David Axelrod: “Well, certainly on issues like this voting rights bill, they do not because they're not going to get 10 Republicans to…”

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.