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After your victory in the 2010 mid-terms, now its your turn to cave on tax rates. >> listen, whats the difference where the money comes from? we put $800 billion worth of revenue, which is what hes asking for, out of eliminating the top two tax rates. but heres the problem, chris. when you go and increase tax rates, you make it more difficult for our economy to grow. half of that income is small business income. its going to get taxed at a higher rate. as a result we are going to see slower econ...

After your victory in the 2010 mid-terms, now its your turn to cave on tax rates. >> listen, whats the difference where the money comes from? we put $800 billion worth of revenue, which is what hes asking for, out of eliminating the top two tax rates. but heres the problem, chris. when you go and increase tax rates, you make it more difficult for our economy to grow. half of that income is small business income. its going to get taxed at a higher rate. as a result we are going to see slower econ...

It was their company. >> jamal, the issues is going to be though, they have done this incredible job electing, and then re-electing barack obama. >> right. >> when they tried to apply this to an election that didnt have barack obama on the ballot -- >> thats right. >> weve had this experiment. it was called the 2010 mid-terms. it didnt work. can this become transferable to -- and become the democratic partys method for the next decade? >> yes. the way i would look at it, i would look at the way ...

Again today she didnt do it. is she finished with leader? >> thats a good question. thats going to be the question over the next several days. nancy pelosi put in a lot of effort. she is a great fundraiser for the democratic party. there was speculation that this would be the last. i know she wanted obama to win a second term. very happy obama won a second term. but for house democrats it would have been better had romney won. in two years, usually mid-term elections are not kind to the presiden...

Very forgiving and we all had rough nights. if he had come out and said as he said after the 2010 mid-terms. i took a thumping. >> you have one job, to win. a president has got a larger job. but this president has one job and that this his terms to win at all costs. they have seen this strategy of demonization works. we are going back to something that has produced results and thats why they are doing it. megyn: why do you say that coming from the top? you see these top political advisers. hes a...

Republicans than in a state like texas. >> we are showing 38% democrats and 26% republicans. megyn: i want to talk about your past performance. with regard to the 2008 presidential election. fordham political scientists did an analysis of 23 polling estimations. rasmussen and pew were perfectly in agreement with the actual election result. you got it right. in 2010, the congressional mid-terms you predicted the republicans would gain 50 seats in the house. they won 47 in the senate. and same thi...

That is how you play the game. >> dana: toward mid-terms in 2010, whenmcconnell, the leader of the senate, republican, what is your goal? any goal is help defeat president obama in 2012. everybody was like oh, my gosh, they were outraged on the floor, kicking and screaming that somebody said that. all i could think of is right, that is what he is supposed to. do he didnt say it on inauguration day. he said it a week before the mid-term elections in 2010. >> bob: but what he didnt say is deal wit...

Cuyahoga community college right after the 2010 mid-terms. in that speech he was mocking the fact that republican leader in the house john boehner had just been in the cleveland area framing that mid-term election talking about the economy. at that time the president said there were no new policies from mr. boehner, there were no new ideas. interesting because in the runup to the presidents speech today his ownized said we should d his own aides said we should no expect no new policies from the ...

>> it depends on how deep you want to go. one amazing one one the mid-term election. its a disaster. first of all, we doom the house to run forever and raise money forever. they never stop raising money. thus, special interest never lose their grasp on them. the house is permanently in campaign mode. thats a terrible thing for our society. but the second thing is, by not coordinating these election, you have a mid-term where most of the country ignores it, doesnt show up. a particular aggrieved ...

Then well get a decision on the thing in june which would be still in the news cycle around july. is that enough time from november that this will be in the veer view? >> if the supreme court uphold the land it it continues to be unpopular one would think the arguments would tend to make it more unpopular. if it is affirmed and goes forward it will stand out as this giant liability for the president that hes going to have to deal with. i think between now and the time that verdict is rendered th...