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Excluded from the primary because there are a independent. >> you come from a state, you can pull a lever and you can vote for all one party. how did you get through the system as a moderate? >> i am a perfect example i think of the problem. i got in because i had a centrist message. it resonated with the general electorate. and then it worked for three terms and then i lost the primary. >> but you got in a partisan wave. although you were a centrist it was the partisan wave that got you into office. >> the partisan wave was driven by an 18 percentage point upswing in independent votes. it was...

He sold a centrist message. i think the president was so surprised by the extent, you know, of kind of romney's shifts there that night, i think that's partly what explain his performance. >> shannon, if you told him two months ago or a year ago, you can be president of the united states but you have to follow the policies of barack obama, you have to lean center left, would he say i'll take the job? >> i think he'd say anything to get the job. but look to see what he's done. the people of massachusetts will be voting in droves for barack obama because they have already seen mitt romney will s...

Besides his religion and his love of his family? what will he fight for? what will he say no to? >> i can't answer that. i think his core belief is pragmatism above all. he looked at that debate in denver and said, this is my biggest audience. he sold a centrist message. i think the president was so surprised by the extent, you know, of kind of romney's shifts there that night, i think that's partly what explain his performance. >> shannon, if you told him two months ago or a year ago, you can be president of the united states but you have to follow the policies of barack obama, you have to le...

What will he say no to? >> i can't answer that. i think his core belief is pragmatism above all. he looked at that debate in audience and said this is my biggest audience. he sold a centrist message. i think the president was so surprised by the extent, you know, of kind of romney's shifts there that night, i think that's partly what explain his performance. >> shannon, if you told him two months ago or a year ago, you can be president of the united states but you have to follow the policies of barack obama, you have to lean center left, would he say i'll take the job? >> i think he'd say anyt...

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