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if you'll pardon me, congresswoman, i want to move to richard wolffe. you're talking about why you think you can win on this. i want to raise the question of why some democrats may not win on this. your campaign included. "new york times" looked at this in the context of medicare, and i want to read a quote from jonathan bernstein that is pretty apt. he says, "it's not clear that either of those reforms, social security or medicare, though they were perceived as successful, actually delivered votes after medicare passed in '65 voters rewarded democrats for medicare with big midterm losses in '66 and of course a lot of problems pursuing the white house after that as well." the argument there, richard, being that even if the program is popular and sticks around its authors don't always do the same. >> there were a few other factors in the '60s as i recall. it was a little before my time but it's hard to pin it all on medicare. in any case, it's not that strange what the congresswoman is doing. if you look at the polls, not just on the medicaid question be

a democratic strategist and richard wolffe, vice president and editor of msnbc.com.son schwartz in that race in pennsylvania. call me a little cynical here, but i'm not sure this is so much her trying to win a general election. this is her trying to win a primary. because this is somebody nobody saw coming. she was the favorite. she she has this free-spending millionaire, polls put him well ahead of her. this is a strategy to rally the base. i was with you on obama care, if you like obama care, vote for me. >> this race just got started two weeks ago. this race is going to start changing. it is starting to change already. and we've got a few more weeks. what ally zorn schwartz did fwh this advertisement is talk about her leadership on health care, which is really what the people of pennsylvania are looking for. a strong leader who will take the issues that matter to the women and men of the state and get something done. >> this is really a test. we'll get to some other sfwresing cases around the country, but the schwartz thing to me is the test of the appetite of the

but there's something about this president, i think that richard wolffe said that makes them go furtherern clearly erased. this stuff is more vile than it's ever been before. we've had it, but not quite to this extent. >> in all of these nazi comparisons, get to a larger trend from some on the right, that somehow this president is a dictator. listen to this. >> this is stalinism. this is sheer brazen lawyerlessness. >> and this is what tyrants are made of. this is w45 autocrhat autocrats of. >> i'm aphrase president obama may have this king complex sort of developing. >> did you happen to see the size of those flags behind obama? those flags are getting bigger and bigger and bigger. every speech he makes. aec and you know, that's what dictators do. >> this is a clear trend and clear talking points that some are sharing on that ring of the right. >> they can't begin to understand how president obama got elected, not just once but twice. >> they have to delegitimatize him. it's not historically accurate. it's notling g linguistically ae to say he's a deck tai toictato. everything he's done

joining me now are richard wo wolffe. with more democrats going to take the president's devicadvic?gh that we pay attention. at some point we're going to get to the point where democrats are thinking like republicans. republicans have been terrified by the prospect of obama care really taking root in american culture. and what they're terrified by is that once you give people these benefits, just read charles krauthammer, once you give people these benefits they don't want them taken away. people say don't take away the coverage for pre-existing conditions. then you're seeing democrats take on this question of medicaid expansion. that's about people getting health care coverage. it's not about the expansion of a program. the next stage, the question is, does that happen before or after the midterms. it's going to happen by 2016. will democrats wake up to in 2014. >> you know, goldie, several red states are pushing a new plan to block the health care law. talking points memo reports, quote, under bills passed in georgia and kansas recently, even if a democratic candidate were to pull