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Angry public for shutting down the government. >> you had leadership in both parties come together and say, let's jack up the debt ceiling, let's keep spending. let's keep borrowing money and let's not provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try to block the final deal? >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> the real problem with what mr. cruz did was he turned to decent, devoted, conservative americans, and said, i got a sho...

Candidates like christine o'donnell and todd aiken that couldn't win in a statewide election is something we also have to contend w so negative ads will be helpful in making sure whoever the republican nominee is can run and win against the democrat but also have a republican candidate that can win statewide. >> part of it is these ads and part of it is the scrutiny that a lot of these candidates undergo. if you talk to people whose job it is to recruit candidates, they will tell you how difficult it is, and i'm sure that you heard rand paul yesterday talking on the sunday shows, because a lot...

A few years ago, they didn't want tom davis to be their candidate for the united states senate and so they refused to have a primary which tom probably would have won and they had their convention and produced a candidate who couldn't win. so what do they do? a few years later, the elephant doesn't forget. the elephant doesn't learn anything. mcauliffe has won a masterful campaign. he absolutely hammered early on cuccinelli on women's issues, in the washington, d.c., suburban market. never left him off the map. he has run a text b.c. campaign. >> i have to peck up on that point we think of vir...

The last one was 40%. some people are saying the turnout could fall into the 30s. both sides want to get their partisans out. that's why the people you mentioned have been brought in and why bill clinton is campaigning a good bit of this week for terry mcauliffe. >> i wanted to ask you, what was the biggest contributor in the change of the crystal ball rating? it's a bellwether district. the virginia governor's race stews in aftermath of federal shutdown. four years ago when mcauliffe first ran for governor sheila mitchell looked him over, and thought, god, he doesn't look like you can trust h...

I was quite surprised. if you see that as the case, al al alan -- is it conceivable that he could emerge despite your misgivings as a potential nominee for republicans, could they win an election with somebody like him at the helm? >> here is the thing, you have to take ted cruz seriously. ted cruz is a pied piper of a certain wing of the republican party. he is very important on the national stage, he is not going anywhere, and you're right, he is very smart. i am not so sure he is a great strategist, maybe he knew he couldn't win, but wanted to raise this as an issue saying i haven't forgott...