good things because that s what the democrats did in the mid term, they didn t embrace the economic success we had, they didn t embrace obama care or whatever you want to call it affordable care act and i think it cost the democrats. if hillary embraces this and creates a vision of where she wants to take the country again she s going to be far ahead of all those guys you heard yakking at the nra convention. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. will hillary clinton s new strategy in iowa work? go to pulse.msnbc.com/ed to cast your vote. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. bring in michael steele former rnc chair and msnbc political an analyst, carolyn heldman joins us professor of politics and mitch caesar chair of the broward county democrats. great to have all of you with us tonight. well michael i want to start with you first. okay. this is a different this is a different strategy in iowa.
campaign tell nbc news hillary clinton will a announce her candidacy as early as sunday. clinton is expected to announce on social media and immediately head to iowa for campaign events. there is a reason hillary is heading straight to the hawkeye state. it was not good to her in 2008. her performance in the iowa caucuses, well she was third. president obama came in first at 38%, john edwards who worked the state in a tireless fashion came in second at 30%, and hillary clinton who i think really relied on name recognition came in third at 29%. they never really had the strong ground game. in 2008, president obama stunned the clinton campaign with an unprecedented ground game in social networking campaign we had never seen in contemporary politics. clinton was really caught in an outdated campaign style and flat footed. edwards drew huge crowds and support from unions like the service employees international union out working hard for him early on. spent a lot of time on the c
surging to a primary lead in the polls. and by august, she had pulled off a win in the iowa straw poll. her campaign was running hot. but today bachmann s running from something else. reporters. her big speech at the conservative conference two weeks ago was riddled with errors and flat out made up. now we learn that she might be in the hot water with the office of congressional ethics. wow. look out. i see a fading star. joining me now, angela ryan, carolyn heldman. thank you both for being here tonight. thank you, rev. angela, one member of congresswoman bachmann s staff told the daily beast, quote, politics is like jumping off a diving board. you rise, you plateau. but at the end of the day, everyone comes down.
some people make a splash. and some people belly flopped. she belly flopped. and you don t get a second chance at the diving board. did it all catch up with the congresswoman? you know, rev, there s a whole lot going on here. with the office of congressional ethics, you know, she s not only in potential violations of the ethics rules of the house but also of federal election commission standards. if she has done any of what they ve alleged, she s in a lot of trouble. the irony of this, rev, is that one of her spokesman has said that she is the subject of, you know, a democratic attack. by the dccc and democratic packs. that s not the case. the whistle blower here is one of her former staffers. besides the politics of this, she flunked real bad at cpac. let me put it this way. the daily beast reports, carolyn, that it s been time for bachmann since she quit her
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