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And, you know, my argument has been, oh, no, obstructionism is part of this. right? just like we saw the obstructionism against president clinton. but the strategy is racial because that's the thing that is the weakness for this president. they came after president clinton with what he was week on and right in this case race becomes the thing that can galvanize is the critique of the president. >> apparently joe the plumber didn't get the memo that his 15 minutes of fame were up. beyond that, i think it's important to look at the nature of the criticism and this president has been subjected to...

Indicating this is a problem, the strategy was a failure and we have to retake control of the house of representatives. now, i think democratic unity was very important throughout this entire process. the white house, leader pelosi, harry reid, members of the rank and file all did a tremendous job. and what we see now is an emerging civil war. i think there are three factions. you have to business faction, which largely includes moderate republicans, you have the tea party faction, which is responsible for the reckless shutdown, and now we're going to see the power of the defense faction, trad...

They have a very different view about what is or is not a smart strategy for changing it or repealing it. what this was is this was a tactical decision. that's where the real friction was on the right. but it's particularly those who are more a tea party faction. they view this as if you oppose the affordable care act, then you had a duty to stand up and fight, fight, fight. so this tactical difference has turned into, you know, trying to make it seem like there's this big policy divide on the right. >> andra, we talked about growing up in virginia. the virginia governor's race is an interesti...

The winston group in washington, d.c. okay. is it racist to disagree with president obama? >> well, recently, it kind of has a racial overtone. what i love about that headline, you know, we want a white republican president, what's missing in that but it's underlying is they're not talking about a white republican woman. they're talking about a we want a white republican man. and looking at the forecast in 2016 that you might have hillary clinton running for president and being a viable candidate that will potentially win, you're now going to then move from a racist undertone critique of a pre...

From people. effectiveness of it depends on what constituency is voting for you, so we know for example that president obama was able to win the seat in illinois but not winning that second congressional district in chicago in part because he faced some of what cory booker faced running. >> the strategy is predicated on the fact for young blacks but it assumes blacks will turn out in record numberings and almost uniformly for black democratic candidates. let's be clear about that. one of the things that is important to know is that recently we have seen instances where black candidates cannot ...