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Repeal have also shifted since just november. the most recent ap poll says 26% support repeal, 56% want more not less. the politics have changed in important ways but you are looking at a democratic party that has something that they know how to defend. remember, a year ago they didn't know what they were talking about because it hasn't been decided. all the messy negotiations, it made it extremely hard to rebut anything because they had nothing to put their hands around. now it is here, those provisions are popular. when you are talking about pre-existing conditions or what seniors get, it is...

Just november. the most recent ap poll says 26% support repeal, 56% want more not less. the politics have changed in important ways but you are looking at a democratic party that has something that they know how to defend. remember, a year ago they didn't know what they were talking about because it hasn't been decided. all the messy negotiations, it made it extremely hard to rebut anything because they had nothing to put their hands around. now it is here, those provisions are popular. when you are talking about pre-existing conditions or what seniors get, it is a different world. >> if just ...

There any contemplation that kind of number might continue to change at anywhere near that sort of pace and that at some point this continuing stage craft that they are doing in the house may pit the republicans against their base rather than pandering to their base? >> well, i think that's going to bottom out at some point because there is that hard core that just hates everything that obama does and finds the health care -- that's been a radicalizing force for them because of all the heating rhetoric around it. but repeal is not what republicans -- even republicans really think is the most i...

Governor in addition, referendum on the democratic, economic policies. >> bret: julie, other democrat candidates are having a hard time with the economy and the message perhaps. richard blumenthal in connecticut, candidate there, a democrat, said this about the stimulus. "i believe that the stimulus was wrongly structured, because it failed to provide jobs and paychecks to ordinary americans. it unfortunately was inadequately designed to invest in infrastructure and roads and bridges and schools." he said he would vote against it as it was structured. that's an interesting talking point from a...

Governor in addition, referendum on the democratic, economic policies. >> bret: julie, other democrat candidates are having a hard time with the economy and the message perhaps. richard blumenthal in connecticut, candidate there, a democrat, said this about the stimulus. "i believe that the stimulus was wrongly structured, because it failed to provide jobs and paychecks to ordinary americans. it unfortunately was inadequately designed to invest in infrastructure and roads and bridges and schools." he said he would vote against it as it was structured. that's an interesting talking point from a...