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Assume even that one is four and the other is nine that the lead is much closer to four than nine. >> what about the fact that -- how did they predict who is going to vote? bear with me for a second. >> sure. >> i remember in 2008 there was all this excitement. an african american reaching out to young people to those who felt they were disenfranchised. how do we know the same people are voting in a few weeks? the. >> we dont. a lot of the polls out now, judge, are showing the same turnout model...

Assume even that one is four and the other is nine that the lead is much closer to four than nine. >> what about the fact that -- how did they predict who is going to vote? bear with me for a second. >> sure. >> i remember in 2008 there was all this excitement. an african american reaching out to young people to those who felt they were disenfranchised. how do we know the same people are voting in a few the. >> we dont. a lot of the polls out now, judge, are showing the same turnout model that w...

The physical word. thats when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. whoever coined the term social media didnt do us any favors. its not really media. its more like the telephone, less like the tv. when it comes to communication, we all revolve around communication. but when you can bring that vart ul world and physical world and mesh the two, thats when it becomes so powerful. >> essentially, were still going door to door. president obama invested the money before the -- whi...

Barack obamas case. >> thats funny, you use the connection of connecting people to people. its just our little machines that were using. but there is something about social media that gives it a sense of familiarity. a two-way intimacy. when somebody you like tweets you back, i can remember a very -- my best girlfriend getting a tweet back from ll cool j and we were like oh, my gosh. he tweeted me back. like the idea of the obama campaign for example responding to you, theres a sense that theres...

>> also starting out, ohio does have a lower unemployment rate than the national average. you have to factor that in as well. we know both candidates were campaigning there pretty hard in the buckeye state. lets take a listen to some of what happened. here it is. >> i have spent a lot of time in ohio, and i dont -- i dont meet a lot of victims. i see a lot of hard working ohioans. >> i believe in america and i believe in you. i believe youre going to help me win ohio, ill tell you that. all righ...

Its crazy to me. on 9/11 if president bush had messed up the response to a terrorist attack in libya, on the anniversary of 9/11 and lied about it, for a week and a half, you can not tell me that we would have heard the end of it, ever? >> on both those instances, you know i just want to say as a reporter, in terms of "fast and furious", this is a program started before obama came into office but and i think --. bill: she is talking about general coverage. with regard to libya, that is tough thi...

Level. so, for example, in 2008, 14% of the vote was cast by african americans. in 2004, in all the other years, only 11% was. in 2010, only 11% was. so what the pollsters is doing is weighting up the number of black interviews, giving them more weight so that they account for 14% of the sample, not 11%. for young people, they historically have been 12% of the vote. theyre weighting it up to the 18% that it was in 2008. latinos have always been 7%. theyre weighting it up to 9%. theyre doing so e...

Level. so, for example, in 2008, 14% of the vote was cast by african americans. in 2004, in all the other years, only 11% was. in 2010, only 11% was. so what the pollsters is doing is weighting up the number of black interviews, giving them more weight so that they account for 14% of the sample, not 11%. for young people, they historically have been 12% of the vote. theyre weighting it up to the 18% that it was in 2008. latinos have always been 7%. theyre weighting it up to 9%. theyre doing so e...

David pa tray yous, they are succeeding and winning in iraq. >> whether we should have gone into the war in the first place. six years ago i stood up and opposed this war. we hadnt finished the job in afghanistan. we hadnt caught bin laden. we hadnt put al qaeda to rest. and as a consequence, i thought that it was going to be a distraction. now, senator mccain and president bush had a very different judgment. >> so that was this date, 40 days out from the election in 08 and 40 days out from the ...

A particularly good answer for that. and i think thats sort of why were seeing neither one of them really engaging hard on whats going to happen next in the war. >> the president is talking about the new tower on the new york skyline. that tower is not done. talking about savings from ending the war in afghanistan. that war doesnt end until the end of 2014. anybody running against somebody whos taking those positions provided they had the slightest bit of confidence in our own position, it seems...