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Whereas the hillary campaign was -- going back to what i was saying before -- that old school democratic politics through democratic institutions. she's going to have to blend both. >> but do you think that same message, that, hey, i'm seasoned, i'm tough, i know how to beat those republicans? >> i think it will work because we -- i think she has to use that and it will work because we're very tired of the partisanship, but people will also respond to the fact that she has been there, she is seasoned and they will respect the fact she went to work for the guy she was running against. >> to add...

Unless this is a senior moment here, i forgot to introduce new members of our panel. in sort of the world of democratic politics, the democratic party that embraced that barack obama message in 2008 that said no to the hillary clinton message, how is the message cory booker selling right now, how does that go over? democrats say, oh, again? or, yes, we can? >> these are very new coalitions that have gone around democratic -- quote/unquote, democratic institutions. remember that barack ran against bobby rush and lost because bobby was a party guy. cory booker ran against sharp james, who was a ...

Solve problems. given a republican president willing to talk about no child left behind, for instance, medicare, on the republican side -- jonathan, maybe you can speak to this a little bit, but on the republican side if you're talking about an anti-government message, then you can just say, we're going to say no to everything. if it results in government shutdown, results in choking off funding for things it's fine because we're the anti-government party. there's much more incentive for democrats to cooperate than republicans. >> that's a great point. i think you see at the grassroots, and th...

Modeling himself after the president. and i think he's betting that the tea party is just going to wear itself out. that if the senate elections shape up as they now seem to be, with the tea party primarying candidates and producing candidates so far to the right, democrats may be able to hang onto the senate that the tea party will be spent by the time cory booker will run for president, because that's in his game plan, there will be more of an appetite to bring people together. if you look at '08, hillary clinton's message was, i know the republicans, they've thrown everything at me, i'm sti...