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New reports of conflict within the Obama campaign team even suggesting the president's reelection efforts seem more motivated by his dislike for governor Romney than by the -- have.
You remember the -- open change.
Joining us now is and -- the best selling author of the the New York Times.
Best sour.
The amateur.
Good to have you with -- to be here this has got to be a bit because all -- you -- and and and analyzing -- -- I mean what we are watching with this administration is is moving toward breathtaking this president.
His vice president this is starting to look like a movie script for crime problem yes and there's so much this function.
In this campaign.
I was speaking to some people inside the campaign just because Ford came on your show tonight.
And there's a big debate going on inside the Obama campaign.
This is news nobody knows about this except you -- me now time and your audience.
Over the question of how they should treat the forty million.
You've been -- -- in this country who are never been very positive about Obama.
But are reluctant.
To vote for -- Romney because he's a Mormon.
-- this talk in the Obama campaign the start a what they call it educational.
Schedule.
In the evangelical community.
About what Mormon there's -- live in order to suppress that evangelical vote.
When you turn on an educational.
Program or you're talking about.
Well for one of a better word days.
Tutorial for evangelicals are you talking about commercial time on television.
We're talking about.
Super pacs do we -- Segments.
On television.
About more minutes from which will turn off the evangelicals.
Because they feed the mormons to begin -- that the cult.
And by.
Hitting on the fact that here we have a Mormon.
Candidate.
And his vice president happens to be -- Roman Catholic.
Paul Ryan -- There's this bit bitter battle now going on in the evangelical community.
Between the Democrats who -- trying to keep these people hold so they will not vote for Romney.
And the Republicans -- -- trying to convinced.
Convince evangelical pastors.
That a vote or non vote.
Is essentially a vote for Obama.
And that it.
Potential for backlash.
If I thought -- -- value is not to be.
Extraordinary move that would be the last I would think the last gasp from the Obama campaign where they did do that.
Well there's debate about that very question whether if they do it won't there be a terrible backlash about what you can't do this about his religion.
You know it's it's really dirty it's underhanded.
But if things -- -- is bigotry but if things -- Bad enough as far as the Obama campaign is concerned -- seriously considering doing that.
Well amongst the things that we are.
Hearing about this this campaign effort on the part of the the president.
Is now there is this great news dissension apparently according to through the latest.
Are writing by going through march in Obama's last stand that you -- I'm talking about.
What is it seems to me to be -- overly.
Unsustainable.
Campaign effort so long as Stephanie Cutter.
All right David Axelrod -- one another's throat.
One another's throats and this Stephanie Cutter is the same person who referred to as we were call to Romney as a felon if you remember.
I mean this is a woman who along with -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Doesn't seem to be able to modulate what -- effect on television.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is also.
-- persona non Grata in the campaign according to this new e-book.
I think there's a lot of tremendous backed -- the inside the campaign which is very indicative of how they feel about the way things are going.
And and to this point it appears that there Romney campaign at least at this point.
Remains buttoned up we're not hearing the same sort of noises emanating if you well.
Ed Klein thank you very much for being here great speaker and find the book is the amateur a best seller for fourteen week or two weeks month.
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