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The middle class? why are you against women? what is your problem with poor people? why are you just for the rich? all of these kind of unanswerable questions that have resonance, and people go, yeah, why is he? he's going to have to come back and talk about that 2% growth rate, 8% unemployment, and what happened on barack obama's economic watch, because the president is doing everything he can to keep that off the table. >> well, there's a poll out, and it shows that -- the question was asked, did the obama team's policies help or hurt the economy. 37% said it hurt the economy, has hurt. only...

Americans in the abstract, do they think millionaires and billionaires should pay more, they say yes. more interesting, though, are the polls that say, what do you think is the most important issue? they do not believe this is the most important issue. they want a president who's going to tell them how he's going to fix the economy, what he's going to do fix the deficit. so the question is, do you motivate people to go to the polls on this issue? can you win as a president running on higher taxes. that's a bigger gamble. >> which brings us to the question of whether or not this is good economi...

Risk for democrats. senate majority leader leader harry reid is getting a reputation of overseeing a graveyard. there are growing complaints that the house republicans have passed dozens of pieces of legislation. there are even bills that president barack obama says he supports that senate democrats support, but harry reid has had no time to debate any of those or bring them to the floor, because they're holding show votes like this, legislation that's not going to pass, but all designed for the political campaign this fall. >> all designed for the political campaign this fall. i have to keep ...

Club or whether the lilly ledbetter law in fair pay was a good idea. romney has to set the agenda and talk about freedom and economic growth. on the freedom question, which he has a lot of room to run there with women, independent women don't love obamacare. they don't necessarily like the federal government dictating more of their healthcare choices. there's a lot of material here, but romney has to play offense, raise the issues. >> kim, you're in d.c. i've got to put this question to you. it doesn't seem to be looking over this past week it was mitt romney that carried forward the attack, i...

Should have as little government intrusion as possible. but if freedom means freedom from polluted air, freedom from discrimination, freedom from poverty, then by the very nature, we do need collective action, and usually that's by way of government. >> i don't think that's a coherent definition of freedom. you're talking about freedom from whatever you don't like. what if i want freedom from liberal ideas? >> which, by the way, he does! >> what ken is talking about is obviously -- constitution, right? if you had total freedom, in tim's mind, just total anarchy, right? >> but also you would ge...