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That they were all going to run against obamacare as a failed policy. that happened this week, and this week democrats jumped in two feet totally behind trying to make this election also about a totally different issue which is the minimum wage. and it's no accident that president obama was at the university of michigan talking about this. right? talking to this very young audience about how much the minimum wage would help young people and how democrats want to help young people even if republicans don't want to help young people. i mean, democrats need their core voters, including young vote...

Trailing republican terri lynn land by three points. look at this from the same poll. gary peters may be down by three against the republican candidate, but there is a democratic skewed issue headed for the ballot in michigan that's not only leading, it's leading by 24 points. the polling in michigan is 60-36 in favor of raising the minimum wage. everybody says this year that senate candidates and congressional candidates are all keeping their distance from president obama this year. that no democrat wants to do a campaign event with him. this week, there was gary peters with president obama c...

Those candidates that year that won by megamargins. 50- and 60-point margins. when you have two points on the ballot and one is winning by that much more, does it drag others races along with it? >> i think it does if you have one candidate on one side of the issue and another who's on another. >> right. >> it's a simple way of saying not only whose side you're on but whose side your opponent is not on, that being the working people of the state. it also provides a valuable organizing tool. it provides a tool you can use when you're going door to door, building the kind of ground game that's i...

And now that the enrollment target has been surpassed." but if this is no longer going to ba single-issue, obamacare-only election, that election that everybody expected before this week, then what's it going to be instead? what's going to try to fill that vacuum as obamacare deflates as an issue? the newly re-energized democrats apparently would like it to be something that drives voter turnout. since that is their big challenge in any midterm election year, they particularly think it's their challenge this year. the democrats apparently think they've got a silver bullet issue that will do th...

Are disproportionately women, disproportionately over 20 and single women, are an important turnout target for democrats. i think as an issue, and as an issue that you can message around, minimum wage fits in with things like earned sick days, with things like equal pay for women who earn 77 cents on the dollar for what a man earns for doing the same job. they combine to tell a broader story of economic fairness. when democrats are successful at telling that story, they win elections. >> one of the things that people who study the minimum wage as a democratic turnout effort always point to is ...