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The wall street journal, john, in this democratic body, the senate, this repeal effort has a chance of passing? >>reporter: of course. the senate is 51 democrats and 47 republicans and two independents who side with the democrats. but there is a much bigger and more important number: 23 democrats, or independents, are up for election in 2012. they are nervous because they say open democratic seats fall to the republican. and many of them are in states where the health care, obamacare is deeply unpopular. so if you take the 47 republicans and i think all of them will vote for repeal, but they h...

Come ug oing out of their pocke. >> individual mandate connotes force a bill you don't want to have swallow. you want to rewind back to 2008, maybe if they called it responsibility clause or something that connoted we're all in this together, this is about personal responsibility and we're sharing our fate. >> they call it the minimum coverage provision, does that do the trick? i don't know. >> i don't know that's much bet. >> we need to tell americans, again, take a deep breath, there are mandates. you're mandated to pay your taxes. you're mandated to pay into social security. you can't pitts...