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solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. it's barack obama or george w. bush, but it's not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lower and middle class incomes were not rising. people felt and in ma...

Minorities have a big impact on this year's presidential election. my next guest says don't forget the seniors. joining me is democratic pollster, doug schoen and national spokesman for the 60 plus association, my good friend pat boone, great to have you here today. >> thank you. >> you wrote an article that seniors could sink president obama in 2012. how could they do that? >> very simple, mike, seniors had gone for george w. bush, by about five points in 2004. they went for john mccain for about seven or eight points in 2008. but two years ago in the mid term elections, they voted plus 21 fo...

George w. bush do that with dick cheney and people said who? that's what george w. bush wanted and he was ahead in the polls ap wanted to do that. now if you're tied and trying to gain a small tactical edge. you're willing to take a little bit of a risk, but what you're thinking about is the electoral math and the third category if you're trailing. what you want to do is hit reset button and change the narrative. certainly we saw that with john mccain in 2008. the choice of sarah palin, changed the discussion and for a while worked for him. >> the three categories, if you're ahead, tied, behin...

Mission. >> on this mission is a historic mission. we are really at a point, a tipping point in the future of the campaign. and i'm absolutely convinced of the necessity for this mission. because by doing this and clearing this particular area, we will ensure that we have government of afghanistan influence right the way through central helmand. >> and you can be able to hear more of that and read a lot more about it too at our website cnn.com/afghanistan. let's zoom in for a second. this is called afghanistan crossroads and packed with blogs and pictures from the ground. and as this mission d...