clustered there, which one of them is best positioned to make a run at biden for the lead in this race? you don t know and that s why you run campaigns because at some point at some point someone s going to have to make a move and we don t know. you have biden, who, look, and i don t think and i think bidensbiden is vulnerable. he s the front-runner but he s vulnerable. he s at 1/3 of the vote in a lot of these polls. 72% of the democratic voters already know and already like him. so he s really underperforming from where he is. the voters are still shopping around. on that enthusiasm measure, i think that s why this is important. i ll go back to the conversation you had with chris in dayton, you know, obama carried dayton by, you know hillary underperformed obama in dayton by four points. you know, trump only overperformed romney by one point. so there are a lot of those obama voters who we failed to consolidate and we failed to engage and bring them enthusiastically back. tha
mean, tpp was probably for that. he was definitely for nafta. all the democrats were pretty much pro-trade, at least at the top back in the 90s. to clintons, all of them were pro-nafta. hillary i don t think was pro-nafta. she turned against tpp eventually. sherrod brown is probably better fixed to represent this state as a senator. he s a very tough guy on trade, as we know. bobby casey in pennsylvania. the rust belt states, if you will, they re represented by democrats, debbie stabenow, who are very tough on the trade issue. they re more attuned than maybe biden. i bet biden switches on this. if he wants to stick with the rather, get the working class voter, the working person out here, the woman and the man, depend on trade to change to start picking up some of this industrial market, he s going to have to shift as well. you know, you guys on the ground there were talking to some voters in dayton. let me just play a clip of this. some of the voters there about the president s b
all of a sudden you re off to the races. i think a lot of these other people you mentioned are going to have trouble playing in iowa. let me go back to you on that, david. from the other point of view, progressive point of view. i don t think anybody going to beat hillary in the current environment, the economy. nobody is going to beat hillary i don t think. she s not going to have to take the heat for the economy, where she can benefit from the clinton economy from the 90s. she s got a lot of horses going for her politically. if they re going to put together a candidate who will get at least 45%, 47% of the vote and not get blown away, scott walker is the kind of candidate who can do it or rubio. two words about scott walker. rick perry. or sarah palin. these are both governors touted as the wonderful candidates once upon time. until you get out there and start mixing it up, there s no way of knowing. scott walker, you know, had this very
to come out of iowa? there s going to be three, four people out of it. if it was today, you d have rand paul, rick santorum, and you would have scott walker. all of them fit the bill of somebody who will resonate all across the state and do well and all of a sudden you re off to the races. i think a lot of these other people you mentioned are going to have trouble playing in iowa. let me go back to you on that, david. from the other point of view, progressive point of view. i don t think anybody going to beat hillary in the current environment, the economy. nobody is going to beat hillary i don t think. she s not going to have to take the heat for the economy, where she can benefit from the clinton economy from the 90s. she s got a lot of horses going for her politically. if they re going to put together a candidate who will get at least 45%, 47% of the vote and not get blown away, scott walker is the kind of candidate who can do it or rubio. two words about scott walker. rick per
i think it will be somebody younger. around here we say democratic candidate, by the way. you said democrat. i could say progressive if that makes everybody happy. anyway, we re putting this guy down. i want to remember this. hillary ain t running and neither is the other guy, who s not running. biden is not going to get the nomination. he s not going to run i don t think, if hillary runs. i think chris christie is running, going through this operation and this national exposure, i think he s running and i think he would be a great candidate to watch. i don t know if he s too east coast. thank you. david corn. you got your little thing in there for rick, by the way. up next, can a politician ever come back after being a punch line? talk about a punch line. rick perry. oops. they said never say the word oops in the operating room. we ll be right back.