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Welcome back to hardball. politico s mike allen reports today that president obama s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for his re-election campaign in 2012. but before they get to 212 they ve got to get through 2010. steve hillenbrand is a former democratic strategist and campaign manager for the 2008 obama campaign. and jonathan martin, senior writer for politico. gentlemen, it s a great group to have here, you two being a group. and this is the question. is it serious business by the way, who s floating this story that president obama would be more likely to get re-elected with some kind of a healthy margin if he loses the congress this november? who s pushing that story? i don t know. are republicans pushing it? yeah. republicans are pushing it. why are they pushing it? because this is what one said, tom davis, very smart guy, former congressman. he said it is easier for him to get re-elected if you ve got a split government. if democrats still have both h ....
This, too. in 94 if they don t have a gop takeover he s not impeached in the second term. bottom line, right? let me ask you this. you re an expert, steve. can you run the same kind of campaign twice? move to chicago, david plouffe runs the campaign, he strategizes the whole thing, tries to replicate it. axelrod goes home with his nice family back to chicago. can you do a campaign the same way the second time or is there something necessarily that erodes in the way you run the second time? you ve got to do something different the second time. you re nice to say i m an expert, but i don t think i am. i do believe that you cannot replicate it exactly. there are some fundamental reasons to get out of washington and to headquarter in chicago if that s the decision of the president. but the idea of going back and trying to redo what was created last time, it was a very special circumstance. it was a lot about hope and change, but it was also a lot about doing things differently than ge ....
i think steve and the campaign were very, very skilled in running against john mccain and avoiding thorny it was easy to vote against john mccain, he was tired-e was running eight years later than he should have ran, he looked like my point is i ll ask you the same question. does he look more liberal now than he did when he ran? he doesn t. he does look more liberal. i think the republicans are trying to paint him as more liberal. i don t believe they haven t succeeded you re saying? no. chris, this whole idea that supporting health care reform is a big liberal agenda, a far left liberal agenda, is crazy. are we siding with the big insurance companies? are we siding with american consumers? we have a new poll, 38-38, people are basically 50-50 now on whether they want this thing to pass. what s this thing? the health care bill as they understand it to be right now. that s not a big ticket. i think our side, the democratic side, has failed to communicat ....
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