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Believes the people who catapulted the senator to the oval office just stopped showing up. he writes too many of us treated obama's inauguration as some kind of finish line when we should have seen it as just the starting line. too many of us sat down at the very moment when we should have stood up. van, the book here, "rebuild the dream," do you think -- we talk about hope and change and you said earlier in the show this is about fear, not so much hope this go around. do you think seven months is enough time to rebuild the energy, whether that's a fearful energy or hopeful energy that preside...

On the house floor to you know, introduce marriage into debates around don't ask, don't tell, to attack marriage in the district of columbia. so i don't think they've given up on this issue at all. but maybe kind of see where the public polling is in advance of an election. they've moth balled for the time being in fact, perhaps. >> right. >> let's talk a little bit about the base though. van, when we talk about the president's position on some of this stuff, i mean, does he lose, if you talk about black voters versus progressive voters, the idea of driving a wedge, do you think he would lose ...

Not taking credit and messaging. you say socialist obama, quote unquote, was cutting taxes and keeping cops on the beat but at not point dollars democrats make a concerted effort to take credit for those aspects of the stimulus package. is throughout 2009, his last name should have been who cut taxes for 95% of americans. we talking about health care and the fact there is stuff in play right now benefiting americans, their children and yet a failure of messaging in the first couple years of this administration. >> it goes to van's point about the fact they thought they could default to him giv...

Governance. he didn't do that. he told everybody to sit down and shut up during the health care reform. for a community organizer to miss this opportunity for community organizing and to cede it to the republican who's did a miraculous job who in the face of all those things van described surrounded the capitol with people carrying guns. you know, they has an outside game and obama was relying entirely an inside game. >> a lot of what i say in the book is this. i was a grassroots outsider. then i became a white house insider. then i became an outsider again. one of the things that i think we g...

Legitimate leader. >> this whole process has fatigued people to the point they're lgs to vote for romney. this i thought was the biggest news of the day. there is a new poll out that shows, it's "usa today" poll showing that in swing states it, obama is leadingne-42% assuming he is the nominee. but among women in swing states, obama is crushing romney is, 54 to 36%. let's talk about that a little. >> i think the rise of this entire health care debate or the rerise of this health care debate has been very invigorating for women, not just in terms of the contraceptive issue but imagining that ob...