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Man-to-man, door-to-door, precinct by precinct, neighborhood by neighborhood, district by district to win in the drive for 25. >> if you don't retake the house, have you thought about stepping down as leader? >> first of all, i premise whatever i do on winning. second of all, it's up to my caucus as to even if we win, who will be speaker. it's not any foregone -- i don't assume anything and i'm not presumptuous in that regard. but i am responsible for doing everything possible to have the resources and the plan for the drive for 25 and we're magnificently led by chairman steve israel of new yo...

In their districts. and districts have a much greater differential, where you either largely have a district where you know that these demos are playing a major role or you have a district where you can largely dismiss them. so by everyone doing it piece by piece, district by district, they're missing the national picture. >> and joy, the latest phenomenon in the party, the tea party movement, makes this problem all the worse for the republicans. they would have to buck the tea party to go in a direction that could possibly appeal to more people. >> right, and the thing is, in the short-term, ...

Greater differential, where you either largely have a district where you know that these demos are playing a major role or you have a district where you can largely dismiss them. so by everyone doing it piece by piece, district by district, they're missing the national picture. >> and joy, the latest phenomenon in the party, the tea party movement, makes this problem all the worse for the republicans. they would have to buck the tea party to go in a direction that could possibly appeal to more people. >> right, and the thing is, in the short-term, it makes sense for romney and the republicans ...

And then the connection, where they take their sentiments, district by district, state by state, to the senators and congressmen and ask them for that meeting to sit down and talk about this important issue. those who are in congress already have the virtues of incumbency, think they understand how to raise money, don't want to change the system. and that's what's hurting us in congress. then across the state at the supreme court, of course, is this notion that money is speech, and unlimited money means unlimited speech. i don't think that's true. i think it's going to corrupt our process. but...

Pennsylvania out of play or making it a much more difficult or complicated state to fight in. >> this is what ed rendell former democrat national chairman had to say about it. >> this is not just a hair brain scheme that's being pushed by some legislator. he's on record saying he's for it that the philadelphia region has too much influence and our votes are disenfranchising people in other parts of the state. this is reprehensible and disgraceful. >> nobody can stop it except for republicans. republicans control the state. the republicans in house of representatives are unhappy because you wil...