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They relate to, that his set of policies goals aren't ones that they agree with and something we've seen all over this poll with the president. he has lost the entire middle of the country and the electorate both in ideology, which is what i just described, but also grow graphically. we're seeing the midwest is where we're seeing his numbers slip. at first it started in the south and the west. >> yeah. >> two areas that were, you know, basically much more conservative over the years, and so they are the first to go. the next one to go, and the swing area of this country is the industrial agric...

>> you talk about tort reform, we talked about cutting entitlements. i'm okay if we don't go to space. something's got to give somewhere. if you ask me to choose between education, defending our country and you and i having a condo on mars some day, i can pass on the condo. >> $6 billion, i believe it is, in nasa, increase in their budget because the president wants to go to mars. and most political observers would say, because you cannot politically cut nasa because the space coast is in a swing area in presidential elections. >> you know, that's the problem with our politics. there are so ma...

That's an affront to the president of the united states that you don't go out there and what it says is that the president being linked to him is going to hurt you in the fall. potentially hurt you and, therefore, run away from your own press and when he comes to the state, i think it is a mistake on miss carnahan's part to do that. even if he's not terribly popular. and i think that obama -- the president is out there because this is a swing area for him and claire mccaskill out there. so it is -- the right thing to do. and if his strategy about their speaking is the right thing to do. i don'...

And looking ahead to the next 24, the president will go back out on the road in another swing area as he tries to keep the momentum going for health reform. with me now, capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell, "time" magazine columnist joe klein, who wrote about the health care battle in this week's issue and we want chris alyssa of "the washington post." joe, what do you see the momentum now as the president tries to, you know, move the needle and get closer to the 216 votes nancy pelosi needs if this vote will take place next week? >> there is an awful lot of smoke and bat in the air now...

That look like the georgia 6. mainly in the suburban centers in the south where president trump won less than 50% in the general election. democrats hoping to capitalize on what could be the changing districts. we are seeing it in the northern tier in the country hadn't gotten yet to the suburban southern districts. folks, it is very possible the road to winning the house will go through the suburbs, atlanta, phoenix, houston, dallas, and orange county, calf. and here's what might give democrats some hope. they didn't even try compete last november. for example, in the texas 32 congressional d...