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Important quality that they look for in a candidate is somebody who cares about people like me. so it did work but what are you talking about? >> because it was empathy and fairness and some of these refrans that we heard from democrats. "the washington post" wrote a good analysis. there are few problems democrats are going to run into. first of all, it is totally different turnout models in a mid-term election. looks like the republican electorate is a lot more fired up. polling from democrats shows they are worried their own base isn't going to turn out this coming november. certainly not th...

Nbc's keir simmons, thank you very much. back to politics now. as we saw in florida on tuesday, the president's landmark health care plan is having an impact on midterm elections. here is house speaker john boehner and steve israeli tried to frame the republican win. >> it's about the economy. it's about obamacare. listen. i've stood here after losing some special elections. i tried to put lipstick on a pig but it was still a pig. you can bet they will try to put lipstick on it today but you all know what the facts are. >> in other competitive districts that are far more competitive than thi...

Change the electoral. the conventional -- what they did was they changed the electoral. >> democrats have been trying to downplay this lot in florida. steve israel is the dccc chair, and what he had to say about that. >> in other competitive districts far more competitive than this one, the message been will work. the turnout models will be good. you don't hide from the climate, you fight through it. that's what we're going to do. >> robert, is there a danger in reading too much into the results of one congressional district. >> not at all. i think those are the tea leaves. first and foremost,...

Are finding out, many -- that the democrats may go forward with a discharge petition to basically force republican hands on immigration. and the expectation is that no republicans are going to vote to actually take up the petition but that it will put republicans in a very difficult place. >> it's tough to say. i mean, obviously, it hurts more to be on the record, i would say, not supporting the immigration framework that the senate passed that the house will put in discharge petition. certainly hurts more in the general election. but the midterms are a different beast. different turnout model...

In particular will go out and stand in line for hours in order to show the republican party that you will not -- >> i think we can put data on this. in ohio last year, where you had significant shortening of the early voting time and everything, african-americans share of the electorate went from 11% to 15% because people were willing to go and stand in lines. i wonder if you can respond to what jonathan is saying, the message that intentionally or not, the message that is being conveyed to minority voters, to african-american voters, to low income votvoters, the message bg conveyed, what do y...