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Benjamin brink, thanks so much for being our guest today. >> thank you, gretchen. >> gretchen: this comment getting a lot of attention. >> dont boo. vote. vote. voting is the best revenge. >> gretchen: what exactly did the president mean? dana perino has an idea and shes coming up next. then senator mark kirtz proving a major stroke is no match for the power of the mind. his inspirational story, these are great pictures, folks, top of the hour i had enough of feeling embarrassed about my skin.

Benjamin brink is the man behind get out the vet. hes a retired navy captain and author of this new book "the dead always vote democrat." thank you for joining us. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: ben, you just active until 2011 and you concluded what about how many active personnel get a chance to vote? >> well, according to the military voter protection project, 5% or 5.6% in 2008 had their votes counted. its a little bit higher if you look at other things. but its a very, very small percentage of ...