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That i'm getting a good representative sample. some of the letters make you think, like the one that i received last month from a kindergarten class in virginia. now, the teacher of this class instructed the students to ask me any question they wanted. so one asked, how do you do your job? another asked, do you work a lot? [ laughter ] somebody wanted to know if i wear a black jacket or if i have a beard. so, clearly, they were getting me mixed up with the other tall guy from illinois.

Representative sample. some of the letters make you think, like the one that i received last month from a kindergartner class in virginia. a teacher of this class instructed the students to ask me anything they want. one asked, how do you do your job? another asked, do you work a lot? somebody wanted to know if i wear a black jacket or if i have a beard. so clearly, they were getting me mixed up with the other tall guy from illinois.

Ginning up the vote. listen. >> it will be up to each of you to make sure the young people, african-americans, latinos, and women, who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again. >> now, some conservatives sliced that and criticized. ericerickson.com here the other night, what was the message? white men need not apply? >> i think the democratic party understands where its base is. we build from our base. get a nice representative sample of the american people. i think understanding your base is important to turning it out. and it's really important for the president to be out there ...

Representative sample, i'm assuming that 85% of you right now have health care, maybe 90%. let's say 85% of you have health care. some of you are getting it through your jobs. some of you are still buying it individually. or you're a small business owner and you're purchasing it. no matter what your situation, i guarantee you, your costs have gone up at least double digits over the last year. they have doubled over the last decade. and they're going to more than double over the next decade if we don't do anything. so, even if you're lucky enough to have health care, it is digging deeper and de...

Have these chronic diseases and we found out that our insurance only covered us up to a certain amount and then they had a cap. and, afterwards, we had to hold bake sales and our neighbors had to raise money, just to make sure that our kids would live. too many stories like that. so, that was the main reason that i said we had to take it on. but the second reason was because even if you got health insurance, what's happened to your premiums lately? look, if this is a representative sample, i'm assuming that 85% of you right now have health care, maybe 90%. let's say 85% of you have health care...