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And fascinating conversation occurring not only yesterday morning on our show but i also saw joan walsh and others write about it yesterday during the day. that the big question is how democrats in louisiana, arkansas, north carolina handle aca, obamacare. because you can do it one of two ways. you can say well, the electorates always in these elections are older and whiter so were going away from obamacare or try to expand the electorate as i think it was joans column mentioned "new york times"...

Polls showed positively and there was the unfortunate rollout. the president looked in a really good mood. secondly, he was really aggressive. he called out the governors, mostly republicans who have not expanded medicaid. who are keeping 5 million people off. you have some republicans on the ballot, particularly in senate races where its biggest electorates. theyre having a really hard time finding their footing. some are not giving straight answers about whether nept to expand medicaid in thei...

Lerner and weve been asking you if you think thats going to go anywhere. no chance of holder doing anything with it, less chance of congress acting on it. all for appearance. jim says gop is not helping people to understand the scandal so the whole issue is pointless for gop electorates. jbott says theres a better chance of you and me winning power ball multiple times. we love to hear from you on twitter. did you know you dont just have a credit score? big data is tracking everything about you...

2008 when it comes to appearance as long side the president. >> absolutely. when he started travelling nationally, there wasnt a place in america, john, that couldnt -- there wasnt a democrat in america that wouldnt welcome him for his pizzazz, his fundraising appeal and just the positive attention it got. now after years in the white house, that has changed. but what hasnt changed, and this is true for democrats and republicans, you do what you are take in your district or state to win and that...

>> i think its the marijuana. >> all of the cool kids talk about the must reads. lets go to the "wall street journal." demographics behind the democrats 2014 troubles as he calls them. early national poll is sporting the democrats are in trouble in the 2014 midterm elections and democrats are more popular than the gop. the party faces a number of challenges in november. first an enthusiasm gap. typically, but not always republicans vote at higher rates than democrats in degree of medical electio...

Unpopular president obama. but what 2016? after their losses in 2012, republicans promise to deal with that demographic time bomb theyre holding. its something they may not be able to avoid this year, may be able to avoid this year, but not in 2016. elections guru, what a great word for charlie cook. he sits with us right now. in fact, he wrote republicans may win a bunch of races without measurably improving their partys brand, and without making any clear progress among minority, young, modera...

Of republican primary electorates in a whole lot of states in a whole lot of districts. so you have a lot of republicans who are just petrified that they will be voted out of office if they sound reasonable. if they dont sort of toe this line. and thats a terrible structural problem in our politics when 25% of us have all that power in one house of congress. >> and you have "the wall street journal" calling ted cruz group the kamikaze caucus. alex, you mentioned that ad against mitch mcconnell. ...

Cameras that he would actually like to pass something. so i think thats where theres promise. but theres a structural problem here that goes to what alex was saying. the tea party represents maybe 20%, 25% of american opinion. so that 75% of us are on the other side, either center or moderate right center or left. but those 25% make up a majority of republican primary electorates in a whole lot of states in a whole lot of districts. so you have a lot of republicans who are just petrified that th...

Essentially shrink the primary calendar a bit, truncate the process, really have a general election focused set of rules. have you woken up in the middle of the night and said to yourself, are we overlearning the lesson of 2012? i say this, because i look at this calendar, and the idea of -- if you want a general -- if you want a more electable candidate going into the fall, youve put -- potentially put a calendar that favors conservatives to have the momentum early and could hurt the quote/unqu...

To expand the electorates so you dont have thees treatments voting in primary elections and in particular but in general elections as well. what is the best way that we can expand the electorates so we have the broad middle also represented in our voting? >> i would like to see a much broader voting rights act even in the one we have seen introduced. you know, if i had my druthers would have the australian system of mandatory attendance at the polls. if you cant do that, lets do a national lotte...