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Eye in an often-polarizing controversial figure for more than 20 years. and the e-mail server scandal has taken a real toll on her, make no mistake. but the reality is especially within the democratic field, only hillary clinton is actively competing for the center, which is 50% of democrats. so while bernie sanders can rally the activist base around him and get a lot of enthusiasm, when it comes to actually winning swing voters in swing states, hillary clintons born on third base because thats ...

Expectations that would come with being a bush running for president. what have we learned over the last months? >> the conservative activist base is much more skeptical of rallying around bush or settling for bush than even he may have thought. steve, i talked to one bush operative about a week ago and i was going through all of this and i said boy, this really must be a tough week for you. the week that hillary clinton announced. and this person said to me were built for the third look from re...

It looks like its jeb bush and then everybody else is kind of an also ran. jeb is making the big-time haul right now. what rand paul does have is a built-in activist base. and the importance of that cannot be underestimated in a state that takes a lot of organizi organizing, like those caucuses dana was talking about earlier, states like new hampshire. he has a built-in activist base. hes got to raise an awful lot of money. he may have some problems doing that with the republican establishment. ...

Will stick around. maybe not at the intensity of the last two weeks but i dont think its going to disappear entirely. >> it could have fired up the base because showing her con fronted by so many reporters and camera crews not sitting in the room they had set up but chose to put it in this very awkward, what we call a stake out position where everyone is behind a rope made her look i think much more sympathetic to those inclined to support her and made the press corps and shes not the first to s...

Made the biggest splash there? >> reporter: scott walker had a very good cpac. hes doing well in the polls and can unite the activist base here and the establishment republicans. they were thrilled with him. he had a great speech despite that line where he compared unions to isis. republicans here loved it. rand paul also had a very good cpac cpac. hes very popular here. >> rand pauls won that straw poll, conducted later on this evening. who do you think had the toughest time there? >> reporter:...

Republican activists, officials, poirpt leaders, who want to hear from all the potential presidential hopefuls out there. todays speech could be especially important for the former florida governor. lets discuss whats going on. gloria borger is here and joining us from the cpac conference our national political reporter, peter hanby. this is the first time well be seeing jeb bush in front of a very major activist base of his party. whats the tone you expect him to strike, peter? >> reporter: wel...

Activist base, the people outside the beltway, outside new york. people like rand paul, people like ted cruz who really the activist class, theyre the ones who show up and vote in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. so beyond this jeb bush-chris christie feud, theres sort of a larger fight here within the republican party. the reinvention of the party has not ended. >> and youre right. the article by phillip rucker in the post, its long and its great. all comprehensive. phillip, the deadl...

Jeb bush has been running around saying we have to do immigration reform, climate change is a real problem, doesnt necessarily sound like someone who is completely in touch with the partys activist base and that could be a bigger problem for him. >> i think thats absolutely the case for him. last time i ran for office was 2002. the republican party looked different. >> does not look like iowa. >> jeb bush is a real affable guy but he cares about governoring a and policy. he seems hot and cold an...

Financial institutions. in a lot of casings in the clinton years, democrats were saying he says his could be coming to an end. >> that sort of anger plays very welon social media and that particular group of voters is very active with social media. i think progressives have done a good job on capital collateralizeing on that medium. they are adept at using those medium to spread their message and keep the heros like elizabeth warren and keep their elected officials pure in the same way you see c...

The activist base, not in a good place. not feeling good about health care. this has been something that something on the activist base have been wanting harry reid to do for a while. so i think this is also about a moment of reassurance to the democratic base who is feeling a little bit, you know, under attack and under siege a little bit because of how poorly the health care rollout is going. >> lets talk about the likely next steps as far as the senate is concerned? just normal business? >> w...