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Trouble i troubling, this idea that, you know, first of all it's going to be real easy to spot the democrats crossing over in that poll because they're going to be the black people, right. mississippi literally is mirror images, 96% of african-americans voted for barack obama both in '08 and '12. among white voters, 88% and 90% voting for republicans. mirror images of each other. not going to be hard to figure out who the poll watchers should target. what do you as a republican make of this idea of utilizing poll watchers, essentially intimidation that is by default going to target black peopl...

Now. the base is being motivated. the president is out there. he's going to lose the united states senate. a lot of it is going to be on the weight of his shoulders. he's going to have to do a tremendous amount to get that base vote to move, the same one that moves and re-elected him president. those are good names. the n urk nn name is a powerful name in georgia. the carter name also. i don't think either one will be successful, but it's been very competitive. >> a southern democrat doesn't always drive with the national democratic party exactly. last month, jason carter voted for the so-call...

What you use the president for is to raise money. president bush raised a lot of money. i'm sure obama will. there will be a lot of get out the vote phone calls, i'm sure. strongholds and voters with barack obama and bill clinton and other lead democrats saying get out the vote today. and using him to targeted groups to get them out to vote. but i don't think you are going to see the president being engaged too much around the country except in democrat -- again to get out the base vote. that's all a midterm election is all about. >> 30 seconds left. panel is convinced we just had the secretar...

I think you're going to see the democrats clearly on issues like affordable care act and the voting rights act turn that base. black vote isn't going away. they demonstrated in the offyear, if you will, the nonpresidential year that they're willing to come to the table and play as we've seen in the past. >> but what happened -- why did 2010 go the direction it went? all the state houses went republican. all the state legislatures went republican. they grabbed the house by what, 60-some votes. >> yep. >> they're on the verge right now of taking back the senate, because people, minority, young p...

>> the democrat base vote in 2010 that allowed the republicans to get in and jerry manneder the hell out of these states and make it impossible for democrats to win statewide and diminish the power of minority voters of big cities, how did they get away if people didn't vote? >> well, there were probably a variety of reasons why most democrats didn't vote for a lot of democrats didn't vote in 2010. maybe a little fatigue from 2008, the economic situation, disgruntlement with the bank bailouts and things like that. and remember, you had that sort of surging tea party movement in 2010. well, now...