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Perry says the president has a 29% approval rating. >> it ain't he they like. >> they don't like him. nevertheless, mitch is careful on the question, trying to be careful, trying to split hairs on obamacare because it's popular enough in kentucky. the special circumstance in a southern state that otherwise republicans could attack the program is that the democratic governor made it his business to make the program work. >> let me ask the political question. >> and that gives cover to grimes as she tries to work her way through. >> why doesn't alison grimes say this guy is really trying to have...

Of obamacare, but also the exchanges. so beshear, the democrat, has helped put mitch on the defensive on this issue. one that for many republicans is a weapon they can use. in kentucky, it's turned into something that mitch has to try to parse. the other thing that's changed, i'm sure perry's presence down in kentucky helps to underscore the point. this is a national race with national attention. every word that mitch mcconnell utters is parsed very carefully. in previous races he could run around the state slicing the baloney any way he wanted. not in this race. >> here's writing about mcconn...

Without the aca but he said it anyway without any concern for the truth and the hypocrisy part comes in because, well, how could we have stood up there for years saying that no american should not be permitted to get health care the obama way and he's going to strike it down the second he can, but kentuckians, they're different, they get to keep it. this is fascinating. you know, perry, i know this is part of your beat now. it's fascinating that obamacare, and that's the term we use, the president says it's his term so might as well use it, has caught on at the ground level with real people to...

Mitch mcconnell is trying to mislead kentucky voters and they are hammering him pretty hard. this is the first time they have really invoked obamacare as part of their core campaign strategy. >> yeah, but they're doing -- i agree with perry, they're doing it on the mislead -- they're doing it on mcconnell's character. they don't want to defend obamacare point by point. >> it's interesting, they're getting personal with him and the republicans are getting personal with obama but not with allison lundergan grimes. as she put it beautifully, this is between me and you, mitch. thank you, howard, t...