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Primary, so it will be interesting to see how he rolls up his sleeves and gets in there and fights for votes. where there are voters who -- when he was running for senate, he had a united front against ted cruise. now that vote is split up and you have 13 candidates. all trying to divide the same pie up. it will be interesting to see how he maneuvers especially since he doesnt really like to get that partisan. >> thank you for that reporting. valuable to hear, as was michael scheerer. thank you ...

Demographic there that could really help them in standing out in what is already a crowded field. youre seeing them do that in different ways. beto orourke, while hes not announced anything. hes been e-mailing people to talk about those issues. he hasnt been active on social media. youre seeing different ways of doing that. for some of the candidates this is the way to reach that audience here in austin. >> thank you. i want to bring in congressional reporter for the washington post and new york...

For a final answer. joe biden. michael, your newspaper reports, biden is 95% committed to running according to sources familiar with the discussions. whats stopping him? >>. >> i think the first major hurdle that biden had to get over with is a family hurdle. were told thats now past, his children, his wife. everyone in the family wants him to run. that was probably the biggest thing he needed to get past. there are still questions. can he raise the kind of money that some of these younger polit...

Himself a sui generous figure or is he a kiclintonian figure? >> i addressed some of this. the "r" word, realignment, is something that people are talking about. there was a reagan realignment, and basically you could argue that this is finally the end of the reagan realignment, and theres a kind of obama realignment now. so the question is, is this realignment inheritable? one of the things michael discovered with all of the work that he did with the numbers crunchers is that they started to fi...

I just remember that my dad used to repair television sets when i was a little, little kid for extra money. and so we -- i guess we were one of the first people on our block in our neighborhood to have a television set. >> oh, really? >> back in the early 50s. i know the same thing happened then that happens now. if there was a really funny sid caesar sketch on shows, that was the conversation by, i guess, the sparklets cooler. that was the conversation. so television has always had that draw. a...

Alternative to mitt romney. if that hasnt happened yet, why would it happen tomorrow or two weeks or a month from now? >> michael, before we go on on this, why are they giving up the conservatives? they look like theyre laying down for romney now. what happened to the tea party? the anger and excitement that they really want a real winger out there for them. instead are now outsourcing it in to this guy. >> you cant say theyve given up because in florida he was outspent 5-1. and nevada is a pecu...

The negative ad onslaught he faced starting in iowa but not ending there. lets watch. >> you cant unilaterally disarm in a world where someone is willing to be aggressor. i stayed relentlessly positive in iowa and lost 22 points. its a fact, and if you arent willing to stand and fight, then you have to get out of the race. >> lets take a look at the places where newt gingrich hopes to win. hes talking about winning in georgia and tennessee on super tuesday. and in alabama and mississippi. missou...

Proabortion, pro gun control, pro tax increase and who ranked third from the bottom in creating jobs in the four years he was governor. >> but is newts campaign about winning the nomination or tearing mitt romney down and keeping him from winning the election? perhaps both. jim is executive editor for politico and michael scheerer for "time" magazine. it seems to me, sure, hes mad at the other guy. who aint. well get into that in a minute. nobody wants to admit theyre mad. he may have a coup sho...

Rewind." >> from governor chris christie to bradley cooper, colin powell to julia louis-dreyfus. another great year of great guests. all morning well entry you interviews and discussions of the year. >> we begin with a much anticipated issue of "time" and the 2012 person of the year. who is it, rick? >> unfurl. >> our person of the year for 2012 is president barack obama. >> thats a shock. >> this beautiful photograph. we were in the white house last wednesday. obama posed for a picture, and the...

Statistics, is he the first president since fdr to win with a majority of the vote in consecutive terms. he did that, you know, against an unemployment rate that was higher than anybody has ever won against except for roosevelt, 75 years ago. and i think the -- you know, part of what our story did, michael scheerer really was the first person to write about, you know, the data crunchers in the obama campaign. but all that showed, it wasnt just about demography, but it was about how the country r...