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Making enough money that they could buy it in the individual marketplace unsubsidized. if you dont meet those criteria, you pay a $2,000 per employee fine. >> exactly. >> to the extent the companies decide im going to pay the fine. i think thats a perfectly okay outcome for workers. in the aggregate, youll have a problem where itll be more expensive than it was projected to be if companies decide to go that route. the real threat, i think, is this reduction to part-time for a lot of employees. a...

Protect their constituentcyies and the people they care about. nobody wants this to go over the fiscal cliff, because its just going to look very bad. maybe each individual member of congress got re-elected, but in the aggregate, the american people are not going to tolerate this. i mean, they want a deal and they want the upper class to pay a little more. >> david, go ahead. >> tamron i want to say there is a small but very vocal group on the left and right that i believe is perfectly willing t...

To that level. they dont cut anything. >>neil: you reminded my before anyone, not only do we not cut, cut is the operative word, talk about slowing, best-case-scenario, slowing the growth in spending, that is considered draconian cuts even for the military and other entitlements in the aggregate they will get a lot more money and then in 10 years it will be bigger than they are now. >>guest: and obamas plan which is $2 trillion in tax increases and $2 trillion 24 spending cuts, the cuts are inst...

Damn accurate. and you take them all together. you cant do that this year. somethings up. >> thats the key, though. you want to look at the poll of polls, the aggregate because any one of these can be an outlier. ive talked to a number of republican strategists this week, professional republicans, and not one of them says they see anything reflected in these gallup poll numbers with romney at 52%, obama at 45%. one interesting thing, though, from those state polls is if you look at one of the in...

The most important poll of the day were not talking about is the psycscholastic student poll obama won that. the polls are driving the narrative rather than i go straighting it, and were sort of driving behind the polls for the story. do you think that is destructive to the narrative in general? >> absolutely. you have to be very careful about polls and you dont want to read too much into them. theyre a snapshot of a moment in time. they are important to give you a sense of where people are. you...

Idea that one debate is going to be a game changer just simply isnt the case. in fact, our colleague john harwood had a great article about this in "the new york times" where he points out there are really few debates in history that have done that. one was the debate between nixon and kennedy. it was televised. kennedy came off as being much smoother, more likesable. thats an example of how high the stakes would have to be for there to be a real game-changer. i think what youre going to see mor...

Today show" this past week or good morning america this past week. they have not been dealing with it in fact, i believe the media research center who studies all of these things looked at every day of good morning america and said they have not touched it at all. >> too much pop news to report. >> too much tom cruise information to do. >> than talk about world affairs. >> thats their angle they are not talking about what is -- what has left four americans dead and could be an act of war. so jon...

And joy reid and ro khanna. were talking about the recovery and the complexity of the recovery. that to me is what is surfacing in this campaign. the recovery isnt one thing. its not great. its not terrible. for different segments of the population theres been different benefits. my own pet theory about the recovery is that the biggest critique of the recovery isnt the aggregate. we showed a graph of how compared to other financial -- the aftermath of other financial crises, employment has come ...

And 2012. jonah, what role do you think the media is playing in this race? is it significant? is it making a difference? will it affect peoples vote? >> it is significant. main stream media -- i used to be a professional media critic got as corrupt in aggregate. there are specific individuals that are responsible people. thewua they covered -- particularly since the convention. anything that inconvinced the obama campaign was cast as racist. there is mad rush to declare romney dead and move on. ...

In colorado, democrats over sampled by 3%. some pollsters believe that skewed the numbers to give president obama an appearance of more support than he may actually have, arthel. it is believed the polls could be closer than what those polls found. arthel: john, other numbers were looking at in terms of dollars and who has left in their coffers. tell us now what is happening of the fund-raising for both of those campaigns. >> reporter: and the way too, arthel, that the story is being presented, ...