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About? >> well they say the millennials love the environment. i really think hes better for the base in general. i think hes a better base play. >> i wouldnt agree. i actually think you go out and talk about millennials they really do care about the environment. they are watching the cataclysmic storms and -- >> al gore -- >> yeah hes like papa smur f o the climate change conversation. all the millennials ive -- >> -- number two hes also all these voters olders and younger who are thinking votin...

Difficult to change peoples minds even with facts and evidence. this woman was presented with information that her own health care plan was better than the one she had before in terms of out of pocket costs and she simply refused to believe it. so it is going to be very hard, especially with the folks like her who are predisposed to reject information about how the law might be beneficial. >> i think, tara, its important here to distinguish between the project of persuading people and motivating...

Evidence. this woman was presented with information that her own health care plan was better than the one she had before in terms of out of pocket costs and she simply refused to believe it. so it is going to be very hard, especially with the folks like her who are predisposed to reject information about how the law might be beneficial. >> i think, tara, its important here to distinguish between the project of persuading people and motivating people. and i think particularly when youre talking a...

Care plan was better than the one she had before in terms of out of pocket costs and she simply refused to believe it. so it is going to be very hard, especially with the folks like her who are predisposed to reject information about how the law might be beneficial. >> i think, tara, its important here to distinguish between the project of persuading people and motivating people. and i think particularly when youre talking about a midterm election, particularly when were talking about the florid...

From bill clinton or have a fund-raiser has a lot of explaining to do. in fact, i think they should give the money back. >> man. joining me now is michael crawly, molly ball and political economist for yahoo! news. michael, ill start with you. its almost hard not to view these comments. he wants to be the 2016 nominee. hillary clinton may be the democratic nominee. >> i hate to reduce it all to politics and rand paul is a guy that doesnt play by normal political rules. he says things in politics...

Want to point out these gerrymandered districts, because it is unbelievable. i think we have a whole audio-visual slide show. look at this. the gray area represents the district. that literally -- they are rorschach blot tests more than anything. whats happened to this country in terms of voting districts is unbelievable. ly si will say these are both democrat and republican. >> you can point to a 50%-50% poll in north carolina which you can also throw out window when you look at these. this is ...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> its a channel of...

Stamps. >> how is this a winning message? >> its not. theyre nuts. >> its a base play. its one that plays with a very narrow slice of the electorate. they may decide at this point looking at how badly how they got beaten over this during the holidays, do they look at these numbers and say okay, lets dial this back a little bit. theres going to be partisan warfare all year. i think the idea is we muddle through 2012, get to 2013 and then we deal with entitlements, then we deal with the bigger iss...

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