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Hes done well with blue collar workers and women. and mitt romney has a problem connecting with women and paul is great on the kitchen table issues that we are talking about. first time i am excited about going to tampa and hearing what he will say. >> you cant keep spend if you are a family at home you cant keep spending money you dont have. does congress and administration need to learn they have to do it differently? >> i think they do. and paul ryan is good at delivering that message. i agre...

Hamptons? really. so theyre concerned about real life kitchen table issues. and while obamacare does matter, i think the fact that the supreme court put down a ruling, while im disheartened that 41% of the people didnt know it, im not shocked. >> im not shocked either but in a more cynical way because half of the american public cannot name who the vice president is and half of the american public doesnt -- is that a fair assessment, too, that we can look at this cynically and say people arent p...

About the recall and the implications. >> this recall election has be portrayed as stirring up the base on both sides. really when it comes down to it, its about kitchen table issues. how families across the state assess what walker has done so far. walker touts almost $1 billion in cuts saying the money could be better used for kids in schools instead of gold plaited mentions. barrett said the cuts were draconian, extreme and will cripple the education system. how families across the state asse...

Divided, evenly divided along party lanes, favorable toward obama, having voted for obama. by election night they had moved considerably to republicans. so its interesting to see how theyre going to change if at all in 2012. >> 2008 they went obama. 2010 they went more to the right. why are these such an important group politically, though, neal? the walmart moms. are they really going to give you the winds of change and where things are going? >> alex, its a good question. these women are reall...

They havent given up hope on obama. but whats interesting is theyve lost the passion they had three years ago for him. and theres a sense that hes lost that passion as well. but theyre not throwing in the towel quite yet. >> did we find out anything about their position on the other partys candidates or the other party in general? >> you know whats interesting is i dont think these voters are paying a lot of attention to election politics yet. they are interested in kitchen table issues. putting...

Best know im as quick to praise as i am to criticize this president. >> same here. >> absolutely. because if you look at him on the face of the issues, on kitchen table issues, national security issues, hes got a lot out there in the public square for us to judge or not judge and at the end of the day when you look at what he has done this week from disasters in the middle seshtion ction of this c to capturing and killing osama bin laden in the middle east, what he has done between then and ther...

The columbian trade bill, it is outrageous. 51 labor leaders were assassinated last year in colombia. they either lacked the will or they lacked the ability to protect trade unionists and were going to see a trade bill come up. the korean trade bill, which is going to cost this country another 150, 160,000 jobs. >> which the president argues this will be good for job -- for long-term job creation, that in a global economy, these are important trade agreements. >> the labor movement is an indepen...

Virg benero, going to run for governor on the democratic ticket in michigan. i think virg benero is the kind of candidate kdemocrats need to get in 2010. he talks straight, hes focused on results. he talks about kitchen table issues. democrats need to remember that they, the democrats, not the republicans, are the party of people, the people that championed medicare and social security that just cant get scared because theres some phony tea party populism talk about there. it is still about the ...

Empowered his base? and frankly is that enough? >> sure. so i do agree that his base has been really frustrated by a lot of the noise around this. and they want to talk about substance. i have a lot of family and friends big support es of trump. they want to talk about tax reform and internet freedom that the president just helped pass with the gop. they want to talk about all the things at the policy level. just repealed the baumobamacare mandate. editorial board showed regulatory costs are goi...

That in this day and age, here in the state of bam, that a message of inclusiveness, a message of equality and dignity and respect and importantly messages of issues that are really at the end of the day, those issues that people care about. the kitchen table issues that we talked about that you guys have heard me preach about over and over. it has been an amazing night for us and an amazing day today. i have received calls from so many well-wishers, friends and family and also future colleagues...