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Posted online. not the entire call. msnbc is uncertain exactly when the call took place, but lets listen to it. >> what the presidents campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> isnt that cute? in other words, its not democracy, parker. its not any -- i mean, ashley, this isnt democracy, this isnt actually saying and doing things people like. it isnt lik...

Them will be read. many of those books will focus on how the obama campaign won this election tactically with one of the most sophisticated market research efforts in history. data mining. youll hear that phrase a lot. the obama campaign was able to find voters in key battleground states, get out the vote, talk to them in ways campaigns hadnt talked to voters before. democratic strategist jamal simmons, jean cummings and michael shear. michael, everybodys going to have a first draft of this even...

He said last night to further his own argument. watch. >> the presidents path means 20 million people out of work struggling for a good job. ill get people back to work with 12 million new jobs. im going to make sure that we get people off of food stamps not by cutting the program, but by getting them good jobs. >> reporter: so for the last year and a half even before mitt romney had won the republican nomination, most of the polls suggested that the margin between he and mr. obama was about sev...

Of 08 there would be change. people were desperate. >> i needed some hope because i was at a point in my life where i was hopeless. >> and our planet began to heal. >> a great speak. the best part of the sale. >> shannon: we see that these are people from across the spectrum and across the country. what did you find when they began telling their story. >> this is 7 battleground states and these are the counties and districts that are the ones most in play. like richmond, virginia. northeast oh...

Much as turnout and cell phones as at hearts and minds? >> in charlotte this week, one more call to arls for democrats and the coalition that elected obama in 2008 but in the story theres a fair amount of what went on behind the scenes, under the radar in ways that didnt happen in 2008. the obama campaign is using data mining and other technical tools to make sure if the rhetoric isnt sufficient that the votes will still turn out. its really down into the workings of getting people to the polls....

There was testimony in court about their love affair, their daughter -- it is kind of out there. in any event, coincidentally, her new tell-all book is released today. megyn: a new story out today about how one website is giving customers different choices and perhaps different prices. based on the computer that they use. it turns out that travelers using an apple computer to log onto orbitz.com may be paying more than folks who use a windows pc. reports say that site is showing pricier packages...

The scales to president obama winning a second term in >> yes, it will. running for president is a organizing task. you are trying to reach millions of vores that no longer watch television or speed through the commercials and not interested in politicings. the obama campaign is incredibly successful in finding on line users whether they are something chats with someone on facebook. or pin enter. fining someone on line as reaching them to the door or phone. >> penny, are those people chatting on...

scheme. theyre accused of taking money to allow drug couriers to pass through a los angeles international airport. they received as much as $2,400 for looking the other way as suitcases of cocaine and other drugs passed through the x-ray machines. thousands of postal workers around the country breathing a sigh of relief after the senate passed a plan to save the u.s. postal service as well as their jobs. the measure could keep 100 mail processing plants from being shut down or consol...

Executive order gave the nsa the ability to find information, retain it and disseminate it based upon approval looking for e-mails and phone messages that have trigger points. >> so if your -- you are saying you could be an average american exchanging e-mails with whoever and it turns out if you have certain key words or phrases you will get the attention of the nsa? >>guest: it is very important to thank the men and women out there that are working hard and collaborating across the agencies who...

Theyre saying look, prior to 9/11, we had a very difficult time because of the wall that jamie gorelick and others in the clinton administration put in place to get these intelligence agencies to talk to each other and get them to coordinate and compare databases of possible terrorism suspects. after 9/11, the 9/11 commission came in and said we have to take down this wall and have our intelligence agencies be able to connect the dots. what the administration today has done, say were going to, i...