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When he made his whole point about bipartisanship. also he had to tackle the big issue of whether the americans and the country are better off than four years ago. how did he delve into that last night? >> rob, he asked that question directly. before he answered it, he let the crowd answer it. everybody started cheering. are you better off today than four years ago? they went nuts. a resounding yes. he went through bullet points of the policy issues. president obama invested in america, infrastructure, education, resources. that helped america be better off now than it was foryour yea ago. he ...

On the wrong track which is close to what it was shortly before president obama took office. president obama and his campaign team, and i think we saw this in the state of the union address with his attempt to project optimism, they're counting on the trends going in the right direction. so their argument will be, in effect, look, things aren't great. we understand this has been a long time, it's taken a long time for us to correct the problems that we inherited, but, boy, things are certainly turning around. and if you look at these numbers, they're not turning around in a great fashion, but ...

>> hey,ç major, sounds like thomas friedman put together talking points for the president and the white house. is that the argument they're going to use over the next year? yes, things aren't great, but we stopped the economy from going over the cliff. >> and look at rahm emanuel's speech, that is the pitch for reelection. big issues, big decisions, did what he said he would do, what he promised to do as a candidate. he's tried to carry out in as many different ways as possible as president. there is a consistency of engaging on these issues and coming up with the best solutions he could und...