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And richard canton, executive editor of "the nation.com" and playright and host of a radio show and jonathan alter, the author of the book "the promise." great to have you here, jonathan. >> because the past week was, i think it was widely acknowledged the first week of the general election, i want to talk about what the race looks like to me. as the incumbent, president obama has a good-enough record to run on, passing universal health care coverage for the first time in the country's history. but the most central argument for re-election, a slowly-improving world economy is the one message t...

and richard canton, executive editor of "the nation.com" and playright and host of a radio show and jonathan alter, the author of the book "the promise." great to have you here, jonathan. >> because the past week was, i think it was widely acknowledged the first week of the general election, i want to talk about what the race looks like to me. as the incumbent, president obama has a good-enough record to run on, passing universal health care coverage for the first time in the country's history. but the most central argument for re-election, a slowly-improving world economy is the one...

promise." great to have you here, jonathan. >> because the past week was, i think it was widely acknowledged the first week of the general election, i want to talk about what the race looks like to me. as the incumbent, president obama has a good-enough record to run on, passing universal health care coverage for the first time in the country's history. but the most central argument for re-election, a slowly-improving world economy is the one message that polling and focus groups show that voters are least receptive to. the president can't say that things are getting better because t...