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When they find themselves pushing on this issue, they're pushing on an open door in part because it's a door they opened themselves. the va is in such bad shape, none of the defenders feels like they can stand up for the status quo, even though, and this is key, the va health care system gets better ratings than the private health care system on just about every metric. not just better outcomes, but higher satisfaction rates among their patients. privatizing the va, i'm telling you, is a sleeper issue for the 2016 campaign. the republican candidates are lining up in support. and the democrats ...

The va is in such bad shape, none of the defenders feels like they can stand up for the status quo, even though and this is key, the va health care system gets better ratings than the private health care system on just about every metric. not just better outcomes but higher satisfaction rates among their patients. privatizing the va i'm telling you is a sleeper issue for the 2016 campaign. the republican candidates are lining up in support. and the democrats and supporters of the va do not appear to have any strategy to respond to what is happening on the right. there is a concerted but as yet...

Battle royale. >> it will be because he was on the other side. i think financial reform is a sleeper issue democrats are really outraged. >> joy, i suggest there's a little more. i think nancy brilliantly and perhaps treacherously left steny hanging with 58 and she took the rest of the caucus. >> that's right. i used to work on the hill right before -- right before pelosi took office and there was always this jockeying because steny wanted that. what she's done is basically brought him in as close as she can but winking at him saying, you're not as secure and he knows that. >> in the district ...

It without the republicans in the senate. >> all right. we'll check in with terry. joe, jump in. >> we keep hearing about medicaid expansion. i'm a guy who was against the affordable care act. and i think it causes the democrats problems. but mark halperin, i really do believe that a sleeper issue in 2014 for republican governors especially, you can talk about florida, you can talk about other states, medicaid expansion. the belief of a lot of voters, swing voters, independent voters out there, even if it they opposed the affordable care act is, well, if other states are getting this money, wh...

Issue, fascinated how it is blowing up the grass roots. google searches in new hampshire, search interests in obamacare and common core, common core is beating obamacare right now. this is something that jeb bush is very associated with now. the idea is there should be a standardized curriculum across all 50 states. that there are certain things that every fourth grader in this country should know. the department of education loves this idea. they have been pushing it. jeb bush loves this idea, and tim carney, there is a grass roots idea on the left and right against this. and i don't think pe...