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Said david axelrod. midterm falloff, sixth year of his presidency. this has to be an urgent issue for you as the chair of the party making sure democrats get out and vote and who are excited about this law. >> there are millions of people who understand the benefits of the health care law, particularly women who i have spoken to who are breast cancer patients, who no longer have to choose between the chemothera chemotherapy -- >> youre arguing the merits, chairman, which i understand, but do you...

Confronting a vexing reality. many of those helped by the health care law, notably young people and minorities are the least likely to cast votes that could preserve it. even though millions have gained health insurance and millions more will benefit from some of its popular provisions. the angry opponents are more mobilized than the beneficiaries said david axelrod. midterm falloff, sixth year of his presidency. this has to be an urgent issue for you as the chair of the party making sure democr...

Much more like the 2010 turnout where republicans did very, very well and if republicans repeat that in the 2014 elections, which historically speaking is perfectly within the realm of possibility, theyre going to take over the senate, they will broaden their majority in the house and effectively the obama again do will sees to exist at that moment. -- cease to exist. jon: why the turnout problem in off years? described it as a juggernaut. there was no campaign operation in history that was as g...

>> they dont need to go this far saying he wasnt in a good relationship. i dont know the will determine he was in a good relationship. theyre trying to influence a judge negatively anyway they can. jenna: do they go back to the neighbors? are they thinking about returning to where they started? >> they feel this more information, they can call them. they should have had the evidence may testified before. maybe that is the way to finish, they heard screams before the shots inconsistent with his a...

Because i guess we dont think it is sexy enough. is the president right here? >> well, i think democrats do have a turnout problem in mid-term elections. democratic voters are disproportionately younger and disproportionately minorities. and those voters dont come out in mid-terms the way they do in presidential races. democrats need to tell their voters, what happens at a presidential race is as important as what happens in a mid-term if you really want to have a governing majority to run the c...

Of a wholly owned subsidy dear of the democratic party and the rank and file. the construction workers, the hotel workers, hospitality, kbroesh grocery row workers and so forth. i think you might see a widening split. and its actually interesting, if you look at the unions objecting, theyre all concentrated in those industries i talked about, the sort of traditional unions. its -- it might be coming to public sector unions, as well, which is -- which have generally been a lot more supportive of ...