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Checks. he distinguishes them from the big shots in washington who get paid to talk like this. >> that's right. he's essentially saying that the folks that run the nra, the folks you see on tv most often aren't the run of the mill folks who are members of that group or the run of the mill folks who like to hunt, and shoot and all sorts of things, and they're gun owners. i think manchin who isn't up until 2018 really embodies the shift we've seen of more generally in the democratic party. it's a party that had been running scared, i think, for many decades from the nra. now you are seeing a pre...

Paid to talk like this. >> that's right. he's essentially saying that the folks that run the nra, the folks you see on tv most often aren't the run of the mill folks who are members of that group or the run of the mill folks who like to hunt, and shoot and all sorts of things, and they're gun owners. i think manchin who isn't up until 2018 really embodies the shift we've seen of more generally in the democratic party. it's a party that had been running scared, i think, for many decades from the nra. now you are seeing a president and a first lady go out when they are at some of these fundraisi...

Pavement here at the cruise terminal. so just lots of smiles and excitement. and relief. to be off the ship after spending those days at sea. >> and now, tell us for anyone bho hasn't been listening and isn't up with what is going on. are they putting people on those chartered buses? that are going to take them back to galveston? >> yes. they are loading people onto the buses that will be heading back to galveston, some going to houston. others have 100 charter buses in all, those not going to texas will be going new orleans, those going new orleans will board charter flights. carnival charter...

And i think even since election day talking to people up there, that they understand that the economy's at stake. that their own political futures are at stake. because while the president isn't up for re-election, certainly many of them are in two years. and remember some of the most outspoken members of the tea party lost on tuesday. alan west looks to be gone. joe walsh out of illinois appears to be gone. michele bachmann had a bit of a scare, barely winning her re-electi re-election. i think they understand that they're going to have to perhaps temper it a bit, maybe fall in line and all i...

Numbers are where they are, the only thing a challenger would have to do is simply make the case that the current occupant of the oval office isn't fit for the job, isn't up for the job and the romney campaign and republican outside groups have spent millions in months making that case and the result is a race that is stubbornly close in the polls. so i think that this strategy shift is an acknowledgement that the romney campaign and the candidate have to do a better job on details, in sort of explaining their policy position and how a president romney would govern if elected. jon: this race s...