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Instead of 13 months away, getting control of the senate which means we can have the powerful fight. it's an incredibly stupid move. >> do you agree with that, rich? >> i think mike is a little too panicked over here, can barely get his words out. look, it's a short-term thing whether the obama care glitches get enough coverage the first week. the key question is whether there are really, over time, enough people signed up to make the exchanges work. they're very dubious about that. this law has a legitimacy problem. it was never popular when it was proposed, it's even less popular now. it was...

Democrats out of office over obama care. when your opponent is in trouble, when they're drowning politically, you throw them a fire hose. we throw them a lifeboat and a machine gun and now we debate this -- excuse me, i'm all choked up. instead of 13 months away, getting control of the senate which means we can have the powerful fight. it's an incredibly stupid move. >> do you agree with that, rich? >> i think mike is a little too panicked over here, can barely get his words out. look, it's a short-term thing whether the obama care glitches get enough coverage the first week. the key question ...

Did as you suggested as got engaged and managed to force the leaderships to get one. >> there's an institutional set-up. that the u.s. government says we're for a two-state solution. that's always the official policy. and then there's a set of ngos and institutions and groups that say they're from a two-step solution. apec. everything is for a two-state solution. there's no constituency for an actual two-state solution. >> nsa not true. there's a constituency for it and there continues to be among both israelis and palestinians, they don't see their own government institutions or frankly our g...

If we did, as you suggested to get engaged. >> this is the spector i worry about. there's an institutional set up. the u.s. government says we are for a two-state solution. it's the official policy. there's a set of institutions and groups who are for a two-step solution. everyone is for it. there's no constituency for a tuesday solution. it's muldering middle. >> there's con stitch wan si for it. they just don't see their own government institutions or frankly our government institutions being able to get there. if you want to fix it, what you have to do is deal with the legitimacy problem an...

Fairly significant vote both popular and electoral, and he had some of the same legitimacy problems. president bush lost the popular vote but managed to govern i think relatively effectively. i don't think there was a legitimacy problem for very long. look, i think you're staring at a very potentially likely scenario of mitt romney carrying the popular vote and losing the electoral vote. if you believe gallup, and i have to believe gallup, but if he's by 7 in the gallup poll, there's a chance he will win the popular vote but also a fairly good chance. those scenarios, by the way, i wouldn't co...