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There. can you explain what seems so foreign to all of us, how most americans just arent -- at least the swing voters, just arent idealogical. >> ill try. if you look at politic in america, joe, over the last 30 years, were conditioned to thinking about it as a contest down the middle of the field between right and left, between the 45 yard lines. thats where american politics takes place. now, increasingly the divide in the ectorate is a horizontal line. and its between the elites who run insti...

From people whod had a big celebration there at the game. and there was a group of us that was assigned to clean it up. and i thought, how are we going to clean up all the mess on this football field? there were just a few of us. and the person responsible for organizing the effort said, just line up along the yard lines. you go between the goal line and the 10 yard line. and the next person between 10 and 20. and then just walk through and do your lane. and if everybody cleans their lane, well ...

Lot, an awful lot about how to help out new jersey. >> i remember once we had a football game at my high school and the football field afterwards was covered with all sorts of rubbish and paper goods from people whod had a big celebration there at the game. and there was a group of us that was assigned to clean it up. and i thought, how are we going to clean up all the mess on this football field? there were just a few of us. and the person responsible for organizing the effort said, just line u...

You convince other people, then it becomes a kind of imitation and it has some significant consequence. >> this election is not even being played between the 40 yard lines. its being played between the 47 yard lines. there are 6% undecided at this point and i dont think they take their cues from rupert murdoch, bill kristol, as much as he may think so. its about impressions. i think romney doesnt have to be very specific in his policies to convey the impression he wants to as hes trying to do, a...

I like to say that elections are decided between the 40 yard lines. and maybe even narrower than that this year. so the campaigns are going to be identifying and talking to these voters even more specifically very fascinating way that president obama is talking about to his voters is this mantra that he is saying change is at his appearance in michigan last night at the henry ford museum, he used the phrase change is 10 times. so were really seeing there what the obama message is going to be. >>...

Again said at a speech in washington. you cant govern by saying no. imagine we won a huge victory. imagine that john boehner is the new speaker. imagine that mitch mcconnell is the new majority leader. whats their agenda? it cant just be yelling no. does your party yell no too much right now. >> >> we do and need to when confronting things very bad for our country fiscally or policy. i do not want to see this country move down the road of europization of our country. >> that far left? you came c...

Have been unemployed for months on end, the unemployment rate, the real unemployment rate in this country is probably upwards of 14%, people who have given up looking for work and they carry on like this each and every day and theyve done the same thing for two or three years. both sides of the aisle. >> and as you know, the way these deals get done. grown-ups go behind the scenes and sit down and negotiate it out. dont tell me what separates these two parties is that different. at the end of th...

Yard lines. its a wide channel. on the right hes got the tea party whooping and hollering about socialism. bernie sand serious a socialist. hes not going to call the president one. >> the president -- look theres a republican house now. hes not going to get any big new health care size package through right now. its just not going happen. so its not just that he can afford to go down the middle. where else will he go? >> do you think eem say nice things about boehner so hell cry? >> hell say pup...