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And equating voting and sex. >> i want to see the kid rock ad. sorry. >> george, you have done political reporting and you did it in 2004. >> no, 8. >> im sorry, in 2008. it seems to me that the country has changed. the democrats conception has changed insofar as theyre willing to do that ad. >> right. i grew up in the 70s and the 80s when social issues were all for the republicans and democrats tried to avoid them. it seems things have turned. now democrats whenever the subject of women comes u...

>> good morning from new york, im chris hayes. richard kim, lynn, george pack ner from "the new yorker" magazine and sylvia. we were talking as we have ten days until the election theres still some room for some movement in the polls i think theres still some room to move for people who are undecided. were talking about that tiny cohort, small sliver of the electorate who are undecided. were talking about when we left what effect that has on our politics. this is something i think about a lot as...

In the last few weeks tells you two things. one, that unlike 2004, this is not a, you know, divide the country into two and hope that you have 50 plus one election. that was karl roves strategy and it worked. i dont think thats what republicans are trying to do now. theyre trying to grab the middle. the other thing it tells you, republicans dont feel that their true positions have the country. george bush didnt have to conceal his positions in 2004 and he won. they have to conceal them to win. t...

Been so much better than they are. >> think about the counter factual. youre saying the obama campaign should be saying, youre going to be so much better off than you are. think about that. and thats a really tough campaign to run. >> thats because the status quo is mired in this frustrating kind of low-level fever. its not that the country is, you know, in crisis. were not priests. were not about to pitch over the abyss. >> right. thats why this election has been passionless and why its being f...

Are just cultural or social issues. when you think about that, who should pay for what, you start to get into social and cultural. >> can you control your reproductive health is an i shall issue. can you leave them your inheritance. thats interesting as well. whats interesting is we tend to overreact in american political journalism to the latest, you know, whatever happened recently. george w. bushs fairly narrow victory in 2004 if you look at it, particularly for an incumbent, was a sign that ...

Are going to happen. right now i am joined by richard kim, my colleague at "the nation magazine." anna marie cox. the u.s. version of the guardian. george pack ner, staff writer for "the new yorker" and author of a fascinating story in next weeks issue about a former lobbyist who has become disillusioned. a we are ten days away from the presidential election. president obama seems to be steadily regaining a narrow lead, a lead he held over mitt romney before the presidential debates began earl...