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Oh, by the way, fire up the democratic base. all things romney doesnt need if he wants to win. its not clear where the proof is in the conspiracy theory theyre trying to create about the presidents record in office, calling it radical. because when you look at the health care reform, the stimulus, even cap and trade, all of them stem from original compromised pieces of legislation that republicans had put up. so thats the risk here. this seems like more risky, what reward do they get? watch toda...

Believe it or not the democrats are caucusing in iowa as well. theres not as much at stake but the democratic national committee arent sitting idly by. joining me now is brad woodhouse, how is the president reaching out to democrats in iowa tonight? >> the president is going to speak to several of the caucuses tonight. weve been here you know, really going back to when the president first ran. weve never left iowa and during this campaign weve held 4,000 one on one meetings and 1200 house partie...

and rick santorum are running neck and neck and neck. while perry and bachmann are struggling to stay in the race. huntsman is passing on iowa and doubling down in new hampshire. for gingrich tonights caucuses come several weeks after he peaked in the polls. but he said he is still in position to win. >> theres 41% who are undeci d undecided, its very possible to win. weve talked -- weve had 18,000 people in a telephone conversation call yesterday afternoon. we reached 89,000 eye juans...

Going to take spending reductions and additional revenues to solve our problem, about 90% agreement. between no labels and between americans elect, depending on who the republicans nominate, we can really have one heck of a year. >> to get this done maybe a third-party candidate son the cards to push all these -- all this fiscal hopefulness through. >> i dont know that we need a third-party candidate. when ross perot first ran for president in 1992 he ran on fiscal irresponsibility. political dy...

Playing games and people were calling emissaries to have them go to the governor and we didnt get the whole story. >> paul: john what does this tell us about the way this white house plays politics? >> chicago way. reformers in chicago always said the president talked a good game on reform back in illinois, but he never criticized the daley machine. they helped his career. rahm emanuel told the new yorker long before blagojevich into trouble in 2002 when blagojevich first ran for governor there ...

And now, we find they were already playing games and people were calling emissaries to have them go to the governor and we didnt get the whole story. >> paul: what does this tell us about the way the white house plays politics? >> its the chicago way, reformers in chicago said the president talked a good game in illinois and never criticized the daley machine. >> he he needed the daley machine. >> to help his career. >> sure. >> and told the new yorker long before blagojevich got in trouble in 2...

And now, we find they were already playing games and people were calling emissaries to have them go to the governor and we didnt get the whole story. >> paul: what does this tell us about the way the white house plays politics? >> its the chicago way, reformers in chicago said the president talked a good game in illinois and never criticized the daley machine. >> he he needed the daley machine. >> to help his career. >> sure. >> and told the new yorker long before blagojevich got in trouble in 2...

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