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Eye in an often-polarizing controversial figure for more than 20 years. and the e-mail server scandal has taken a real toll on her, make no mistake. but the reality is especially within the democratic field, only hillary clinton is actively competing for the center, which is 50% of democrats. so while bernie sanders can rally the activist base around him and get a lot of enthusiasm, when it comes to actually winning swing voters in swing states, hillary clinton's born on third base because that's her brand. that's the credibility she brings to the campaign. so it makes sense that she'd be doin...

Expectations that would come with being a bush running for president. what have we learned over the last months? >> the conservative activist base is much more skeptical of rallying around bush or settling for bush than even he may have thought. steve, i talked to one bush operative about a week ago and i was going through all of this and i said boy, this really must be a tough week for you. the week that hillary clinton announced. and this person said to me we're built for the third look from republican activists and i have to say, that's their strategy and i guess they're sticking to it. i t...

It looks like it's jeb bush and then everybody else is kind of an also ran. jeb is making the big-time haul right now. what rand paul does have is a built-in activist base. and the importance of that cannot be underestimated in a state that takes a lot of organizi organizing, like those caucuses dana was talking about earlier, states like new hampshire. he has a built-in activist base. he's got to raise an awful lot of money. he may have some problems doing that with the republican establishment. but again, i think early on, this is about grassroots organizing and he has this kind of built-in ...

Will stick around. maybe not at the intensity of the last two weeks but i don't think it's going to disappear entirely. >> it could have fired up the base because showing her con fronted by so many reporters and camera crews not sitting in the room they had set up but chose to put it in this very awkward, what we call a stake out position where everyone is behind a rope made her look i think much more sympathetic to those inclined to support her and made the press corps and she's not the first to set things up that way. ronald reagan back in the day used to be told if you get in trouble in a n...

Made the biggest splash there? >> reporter: scott walker had a very good cpac. he's doing well in the polls and can unite the activist base here and the establishment republicans. they were thrilled with him. he had a great speech despite that line where he compared unions to isis. republicans here loved it. rand paul also had a very good cpac cpac. he's very popular here. >> rand paul's won that straw poll, conducted later on this evening. who do you think had the toughest time there? >> reporter: i think jeb bush is definitely struggling a little bit with these kinds of voters. despite raisi...