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The day, right, the -- place -- what i find so fascinate being what this is all headed towards, is the -- the place where the force of washington conventional wisdom and the force of the donor class and force of the interests pushing to get something on quote entitlement reform is the place that is where there is the least amount of political support for it. right? all of the other stuff is the stuff that's most politically -- have you the bizarre mismatch between what all the forces in washington are pushing to get towards to solve our problems and what people want. the question is -- does --...

Country it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. >> republicans and business groups immediately began lining up against increasing the minimum wage. here's house speaker john boehner, the next day. >> when you raise the price of employment, guess what happens. you get less of it. i have 11 brothers and sisters on every rung of the economic ladder. i know about the -- this issue of as much as anybody in this town. and what happens when you take away the first couple of rungs on the economic ladder, you make it harder for people to get on the ladder. >> john boehner was channeli...

Jim demint going outside of the senate into something that is in the think-tank world. >> we will have more of this from the gaggle coming up. the six-year itch. a bedrock of conventional wisdom. is it just a minute thing? we will let you know whether we think this is real or simply a coincidence. first, who was the first president and the most recent president to officially start a term on a sunday? the answer and more is coming up on the daily run down. we will be right back.

>> i think it's hard for jim demint -- it's like this aol time warner merger. it makes a lot of sense on paper. we'll be able to overcome some of the institutional challenges. it's something that's out in the -- the think tank worl. >> we'll have more from the gaggle coming up. plus, the six-year itch,it's a bedrock of conventional wisdom. or is it just a made-up thing? second term president, supposedly struggling in his midterm. we'll let you know whether you think it's real or simply a coincidence. but, first, our special trivia question. who was the first president and who is the most recen...

They made up their mind in the last couple weeks. that's probably a little high, in fact. there's still a good number of people who are undecided. the truth is, historically undecideds did break to the challenger. that's not been true for the last number of election cycles. it hasn't been true because when undecideds broke for challengers, people were saying, you know, i know that incumbent. i know i don't like him. i don't know anything about the challenger. let me find out. these days, there's enough advertising, there's enough news coverage. very few people are walking to the voting booth s...