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Middle. these were 49-49 voters between obama and romney. mostly male, highly educated and high income earners. biggest disparity is socially they're libertarian, fiscally very conservative. 86% want more personal responsibility, if you will, in people's lives. pick up by the boot strap. here's your pickup populous. in the '80s we called them reagan democrats. in the '90s they were the ones that clinton won back over. now some of them are tea party. they're very anti-wall street and anti-washington. 80% of them didn't graduate college. mostly live in rural south or the rural midwest, but 64% o...

What. president obama promised to be different and to deliver a presidential government. he was right. america deserves better. >> chairman camp was clear on how to characterize the irs mistake of a reflection of the fitness of our president. that hearing quickly turned to someone trying to score political points. this keeps happening in the congress. the rabinging member predicted this outcome in his opening statement. >> if this hearing becomes essentially a boot strap to continue the campaign of 2012 and to prepare for 2014, we will be making a very serious mistake. >> and it is a mistake. ...

Downtown abbey. they're coming in here and playing for keeps. they're coming in here with an agenda about changing policies in the country. we need a rebirth of independent media. we need a rebirth of independent journalism. an author with a new book about drone attacks. he went overseas and wrote about it. boot strap investigative journalism. >> that is very much against the ability to feed yourself and your family. >> that's real. >> there's a very serious consequence. if i am teaching journalism, what would i teach.

>> absolutely. we'll talk about the second day reaction to the paul ryan speech as this hour goes forward. thanks. one thing that has been a little surprising in this convention so far is how the republican party has marketed itself this week. speech after speech after speech after speech as the party of the poor. we have no sound. trust me. republican party -- >> i do a good rand paul impersonation. >> can you? that's very good. the party this week talking about being the -- ann romney talking about being the descendant of coal miners, people talking about being descendents from single parent...

Told personal stories of poverty. >> and michele and i, we've been in your shoes. like i said, we didn't come from wealthy families. so when we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. when we married, we got poor together. >> this extraordinary land, where someone like my dad who grew up poor, never graduated from college, could pursue his dreams and work his way up to running a great car company. >> scott, as a biographer of mitt romney, do you think that this is a good line of speechifying, which is to say his sort of boot strap bona fides, if you will in. >> i mean...