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Going to face the republican primary voters who don't like him that much, the tea party types in kentucky hasn't said he is for it. i think you're exactly right. i just don't know if the democrats who are also facing resistance from their activist base will go along and save the president's bacon. >> that's my question, howard, saving his bacon is a rough way to put it, but it's fair. if the house republicans, rank and file below the top people like cantor and mr. boehner, the speaker, if they say no, no, you don't need my vote, i'm not giving you my vote, and they get nancy to cook up some mo...

Broken. and that's because republican governors have to get things done in their state, they have to work with the president, whereas congress gets to sit around and do a lot of partisan sniping and play to an activist base that finds this entire presidency illegitimate and the fastest way to get shunned is to say anything remotely decent or to show any kind of willingness to work with this president. >> when you see the background check vote, governor, and when you see other things that have the overwhelming support of the american public, if that sustained kind of anger and sustained anger i...

And what we see is in many of these districts, they're not worried about a challenge from the left. they're not worried about their general election. they're worried about primary battles and increasingly, too. they're concerned with having a national tea party activist base where they can fund raise from. we see people like the representative fund raising off the fact that boehner and the establishment republicans are against him and he's a thorn in their side. >> dana, when you look at the tea party's record unpopularity, it's broke records now. 49% have unfavorable view. 56% have become les...

Ass primaried and i'm not coming back here. and i like getting elected. that's what they said. jim, grover has no power outside of the issue that he carries. is that 100% correct? 1,000% correct? >> it's true because he's not the nra. he does not have an activist base that's therefore going to put the kind of pressure that the nra can put on people when it comes to gun issues. his power comes from we all write about him, we all talk about him, and he's the anti-tax guy. i will say -- i totally agree with you. power comes from saying what every single republican agrees with. and even this edito...

Fully immersed in the gop alternative reality. let's listen to mr. morris. >> so you are standing by your prediction of a romney landslide? >> absolutely. romney will win this election by five to ten points in the popular vote and will carry more than 300 electoral votes. >> you know, i think we ought to bring back the public stocks from new england where if you're a pollster -- not even a pollster. they do the numbers. these people with their outlandish partisan so-called predictions ought to have to sit there in the public square for a couple weeks so we can all realize who was telling us bs...