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At the white house had with about 16 very top democratic strategists and the topic of health care came up. david plouffe said look, what weve learned in our focus groups is when we ask people about the health care law and supreme court decision, they say do i have to change my plan and if i dont, i dont really care. im not obsessed about this. im obsessed about my economic future, other issues. the white house has internalized that and you saw it consistent in the presidents remarks yesterday. ...

Well, health care, as i mentioned, represents one-sixth of our economy, so what will todays supreme court decision mean for small businesses, for your employer, for our jobs crisis and our economy? right after this break we will be joined by special guest mike carvin. hes come for the national federation of independent businesses. he is the man who argued against the health care overhaul before the high court. he are join us with his perspective on what this means for businesses. and the most ...

welcome, everybody. "starting point" this morning is the historic day for the supreme court this morning at 10:00 eastern time well find out the fate of president obamas health care law. it is a law that will affect every american in this country. we have coverage from all angles this morning. the team, the former senior advisor to bill clinton and worked for the administration when president clinton was proposing his health care reform plan in 1993. dr. sanjay gupta is with us, cnns c...

I watched amazing focus groups and two things came out on that. one, the concept of what mitt romney really has done with his record has broke through. they understand, jobs have gone overseas, factories have shut down. that has broken through. the other thing that was really interesting is when you looked at it in a comparative, they say, well, heres what i think about president obama and things are not necessarily better. im not sure whos got the exact right plan but are we going to actually s...

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Against the base. we havent seen -- >> mitts a good dadded. seems to be a good man. but on the campaign trail he does seem mechanical. >> he simply never goes against his focus groups. thats, you know, or the base. republican party base. can i say something -- >> who does? >> well -- >> barack obama? >> obama hasnt either. you know who did was george w. bush. on things like social security. and the iraq war. >> you got to give george w. bush credit. he wasnt against his base, supporting the auto...

Water and not caring about kids with down syndrome, hes losing his like ability. this is not hopeful, up beat, not red america, blue america, but hes losing. >> and this is the guy that was supposed to make the whole world love us and that hasnt happened either. its gone down. >> its embarrassing. >> i know. >> i sit through a lot of focus groups and a lot of different place was some pretty tough in some pretty tough rooms for democrats and one thing the president has is his like ability. who do...

Water and not caring about kids with down syndrome, hes losing his like ability. this is not hopeful, up beat, not red america, blue america, but hes losing. >> and this is the guy that was supposed to make the whole world love us and that hasnt happened either. its gone down. >> its embarrassing. >> i know. >> i sit through a lot of focus groups and a lot of different place was some pretty tough in some pretty tough rooms for democrats and one thing the president has is his like ability. who do...

>> you know, i think thats definitely happened. theres some signs it is happening. i went to watch two focus groups called these walmart moms. which are moms that shop at walmart. one group in richmond, virginia, and the other in las vegas. the only thing they really knew about mitt romney was what they had learned in these negative ads that run about him and said things like he fired people and shipped jobs overseas. and it is an effort, i think, by the obama campaign to chip away at the creden...

Matter. i think this poll does matter a great deal. just like those clinton/doll polls mattered in 96 during this time. you knew it was going to be an uphill battle for doll. the much bigger question is, when people go to the voting booth in november, is it going to be a referendum? is it going to be do we -- because we all say well, all said for a -- weve all said for a long time, people walk in the booth to decide if theyre going to rehire the guy or fire him. >> our poll confirms with the foc...