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Were talking about it. we have turned everybody it seems in this town turned the page and focused on the campaign. this gets to the enthusiasm divide with heavy white support of republican side of the aisle. the enthusiasm gap is huge. and these, while the presidents policies has support among hispanics, african-americans, young voters. none of them are enthusiastic of voting. >> they fall off in the mird term. especially young voters. from presidential to midterm, theres a sharp fall i cant hav...

Acquitted. im innocent because i was acquitted. youre not innocent, buddy. you were acquitted. youre not innocent. >> the oldest adage in marketing is satisfaction is based on expectation. everybody is trying to set the expectations game now. the problem for the democrats is you have in december of 08, right after president obama won the election, you had leadership in the democratic party actually coming out, talking about this could be another 1934 where the incumbent president in the first mi...

And the importance of lew is that he has some experience from the 90s when they last balanced the budget of negotiating directly with republicans. if the president is going to get anything done in terms of dealing with these long-term deficits, they have to build on the work of its fiscal responsibility commission, which is going to report after the midterm, and lew is going to be the man to get this through. >> all right, richard wolffe, well be looking for the presidents announcement here comi...

Democrats will lose seats in the midterm, its a matter of how many. now, thats typical. throughout history, most presidents end up losing seats in the midterm and only has not happened twice and thats with the previous president who was able to gain seats in 2002. thats very unusual. the second thing that he was doing was lowering -- as you said, lowering expectations because if they start to lower expectations now, when they lose a whole bunch of seats in november, theyll at least be able to se...

Got to have bipartisan cooperation. the commission you talked about is supposed to come with up better recommendations. i think they will come after the midterms. then the question is the results of the midterm whether the republicans do better than expected and take control or not. the question is can the president take the results and turn to using 2011 to do debts and reduction imgrags and energy in a bipartisan way. >> this debt commission report doesnt come out until december so they are sk...

The republican primaries, thus far, is that there is a lot of dissent, a lot of animosity, towards government in general, and that it is focused on republicans. but the most recent polls, particularly the gallup generic poll, jen kwrarbgs the one that says that right now most americans, given a choice, would prefer a republican in congress. and the presidents approval ratings is plummeting. so the idea that democrats would like to blame the current economy and the budget problem on the past admi...

Agenda coming back. i think in that respect, and ive changed my mind on this, midterm election and you dont need that much of a positive agenda and now they need to erase paul ryans agenda in the house and judd gregg -- >> what you heard from jon kyl is basically extend the bush tax cuts, and it doesnt sound like a new agenda. >> that is not enough. that is a problem. and, i think it is simply, extend the bush tax cuts is not a sense of republicans in congress -- if they win that, and with the p...

Democrats lose seats. they will. the question is it going to be catastrophic or pretty normal for a midterm. >> youll talk to david axelrod on your show this weekend. im fast natured to know what you want to ask him about the message from this white house.nu want to ask him about the message from this white house. you had the the vice presidents office talking about business recovery summer, stimulus working, but the president issuing a letter a week before that to senior congressional leaders s...

Satisfied. it was enormous support for the president in 2008, what is causing the defection now and how does it affect the midterm. juan will witness yams joins us this saturday afternoon. whether a mere 6% of independents are happy but a total of 61% are disappointed or angry, how does it translate electric forly in a midterm election less than four months from now? >> its a losing ticket. there is no way to get around that, gregg. this is something that has been problems for the obama administ...

Megyn: sad news breaking in philadelphia. divers have spotted what appears to be a second victim of that tour boat crash that occurred there. earlier today dive teams recovering the body of a 16-year-old girl. she went missing on wednesday. this is the scene when a duck both, a tourist boat the goes around the cities collided with a barge and it sank throwing 37 people into the water. new concern today that democrats are planning quite a legislative show for after the midterm elections, that is ...