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How Do Attacks on Bain Go Over With Wealthy Democrats?

With a pitch-perfect emblem of guilded-age greed as his opponent, and private equity in the spotlight, why isn't Obama much farther ahead in the polls?

Chris Hayes

July 16, 2012

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With a pitch-perfect emblem of gilded-age greed as his opponent, and private equity in the spotlight, why isn’t Obama much farther ahead in the polls? Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel went on Chris’s show this weekend for a look at how the Obama campaign’s attack on Romney’s Bain Capital record might sit with the Democratic 1 percent, and how the party can address that elephant in the room.

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Chris HayesTwitterChris Hayes is the Editor-at-Large of The Nation and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC.


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