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Within 24 hours. he is the leader of the party, it's tribal and he's tribal. >> i think that he's trying to stoke that up, and if you just ask anybody who stood up to rush, i had 50 names but you're right they all caved within five minutes after they did. >> right. because he's the boss. >> he's trying to whip up that kind of feeling, i think mark is right. >> are they using race? are they using race? >> they are using a lot of emotions and there are a lot of emotions out there. but here's the good news. americans are not fundamentally negative, angry people. even in a time of anxiety with con...

Exception. how do you get young people to vote? >> this plan as it is designed and as they plan to execute it including employeeing the president is no crazier than the notion you could bring out new voters in the iowa caucuses in 2008. a lot of people were skeptical of that. you have to give the operation a benefit of the doubt that they now how to energize these people in an off year employing most importantly the president. he has a personal connection. >> you believe he can replicate what happened in 2008? mark halprin? >> i'm not instantly skeptical of it. these are smart people. they und...

Video is our plan, chris, in the midterm. we have to energize voters across the spectrum but we're focused heavily on the first-time voters from 2008. and we just know who they are. there was about 15 million people that registered and we were part of registering them for the first time in 2008 and it's an electorate in that group of 15 million that are heavily young, heavily new americans and minority voters and women. that's just who they are. this is a group that would normally participate pretty heavily in a presidential year but then the turnout would fall off in a non-presidential year. ...

It's going to be exciting. that was president obama in a web video message for the democrat national committee that they hope will rally supporters to bring in $50 million in the plan they will spend to get out the vote in november. how are they going to do it, spend $50 million to get the young people to vote? former virginia governor tim kaine is chairman of the democratic national committee and "time" magazine mark halprin, co-author of "game change." his latest column is about president obama and the 2010 election. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. governor, it's important to have you. ...

The results team. >> you're up against a ferocious team. thank you, governor, mark halprin. when we return i'm going to have thoughts about america's image in the world which is getting better all the time. ♪ (announcer) right now, all over the country, discover card customers are getting five percent cashback bonus at home improvement stores. it pays to get more, it pays to discover. from crystal light. the first fitness drink with no artificial sweeteners, flavors, or preservatives. new purefitness... from crystal light. a pure way to water your body. [ male announcer ] there's one reaso...