He has made it a strategy to mine these differences, mine these divisions, David Axelrod this issue of race, which has coursed through our politics and our society from the beginning if our history, but is a galvanizing issue for a portion of his base, he's decided to play base politics, and wherever he can he seems to want to light that fuse. And that has emboldened others to voice racist views.

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She was poised she was passionate and she was in command, if I were her campaign I would be thrilled with what she did tonight.

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We know that there is this cohort out there who believe that we are being encroached on by illegal aliens, Muslims, China and Trump has tapped into that constituency.

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It's awfully late. You talk to people in Iowa, it seems early, but it's awfully late to begin the kind of organization it takes to win the Iowa caucuses, barack Obama was a dynamic candidate, but if we hadn't started organizing Iowa in March of 2007, he wouldn't have won the Iowa caucuses.

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Barack Obama was a dynamic candidate, but if we hadn't started organizing Iowa in March of 2007, he wouldn't have won the Iowa caucuses, biden has no organization in Iowa today.

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Her answers have evolved over time and have prolonged this story, she's trying to bring this thing to an end so she can be heard on other subjects, but she needs a consistent answer.

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I would do more unscripted, drop in on diners, drop in on taverns, interact with people, because you authenticate these interactions by working without a net - and I think she has done some of that.

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We want to congratulate the Israeli people for the democratic process of the election they engaged in with all of the parties that engage in that election, as you know the hard work of coalition building now begins. Sometimes that takes a couple of weeks and we're going to give space to the formation of that coalition government and we're not going to weigh in one way of the other except to say that the United States and Israel have a historic and close relationship and that will continue going forward.

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Once she lost the Iowa caucuses, she became a different candidate, much less guarded, much more willing to connect with people in a visceral way, much more revealing of herself, much more of an advocate, that's the person she needs to be to win the election. And she needs to project a vision of where she wants to take the country.

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He's having the time of his life right now. I think he feels very much unrestrained in terms of speaking to all these issues.

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This is not uncommon in history, great leaders often work in that... by David Axelrod

This is not uncommon in history, great leaders often work in that way.

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That's a big if. Because the center of gravity in the party has been so far to the right that the notion of getting through that process without having to compromise and make Faustian bargains, I think, is very remote.

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I had no doubt that this was his heartfelt belief, he also knew his view was way out in front of the public's.

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We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.

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The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

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We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.

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We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

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People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

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We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

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But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.

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No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

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