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Obamacare and government overreach. the president won re-election in 2012 talking about this populous middle class, champion of these ladders of opportunity. if those are the competing narratives in 2014, obamacare on the one hand, champion being the middle class on the other, which is the stronger argument? >> well, obamacare is such a problem for so many people. and negative emotions tend to outweigh positive emotions in voting patterns. when you have a large segment of the population that has either been damaged by obamacare or fears it will be, and that is hanging around the neck of nearly...

Obamacare and government overreach. the president won re-election in 2012 talking about this populous middle class, champion of these ladders of opportunity. if those are the competing narratives in 2014, obamacare on the one hand, champion being the middle class on the other, which is the stronger argument? >> well, obamacare is such a problem for so many people. and negative emotions tend to outweigh positive emotions in voting patterns. when you have a large segment of the population that has either been damaged by obamacare or fears it will be, and that is hanging around the neck of nearly...

And again, young people are very disenchanted now at this point. and they were some of his most avid supporters as anna had pointed out. i think now they are really jaded because they are being left behind by this administration and expected to pick up the tab from the reckless spending going on in washington. >> yeah, they should have thought about that before they voted for him. we'll see if it changes voting patterns. ashley, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. next on the rundown, did you make a new year's resolution? are you having a tough time starting? of course you ...

Congress as they are supposed to. >> i get it all but the senate hasn't passed a budget in how many years? >> that is the goal. the goal is to come out with something and it is going to take president obama to lead on this. >> but it is going to take republicans to get 118 votes so that we can express the conservative voting patterns of the country. >> quickly to both of you, what you think the phone calls are going to be coming into your offices today? >> i don't know. part of the problem is the republicans want tax reform but they haven't passed it yet. part of the calls will be finish

Conversation like this about? who are you able to sit down and talk? can you and paul ryan talk about these kind of things or are you finding people not as shall we say conversant in some of these economic issues? >> i do speak with paul ryan and i actually consider him, people may be surprised to hear this, a friend. but the problem again is the middle in congress is gone. if you look at voting patterns in the house of representatives, it's bimodal. there is no middle. so that's where deals used to get done in the heyday of congressional policy making. it's gone now. it's much harder to reach...