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Endorsing allies, rewarding her supporters, punishing her opponents. big deal, and it's a big question. is bill fighting old battles or getting ready for a big new one in 2016. mark critz just won the democratic nomination in his state of pennsylvania last week, and my colleague alex wagner joins us now. she's the host on msnbc. quote, we have three leading political parties in america today, howard wrote. republican, democratic and clinton. the last is a mom and pop operation with a chelsea. it's been 12 years since they had a president in office, but they still keep score, tend to their base...

Choice, but then i'm not in the race anymore. >> he's won the race. is he therefore the right guy? >> yeah, absolutely. >> finally, two more members of congress have to clean out their desks a little bit sooner than they thought. two conservative democrats who voted against the president's health care plan went down in defeat last night. pennsylvania's longest serving congressman, democrat tim holden, lost in the new 17th district to personal injury attorney matt cartwright by nearly 15 points. and in the 12th district altmire was out organized by his colleague mark critz. most of them in memb...

Campaigned for critz. and now he's accusing him of embracing, quote, tactics usually reserved for elections to high school prom king than the united states congress after critz tried to get a court to boot altmire off the ballot. the race a big test for organized labor which spent thousands to help altmire topple a gop incumbent in 2006. the fight has gotten negative with the two exchanging brutal ads. >> mark critz, you don't represent western pennsylvania. >> when you side with wall street -- >> over homeowners like me. >> when you fail to stand up to the tea party and didn't vote against th...

To talk to republican voters yesterday at a town hall with rubio, it was 100% red meat for the base from energy, iran, health care, even voter i.d. laws. >> it is hard for our friends across the aisle to explain why they don't want to make sure that people who vote are legal citizens of this country. we have the attorney general of the united states trying to keep that from happening. >> as you can see the pivot isn't fully there yet, and frankly, it is probably good internal politics for romney not to pivot too soon. you do it too soon you only then suddenly remind some skeptical conservative...

The poll the numbers you were reading as really discouraging as they appear, what they say is it is difficult, if not impossible to turn this around. this raises the spector of the house and potential the senate going republican given this wholesale rejection of the democratic party and its issue positions. >> greta: is it every man for himself in the democratic party? democrat can look and say i better break from the k pelosi and harry reid and freelance with some ads that -- i mean stuck with how you voted on issues, at least more forward-looking ads. can that rescue somebody? >> that's the ...