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Have an open anyone. the poll sample, how does it different from the poll sample up to the election. you look at his favorable numbers there. again, its pretty much the same story. this is a shrinking base, even republicans are abandoning him. hes not close to winning. that was the narrative. it turned out the numbers we were looking at to create those narratives, they were sort of putting us in the wrong direction. >> just liking -- and holding their nose, as you see a bert candidates, will the...

President of the united states. that will have a terrible impact on the culture in our country. certainly internationally it makes the world a more dangerous place. but were at a difficult hour in this country by a divisive president who has no grasp of american history, no grasp of who we are as a people, and no grasp, apparently, of the monumental evil that these people represent and the evil that they venerate in the form of adolf hitler and the form of nazi germany. >> then what do politicia...

I think if you look at that 69% and people who wish he would just stop tweeting, you know, i think hes run into a serious amount of trouble. and i think that, you know, his job approval hovers in the high 30s now. his colleagues on capitol hill cant make their minds up about whether they need to defend him or they need to attack him. and i think he will -- he does have a solid core base of supporters who will stick with him. no matter how outrageous his behavior is. and no matter how out of cont...

Despite any evidence, they even say we heard it reported on cnn, when it wasnt reported. this is a big challenge for the media. >> his biggest problem is three-fold. one, hes got a shrinking base if he keeps this up. and thats not good for the party. >> older whites. >> number two, hes appointed 80% of his appointments so far have been pretty reasonable people. hes going to get closed in with his own cabinet into being a straighter shooter. or else he cant keep these good people. >> do you think...

Doesnt know how to win, maybe he just doesnt know how to win. >> is that a winning strategy? >> were going to find out in three weeks. nobody should be surprised. >> if youre advising, youre a supporter, advising in effect. >> i have been wrong every step, i have been wrong everything i said last six months as many members of washington establishment, this is outside the play book, outside the rule book kind of campaign. >> do you think the polls are wrong? >> i think generally, clearly the vide...

Cannot be allowed to happen is weakening. and that is genuinely dangerous. because at the same time we are getting used to crises, we are getting blase about them. and the republican party is getting used to causing crises, and decides they prefer them to compromise, and its shrinking base prefers it to compromise. so now, were experimenting. once crises become okay, how long until a political party that cant compromise actually cause a catastrophe? jared bernstein, good to see you. >> thank you...

Protect their constituentcyies and the people they care about. nobody wants this to go over the fiscal cliff, because its just going to look very bad. maybe each individual member of congress got re-elected, but in the aggregate, the american people are not going to tolerate this. i mean, they want a deal and they want the upper class to pay a little more. >> david, go ahead. >> tamron i want to say there is a small but very vocal group on the left and right that i believe is perfectly willing t...

The polls, the democrats do. the assumption is that the republicans will always turn out. the democrats have a much broader base that people see as their voters, so -- >> like the entire country which is, you know, like actually the formation of the america as it is today as opposed to 1943. >> thats right. >> and thats exactly the problem i think -- weve talked about this, martin, several times over the last couple years. thats the problem -- >> shrinking republican base. >> exactly. theyre cat...

To the people that will come out and vote for republicans you have to up the crazy level a little bit. youve seen that not just from mcdonnell, but cucinelli speaking at a pro-gun march, repeal benefits or protections universities have in place for gay and lesbians, this confederate history month mcdonnell has instituted appealing to that shrinking base. >> it is also striking. this one incident in washington state, the threat against patty murray, the fbi used an anti-health reform group to cat...

Party is so sort of shrunk down to its root in order to appeal to the people that will come out and vote for republicans you have to up the crazy level a little bit. youve seen that not just from mcdonnell, but cuccinelli as well, not only speaking at a pro-gun march, but in trying to re repeal benefits or protections universities have in place for gay and lesbians, this confederate history month mcdonnell has instituted appealing to that shrinking base. >> it is also striking. this one incident...