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Looks like a respectable jurist of the sort who will gain public sympathy, who will perform well in a hearing then if you have somebody who's got a record that is highly provocative that you can build a lot of campaign ads off of and you can make speeches based truthfully on who they are and what they've done and those are very different situations and i think it's hard to sort of imagine what the strategy -- what the successful strategy is likely to be in the absence of a nominee. i agree with you that this is a very bad hand the democrats have been democrat and there is a risk here that they...

Happen has been decided weeks ago. so i think both candidates are focused on, one, filling in weak areas. you see that with the new myth of the moderate mitt who is now emerged and obama has released his plan and everything else is in terms of what they're saying on the stump, it's totally about base mobilization. >> i love myth of the moderate mitt. i love that. up next, we're going to actually take a look at early voting. we'll go live to florida and see what the lines look like there. [ male announcer ] when it comes to the financial obstacles military families face, we understand. at usaa,...

Closely to the election. >> are these campaigns kidding themselves going for undecided voters. are they really going for the decided voters who might change their minds? or they disagree with you? >> these campaigns are doing everything at once. they are going for every voter they can figure out and contact. they're going base mobilization. when we think about the election, we imagine a fixed pool of voters. this many people support obama, this many people support romney. but actually it's a very dynamic pool of voters. the big question for both the romney and obama campaigns is what does that...

That we're seeing? >> we'll have to see and we probably won't know for about two weeks. it takes about two weeks for big developments like this to really cycle through into some of the state and national polls. so some of the things that we're hearing from the obama campaign is that it does it does make pr obama look like a winner. you remember from his remarks on thursday that there still are ways to improve upon this it law and improve health care coverage in the united states and that was a very good message for him because it looks like he's not just doing a victory lap, he wants to keep w...

Like me, i don't say that in a derogatory sense whatsoever. there are people on the right and the left who were driven primarily by social issues and i got to say we got a blind spot here, because i think most of us here are focused on jobs, taxes, the economy. we can all have big debates about that and we have different views. but ezra klein, there still are people on the left and on the right who were driven primarily by social issues and in these off-year elections when voter turnout is low, sometimes getting your up bases is the difference between winning and losing, right? >> yeah. the pu...