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Rating is six or seven or eight points higher than reagans in 82. particularly the districts he won could be an asset. less so that mccain won. i believe that the heart of the democrats are going to avoid disaster by minimizing the losses in the districts that obama carried in 2008. 209 democrats in districts that he carried that. is the key. >> let me ask you this. the democrats faced a republican party that had this big contract with america. i have been suspicious before the election. good re...

Is. because what well hear, well hear the house erupt with cheers from the democrats. >> its like those congressman that try to sit in the aisle during the state of the union. >> somebody wants to go home to his district and say, i was number 216 and i want you to know that, unlike margerie mezvinsky that time with the clinton budget vote. >> she was the democratic congresswoman from suburban philadelphia who voted with the president, in favor of tax increases, in 93 and 94. she was defeated in ...

I am not going to write it off and say this is going to doom the democratic party. >> steve as we look at the foenl moments, 228-209 at this point it will pull out some of the special deal. to make some changes for the poirs part. the -- then pat possible. i think you can make it pain field we are looking at what we have now as a portion of what we had. nancy pelosi said in her speech that struck me. i think she was putti putting t kennedys letter reaffirming the

And say this is going to doom the democratic party. >> steve as we look at the foenl moments, 228-209 at this point it will pull out some of the special deal. to make some changes for the poirs part. the -- then pat possible. i think you can make it pain field we are looking at what we have now as a portion of what we had. nancy pelosi said in her speech that struck me. i think she was putti putting t kennedys letter reaffirming the

Burdens that small business are facing in ohio. >> pat buchanan has a yes for jim clyburn. pat? >> yeah. congressman, look, you said this was a fundamental right, health care. but theres 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the country that wont be included per the presidents request. the hispanic caucus went to seat president and the president said hes going for legalization, i gather, path to citizenship or reform. if he succeeds would those 12 million to 20 million if legalized, would t...

Right now. hard count is 31 to 33 democrat noes, which means that the noes are at 209-211. which means theyre only four away from killing this bill. and -- >> neil: okay, you need 38 democrat democrats if republicans hope to stop it. >> actually 37. >> neil: all 178 republicans are against. >> 215 is a dead bill. >> neil: interesting. >> 215. if you tied 215-215, the bill does not pass. im focussed on the noes. >> neil: interesting. >> if they get 215, it wont pass. theyre four away from getting...

Concerns. just want to show you the red river. this is a hydrograph, a little more technical than i i want you to think about, but as the red river continues to rise, cresting just 3 feet of the record stage which was last year at 40 feet. so as we head closer to the weekend, the sandbaggers are out. this is going to be potentially a very dangerous situation as we have still the spring to go through and already were talking about the potential for major flooding at the red river at far go, north...

Piece. the resignation of new york democrat eric massa who voted no originally gives the yes camp a one-vote lead. wednesday, seven pro-life democrats including bart stupak of michigan who had voted yes said they would now vote no if the wording on the abortion funding in the senate version is not changed. any or all an of those seven could change their minds before the final vote is taken. for the moment, their stance brings it to 209-222. those numbers is not welcome news for the administratio...

And so that helped the democrats, hes no longer in the mix there, giving them the magic number they need, 216, as you know, massa said he thought that was the reason he got pushed out and that is water under the bridge and the problem is 7 pro-life democrats who voted yes now will vote no unless there is a clear-cut ban on public funding for abortion and any or all of them could change back to a "yes" vote at any time and that is worked on at this time, and at this minute the tally is 209 yes, w...

>> $15,000. >> a family with $80,000 for a family of four is below poverty line. >> okay. they were all wrong. $80,000 was very far off. this is the number, ali, according to the 209 feder09 guidelines, $22,050 is the number. this is key in medicaid, welfare and food stamps. it is a low number, many would argue, and it has not been changed in 40 years. that is why the obama administration is coming in to announcing in the past few days, that we want to look at changing this, so we can have a mor...