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Democrats on obamacare is to scare seniors about the, quote, cuts to medicare. that is the big very, very successful 2010 tea party line that ran in ads across the country. has that been making itself known in this race? what do you think of the effects on that? >> i don't even think bob barker can sell this one to seniors, honestly. i want to go back to 2012 when we saw a similar sort of special election that was described as a bellwether. it's kathy hochul in upstate new york which is a republican district but swingy. her opponent came out in favor of the ryan budget. that wound up being a h...

Republicans have run against democrats on obamacare is to scare seniors about the, quote, cuts to medicare. that is the big very, very successful 2010 tea party line that ran in ads across the country. has hthat been making itself known in this race? what do you think of the effects on that? >> i don't even think bob barker can sell this one to seniors, honestly. i want to go back to 2012 when we saw a similar sort of special election that was described as a bellwether. it's kathy hochul in upstate new york womhich is a republican district but swingy. her opponent came out in favor of the ryan...

Have quadrupled because of obamacare. that's an equal war on women. >> on the social security issue, even the president of the united states has indicated, correct me if i'm wrong, he's willing to take the position you strongly disagree. >> i sure do. and i believe that virtually every republican in the united states congress believes in cutting social security. >> that's absolutely a lie. >> the ryan budget called for the transformation of medicare into a voucher program. massive cuts in medicaid and many republicans -- can i finish my point? >> but when you say something that is not true, i ...

About this, explain information disclosure act passed by the gop, obviously, led house, yesterday, requiring updates about obamacare. the vote was 259 to 154, winning the support of 33 democrats. last week, 67 democrats voted for another republican bill that requires officials to tell people if their personal information is stolen from the website. are those two things a sign of nervousness among democrats, especially if they are in a re-election race? >> i don't think so. i think the white house has been updating the public and congress pretty regularly on numbers, and they are really good ri...

>> well, there are a number of places you can look at it. i would argue, ed, the first place you should look for is actually the farm subsidies themselves. because my understanding is at this point in time that the farm bill only includes about 8, 9, $10 billion in savings from ending the farm subsidies, when the president's budget, the ryan budget and the house democratic budget all actually have $30 billion in them, just from getting rid of these excessive farm subsidies. and so the farm bill guys have actually whittled those savings way down. there's no reason taxpayers should be shelling o...