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Without obama is no machine. they don't win. that was largely a personality based campaign in two different cycles. i did witness at least in florida the obama machine for whatever it was it was good having its consultants come down and build democrats in various races and not win them. in addition to that they would not do much to help. so you also had in addition to that folks not liking barack obama very much. if you were running for office you ran away from obama and obama's people didn't run towards you to help. >> it took republicans 40 years to recover basically from the double whammy o...

The obama political machine without obama is no machine. they don't win. that was largely a personality based campaign in two different cycles. i did witness at least in florida the obama machine for whatever it was it was good having its consultants come down and build democrats in various races and not win them. in addition to that they would not do much to help. so you also had in addition to that folks not liking barack obama very much. if you were running for office you ran away from obama and obama's people didn't run towards you to help. >> it took republicans 40 years to recover basica...

Institutional difference whether you're there. so the republican party, they didn't talk a lot. it national idealally, but they invested heavily in advance of the 2010 cycle in winning state legislative seats across the country that nobody in the national press cared enough about. they flipped enough of them to flip the congressional map that locks it in for a decade. republicans are thinking that way and democrats just aren't. >> no better example than the state of florida. a swing state that's nowhere near swing in legislative races. >> the big thing is that the barack obama political machin...

Which digs deeper on his decision of iraq war. tonight rummy joins the hate obama machine. he attacked after afghan's president hamid karzai threw his support behind vladimir putin. >> our relationship with karzai and afghanistan was absolutely first-rate in the bush administration. it has gone down hill like a toboggan ever since the obama administration came in. now, take for example the fact that we have status of forces agreement probably with 125 forces of the world, this administration, the white house and the state department has failed to get a status of forces agreement. a trained ape...

Taking at a chained cpi. he said he was willing to work with republicans on changing entitlements and got a lot of backlash from the base last ire year. he's digging his heels in and people are saying that he is trying to appeal to his base. mid-term elections are older, whi whiter and will not have the obama machine. so for him to preserve the senate and get anything done he is making a concession on something we wanted to work with the republicans on. that has to do with more the senate race more so than the governor side but it is an important shift. >> david, thank you. we are continuing t...