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Make, given the president raised far more money from hedge funds, private equity donors in 08, came to about 3.5 million bucks, nearly twice as much as john mccain? >> add axelrod said later in that interview, there are two people on the ballot, barack obama and mitt romney. heres where i think republicans miss out because theyre so kind of in a bubble on this private equity issue. there are not any other walks of life where you profit to the tune of tens of millions of dollars because of laying...

The last election. that barack obama was never properly vetted. that the meet ya never fully checked him out. the mccain campaign didnt prove that he was radical in his politics. if the american people only known the truth back in 08. they would have never made the terrible decision to elect him as president, which is perhaps why so much of this weeks news felt oh so very familiar. >> i dont know whether barack obama was born in the united states or not. i dont know. but i do know this, that in ...

Have said, yeah, you need to do that. i tried to fix it and talked about it. most politicians talk about did but never fix t. i will fix t. but processwise, you need to talk about it and fix it to get it done dght together. >> greta: in 08, president obama won the state of wisconsin, by a significant margin. 2 years later, you win as a republican governor. a year and-a-half later, there is a recall vote, you are leading by 6 votes. but there is a presidential election in november. i am curious i...

Republican strategist, publisher of mullings.com. i want to hit it out of the park right now with you on this. first question, because nbcs calls this swift bet on steroids. why would this work when it didnt work in 08 and the potential it has to open up to mitt romney and questions about his own religion. >> keep in mind when john mccain had the opportunity to hang rev raenld wright around obamas neck senator mccain said several times no, even when he was pushed into trying to condemn his oppon...

Of any candidate or any president ever, for him now to say, well, i was happy to have media coverage and scrutiny in-- well, scrutiny in 2008, but now that things are starting to go south on me, listen, folks, dont pay any attention. >> jon: sally. >> and jeremiah wright still airs, this is fot going. >> did i hear you say something along the way that romney be vetted the way that obama was vetted. >> i did and i know its an about bugaboo to concern that obama was not vetted-- >> here is why its...

Romney super pac they made the ad buys in virginia this week. jen, why is virginia such a high priority pride for both campaigns right now? lets remind everybody it did go to the president back in 2008. >> it did. and the president won virginia. he was the first democrat to win virginia in four decades, but it continues to be a real opportunity for the president. not only is he doing -- hes winning overall in the polls, but as you mentioned among women, among young people, among african-american...

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Interracial marriage was outlawed in north carolina. do you think the presidents decision is going to affect african-american turnout in those states like north carolina where he won 95% of the black vote back in 08. >> i think african-americans are going to -- even those who may disagree with the president on this issue and frankly any voter who disagrees with the president on this issue, i think at the end of the day they will respect the fact this was a decision he made from his heart and on ...

Home prices have also changed. the one area you want to see them go up and unfortunately theyve done down from 169,000, basic overall housing price to 146. that is down 14%. >> right. lets be clear the president inherited a bad hand here as well and inherited a housing bubble that popped. the question is, has his policies made a bad situation worse? i think in the meantime, a lot of stopgap measures to try to prevent housing prices from going down and one thing about the markets, they are brutal...

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