right up until elections day in 2016 that will hamper his campaign. a.b., do you, as you look into the future, see obamacare really being as a mill stone around the neck of a lot of democrats? you know, if things turn out well for the law, i don t think it s going to happen in 2014. it doesn t mean that it can t. i just think that the challenges facing it this year are so great, it s such a scary transition for most americans, losing their doctor, watching their price rise, not knowing if their employer, who covered now is going to dump them at the end of when the employer mandate kicks. in all of these not having the hospital they have always gone to. all of these issues. so even in the long run if not enough people enrolled in the system balanced and affordable, i don t think it will be in 2014. with that, pick up the rest of the hayes list. i m fairly confident that i will not end up losing the weight that i just resolved to lose. i m going to get a steak after the show to
you? the president is a mill stone around the democrat s neck. pat, do you agree? i want to put up those numbers again if we can. i don t think it s overstating. he looks like a member of congress. he has been sustaining over 50% for a couple of weeks now. the problem is what is happening for 2014. if the republicans had a message on health care and a an economic growth message, a positive alternative to offer and put the democrats against the wall, you could see from this meeting with the democrats in the senate that look, they had 14 of them are up, it is falling apart on them. the same thing is developing in iran.
correct, chad? yeah, yeah. i would be careful about reading too much into the house of representatives voting on it today. they are to sort of see where their members are. you know, there is something that john boehner and the house republican leadership has operated under a line, the haster rule, they would never bring a piece of legislation to the floor that did not have a majority of the majority party. now, we would think that the democrats would be with the blessing of the president and joe biden, the vice-president, coming up to capitol hill, that they would get a pretty good democratic vote. but the democrats don t want to have to carry the water on this. they are not in charge in the house of representatives. if the house coughs up 50 to 70 votes and then have you the democrats say, carry the rest of the weight, that causes two problems. the democrats look like this is swung around their neck like a mill stone. and number 2, the conservative, tell draw theirire because they w
one is firing up the base. mitt romney fired up his base during the debate and president obama did not. the other issue is the waiverers who were still undecided or who are persuadable and romney did a better job persuading during the debate than president obama did. i agree with joan. this is not the end of the world. this is not something that s uncorrectable. but it needs to be corrected. well, it could start with a good debate by joe biden coming up on thursday night. joan, how important is it? it s really important. i think what he needs to do is tie paul ryan around mitt romney s neck like a mill stone. paul ryan s policies are deadly unpopular and he s basically been allowed to kind of get away with it and paper over what he believes and what mitt romney believes. but paul ryan is just a terrible deficit for the ticket. the other thing is it is a base election.
tie paul ryan around mitt romney s neck like a mill stone. paul ryan s policies are deadly unpopular and he s basically been allowed to kind of get away with it and paper over what he believes and what mitt romney believes. but paul ryan is just a terrible deficit for the ticket. the other thing is it is a base election. when we get to this point when we re looking at likely voters, ours are less likely to turn out. they are the young, they are the disadvantaged, they are the new citizens who haven t made a habit of voting. if we see an electorate like in 2008, barack obama wins. if we saw the one from 2010, he loses. so we talk about the independent swing voters all the time but think this is coming back down to the base for both sides. i think the obama team has been brilliant on the basics throughout all of this. but one of the basics they can t get away from is the 47% video. i think that is who mitt romney is. and i don t think they can allow him to escape these comments.