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Republicans favored, they thought it would give them the edge and its hurt the brand in the short-term and forced them in a position where their probable front-runner that has had to move to a position that upsets the voters that he need s in november. the youth, hispanics, women, independents. who is left? >> mark, i want to have your comments on this with an op-ed in the new york time s this week, im rooting for rick santorum to win the republican nomination, if santorum is the nominee, the pa...

How do you peel about -- feel about the michigan win? >> we feel great, it was another case of voters taking a look at mitt romney and saying i guess. >> the stars may be lining up for mitt romney but as they do storm clouds are swirling for his party. oh, my, somebody numbers to unpack. mark, we were talking a bit about the new nbc poll that is out that show romney is climbing up there. he has a 38% and santorum at 32% and gingrich at 13% and paul at 13%, and yet, his numbers in favor ability i...

>> there is. bill maher is going back and digging up old clips of her when she was on "politically incorrect." theyre good ones for punch lines. >> sure. >> apparently she said she dabbled in witch craft. >> i did that. >> like most republicans in the 1990s, it was the thing to do. >> you did, also? you had your coven? >> here is krista free land, editor for global reuters. >> it was like harry potter. the freshmen republicans that came in in 94, seriously. lets turn to some serious news. by tha...

Everybody is cheering, and here comes rove dumping on her the way you would expect moveon.org, why doesnt rove just shut up? >> just what i said. she has some personal problems. >> thats not the truth. >> thats the job of the opposition. what is rove doing trashing hills own nominee now? >> i think when you have a candidate that is severely flaw you might want to say it and have some conviction about your party. >> -- a democrat going after teddy kennedy for what happened. >> here is the deal. k...

Tissue? crybaby. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> continue now with the exploding shirley sherrod controversy. mark halprin has this to say about this. >> its clear to me that the white houses war against fox news, theyve lost that war. and they are now weak and vulnerable to it in a way that is not just unbecoming but that is, as you said, panicky. >> mr. morris, now, hes full of you know what because the white house made its

It up for us, cal. >> first of all, the president was set up to say this by matt lauer who used the word butt-kicking and the president took it to the next level. >> and suggesting he didnt think the president was sufficiently angry, but the media is complicit in this. theyre the ones that built him into a kryptonite defying superman. he was the man, he said it himself. lower the waters and he could even walk on water, including in his-- as far as many of the press were concerned, but now, it ap...

That was president obama in a web video message for the democrat national committee that they hope will rally supporters to bring in $50 million in the plan they will spend to get out the vote in november. how are they going to do it, spend $50 million to get the young people to vote? former virginia governor tim kaine is chairman of the democratic national committee and "time" magazine mark halprin, co-author of "game change." his latest column is about president obama and the 2010 election. ge...

Normally. this last time was an exception. this coming november wont be an exception. how do you get young people to vote? >> this plan as it is designed and as they plan to execute it including employing the president is no crazier than the notion you could bring out new voters in the iowa caucuses in 2008. a lot of people were skeptical of that. you have to give the operation a benefit of the doubt that they now how to energize these people in an off year employing most importantly the preside...

Seriously. what the president said in the video is our plan, chris, in the midterm. we have to energize voters across the spectrum but were focused heavily on the first-time voters from 2008. and we just know who they are. there was about 15 million people that registered and we were part of registering them for the first time in 2008 and its an electorate in that group of 15 million that are heavily young, heavily new americans and minority voters and women. thats just who they are. this is a g...

If they make a faux pas, they aid poll jazz to their knees in the next 24 hours. hes the leader of the party. hes tribal. >> theyre trying to stoke that up. anybody who stood up to rush, 15 names. and they caved within five minutes. hes trying to whip up that kind of feeling. mark is right. mark assessed this pretty correctly. >> using race? >> are they using race? >> theyre using a lot of emotions and a lot of motions out there. heres the good news. the republicans are not negative angry people...