well, there is that. by the way, not just the media. she s got a very large footprint. she has secret service protection as a former first lady. so there s that foot print that comes when you try to do this living room style of campaigning. particularly iowa. but you just pointed out, there is no barack obama getting ready to run. so she s not pressured to outorganize somebody. we re going to be there, we ll have cameras. everybody is going to see what she s doing. is it also i mean, trying to do this in a national setting, it s one thing to show up in little lakeside towns and fairs in upstate new york. it s in the thing to do that in iowa and new hampshire where she may be the only big-name democrat who is doing it, but there s about 47 republican candidates trying to use essentially the same strategy in
six of those. jeanne shaheen in new hampshire where obamacare is failing. she wasn t thought to be vulnerable. now scott brown, former senator from massachusetts looking at it. you have another looking at it seriously. a lot of ad dollars going in there against obamacare. there are vulnerabilities, not just in red states, gretchen, but states like minnesota, michigan, where republicans are beginning to outnumber and outorganize. i just don t know how democrats answer that question when a constituent asks them, did you vote for obamacare and they say yes. it s february, election in november, ton of runway until then. this obamacare issue is going to be the saw that sort of cuts again and again and again. it s going to wear out. it s absolutely going to wear out. we ll see what happens coming up when the election happens. guys, thanks. a push to extend jobless benefits failing in the senate with a vote of 58-40, republicans blocking latest effort from democrats.
president obama is placing his bets on people like you. supporters on the ground, the new york times says, quote the obama campaign has made an investment likely to reach hundreds of millions of dollars. a gamble really in his ground game. he s banking on his ability to outorganize mitt romney in the states that will decide the outcome. but the $2 billion question is will the president s organization be enough to counter all that money. joining me now is lee sanders, president of the american federation of state county and municipal employees, nation s largest union of public employees. thanks for being here tonight, lee. good evening, al. lee, can a grassroots movement stand up to big money that s being pumped into this campaign from the other side? no question about it. i think that it can. and we are going to be putting boots on the ground and absolutely the entire labor
is an tore sxum huntsman, you know, it is hard to stay a step ahead when you are busy catching up. santorum, god bless him, getting a lot of support right now. but in the short time between new hampshire, south carolina, and florida, can he build the infrastructure, can he get his message out before others define him? i think that s going to be his biggest challenge whereas people know that governor romney is ready to hit the ground running and challenge this massive billion dollar obama machine that is already, you know, trying to outorganize the republican party. that s the only way obama can win. look forward for me look forward to me in south carolina for just a second. here s what a woman named karen martin, head of the spartanburg tea party. do i not personally know anyone that does not despise mitt romney. this is her quote. and doesn t hate the idea of him
good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa