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Income inequality is not the center of his message. i think the message we're too dependent on government plays very well with the base. the thing i noticed about the romney campaign is they seem to be unshir and wavering back and forth between whether this is truly a base election and they should get the base fired up or whether they need to still play for the center. if you're playing for the middle, i think even if people say government's too big and we're too dependent on government, they don't think the fact we're lazy moochers is the problem with the economy today. they think we need job...

Particular has really viewed this contest as a base election, which is probably in many ways why he also said those things. it was to drive out the base -- excuse me it was to raise money from a group of people so he can drive out the base. this is a base election. this is not about wooing independents. >> this also comes just hours after mitt romney addressed the hispanic chamber of commerce, anne, in los angeles. obviously, a group that the republicans have said they want to make some inroads against. how serious are those comments, do you think? >> oh, i mean, look, this is going to reverbe...

>> oh, it's an important part of campaigning. they've really got to show that they can keep it up. in this case, they've got to rev up the base. you know, i did this calculation. there are only maybe 5% of the voters who are truly undecided, and only a quarter live in battle ground states. that's probably a couple million. mitt romney could send them all a check. there are very few people who haven't made up their minds. what they're doing is concentrating on rallying the base. >> nia-malika, is this going to be a base election? is it going to be -- get out the vote effort, basically? >> that'...

Importance this time around? >> it eaches like every four years we think they do and this time i think they actually do. it will give mitt romney the last opportunity to talk about the difference between barack obama and mitt romney and i know we talk about how different people see the election as a base election or whatever, but re-election of the president's always about that. the re-election of the president. and i think mitt romney has to remind people there's three numbers that matter. the unemployment rate and that's up. gallon of gasoline and that's at the highest level. and we have a $...

Obamacare. >> i'm joined now by deputy political editor who was at that summit earlier. good afternoon to you. paul ryan helped to fire up the base no doubt. how does that kind of rhetoric play to the 1 million or so undecided voters most of whom we know are not socially conservative? >> we know the health care mandate is not very popular even with independents. but most people have also indicated that they want to move on after the supreme court ruling. and i'm not sure how much weight this really carries considering that mitt romney also strongly supported a mandate as part of his health car...