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Horace got involved, they did polling -- dick morris got involved, they did polling, they did focus grouping. he triangulated. he mentioned the era of big government is over end of welfare as we know it. together with the they led us on a path to a balanced budget. fiscal sanity, not record debt. >> greta: when health care failed, now health care has gone the democratic way at least the way president obama wants it. hes not going to be the triangulating or any of that >> sean: i dont that i is i...

Horace got involved, they did polling -- dick morris got involved, they did polling, they did focus grouping. he triangulated. he mentioned the era of big government is over end of welfare as we know it. together with the they led us on a path to a balanced budget. fiscal sanity, not record debt. >> greta: when health care failed, now health care has gone the democratic way at least the way president obama wants it. hes not going to be the triangulating or any of that >> sean: i dont that i is i...

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Interpretation. >> lets move on to another interpretation. >> heres what i know. i know that everybody, democrat and republican, campaign and noncampaign, has been focus grouping like crazy among undecided, working class white women. >> right. >> especially in places like ohio. but -- in every swing state, and what im told is that the republicans found, to their surprise, over recent weeks, that the welfare ad really worked with those women. now, they were surprised, because women dont, as often...

Better off than you were four years ago, the answer is yes. the economy is not falling off a cliff. were not losing 800,000 jobs a month. were actually gaining them, albeit in smaller numbers than youd like. the stock market has rebounded from its lows. there are lots of things that are better than they were four years ago. but the administration is taking this tentative approach, because of all the polling and the focus grouping and everything else. i suspect if president bush had tried that ap...

The stock market has rebounded from its lows. there are lots of things that are better than they were four years ago. but the administration is taking this tentative approach, because of all the polling and the focus grouping and everything else. i suspect if president bush had tried that approach in 2004, hed have seemed a lot weaker against john kerry. >> lets listen to a worry of james carvilles thats been getting a lot of attention. lets listen to. >> im worried that when the white house or ...

Well get a news conference. the white house has put out the news conference will be about the economy. no doubt that is where the president would like to keep this focus this morning so he can win points in that regard. you know the questions are all over the map, right? >>ter but the president is probably going to push his new point, congress is stopping him from doing some things about the economy right now. so his latest ad has been an attack on congress, not really on mitt romney but not on ...

Business. >> hey, tom, you must be the thinnest skinned guy in america. because you think thats a confrontational tone, then, you know, you should really see me when im pissed. >> youve got to explain this. and im going to be humble for five minutes. youre the pros. >> hes from jersey, dont forget that. >> why do people love, at least this week, this guy and the way he talks. most people on local television say, youre always right. hes saying to the public, basically, youre part of the problem. ...

Unfocused group phrase, right? a phrase that did not survive focus grouping. its not that he said something that sounded provocative, sounded off message. the problem is that corporations are people, my friend, it hits a nerve. and its a basic reason why, that corporations are not people and sometimes corporations are a lot more powerful than people and that can be a problem when corporate interests are the opposite of peoples interests. this is not an obscure idea. this is not even a controvers...