that s good for america. i couldn t disagree with you more. 2004, president bush had a margin over john kerry. it s a lot easier to do a demonstrated, concentrated effort like pat just described when you only have to deal with 15 battleground states. if you don t only have to seal pennsylvania, or ohio? is it bipartisan or is that one party really wanting it versus the other. it s a nonpartisan activity. we try to stay away from the partis partisanship. we don t try to make predictions who it s going to help or who it s not. what s important is when people wake up on wednesday morning they want to know their vote counted equally and the candidate with the most votes won and the least amount of which party is pushing the neither one. neither one? neither one.
middle, the idea being that if we want to get past partisanship and want people in washington to make compromises you need a force of people that will send e-mail and petition, et cetera like the other groups do for compromise positions. what does that look like? here are some of the founders of the group explaining their vision, brooke. never give up your label. just put it aside so we can do what government should do and solve problems and find common sense solutions. we need you to go out and organize in your communities and raise a voice out here. what we re really hoping for you to do is go out there and create a ruckus for democracy. what i m arguing for is the need for grassroots movement to help political leaders reach across the aisle to seek common grounds, to try to find solutions so that america can be the place that the founding fathers intended it to be, so we can be great, so we can provide the leadership at home and around the world that i think
you ve heard it. i ve heard it. everyone has heard it. this is not news. there s a lot of partisanship in washington. if this works today, some very powerful politicians are launching this new group whose aim is to get beyond partisanship. fittingly enough, one of the participants our viewers will recognize this guy. this is new york mayor michael bloomberg, a democrat turned republican turned independent. you following me here? who may or may not run for president. jessica yellin as always right in the thick of things for us. jess, how is this supposed to work exactly? reporter: so this is an organization. it s not actually founded by bloomberg or by politicians. it s founded by activists but very powerful democrats, republicans and folks who want to get what they say sort of moveon.org or tea party style grassroots movement around the
a lot of people think he would run as the third party candidate. he says he doesn t think there s support for it or that most americans agree that their voices are heard and most feel recommended by the parties even if turned off by the partis partisanship. we know he says he s not going to run and sounds like he thinks there s not room for a third party candidate but we all know when there s a movement for someone to run often it s hard to resist in the end. so far he s resisting. since this is called no labels how do the politicians, the member of the groups, how do they avoid the perception that they re not democrat-li light o republican light? reporter: it s unclear where it will go from here. there are a lot of democrats here, some conservatives, some republicans, some independents. they really hope that what will happen is they ll launch house parties like we saw during the obama campaign and local meetings in every congressional
we re tracking a major storm that has the midwest reeling and it s still on the move. and democrats, republicans and independents come together to try to find a way past partis partisanship with no labels. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos, all straight ahead. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com it was a hard-won victory that had the president and democrats celebrating nine month us go, but now the future of president obama s signature achievement is in doubt. we re talking about health care reform. a federal judge has just ruled that a major element of the new law is unconstitutional. namely the mandate that would require everyone to buy insurance. cnn s brian todd is outside the supreme court here in washington with more. brian what do we know about this ruling today? a very critical one, wolf.