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But rather than bruising the nominee for the general election, as some democrats feared, these hard-fought deep primaries helped propel the nominee to the white house. in each of these cases a democratic winner galvanized the base a contested primary served as a tool to create organization on the ground that carried over to the general election. like carter hitting the streets of 37 states mr. obama focused his organizing resources into states and areas that never appeared likely to play a major role in the nominating process. in iowa the democratic party's count of registered voters increased...

Voting states in the nominating process. to some other stories we're watching for you. turkey has blasted pope francis for referring to the mass killings of armenians by ottoman turks as a genocide. the term has always been a point of contention when talking about the killings that happened 100 years ago. >> in response to the pope's comments, turkey summoned the ambassador to the vatican for consultation. he called the remarks "unacceptable," and here are the pope's exact words. >> translator: in the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies....

There is a great moment in american politics where you've got a front-runner on the democratic side that is, i think, unique in american history. there is nobody else we have seen not an incumbent who has the sort of footprint she does in one party ahead of her party's nominating process. because of that there has created this vacuum that very few folks want to step in but those who do want to step into it are assured to get a certain degree of attention and i think he is wise enough to figure that out and why he is happy to -- >> you don't think at the end of the day he's getting in the race?...

Argument was going to be against hillary clinton, which was she's old hat, she's old news, she's not the future. that's the problem with jeb bush, is that they lose that advantage. they lose that argument if they nominate jeb bush. you can't argue that a bush running against a clinton represents a future of either party. that looks like a retread elects on both sides and one advantage the republicans if they pick someone new could have against her very formidable strength. >> quickly, steve, before we go, to david's question. can jeb bush appeal to latino voters and win the republican nominati...

And newt gingrich was out of money. he was down and out. and he really had a constituency of one. he had one guy outside the structure of the campaign that was providing all the funding. and he was able to keep going. he was able to keep running well past the point of his expiration date. and he did a lot of damage to mitt romney over the course of that. it remains to be seen how it will play out. but certainly all it takes is a candidate supported by one of these guys who can go on all the way through the process, creating all sorts of havoc. so their power is totally disproportionate to anyt...