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Democrats? >> boy, ed, i don't know. i think that it's not going to be just this vote. i think it's going to be spending at large. i think it's going to be the slowing economy. i think it's going to be disgust with the politicians in general. >> as things stand right now do you think the republicans will pick up a lot of seats? >> i do. i think they'll pick up between 45 and 50 seats because of the variety of things i just mentioned. but that's my prediction, yes. >> john, what message -- i mean, how are republicans going to pick up seats with a message that says we blocked this. we said no to...

To repeal this health takeover. john, do you stand on that line? >> well, ed, i think it's going to be awfully hard to repeal this bill as long as president obama is president. i think if republicans want to do something along those lines they'll have to come up with a very good strategy to get to different parts of that bill and repeal the most onerous parts. i think you said earlier in the program, that's awfully hard to repeal things that are politically popular. i give you a perfect example. nancy pelosi promised to repeal the prescription drug benefit and, you know, didn't and couldn't. a...

One group is already launching a million dollar ad campaign, thanking 14 potentially vulnerable house democrats for voting yes to the health bill. >> to influence members of congress the insurance companies hired 2,049 lobbyists to try and get their way. but the insurance companies didn't win. because congressman allen boyd said no to big insurance and yes to standing up for us. >> karen finney is a democratic strategist and msnbc analyst and john feury is a republican strategist. good to have you both here. it seems to me the state of south carolina is shaking everything up. we just had the a...

>> i think the republicans have a level of energy but inside that energy is their own problem and fissures and they are basically at the behest of a fringe group taking kroefl the party and their leaders are scared of it. >> do you agree, karen? >> absolutely. the tea partiers are pulling the republican party farther and farther to the right more and more to the fringe so moderate republicans, we're already seeing this play itself out in a number of races across the country. i can think of one in missouri 8 where the republicans, the challenger is pushing the republican farther and farther to ...

Country is at stake. >> john, how can your candidates align themselves with that kind of hate speech and have any kind of positive message? >> karen, you know better than anybody the democrat party is a big coalition and they all came together because they disliked george bush so much. >> we came together frankly to pass health care reform, john. >> you didn't actually come together. you had about 35 democrats who voted -- >> thank you, karen and john. it's still a hot topic, folks. >> thank you. >> coming up, a pilot dies while in flight forcing a passenger to take the controls and try to l...