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On welfare reform. barack obama does not want to end the work requirement. he gave that waiver only if the work requirement could be improved and work participation goes up. he buried them -- he buried them on stealing from medicare. he showed that all president obama did was reduce reimbursement to insurance companies, and by doing that saved money, which made the medicare trust fund sol vented for an additional eight years. he killed them on the debt. he was a great, great, great arbitor, explaining what the facts are. >> if i may jump in, that's true, good night. but you're going to have --...

20, 2009. bill clinton, i think -- i haven't always been a big fan of bill clinton issues but i think he will be great tonight. he will take this issue on and he will take on the welfare issue they tried to raise in the last few weeks. the -- republicans and he will knock it out of the park. and i don't think you will hear mitt romney or paul ryan mick a single reference to bill clinton after tonight, up until election day. >> we have been watching live pictures of gabby douglas who will be giving the pledge of allegiance this evening. there is a wide shot of the stage. she was just given a wa...

>> let's move on to another interpretation. >> here's what i know. i know that everybody, democrat and republican, campaign and noncampaign, has been focus grouping like crazy among undecided, working class white women. >> right. >> especially in places like ohio. but -- in every swing state, and what i'm told is that the republicans found, to their surprise, over recent weeks, that the welfare ad really worked with those women. now, they were surprised, because women don't, as often, respond on the welfare issue, but at a time when everybody's strapped, when everybody's struggling, old resent...

Race and into the class of economy debate so we know exactly what we're talking about. >> michael, it is not just a welfare issue, it is multiple issues. this has been a republican playbook for as long as you and i have been alive, perhaps longer. >> yep. >> this is clearly smart politics for the republican party. it's been working on a national level for 40, 50 years. >> just as it was smart politics in my race for the 2006 senate seat in maryland for democrats to put aside saying republicans will turn back the clock on civil rights with me as a candidate. the republicans basically don't like...

As we talk about the romney campai campaign, they insist the welfare ads they put out are accurate. the romney campaign is trying to push the welfare issue because he has a big gap to cover with the black voters. >> let's be honest with this, and karen would agree, an ad of any variety will not close the gap that exists between republicans and the african-american community or the romney campaign and the african-american community. let's set that aside. >> that's -- >> that's about getting the white voters to see that and coming out to support it. >> it's about karl rove and his strategy of an...