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Looks like a respectable jurist of the sort who will gain public sympathy, who will perform well in a hearing then if you have somebody whos got a record that is highly provocative that you can build a lot of campaign ads off of and you can make speeches based truthfully on who they are and what theyve done and those are very different situations and i think its hard to sort of imagine what the strategy -- what the successful strategy is likely to be in the absence of a nominee. i agree with you...

Happen has been decided weeks ago. so i think both candidates are focused on, one, filling in weak areas. you see that with the new myth of the moderate mitt who is now emerged and obama has released his plan and everything else is in terms of what theyre saying on the stump, its totally about base mobilization. >> i love myth of the moderate mitt. i love that. up next, were going to actually take a look at early voting. well go live to florida and see what the lines look like there. [ male anno...

Closely to the election. >> are these campaigns kidding themselves going for undecided voters. are they really going for the decided voters who might change their minds? or they disagree with you? >> these campaigns are doing everything at once. they are going for every voter they can figure out and contact. theyre going base mobilization. when we think about the election, we imagine a fixed pool of voters. this many people support obama, this many people support romney. but actually its a very ...

That were seeing? >> well have to see and we probably wont know for about two weeks. it takes about two weeks for big developments like this to really cycle through into some of the state and national polls. so some of the things that were hearing from the obama campaign is that it does it does make pr obama look like a winner. you remember from his remarks on thursday that there still are ways to improve upon this it law and improve health care coverage in the united states and that was a very ...

Like me, i dont say that in a derogatory sense whatsoever. there are people on the right and the left who were driven primarily by social issues and i got to say we got a blind spot here, because i think most of us here are focused on jobs, taxes, the economy. we can all have big debates about that and we have different views. but ezra klein, there still are people on the left and on the right who were driven primarily by social issues and in these off-year elections when voter turnout is low, s...

And to specifically economic policies laid out by the administration and then the health care fight is really animating the right wing of the country and of the conservative party, the republican party. but i think health care reform has an effect on the democrats thats very positive, which is to say, the president achieved something. theres reason to be excited. and because of the unified republican opposition, i think youll see more mobilization, more excitement on the left as well. seeing tha...