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Are my taxes going up on the 1st or not? >> they are. >> they are, one way or the other. people in the country the way they pay for christmas, focus groups heard this over and over, take out a loan to buy presents, against what they think theyll get back in tax returns to pay back that loan. for those people, all of this dance, we joke, and it is funny and ridiculously childish and high school, maybe junior high, its scary for people on outside saying -- >> the personal approval rating is 9%, up...

When a fish show starts, the crowd -- >> wow! i hope nobody actually catches that reference. >> the crowd starts yelling. no, theres nothing there. the crowd starts yelling, stand up, look up on stage, no, nobodys there. you have to go through three or four of those. you have to have three or four walkouts and get closer to real crisis levels and then the band finally cops on stage. >> the tailgating outside fiscal cliff deals is incredible. >> and the sad part, for the american people who are w...

Presidential campaign showed clearly to me the absolute defining moment was the third debate on foreign policy. it showed that the american people do not want to go to war again. the two candidates, romney and obama, were identical in expressing quite restrained policies. the iranians watched that. they know that even romney who was, you know, banging the drum for tough action against iran a few months before had read the polls, that had his focus groups meet. in terms of the credibility of your...

Jim messina said the candidate they were most worried about initially was jon huntsman and were happy to see they didnt make it through the primary process. >> thats right. that was part of the reason they originally took him into the administration. and one of the reasons was, their focus groups were showing them that there was a big appeal for a bipartisan candidate. thats why david axelrod told me in an interview that one of the mistakes the romney campaign made was not pushing the bipartisan...

Under mitch mcconnell, saying the republican party has a brand problem and a tactical problem. and the republican national chairman, reince priebus, saying in a presentation to senate republicans yesterday that the republican party needs to do a deep dive on what did wrong. they need to look at more of a 50-state strategy like democrats had. they are going to do focus groups on the republican message. and theyre going to talk to state chairmen, donors, outside groups to figure out how they can m...

Campaign made. and he told us that he had expected that back january, february, march before the obama campaign really had its footing, that the republican outside groups, the super pacs, would really hammer president obama on deficit deficits, kind of put him in a hole on that, and set the narrative of what axelrod said he was afraid of, a gold watch strategy, setting the idea that president obama was an historic figure. he was a good guy, but he just didnt get it done. on the other hand, axelr...

Policy and its bad for patients. >> the 2012 election, though, was a demographic wake-up call for the republican party. now the party is getting advice from all sides, from those determined to rebrand the gop and others still uncertain it needs fixing. the committee is beginning a series of polls, focus groups and outreach meetings about its message and mechanics with the focus on latino voters. carlos gutierrez said that this isnt coming soon enough. >> mitt romney made some mistakes. i think m...

Focus groups will tell you, people hate negative ads, and then they work. as for center right to center left, i actually dont believe that. i think were a centrist country. i think that with the republicans are going to have to do is what we democrats had to do back in the late 80s, which is look in the mirror and say what changes do we have to make and how has the country changed? and frankly, the tent is going to have to get bigger. i remember lee atwater and others saying, years and years ago...

>> its not just that straight a line. as you know, ive worked on the walmart moms for the last year, ive watched a lot of focus groups and walmart moms in that project are by definition a women with a child under 18 and shopped at walmart in the last month. what you see among these women is a desire for details and how it ties to the economy. and so when you look up and say these last two weeks are about the economy, what it means, thats true. and when you hear something like happening in the mo...

Points over -- thats four percentage points over president obama, and with the clock ticking down until voters head to the polls, every minute, every second on the campaign trail could be critical. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com live. chris, hello from dallas. >> hi, megyn. meg and lets -- im still thinking about boca even though ive maneuvered over to -- moved over to dallas. [laughter] but these two candidates are eyes on the roa...