We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party and therefore will do nothing absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration legal and illegal as a source of voters.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues he's extraordinarily wealthy and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.

Voters did say 'repeal health care ' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc. - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.