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Made of this. obviously one thing that is clear to me here is already they understand that their fortunes for reelection run through ohio, wisconsin, michigan understanding that's what made the difference. understanding also although he didn't mention that it was a narrow margin. wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, not in ohio where he won big by eight points. what's your sense of how this message, the kind of prompter parts resonates in your state? >> the prompter parts, chris, are the reason why he won. he really tapped into some of the frustration that many ohioans are feeling and our sta...

The main thing about reelection, we tend to think nobly that presidents shouldn't focus on being re-elected. trying to say that your quality of achievement depends very significantly on being re-elected. you have that much more opportunity to appoint justices and all the rest. everything you did in the first term is looked at retroactively in a different way depending on the verdict of the reelection run. >> you also write about president truman's approach to reelection which was to blame the gop for being obstructionist. you question whether this president fell into this approach or a planned...

And the tax expired for this year at the end of last year and technically congress has to get on board with just that. and then on top, the bush tax cuts start expiring and people do not want their taxes to go up, but the bigger question, how will the next leader of this country fix our fiscal situation? >> adam, does it come down to that? ultimately, listen, i know that this is something, a center piece of president obama's reelection run, all about taxing the rich and those who don't pay their fair share, but do you think, first of all, that's the solution? and do you think it's going to res...