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antonio villaraigosa. and also, we will be joined by eric fehrnstrom and also the other star of the republican national convention, ann romney. and we will be joined by "washington post" chief political writer dan balz and jessica yellin, cnn chief white house correspondent. all on this special edition of "state of the union." the president is running for re-election on difficult terrain. no president has won re-election in this economic climate. no president has retaken the presidency over after 8% unemployment, and chairman ben bernanke warn that is the economy is far from satisf...

mark o'malley, beth purdue and antonio villaraigosa. and also, we will be joined by eric fehrnstrom and also the other star of the republican national convention, ann romney. and we will be joined by "washington post" chief political writer dan balz and jessica yellin, cnn chief white house correspondent. all on this special edition of "state of the union." the president is running for re-election on difficult terrain. no president has won re-election in this economic climate. no president has retaken the presidency over after 8% unemployment, and chairman ben bernanke warn that is...

To bear that burden privately. now imagine lodging the incorrect vote, the deciding vote in another important election and have everyone know that you did it, you were the one that did it. late last night in the north carolina assembly, when most of us had gone home, state lawmakers were voting on whether to override the government's veto of a pro-fracking bill. bev purdue veto ed it, she said no to fracing. on monday, republican lawmakers set about trying to undo her work. in the general assembly, the vote was really, really, really close. now, i should mention in the north carolina general a...

aisle to make the country better, that freedom is the most important freedom, then you think about the children and the freedom, and et cetera, et cetera. meanwhile, they got done ten minutes before that meeting with six mega donors and they're voting on the amendment because they're settling a score they have been nursing since the 2005 budget fight. mitch mcconnell is not really like that. he tells you what's going on. when he speaks i have learned to listen. in fact, of every politician and i am not kidding about this, he's literally the one i listen to the most closely, because h...

off these proposals because we thought that the only way the american people would know a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. you know what? mcconnell was correct. i think that's one of the most profound things anyone has said about politics. what he understood is what makes a bill bipartisan is not the ideas in it or the spirit in which it is offered. it's whether any legislatures from the other party sign on. if they do, by definition, the bill is partisan. so by keeping his members off thedemocrats' major bills, he made each and every one of those pi...