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Who may be getting ahead of themselves, i actually believe her when she says let me just finish this job and rest and kind of figure out what comes next. but i mean, you know, think about it. since her husband became president in 1992 it has been nonstop for her in terms of her life in the public eye. so well see. but hey, it never hurts to have a little money in the bank when youre trying to make a decision. >> jonathan. one of the things that may force her hand sooner than she may like is that...

So well see. but hey, it never hurts to have a little money in the bank when youre trying to make a decision. >> jonathan. one of the things that may force her hand sooner than she may like is that andrew cuomo wants to run for the presidency, obviously, and he uses the same donor base. and he has to go to appeal to those people. and he has to start his fundraising for that from zero, the money he raised from gubernatorial campaigns cant be used. so andrew and hillary, especially concentrated in...

Under these circumstances. the reasonable mans statement. senate marco rubio, votes against it, which seems like the right vote if you want to run for president next time. can you imagine how rubio and ryan, ryan voted for it, rubio in the lead. >> after rubio took that vote, i was really surprised when paul ryan took that vote. i was stunned by that vote. and i think it was, rubio was thinking he needs to shore up the right flank, paul ryan must be calculating that he has the crud down, maybe h...

For president next time. can you imagine how rubio and ryan, ryan voted for it, rubio in the lead. >> after rubio took that vote, i was really surprised when paul ryan took that vote. i was stunned by that vote. and i think it was, rubio was thinking he needs to shore up the right flank, paul ryan must be calculating that he has the crud down, maybe he needs to play more for the donor base, in new york, the folks who didnt want to go over the cliff. he is looking like i have the conservatives do...

Fully immersed in the gop alternative reality. lets listen to mr. morris. >> so you are standing by your prediction of a romney landslide? >> absolutely. romney will win this election by five to ten points in the popular vote and will carry more than 300 electoral votes. >> you know, i think we ought to bring back the public stocks from new england where if youre a pollster -- not even a pollster. they do the numbers. these people with their outlandish partisan so-called predictions ought to hav...

Waiting? senators? governors? who can lead the republican party now? >> i believe the republican party has a party of followership. the problem with republican leaders is that theyre cowards, not that theyre fundamentally mistaken. the real problem is the republican activist baste and the donor base. they went apocalyptic over the past four years. and that was exploited by a lot of people in the conservative world. i wont soon forget the lupine mile of one conservative institution when he told m...

Bush coalition. i think what you will see now is the donors themselves can now split. there really is disagreement within the donors about what strategic direction to take the republican party. you have the koch brothers, purist embracing of the tea party, the mantra wing. and then you have a more mainstream hedge fund centered donor base which really are pushing more towards like layoff these social issues, lets try to broaden the coalition. i think thats the discussion thats going to happen in...

Split the republican base and the donor base. honestly, there are people in the hedge fund base who view this as a business opportunity because they think it will clear space for them to get into business because the banks wont be in there. there is a message that could be crafted that would have a financial base and would appeal to a lot of voters who see the banks as having gotten a free ride. i think jon huntsman tried to be in that space. >> he got nowhere. >> im writing him in. >> are you r...

Question and the romney war chest and the fact that it is not as formidable, perhaps, as we thought it might be given where he is numbers wise in terms of fund-raising and actually the donor base hes looking at which is high dollar donors may be getting towards maxing out and in terms of small donors those are giving less than $200 in august, romney had 9.4 million in small doughtations, obama had 25.1. >> that is a significant figure. that has been an issue, trying to build out the small donor ...

He wanted hillary to win more than oxygen itself. >> lets just saddle up and have an argument. whats the matter with that? thats what america is about. >> but bill clinton doesnt lose his political touch for long. by the democratic national convention in august, 2008, he has come out strongly in support of his partys nominee. >> everything i learned in my eight years as president and in the work i have done since in america and across the globe has convinced me that barack obama is the man for t...