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Tax loopholes? great, we will take you up on that. if you want to say that the tea party is not willing to compromise, fine. i don't think you can say the democrats have been willing partners. >> greg: also, what is he talking about? the tea party has been on a coffee break for a year. they haven't -- they are not on the street defecating against the cop cars. that is another group. >> bob: 65% negative. you cannot win with a tea party platform that is instranzient and refuses to move off their position. if i could say this, the democrats did make some mistakes in the super committee. but the ...

>> eric: hispanic, the americans in poverty. that is what we are seeing here. that's what it is. if you watched "60 minutes" last night you see explosion of children in poverty. >> kimberly: true. >> eric: if the blue collar worker, white or non, isn't pushing away from barack obama, nobody is. he should be. >> bob: they are. poverty is something that our party focused on for a long time. the sad part is there is a rule that people who are unemployed or uneducated don't vote. they are making mistake abandoning that group. you need to say if you, you know, if you say 17 million or 14 million pe...

Campaign headquarters, obama campaign headquarters this morning what do you think the reaction to this article was? >> bob: first, let me say i'm dressed in black, black friday was the greatest black friday i had in history. this is the beginning of the obama recovery. >> eric: you're opening a pawnshop. >> bob: that is correct. let me just say the "new york times" is known for printing all the news that is fit to print. let me tell you, times, that is not fit to print. the reality is let's go back to when this happened. the democrats lost white blue collar worker in '84 and tried periodically...

Maybe the next kid is 250. >> bob: i bet doctors said if you continue at this weight -- >> kimberly: diabetes, heart disease. short life span. >> bob: you have a responsibility as a social worker to get him out of there. >> greg: this is an unusual thing to see. >> kimberly: part of the supersize me generation of fast food. >> greg: there is probably mental illness in the household. >> kimberly: or be depressed or problems at school or being bullied. i don't know. >> bob: in the segment we are going to talk about the obama recovery. that's next. >> kimberly: we are going to talk about the supe...

So we tried to keep the losses among blue collar white democrats between 15 and 19%. if we do that, we can survive. we have a big enough number of the minorities and single women. but we have never going to get majority for the foreseeable future, but the key is in 19 -- excuse me, in 2010, the democrats lost that group by 30 points. that 30 points we could not sustain. i don't care how many votes we got in the other group. the idea that the suggestion by edsall and these people we are abandoning the blue collar voter is silly, uneducated, uninformed and doesn't deserve to be put in the "new y...