jeb president bush 14. rand paul 14. paul ryan 9. marco rubio 8%. on the other side we asked registered democrats about their choice, 69%, hillary clinton 14%. vice president biden. joining us now from washington, democrat james carville recently said if hillary clinton wins the presidency in 2016, the republican party will become, quote: extinct. so what do you mean by that, carville? extinct that we ll realize that their reliance on older whites is costing them presidential election after presidential election. if they lose in 2016, it will be the six out of seven elections that they lost the popular vote. in the country is sending them a message and i suspect if they lose this one they are going to get the message. well, that s an interesting look. as you know, demographics are changing in this country. correct; for a variety of reasons. and the republican message though is not aimed at white men in particular. it s a smaller government
jeb president bush 14. rand paul 14. paul ryan 9. marco rubio 8%. ut the other side we asked their choice, 69%, hillary clinton 14%. vice president biden. joining us now from washington, democrat james carville recently said if hillary clinton wins the presidency in 2016, the republican party will become, quote: extinct. so what do you mean by that, carville? extinct that we ll realize that their reliance on older whites is costing them presidential election after presidential election. if they lose in 2016, it will be the six out of seven elections that they lost the popular vote. in the country is sending them a message and i suspect if they lose this one they are going to get the message. well, that s an interesting look. as you know, demographics are changing in this country. correct; for a variety of reasons. and the republican message though is not aimed at white men in particular. it s a smaller government
we re very early in a six-month process. don t know what until we know the results, we don t know how it will affect government policy going forward. it will make it hard for the easy sell. we live in an instant gratification society. we also are at an age where we, as voters, fall prey to the idea that things can be done rather simply. this is part of the obama message of 2008. we can do things simply. george bush promised a simple solution to iraq. these things don t pan out. if you want to push a government message, think from here on you have to be more realistic with people as to the difficulty and the sacrifice. i wonder about the longer term. how we think of medicare right now, how we think of social security. even seeing a similar revolution with medicare part d, it was so contentious and very partisan when medicare part d was passed, medicare part d not being used as a talking point by democrats now the way it was six or seven years ago. that seems to be the you add al
town wins a $950 million lottery jackpot. you heard right. all except one guy who missed out on it. we start with this. we re just a few hours away from the start of the nevada caucuses. it is the fifth contest in the republican presidential race, but the first one to take place west of the mississippi we will have much more on that in just a moment. but first, here are some of the other top stories we are watching for you this morning. in syria anti-government activists say the military is randomly bombing residential neighbors. it has been the center of the uprising in syria. activists say as many as 260 people including women and children have been killed in the past day alone. cnn has not independently confirmed the accounts, though. here is what one brave activist told our anderson cooper last night. they have been bombarding an a area for like three hours with tank shells because a part of the syrian army led down to welcome the syrian army. so they bombard randomly
to an end in syria. also, another epidemic in america. this one has to do with your furry friend. we want to get right to politics, though. nevada republican caucuses get under way in just a few hours. there are 28 delegates up for grabs in the first contest west of the mississippi. cnn s joe johns has more on the final rush for support. susan, as the race for nevada caucuses entered the home stretch, the mitt romney campaign was hoping their candidate was well positioned to score a victory here just like he did four years ago. it was a bizarre week in politics, though, with donald trump stirring up a publicity firestorm before finally publicly endorsing romney for president. romney did not help his own case with his comments on cnn that he was not concerned about the poor because there s a safety net for them. he later said he misspoke. meanwhile, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house tried to capitalize on the romney misstep promoting his own plan to create j