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If their presidential candidate does not carry virginia? >> the answer to that is they can, but if you notice the absence of many democrats with the president as he swings through the state, it's the democratic leader of the house has taken out an ad saying i am not obama. being friends as they are, i'm sure they discussed it. we have talked about the problems and they need each other's votes. tim is smart enough to know that independents play a great role in the state and to the extent that he is in the beginning with obama, it could. he needs the base vote of the party and obama needs the vo...

To be more careful on what to say. i'll cut him some slack. he's only been at it for a few days now. . >> mike viqueira, the president president was kind to per by, but he's not been holding back criticism of the republicans as a whole. how much more of that can we expect today. >> it's interesting on the rick perry front, obviously rick perry making a big slash, trying to run and the conservative base vote. this was clear this morning on our political block, that the president would rather run against perry than romney, why is that? perry is to the right of romney, at least thus far. the fur...

I think obviously controlling costs preferable. that's number one. number two, i agree with mike, i don't think paul ryan has any interest right now. and frankly the reception he got in his own home district should convince he's not running for anything at this point. i think the field is set, but, remember, sarah palin takes all of the air out of the base vote if she decides to get in. she single handedly absorbs all of that if. if she gets in, michelle bachmann can't run and newt's candidacy is pretty much over and rick santorum, pretty much over. then it's sarah palin against the three more...

Not with either party. you have a whole host of different elections where for lack of a better phrase, the republican party has shot itself in the foot with the primary results. i think you're right to notice the macro and the micro trends. the last thing the white house wanted was us on cable news talking about how bill clinton had the magic touch yet again, not the president. this at least gives them some breathing room and i think ken buck is as you mentioned another sort of cut from the same cloth as sharron angle and rand paul and this helps democrats in the long run. >> what do you do if...

They said there was some quote, confusion. and i'm sure she meant slush fund in the nicest possible way. >> president obama didn't hold back last night. his criticism of harry reid's opponent during a fundraiser in nevada. he is making his case for his fellow democrats trying to keep the majority in congress through november. craig gordon joins us now. how is that message going over in nevada, where harry reid is in a tough fight despite sharon engle's repeated mistakes? >> i think it's playing well with the voters. it's a three-way process. harry reid in this election needs to keep the democr...