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In red states. that's a problem. >> figure out a way to harness all the energy in the streets. saw the republicans do this with the tea party. it was tricky, you remember 2009/2010, a tricky negotiation, had to bring that energy in without being singed by it. didn't always happen. challenge for the democrats, nancy pelosi said at town hall. march on the inauguration happened organically, wasn't organized, now find out howta channel it. >> back to leadership. >> go back a few years with a similar conundrum, howard dean with a grassroots base, and kind of understood washington and. >> bernie san...

Quick pieces. in the state of new york when she was senator before the stem was popular, she was creating these bills and partnering with universities and schools in new york. the president just announced this brothers keeper program to support young men of color. she helped start an all boys public school dedicated to young men of color, now opening their sixth school. she was talking about a lot of these issues long before they became really popular because she understood the difference between not just income inequality but wealth inequality and trying to improve the pipeline for folks to m...

There is time left to do that. >> joe, he's -- obviously he is becoming popular in iowa. but in each of those instances that ed just mentioned, also, a little fund-raising was going on. i think we can't let -- you know, let that pass. he's clearly seen the fund-raising nunts each of these. third quarter fund-raising, $1.9 million. 12,000 zoneors. average 158 per donor. a lot of small dollar donors. not only building a grassroots base but, you know, this guy does very well at understanding what the base wants to hear and how to deliver it. >> but he understands what a sliver of the base wants. ...

Show or news network, the super fan. this is a chance to interface with constituents, right? if you order the barack obama birth certificate mug, made in the usa, you get this fancy little official discount card, good graphics, 10% off for future barack obama merchandise. if you order the mitt romney super fan shirt, you get this sort of printout of -- >> it's meaningless. >> that's not meaningless. >> the election's about the economy, not a coffee cup on the website. >> it's getting voters out to the poll. >> coffee cups and t-shirts are not what the election's about. >> having done five pres...