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Hispani hispanics, sitting at 69%/22%. why shouldn't the obama campaign be feeling good this morning? >> certainly they should be feeling good. with hispanics, that's important. with independents, when you have over 80% of the republicans going for the republican guy and 20% with democrats you're leading with the independents. it's not a slam dunk. this is not going to be an easy row to hoe in the election. in the suburbs he is trailing to mitt romney and it's a similar situation there. he's going to win the cities, the urban areas. romney's probably going to win the rural areas, so that leave...

Compassionate. you name it. everything on that front, the personal qualities, dominate with the president. romney, just two. having good ideas and leading the economy, he leads by six points. you can assume mitt romney's campaign is going to be economy and change. >> there's one narrative thread and that narrative thread is every time you ask people who's better about the economy, they pick mitt romney. and in an election where that's the most single important issue, that's the strength. i started in 1980. jimmy carter, they had great views but was shellacked. i do believe it's the president w...

Wrong track. again, these are challenging times to be an incumbent. it's almost as if the country is collectively holding its breath for whatever next shoe is going to drop. and so to deal with that and to be a candidate running for office, you have to sort of try to create that optimism and do the best you can to sell people on the idea that you're the guy who's going to make things better. that's why i agree with bill on that economic point. >> right. >> the one strength romney has is on the economy and that's the one strength he's going to need and want at this point. >> quickly and closely...

It's really the issue of income inequality. that's what's resonates. i hope that they will use their energy and their resources not to fight to make a little bit of progress territorially but to push an issue under the national agenda. >> you believe this is energizing them. perhaps one point of that, we take you to berkeley, california, there, more than 1,000 protesters marched. they heldç a -- some sit-ins, they pitched tents in defiance of campus officials there. here's what robert reich said about the movement. >> instead of allowing people to peaceably assemble to express their outrage,...

So basic vote counting and strategies has everyone puzzled. it comes down to authority. if you lose like this right off the bat, if you can't control your own caucus, what kind of authority do you have, because people come back and do it again and again. that's what we've seen. they have to get their ranks together, otherwise the majority is only in name. >> and speaker boehner seems not only not able to control the tea party, he doesn't seem to understand what it is. on our cincinnati radio station yesterday, boehner was asked if he is a member of the tea party, and he said i should be. i don...