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Should help raise money from large and small donors. as for democrats, yesterday the administration released february's health care enrollment number, which fell 25% short of its target, with the march 31st deadline fast approaching, 4.2 million people have now signed up for insurance on the federal and state exchanges. and there were 943,000 sign-ups in february. but that is still lower than the two previous months. florida 13 may now prestage a democratic disaster in november, but it does mean a barrage of anti-obamacare attack ads will continue, and the question is, what should democrats do...

Great that vote? could you have envisioned these problems? >> well, any kind of maximum legislation that is large in its implications is going to face some challenges. there's no doubt about it. now do we all wish that this had gone more smoothly? the answer is obvious, yes. the states wish it would have for -- wherever there are state exchanges, the federal exchange, we wish that would have been better. those are all obvious thoughts we have today across the country. but what i can tell you is that states are working very hard to make the implications to the people back home the best they can...

Was fixed. >> at the moment that everyone discovered what a disaster it was and the white house came out saying partly it's because so many people are trying to enroll that we can't handle all of this volume, privately, the debate they were having whether it could be saved at all or whether they were going to have to start over, just scrap the whole thing and there was about a week in the middle of october where that was the debate. in the end, it was a bunch of outside tech wizards, many from silicon valley, on leave from google, many of whom who had been kind of the wizards behind the re-ele...

That's a hell of a start for people. >> reporter: quite a difference from the confident predictions last fall before the rollout from health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> i think it looks like 7 million people have signed up by the end of march 2014. >> reporter: the non-partisan congressional budget office stuck with those numbers until just recently when it lowered it from 7 million to 6 million but the vice president is the first to mention a number as low as 5 million, suggesting growing doubt in the administration. in its report of signups through the end of january, ...

Barrasso has said how many people have paid. doesn't count until you've paid but second only 27% are in the 18 to 34 group which means adverse selection by age is still under way and they wanted about 40 to make that fly. second, 55% are women. women have higher recourse to the health care system. so that's another form of adverse selection, in addition to the youth adverse selection, and, fourth, most of these people who have signed up, a clear large majority are in the 36 states that have not established state exchanges, so they are buying this through the federal exchanges, and there are fo...