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will he remain a working class hero, claim a mand teet revive peace talks or start building the kind of political resume that could knock off netanyahu himself the next time around. no matter what lapid does, he s already changed the face of political campaigns in israel because he ended up using grassroots support, voter outreach and internet campaign and he turned it into a potentially winning formula. mark mehlman was lapid s personal pollster. many of you know mark from his work for john kerry and a lot of other democratic campaigns on this side on this time zone. but you did some work for lapid. thank you. you ve done some work in israel before. what made this israeli election different from other ones that you ve worked in in? usually security issues are at the center of israeli elections. for a number of reasons in this election, security issues weren t the central topic of discussion. they weren t the central focus of voters. there was a real rising of the middle class,
sn that s not good for businesses either. he treats people very well. if john lennon said a working class hero was something to be, you would be a working class her hero. i think it s disgusting companies making record profits paying people so little it is a debate that jobs go overseas. pay people better, pay them a living wage, something they can live on. why is that so hard and naive? i don t get it. joining us from washington d.c., former republican governor of mississippi and former chairman of the republican national committee, the great haley barbour and chief white house political director and correspondent and host of the daily run down. chuck todd, let s get news out of the way. it seems like quietly we re making progress on the fiscal cliff, people are saying garbage out in public.
we always forget at the start of the 2008 cycle, obama was the underdog and he was going to lose. that was the conventional wisdom. clinton was the bigger front-runner and republicans treated her that way. they wanted to fight the clinton restoration. they were treating obama as this well-meaning, good-natured reformer who would get mowed down by the ruthless, vindictive clinton machine. i always remember the moment and late winter and early spring of 2008 when it became clear obama would beat her. suddenly the right conservatives, republicans saying she was a radical jane fonda suddenly rediscovered hillary clinton as a white working class hero. she was like franc rizzo all of a sudden. the story of the last four years for hillary clinton is republicans laid down for her, and democrats have started the democrats with obama and resented her then have gotten over t. the iraq thing is a distant memory. we thought she was the dwroefr
today when he speaks in the white house rose garden. he s going to be calling for an extension of tax cuts only for people earning $250,000 a year or less. so the president is totally committed to getting rid of the tax cut for those making $250,000 or above. let s make progress on our spending by doing away with tax cuts for people that quite frankly don t need them and that haven t worked and have them pay their fair share? that a yes or no. the president is completed committed to this. 100% committed to this. i heard this before. dan lothian is here. a couple of years ago we were having the same discussion, the president did extend tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, sounds like this is going to be a high priority for this campaign/white house right now. the campaign is launching a major push in key battle ground states in new hampshire there will be a press conference with middle class families and other events in colorado, florida, and nevada involving sma