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Rollout was bad. then they worked on lets fix what is broken and keep what is working, no substance behind that, just rhetoric. >> anger over obamacare help to lead to a big in for be republicans in florida, but karl rove says dont pop the campagna yet. why he is warning that he thinks they should not be too confident about the midterm.

Obama presidency to be over if youre in corporate america. thif t i think republicans are running against the argument whether obama is legitimate as president any more and what they are running hard against, that government is too big and too onerous and the health care is the symbol of that and we have kind of lost our way. there is a kind of unified case that republicans are making that has a lot of traction right now. what the president is saying is theres lots wrong with that argument. ther...

Challenges the administration is facing heading toward the midterm and how obamacare. what is the cycle of negativity the administration is facing and would it be a since of foreboding about a growing foreign policy crisis that is looming that people dont perceive the gravity of? >> perhaps. except i think that is also an area of real vulnerability for the president. >> how so? >> i think the people look at the president in doubt whether he has a unified theory of foreign policy right now and ho...

The land of lincoln and doerksen, president obama and a lot of governors who went to prison. well dive into the states legendary machine politics, the culture of corruption and urban/rural evolution that foretold what happened to a lot of other states. you wont want to miss that. from the land of lincoln to the granite state, thats the first stop in our "data bank." the number is 493. thats how many days its been since scott brown lost the senate race to elizabeth warren. now theres word hes f...

Republicans and democrats, what do you learn about obamacare playing a role in the next election by look at tuesdays election? >> democrats are in disarray, brian, about what to do. you remember the democrat, alex sink, ran on hey, obamacare is basically good, but lets fix it. the parts that dont work, lets fix it. well, we saw how that fixed her in the election. it didnt work. now democrats really dont know what to do. do they defend it outright? do they try and avoid it entirely? do they conti...

>> yes. >> thanks, steve. i wouldnt mind if someone yelled out the answer. ed henry asked that question of jay carney, about the minimum wage, looking at what just happened with the overtime. listen to this exchange. >> jay, this focus today, women and the economy, minimum wage, overtime pay increases, all important policy areas as was discussed. but will you also acknowledge these are also issues that test pretty well in an election year and a lot better to focus on than say the health care num...

Midterm -- >> its already devastating. >> these -- one of the major elements was, im a strong supporter of the president, and its a major 20, 25-point negative, and people say i dont want to vote for that candidate. thats what a midterm election is about. these numbers, we talked about it last november and december saying the presidents numbers dont go up, it will be a very difficult year for democrats, and were going to have a strong republican year. >> we have much more about the health care p...

Democrat. this gave the party is a sense of what it means to run a race in a clean district in this election year and they really were clear they were looking mostly at independence. they will be analyzing those in particular. all in all more than $11 million were spent on this race and what is my blogging about that number is it a race to fill a congressional seat for eight months. we will all be watching this swing district once again in novembers midterm. >> thanks. we will be right back.

We want to get you caught up on the big political story of day, a big loss for democrats in a special election in floridas 13th district that could mean some soul-searching ahead of this years midterms. republican david jolly, a former lobbyist, narrowly beat alex zing. jolly managed a win. the clearwater-st. petersburg area is a swing district where president obama won by 5,000 votes in 2012. democrat alex sink was considered a strong candidate but it was not enough to win and that has democrat...

Nonsense. if that is the case, what was the effect of that and that rhetoric and that dialogue on the voters in floridas 13th district? >> well, first of all, sink and jolly really didnt control the campaign. there was so much outside spending, $9 million from outside groups. those were the ones overwhelmingly on tv, and their messages were overwhelmingly negative, and on the republican side, it was overwhelmingly shes a cheerleader for obamacare, shes a cheerleader for obama, a liberal. and on ...