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Up the whole gun control issue. britain, australia, theyve had their massacres and they interacted sensible gun control and they havent had any since. i talked to the prime minister, and she said, heres the difference. its about leadership when it comes to gun issues. but the system is different. in australia, voting and elections is compulsory. that means that everybody goes. it means that politics are in the main screen and therefore sensible -- >> lets not go down the gun control debate. in t...

Sandy hook, to try to even just enforce and put more moneys and more meat behind some of the laws we had with respect to i.d.ing people and registering guns. >> and what happened? >> and that was brought by somebody, a very conservative democrat out of west virginia, someone who understands gun culture. senator manchin. and they couldnt get the votes in the senate and if they couldnt in the senate, certainly would not pass in the house. so clearly the congress is not structured today, as it stan...

Hearing about the losses they -- having -- after stand your ground, obviously you went to see sort of what you could see in terms of the process of how they do what they do. >> mm-hmm. >> but did you have any sort of preconceived ideas based on the fact that theyve lost both corporate members as well as state legislators? >> i mean, there had been anecdotal information. i think until "the guardian" got ahold of these documents, i think everybody was is surprised at the extent to which theyd real...

The nation where or state where its extremely strict, you can always find somebody who is unethical who will eventually sell it to you, and thats what happened. so we have to hit this issue on multiple issues. we have to deal with the violence in our society and the fact that we are raising kids on shoot em ups and games that are involving killing people, we have to change the way we think about mental illness since the reagan administration, the number of psychiatric beds has gone down by ten t...

Through media training. house republican strategists, in their media training, are putting an emphasis on learning how to answer questions that theyre going to get about abortion, about rape, and not make the gaffe that you just played before. in addition to that, what were told that they are encouraging republican candidates to do, both genders, is to have more events in and around womens issues, to have a womens coalition and not just have like one event per election season as some of these me...

They did it together. those who did it together lost twice as much weight as those who did it alone and got twice as healthy. it wasnt a weight loss program. it was about the science of creating health. the weight loss was a side effect. they supported each other, they helped each other, they cooked together, they shopped together, they exercised together. they were there when they had issues and troubles and struggles to support each other and get back on track. thats the power of community. th...

Around gun issues, you have to inform people about all the issues and sometimes the minority because theyre well resourced can get messaging out that that distorts what the actual issues are. yes, pennsylvania has a lot of veterans, were pro veterans in the state. that doesnt mean that pennsylvania is pro war. but war is sold to constituents as not what they really are. the iraq war was that, afghanistan was that, and the reason why we cant get the proper sort of political cache around -- >> mic...

Right side of -- right wing side of things. >> if you want to win, you need to take popularing positions. and also the priority and tone. and for a lot of voters, women in particular, theyre thinking why are these issues a top priority? then theres also the tone. cuccinelli, hes been all over the place. but before that he was a real crusader. that tone turns a lot of women off. candidates on both parties who want to be successful need to think about are they really demonstrating they are speakin...

You know, some of them very progressive positions on gun issues, for example. certainly on womens issues, hes spoken very clearly and very explicitly about what he wont do when hes governor of the commonwealth of virginia. so i think terry deserves a lot of credit for having run a very disciplined campaign, both in message and in organization. i think he learned the from his misstep four years ago and thats what you want to see in a politician. you want to see the capacity to grow. terry has sho...

And i think the republicans are going to pay a very heavy price for that next tuesday. >> you know, we have -- you talk about sort of the gender gap there. you have the latest poll, "washington post"/abc news has mcauliffe winning by 24 points among women. i think back to four years ago, mcauliffe, his national reputation, he was a bungler. sort of a d.c. big pun guy. he ran four years ago in virginia, got trounced in the democratic primary. you know, i hear theres a writer for "new york" magazi...