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Wished they hadnt. >> they were getting upset because ted cruz brought constituent pressure on them. >> lets go back to this question here of the not gun issue. were going to be talking about this as long as we live. to me its all about intensity. on the liberal or centrist side, or gun safety side, whatever you want to call it, most people who are for gun safety are also for a better environment. theyre also for jobs, if you will. theyre also against wars. they tend to have a point of view on a...

Who did vote for the bill voted against background checks but wished they hadnt. >> they were getting upset because ted cruz brought constituent pressure on them. >> lets go back to this question here of the not gun issue. were going to be talking about this as long as we live. to me its all about intensity. on the liberal or centrist side, or gun safety side, whatever you want to call it, most people who are for gun safety are also for a better environment. theyre also for jobs, if you will. th...

Defeat and i made the point that the president thinks this has to be a voting issue that its not just a matter of voters bringing pressure on their lawmakers but, in fact, someone losing an election because they voted for this. they are afraid of losing the election because they vote for it. david axelrod said real change will come the first time that someone like kelly ayotte loses because of a vote that they took this way. >> guess what? you can already mark one down. you can mark max baucus a...

Primary fight, what happens to me in the general. say i survive that primary fight and stood up for gun control and im in a conservative state, can i still win the actual election. >> these are criminal background checks that 90% of your people support. >> you could win in arkansas in a general election by supporting a background check. >> 85% support -- >> the assumption has been that those numbers are not irrelevant, but when it comes to actual votes, the 10% vote on this. are you suggesting f...

Theyre going to go out and vote, so even on an issue thats 90/10, you can actually lose votes by taking the popular position. >> why is that, ezra? theres not 90% in this country for anything, right? what has happened that the nra is proposes an apocalyptic vision, and people are sort of laying down and taking it? >> first im happy we got into the political science so quickly. you have a very, very intense minority against gun control, and you have a regtively blase, that answers the question. i...

And in the republican base which is largely rural, theres no percentage voting for this in many of these districts. >> peggy? >> i think a big part of the story is that people dont trust congre congress. after newtown there was a great bubbling feeling of, my goodness, there must be at least some things we can do legislatively to make this whole gun situation better. if the congress, if the senate had moved quickly on discreet, small bill having to do with background checks -- i mean quickry in ...

Story is that people dont trust congre congress. after newtown there was a great bubbling feeling of, my goodness, there must be at least some things we can do legislatively to make this whole gun situation better. if the congress, if the senate had moved quickly on discreet, small bill having to do with background checks -- i mean quickry in the weeks after newtown -- >> these are small bills. >> move it quickly, do it. dont put it together in this big thing and then talk about these different ...

Turn this into a voting issue on the pro-gun control side -- >> a voting issue in november. i get that in -- we had mark pryor, were not going it to let somebody from new york city tell me -- mary landrieu, heidi heitkamp, democrats who dont seem to like the role. >> i think hes a good foil for them to certify their authenticity. >> their independence. independents. >> in states like new jersey, pennsylvania, california, new york, there are members for whom i think this could be an issue especia...

Cautious in our optimism and enthusiasm here because the supreme court is one thing. >> i agree. >> the ballot box is something else. >> i want to talk about that. as threatened at the conservatives get in this country, threatened culturally. racially, generationally, everything. they feel more and more the circle the wagon mentality has taken over. they vote. they vote like bandits. right wingers. conservatives. what happens if the party, if your party is successful in establishing its high gro...

>> i agree. >> the ballot box is something else. >> i want to talk about that. as threatened at the conservatives get in this country, threatened culturally. racially, generationally, everything. they feel more and more the circle the wagon mentality has taken over. they vote. they vote like bandits. right wingers. conservatives. what happens if the party, if your party is successful in establishing its high ground politically on this issue but you scare the low ground people to the point where ...