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Like if you like your plan you can keep it and thats trouble for the white house who is trying to get people to believe in this law and they started out with an uphill battle to get people to believe in it and six weeks or so after the rollout it was very difficult for the law, for the president and for the administration. they need everything they can do at this point to get people to feel confident in the law and to get more people to sign up for this because if people dont sign up, it doesnt ...

View of congress than an institution. >> when you talk about whats going to shape the dialogue going into the midterms, obvi s obviously top of the list will be obamacare. should probably be jobs but theyll be joined at the hip. what do you see in terms of how this dialogue may evolve between now and lets say the summer stretch? >> yes. well, look, the short term political prognosis for the obama health care plan is not good in public opinion. the numbers have been getting worse. theres a stark ...

Think the extremism exists in both parties. i think thats why across the board with republicans, independents and democrats, people are saying, enough already. you have a number of people who have really vetoed or had the opportunity to shut down sensible republican bills coming over from the house dealing with energy, dealing with environment, dealing with health care and trying to find a way to move forward to make sure people arent harmed by the affordable health care act. >> heres -- >> wait...

>> approval ratings are abysmal. one of the new cnn/orc poll results. registered voters asked, are you more likely to vote for a candidate who supports the president or opposes the president? look at this. 40% said, supports the president. 55% said, they want to vote for a candidate in the midterm elections who opposes the president. voters very much against the president now how is this going to fare for democrats? are they in danger because of the sentiment of losing the senate? >> its definit...

Control of the senate in addition to the house which they already control. lets look at the midterms, at 2014. do you think we kind of keep a status quo or do you think theres a real chance that republicans could win the senate? >> theres a real chance the republicans could inwith the senate for a variety of reasons. first of all, six years in is historically the midterm of a second term presidency is historically difficult for the presidents party. second, were living through this enormous dive...

Months of 2013 were due to the rollout of the health care law. all the negative stories, one after the other, and a better health care or website, a better functioning law, some success stories to point to could end up helping president obama maybe get up to the mid-40s, even the high 40s. a president obama at 48% versus at 43% is a different of night and day for a democratic party and democrats who will be out in 2014. >> mark, quickly, the gop, we have watched them sort of have this ideologica...

To obamacare that the administration mass made the last several weeks. it is throwing the insurance industry into absolute turmoil. never mind addressing the fundamental questions of the long-term problems of the debt spiral some kay we could be heading in if i dont have enough healthy young people supporting cost of elderly and affirmed. if the tweaks continue so does uncertainty over obamacare. here is glenn hubbard again. >> i think the uncertain over health care costs regulation and how the ...

Doing something anti a person who has been working for him while the opposition is pushing for it. so there needs to be some breathing space between, say, kathleen sebelius and the rollout before the president might look and say, hey, you know, its time for you to go spend more time with your family or other big names. its clear he needs fresh blood which is not unusual for a president going into a midterm that he, as david points out, desperately would love to see gains on capitol hill. >> davi...

Mobility pose a fundamental threat to the american dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe. >> how do we get this congress to deal with the beginning steps of dealing with this challenge of our time? >> not to be pessimistic, but i dont see them doing that. this is a do-nothing congress. they are going to go on record as being the least constructive in history. their supporters in their districts are actually hurting and theres not enough of a ground swell of independents, ...

Can begin to take them on. >> they cant really afford to lose that enthusiasm and the numbers that people in the republican party, a great number in the nation at large when a midterm comes. you need that enthusiasm. you cant cut the cord. >> you need people who are knocking on doors and licking envelopes and all of that. i think what the republicans p republican establishment which has had growing resentment about some of these organizations is going to try to do is say, look, im not talking ab...