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Either party wanted this to be the center of the fight this year, but republicans put these issues at the center of their policy agenda in the states. and in congress for the last two years, and then they picked a guy to be their vice presidential nominee who is one of the party's true hard liners on these issues. so, i don't think democrats particularly wanted to run on abortion rights and defending access to contraception, i mean, i dont think this administration is afraid of it. they have been better on it than most democrats have been, but you can see when they're out on the campaign trail...

Whole akin situation. whether or not he stays in or gets out, the train has left the station that john willke quota tributed to the romney campaign or romney himself will come up, you can be sure, in a super pac ad or maybe a president obama campaign ad. it's already going to be in there. the script writers are hard at work. >> finally, the platform. the platform has been adopted. we know platforms are meant to be thrown out but the platform has the complete language which is no exceptions on the ban on abortion. it was adopted, will be adopted monday but it was adopted preliminarily by the pl...

Todd akin has apologized for, but he has not completely disavowed all of the theories. we know john willke was also an advisor and a principal surrogate according to his own press reliease in 2007-2008. >> yeah. well, the problem is we look at somebody like todd akin, a lot of republicans do, and say it's unfortunate he won that primary in the first place. we don't need people who think like that representing the republican party. it's very tough for people like me, pro-choice republicans, and it's an admittedly not a large caucus but when i have to see a story like todd akin, then turn to my ...

The reason i say at times, because if you actually go down the list of the family research council, concerned women for america, go down the list of those groups, there are going to be some that say yes, we know all about john willke and quite frankly, there will be others who say they are not as familiar or don't necessarily agree. it depends who you ask and depends what the organization is. so i think that's part of it. >> one of the reasons why this is so relevant, of course, is first of all, this could be the key senate race that could change who controls the senate. but there is a preside...

To say look, akin, you need to get out of the race and i am for an exception for rape and danger to the life of the mother and he will start to look, not that he is, he will start to look a little more moderate on the abortion position which would be wonderful for independent women. the problem is this is really a base election. he needs to turn out the base. so at some point, evangelical christians are going to go hey, wait a minute, all right, enough of the piling on from romney, mcconnell, all these guys, let's move on and there's a real danger there politically that this could be a major f...