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Candidate president obama wants to run again. thank god we have the right people here. howard fine man, his titles get longer and more impressive, and they should, and chris cillizza. ? focus groups they did off the presidents speech, they think that the hot rhetoric of perry and the sort of lets change all

>> lets talk about that. it seems like every day this week, it was paul ryan, maybe, then it was chris christie, was he conducts focus groups, turns out he wasnt conducting focus groups for 2012. what does that tell us about what the republican -- >> mitt romney has been running since 2008, hes been running since 2006 for the presidency. they still havent come around for him. he still has an issue to win over that establishment, why? because of health care. we saw a little bit of that with his h...

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Started a company called rent the runway. they think business plans are a waste of time. they believe in just testing. they would have focus groups to test their demographic, what their pricing would be. i dont think you should throw the business plan out the window. i think you should still have that. i think this is a very smart approach. >> can you test too much? >> you can. then you never launch anything and you become in limbo. what i would say about the whole question about the testing pie...

Happens in the next while. hes a favorite of the tea party with things like his fair tax proposal, reform of entitlements, saying he doesnt want to raise the debt ceiling. but should michelle bachman get into the race, that could change his support among the tea party. one thing is for sure. frank luntz pointed this out. he runs the focus groups during the debate. said in a retail politic state, like iowa and new hampshire, he could do very well. he predicts long-term harm may take third in iowa...

The advice from the loud left, would it have worked politically? >> it probably would not have worked politically, if were talking about the independents. which is the group that the white house needs to win back. and the independents did not want that kind of fighting, if you look at focus groups and polling. they wanted washington to focus on how to get the economy going again. the stimulative pieces of this are a part of a reaction to that. the independents wanted an end to some of the fighti...

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Smart because theyre not paying as much attention or you democrats need to stop whining, is that the solution? >> i think the vice president was talking about a particular phenomenon on my side of the aisle which is the left. you have a number of prognosticators saying that the president hasnt been progressive enough and at a time when we have had bold, fundamental change and other issues that have been really hard in this election cycle so i think the vice president had a real message which is ...