gory details. >> i thought bailouts with unpopular. >> you would think. >> paul: why did democrats not take this opportunity to stop one. >> because i think theyve recognized what they have here is the permanent stimulus plan. >> how so, explain that. >> 787 billion in the stimulus. imagine if they erased it and written whatever you wanted to spend and thats where we are with fannie and freddie, this is a vehicle to redistribute wealth by the housing system. >> everybody thinks t...