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>> right up until elections day in 2016 that will hamper his campaign. >> a.b., do you, as you look into the future, see obamacare really being as a mill stone around the neck of a lot of democrats? >> you know, if things turn out well for the law, i don't think it's going to happen in 2014. it doesn't mean that it can't. i just think that the challenges facing it this year are so great, it's such a scary transition for most americans, losing their doctor, watching their price rise, not knowing if their employer, who covered now is going to dump them at the end of when the employer mandate kic...

You? the president is a mill stone around the democrat's neck. pat, do you agree? >> i want to put up those numbers again if we can. i don't think it's overstating. he looks like a member of congress. >> he has been sustaining over 50% for a couple of weeks now. the problem is what is happening for 2014. if the republicans had a message on health care and a an economic growth message, a positive alternative to offer and put the democrats against the wall, you could see from this meeting with the democrats in the senate that look, they had 14 of them are up, it is falling apart on them. the sam...

Correct, chad? >> yeah, yeah. i would be careful about reading too much into the house of representatives voting on it today. they are to sort of see where their members are. you know, there is something that john boehner and the house republican leadership has operated under a line, the haster rule, they would never bring a piece of legislation to the floor that did not have a majority of the majority party. now, we would think that the democrats would be with the blessing of the president and joe biden, the vice-president, coming up to capitol hill, that they would get a pretty good democrat...

One is firing up the base. mitt romney fired up his base during the debate and president obama did not. the other issue is the waiverers who were still undecided or who are persuadable and romney did a better job persuading during the debate than president obama did. i agree with joan. this is not the end of the world. this is not something that's uncorrectable. but it needs to be corrected. >> well, it could start with a good debate by joe biden coming up on thursday night. joan, how important is it? >> it's really important. i think what he needs to do is tie paul ryan around mitt romney's n...

Tie paul ryan around mitt romney's neck like a mill stone. paul ryan's policies are deadly unpopular and he's basically been allowed to kind of get away with it and paper over what he believes and what mitt romney believes. but paul ryan is just a terrible deficit for the ticket. the other thing is it is a base senator john mccain by 2 to 1 in the margin in the youth vote in this country. it's crucial for the president to get similar numbers this time around if he's going to win the state of florida. of course, to vote they must be registered and voter registration drives have been underway fo...