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in a democracy and especially ours you should be able to disagree with the president, disagree with the administration, disagree with the reelection effort. but on the other hand, when you're a surrogate for that administration, for that re-election effort, you should be a little more careful in how you talk about certain things. i mean, cory booker is a man of principle. he believes firmly in everything that he says. so i don't fault him for feeling the way he felt. but he shouldn't be surprised by the amount of pushback and reaction he's gotten from both sides. >> it would seem lik...

why the race will be close. i think there's a narrative fashion here. for president obama this is not 2008, whether it's the gap among young people, a lot of that inspiration and hope is being dashed by the idea that one way or the other he's been gobbled up by washington. so it's a different sort of fight that he's got to wage. when he went up against pu president bush. >> the biden comments make me think it's going to be obviously hard drabble, but will it get nasty? >> i mean, it would be nasty. it's going to be a close-fought race, and that usually portends a nasty race, they try...

president bush. >> the biden comments make me think it's going to be obviously hard drabble, but will it get nasty? >> i mean, it would be nasty. it's going to be a close-fought race, and that usually portends a nasty race, they try to take each other out by whatever means necessary, and romney has shown himself willing to do that. and i think they're trying to frame a tough argument against governor romney saying he's a right wring extremist. >> we have already started to see some of the lines of attack that we saw in 2008 with the rock star president, and whether he's really prepar...

report contributor robert costa of the national review, rolling stone executive editor eric bates, msnbc analyst and columnist for "the hill" karen finney. three new polls of the general election matchup lead to one conclusion, unclear where this race stands right now, but this november it's going to be a nail-biter. gallup shows the race in a statistical tie, a cnn/orc poll, gave obama a nine-point lead, and reuters/ipso has the president up four, outside the pla pla margin of error. karen finney, nail-biter. >> yeah. >> we talk about -- i mean this is something we talked about when...

november it's going to be a nail-biter. gallup shows the race in a statistical tie, a cnn/orc poll, gave obama a nine-point lead, and reuters/ipso has the president up four, outside the pla pla margin of error. karen finney, nail-biter. >> yeah. >> we talk about -- i mean this is something we talked about when we were having meetings to discuss this very show. >> how about that. >> one of the things we talked about a general feeling perhaps on left that mitt romney's weakness as a candidate has given way to malaise and a general sense that the president has this, i don't need to part...