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Go back on contraception and abortion. it means that gay rights is going forward. whatever he does in the second term to solidify his historic legacy, hes already got something. >> the reagan majority ma dominated american politics from 1980 through 2008, while a lot of its ideas will continue to influence conservatives and i independe independents, that majority is dead, isnt it? >> i remember when he was elected the first time, obama, i really thought we were ushering in a progressive era. it ...

He has three paths. he can do ohio, ohio plus new hampshire. new hampshire is a dead heat. ohio is close. but there intensity with romney. and also republicans tend to be undercounted in the pols anyway. if romney does that, he wins. if not ohio, he can do it through colorado plus wisconsin. colorado is a dead heat. wisconsin, he is behind. but wisconsin is solidly republican for the last two years through the midterm and three le calls. theyre organized and they have intensity and a favorite so...

A big margin in the electoral college. i dont know that the fever will break even if you think it is a fever. they are going to carry on, doing what theyve done because it worked for them in 2010. it will probably work for them in the next midterm. >> it wont. >> can i just say also, its what they believe in, too. and let me also say this. if mitt romney comes with a package thats heavy on tax increases and heavy on spending, the house republicans will kill that bill, too. >> oh. >> so it may be...

Him no. there is evidence here. jury found them both guilty. you must impose sentence now. >> mark, what would make you happy? how much? >> how much time -- >> how much time? yep. >> midterm is appropriate. howard could not negotiate a plea bargain with a great attorney. that even came close to what judge perry handed him down. after going to trial. when somebody goes to trial and exhausts the taxpayer money and spends, that was expensive trialismd say millions of dollars. a fair sentence for ho...

How much? >> how much time -- >> how much time? yep. >> midterm is appropriate. howard could not negotiate a plea bargain with a great attorney. that even came close to what judge perry handed him down. after going to trial. when somebody goes to trial and exhausts the taxpayer money and spends, that was expensive trialismd say millions of dollars. a fair sentence for howard would be, may be three years in the department of corrections. >> geraldo: ill take one. six months. i got to go. thank yo...

Virtually everything. even places where president obama continues to lead. you see a shift toward romney. he has expanded his gap on things like jobs. he expanded the gap on things like the deficit. we have seen this shift toward romney and all the other areas. one place where president obama has this surprising finding. 49%, half of the people poll likely voters think that president obama is more moderate than romney. this is a president who ran as a liberal, governed as a liberal, done more to...

Million dollars of ads will another $100 million, $200 million be able to move the needle. >> he spent time in the debate prep. the last two weeks hes been doing a lot of debate prep. do you run the risk of studying too much for the exam? >> yeah, a little bit. and that exam is actually perfect. if you are studying for the midterm and you tell people i have spent 50 hours studying for this thing, you better get an a plus. if you get a b plus against the person who said i only studied five hours ...

Not be involved in the biographical information tonight. that could be really strange. martha: we will see so. would you expect from him tonight and weigh in, if you would, on sort of interesting history of these two players in the role that they will play in all of this tonight? reporter: i have no doubt that he will give a full throated endorsement of this president. and people do with the obama team wants him to, which is associate himself in the success of the economy into his presidency. th...

Hes quite a speaker. but the problem is substantively. this is a convention where i think doug and i believe that president obama has to move beyond just the negative attacks and go back to at least some affirmation or some recognition that things havent gone quite as well and that he has learned some things and start painting a broader vision to get back to the little bit of hope and change. the fundamental problem is that bill clinton represents a centrist approach for pro-growth, and presiden...

Issue? >> i get a sense that democrats realize they lost the midterm elections in a big day just because of the issue. if the deficits and the spending get front and center, there could be heck to pay on the democratic side. numbers are out of the hand and obviously in the midterm, a lot of people cared about what we are saying temperature is not just what happened but the deficit will grow crazily. this needs to get front and center and the republicans should not allow them to put it off. by th...