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Reagan/carter election, he collapsed labor day because of are you better off today than four years ago? george bush wouldn't let him get away from the economy, clinton went after him. brilliant politician, likeable guy. four years better. so then you come and it's the economy -- you get to obama versus mccain. mccain, not the most energetic campaign. >> no. >> and we can all disagree or agree on sarah palin's role. that was hope and change. it comes down after the noise, me lisa gets down to one thing to what the voter at home said. >> and what is the thing? >> one of the things -- we'll -- i ...

They win, they will be beholden to the people who wrote the checks. they have branded themselves, as the guy who's administer the tough medicine. dismantling a social safety net. it means redistributing down, up, more tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, slaps for middle class. >> tough medicine, but tough medicine to the sickest folks, right? tough medicine to the poorest people, not to those. >> i think in the entire morning discussion, we're sometimes boring the politics, where we end up governing after the election. the public is being served up day by day. policies where arithmetic not ...

Election. >> i wish it was. >> i feel like that's what we heard initially, with the ryan rollout, this is about ideas. i was reading frank rich in "new york" magazine, any president should go negative early and often and without apology, if the goal is victory. the notion that negative campaigning is some toxic modern aberration in democracy is bogus. is that right? should we say maybe it will be about issues, maybe it won't. the point is, if you want to win, you have to go in hard. >> every presidential campaign is about leadership and trust. how do we figure out which two people on the ballo...

>> i think what '08 was about, when you see obama running and running as someone who has less political experience, but who is really running on this platform of change that really spoke to us. we are not operating in the political spiers as long, but we are about change, about fixing the problems, and that was inspiring to me and i think what's upsetting about this election is as april come bent, he is now running -- and he's -- he's lost that -- that voice in a way. he's lost the voice of -- we have to continue moving forward, and they are so entrenched in that. >> you are on a college campu...

Middle that kate has talked about, they have no decide which ideology, not which ideas. ideas are free floating right now. it's the ideology of both parties that is being elected. i said to somebody, i said is this election, depending on how you look at it democrats, an election about had will we continue to allow election to protect people. it's about the individual and how we're going to -- government not supposed to be in the midst of our lives and then the middle people who need government in certain ways, but don't want the intrusions on the other which side of the fence will i stand on? ...