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Where are you on this? >> you know, i think health care is a mess. i think that as a free market person, you cant even have that discussion unless you know what the service costs. i mean, i go to the doctor. i have a daughter that didnt have insurance. she gets a different price than people who have insurance. i think we need more market spirits in competition. i certainly dont see it in this bill. but i do understand that repeal and replace would have been easier if there was a mandate. preside...

Campaign promise. i agree that david that trump was on the campaign trail making promises to his voters about lowering costs and increasing coverage. this bill does nothing on either one of those accounts. the fact they are pushing it through in the dark of night, 4:30 a.m. this bill comes out without cbo scoring, which, you know, it is a very inside washington thing, but that is the independent thing to tell you exactly how many people are going to be covered, how many people are going to lose ...

Cincinnati and this area, a lot of social conservatives there and theyll have to turn out that vote in order to offset whats going on here. a lot to talk about moving forward including how things stand in the battleground states. look at our latest polling we released this week. the mayor ris poll, its the president at 48 to romneys 42% but theyre both below 50, a lot of volatility left and a lot of time the candidates will be spending. more on the battlegrounds as we continue. lets bring in our...

Its very significant, but its significant in a different way from david. i think people in wisconsin -- theyre saying, wait a minute, we like consensual politics in wisconsin, where a conservative like tommy thompson never did the things that this governor is doing. i think mitt romney has to step back from this at some point and he hasnt done it yet. >> final item is the question of colin powell. will he endorse in this race? it came up in the context of russia and romney. one of his folks sayi...

Slight edge there, but latinos are a huge problem for the republican party right now and our oversampling of latino voters with telemundo, obama has a 61% to 27% advantage.thing th that advantage? for instance if marco rubio were to be on the ticket, do you think theres any potential for changing that dynamic? >> some potential, not much. vice presidential candidates dont usually give you a big bump, maybe in that state. david said something with respect to president obamas support among ethnics...

Me put his record front and center and we responded. let me look at the head to head which shows you are still under 50%. the president has a slight edge at 47 to 43. if you look at the advantages, david prooks, that the president now has, to me it goes to the point of how hes trying to identify and cast governor romney among hispanics, younger voters, women, westerners, independents, all advantage to the president. also on that list, seniors, suburban women and overall in the battleground state...

Incumbents. thats one of them. the tenor of the campaign will change. it will become the new orleans saints. by that i mean normal competition will turn into bounty hunting. both people in both campaigns will get their juices flowing and take meaner and meaner shots. that will supress turnout. i think that hurt it is president more because his favorability ratings are higher. >> it is a broader question. carly, you ran for senate. heres the cover of the weeking magazine when it talks about polit...

There are two things we know. first, its a referendum, there are rarely choices and the referendum on the record of the last four years and not the personality of the candidates and so that, when you take that basic structure of reelect races that does hurt obama and then the final thing is when you ask people are you better off than four years ago? 35% say yes and thats pretty bad. >> let me go around the table on a few other items that i wanted to get to quickly. that is in wisconsin, we calle...

Oversaw obamacare implementation and the governor of ohio who says both parties need to work together. plus the russia connection. democrats threaten to pull out of the investigation if it becomes too partisan. >> and when we hear statements like this. >> 17 would be a disaster for obamacare. that was the year it was meant to explode because obama wont be here. >> are we conditioned to dismiss what the president of the united states says. joining me is david prooks, columnist for "the new york t...