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Reagan/carter election, he collapsed labor day because of are you better off today than four years ago? george bush wouldnt let him get away from the economy, clinton went after him. brilliant politician, likeable guy. four years better. so then you come and its the economy -- you get to obama versus mccain. mccain, not the most energetic campaign. >> no. >> and we can all disagree or agree on sarah palins role. that was hope and change. it comes down after the noise, me lisa gets down to one th...

They win, they will be beholden to the people who wrote the checks. they have branded themselves, as the guy whos administer the tough medicine. dismantling a social safety net. it means redistributing down, up, more tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, slaps for middle class. >> tough medicine, but tough medicine to the sickest folks, right? tough medicine to the poorest people, not to those. >> i think in the entire morning discussion, were sometimes boring the politics, where we end up gove...

Election. >> i wish it was. >> i feel like thats what we heard initially, with the ryan rollout, this is about ideas. i was reading frank rich in "new york" magazine, any president should go negative early and often and without apology, if the goal is victory. the notion that negative campaigning is some toxic modern aberration in democracy is bogus. is that right? should we say maybe it will be about issues, maybe it wont. the point is, if you want to win, you have to go in hard. >> every presi...

>> i think what 08 was about, when you see obama running and running as someone who has less political experience, but who is really running on this platform of change that really spoke to us. we are not operating in the political spiers as long, but we are about change, about fixing the problems, and that was inspiring to me and i think whats upsetting about this election is as april come bent, he is now running -- and hes -- hes lost that -- that voice in a way. hes lost the voice of -- we hav...

Middle that kate has talked about, they have no decide which ideology, not which ideas. ideas are free floating right now. its the ideology of both parties that is being elected. i said to somebody, i said is this election, depending on how you look at it democrats, an election about had will we continue to allow election to protect people. its about the individual and how were going to -- government not supposed to be in the midst of our lives and then the middle people who need government in c...

Election? i think this is the beenergize e and we are looking at theorys and conservatism. >> ah! could we please have an ad about that? >> but at the end of the day, the person who doesnt identify with each party, 122 million to 16 million people in each state, whats happening in this election, human nature and technology have collided. blogs, huffington, everybody out there, and thats why this one is going to be decided so late. we were talking in the room earlier, this will be election that n...

Is 23012 somehow different? >> yeah, its different. its different because both candidates wanted from are very fewed moderates in the is noter to go after. and a base election, trying to turn out their base, and turn off the other guys. an ugly process to watch if are you turning on your tv in ohio or florida, you are probably tempted to turn off the tv until after election day because of the negativity. and pretty much about making the other guys base so beleaguered, you get the feeling that de...