should be better and the administration's policies aren't helping. >> i think -- come back to steve mcmahon here. years ago i interviewed president george w. bush, 2005 or 2006. the economy had been coming on nicely. he had a bush boom for four or five years. i asked him, steve, why he doesn't score bigger points on the economy. why the economy wasn't polling better. and he answered me, tersely, with one word. "iraq." and that dominated his whole viewpoint, the people's viewpoint. what i'm suggesting here is that, all right, i accept the fact that the economy is not booming and think you're all right, basically saying the same thing, but it is better i'm willing to concede that. however, i think one word, obamacare, and underneath that one word are the falsehoods that i described earlier. people just will not even begrudgingly give him any credit because they're so annoyed, angry and pissed off at him, steve. i think that has a lot to do with it. i'll go you one more. i want to include the nnkssa, n wiretapping business, i'm not sure i know everything there is to know about it. that's an ex

we have democratic strategist steve mcmahon and emily miller, "washington times" opinion page senior editor. emily, go to you first. welcome. thank you for coming on the show. by the time we get to that week, december 23rd to january 1st, are there going to be more uninsured than insured? is the table going to be turned against obama care? >> absolutely, larry. this house of cards that is obama care is falling down already. the problem is the whole thing was based on the scheme that they were going to get young people who are healthy to sign up so you have a balanced insurance risk pool, and then those people by paying into the system would take care of the uninsured who are older and unhealthy. well, this whole thing is falling apart because the young people are not signing up in droves. in fact, a harvard poll yesterday showed half of them are against obama care and only 20% of the uninsured who are uninsured and young say they are going to sign up for it. >> we are going to cover that. you're right. you're dead right. we have a bunch of college folks who are going to talk about th

steve mcmahon a democratic strategist who does this all the time with democratic candidates.ook at what he says hillary needs to do. i'll read a portion of each bullet point. first of all, accessible. be a constant presence on twitter and facebook and other social media. you, not your staff. two, be honest and authentic. take tough stands and take them clearly. number three, be vulnerable. remember choking up in new hampshire, you look human. and people like humans. be flexible. be quick to change your strategy, your message, your staff. number five, be small. travel light and run a lean operation. number six, be competent a model for your 2016 campaign would be you're going to hate this, no drama obama. number seven, be a populist. income disparity and declining social mobility are cliches in washington. but in the rest of america, they are facts of life. amy, you know, this is fascinating stuff. it's always hard to play the role of doctor when no one asks you to be a doctor. you're making a house call right here by somebody who hasn't exactly opened a door for you. in good

spokeswoman anne womack-kolton, republican flacks like john feehery and democratic flacks like steve mcmahon and mcmahon's business partner, the republican media guru alex castellanos, who's a contributor to cnn. >> yes. mcmahon is on msnbc, so it's very bipartisan that way too. >> and mcmahon, the democrat and castellanos the republican are partners in a firm called purple strategies. bp hires them to spearhead this $50 million television campaign you talk about. >> to those affected and your families, i am deeply sorry. >> they were brought, you say, into the fold by the democratic operative, hilary rosen, who was working for a london-based firm that was also working for bp. and she was also a pundit for cnn. i mean, what a web. >> and again, i think the other piece of this is that a year later geoff morrell, who is the head spokesman for the pentagon under, you know, president obama's pentagon, has become the chief washington spokesman for bp. >> former white house correspondent for abc news. >> abc news. he followed bob gates to the pentagon first with president bush then with president

a republican strategist and steve mcmahon is a democratic strategist and co-founder of purple strategiesu here. >> good morning. >> steve, do you think obamacare is going to dominate in 2014? >> well, i think the republicans are going to talk about obamacare in 2014. they want to make the next election a referendum on obamacare. the challenge, of course, is that the last election was a referendum on obamacare and the democrats won. now, obviously, there were problems with the rollout. if those get improved, i think it's going to be problematic for the republicans because they don't seem to have a plan "b." >> chip, your assessment on that. >> i think he's right. because of what it's doing to the economy, how much it's going to cost. but the democrats will run on it, too. nancy pelosi said democrats are going to be proud to run on obamacare. and i hope we're seeing that by october of this year. >> do you think, chip, so far, they've been proud to run on obamacare, the folks facing reelection? >> well, i think that -- the democrats are running from it. and i think mark prior has doubled do