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For a generation, the democratic party has taken a lot of its base for granted. on abortion rights, democrats brag about how open minded they are about pro-life democrats getting elected and how tolerant they are of abortion politics in the democratic party, even among the most high profile officials, all the while saying the base will still keep voting for democrats, even though democrats havent given a reason to do so. today, the democratic senate other campaign sent out a mailer. it is a fund...

Want on the other side of your politics a scott walker problem. you do not also want to be a lightning rod for everything the democratic base holds dear and frankly had previously forgotten it holds dear. you do not want to be that guy from the left and right heading into a proip primary, let alone a general election. so one way you can tell mitch daniels wants to be president and not just a famous republican governor is the way he and his fellow hoosier republicans are caving, and they are cavi...

Remains to be seen whether pro-chois democratic base used to being thrown under the bus by the democratic party will respond to fund-raising attempts like this. i think it is also an unanswered question, whether republicans will have electoral trouble with this issue, too. there is a big coordinated anti-abortion push in the states by republican legs tours and governors this year. we reported on this show about some small government republican opposition to that push, in places like wyoming, whe...

Budget guy, if you drag that behind you in a potential presidential run, you do not want on the other side of your politics a scott walker problem. you do not also want to be a lightning rod for everything the democratic base holds dear and frankly had previously forgotten it holds dear. you do not want to be that guy from the left and right heading into a proip primary, let alone a general election. so one way you can tell mitch daniels wants to be president and not just a famous republican gov...

>> in terms of the support on both sides about this, what do we know about how democrats are strategizing against this and frankly how unions are strat jiesing against this. do you expect from your reporting there will be the in the streets mobilization we have seen in the states at the federal level? >> if we see it at the federal level it will be because of the grass roots at the states. right now theres more interest from the media, from progressive democrats than weve seen in years. because ...

Democratic politics is when particularly issues that effect the base bubble up from the states and politics at a local level, that is when the national party has the strongest basis on which to take those issues into national mobilization. too often try to do stuff top down to be effected i have. i think youre right, they are building from the bottom up. great to have you here. thanks for helping with this insight. >> great, thank you. apparently liberals just misunderstand the koch brothers. ...

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