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Trust people that the democrats are doing better with the economy and, about, its starting to do better. >> the right track/wrong track question is critical especially going into a midterm election when enthusiasm is important and turnout is critical. >> thats the drive. and, again, if you have a liberal base that is a little bit down, maybe because of unemployment or maybe it was because they didnt think they got enough out of their democratic majority, whether its the health care bill or upset...

Through that would create a path for citizenship and also on the borders. but theres also a political impulse here in that they feel this is a good way to show the latino community that theyre fighting for their issues they care about. if you look at the polling data, including a really interesting poll from gallup this week, it shows a huge intensity gap in the base. democrats know they need to do better with minority voters. a lot of voters that might not show up in an off-year congressional r...

The real debate would be, do you want this health care plan the congress propose d or a new pla. weve had a year of debate and come to public judgment. public judgment is about half and in some polls more than half the public decided they dont like the plan and the intensity. those people who oppose the plan are by 2 to 1 more opposed than those who strongly favor. that intensity gap is part of whats driving this debate and makes the president and congresss job so difficult to try to pass this b...

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We have. and the facts are the facts. the mayor and any other supporters can say anything they want about the process. but they cannot undermine the fact that more than 150,000 employers by law are required to provide that information to the state and we are required to provide it to the federal governments bureau of labor statistics. thats wawe have done for our lie detector deadline and the numbers are good. >> >> greta: and two polls have you in a six-point lead over the mayor. heres what i t...

We have. and the facts are the facts. the mayor and any other supporters can say anything they want about the process. but they cannot undermine the fact that more than 150,000 employers by law are required to provide that information to the state and we are required to provide it to the federal governments bureau of labor statistics. thats wawe have done for our lie detector deadline and the numbers are good. >> >> greta: and two polls have you in a six-point lead over the mayor. heres what i t...

>> was that in chicago suburbs? >> yeah. if i were in mitt romney camp, saw poll numbers like that, 36, 37, 31, i would be damn scared because rick santorum continues to outperform his polling numbers. i think theres a good reason why. the intensity gap. if on tuesday, you look out the window, it looks like it may be a chance of rain, the romney voters say oh, i dont think so. but the santorum voters say oh, biblical reign? this makes sense. im going to the polls. >> i love it. lets look. here i...

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Laden was temporary, as most of us figured it would. this month in our poll hes back below 50. just 29% believe the country is in the right direction. 62% think the nation is in the wrong direction. joan, you know, most of the time when you have that telling number about right direction/wrong direction, a lot of us believe thats the key number in politics. but yet hes in pretty good shape compared to that. hes not in great shape, more popular than unpopular, but those numbers about the state of ...