Joining Inside Story: US 2012 with presenter Anand Naidoo to discuss this are: John Nichols from The Nationmagazine; Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist and former adviser to the 2008 Republican campaign; and Faiz Shakir who worked for the Democratic National Committee and is an editor of the political blog ThinkProgress.org.

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