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Things about contraception he had to play down the rest of the campaign. >> and turned off a lot of republican women. >> yeah. very conservative pro-life republican women and i guarantee you there are a lot of conservative pro-life women right now that are scratching their heads saying, wait a second, not even an exception for life of the mother? >> scott walker's answer to that question put him in a different place. >> bush supporters think this will be a huge electability issue. >> the world will be lucky to go 70 years without another hiroshima and iran may not be the next nuclear threat an...

Opposed to new ideas. hillary clinton 51% saying she'd represent a return to the past but that is a bigger problem for jeb bush again as to the electability issue. then there's this if you look at republicans, you look at republican voters and you say, could you see yourself supporting this candidate or could you not see yourself supporting this candidate, so this is measuring sort of basic acceptability of all of these candidates to republican voters. what jumps out at you here? look who does the best 53% of republicans right now say yes, i could see myself supporting scott walker in this pri...

Jeb bush. very tough for jeb bush to look at republicans and say, hey, i'm the most electable when he's running below his brother, george w., in that question. how about this, look back to a 1999 -- what i mean, when george w. bush was running for president himself, at this same point of the 2000 cycle, this same question in this same poll, he came in at 55 positive, 14 negative. his brother today, 23% positive. when george w. bush was running and telling republicans to get on board with me because i can win, these are the numbers they were looking at. different story. there's more we can show...

Nominate a blue state republicans, republicans from the northeast, they lose. now, there is evidence that says that isn't always so. but that's what they think. so, the electability issue which you might think would be a strong point may in some respects not be as he seeks the approval of conservative republicans who are important in primaries and particularly the early primaries. >> i think it's going to be different in 16 though. i think it's going to be a different ballgame. >> yeah. that's true. a lot of things might be different including that pugnacious temperament of his that might play...

Nominate a blue state republicans, republicans from the northeast, they lose. now, there is evidence that says that isn't always so. but that's what they think. so, the electability issue which you might think would be a strong point may in some respects not be as he seeks the approval of conservative republicans who are important in primaries and particularly the early primaries. >> i think it's going to be different in 16 though. i think it's going to be a different ballgame. >> yeah. that's true. a lot of things might be different including that pugnacious temperament of his that might play...