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Of social media that truly came into its own in 2012 and will become more significant as we go forward. >> dan, i want to ask you about data mining and the campaign process. one of the things we talked about on the show is polling and t the preponderance of polling. how do you think that the role of pollsters and data crunching is changed for 2016? >> its two ways, alex. one is simply, it clearly has a huge effect on our business. coverage of campaigns is more driven by polls than it used to be....

After the gun vote. obviously, these are different issues. emotion, nevertheless, behind these votes and the desire to proceed ahead with it. is it a big surprise here that she went this direction at this point? >> no, its not, tamron. one thing to keep in mind is that kelly ayotte, like a lot of other republicans key in this debate, are up for re-election in 2016. 2016 happens to be a presidential year, a year in which there will probably be a lot more democrats turning out to vote in a place l...

They should have said honestly to congress a year ago, heres what were doing. they were justified in the original actions because these organizations, they have to claim to promote the social welfare when in reality most of them are just pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the campaign process to pollute it. i dont think most americans think that karl rove or the brothers should deserve the tax exempt status -- >> but, david, thats not just a conservative issue. what do you think of jen...

Conservative than they actually are by over 20 percentage points. this misperception is so large that nearly half of sitting conservative officeholders appear to believe that they represent a district that is more conservative on the issues than the most conservative district in the entire country." salons alex per even put it this way. republicans were pretty sure their constituents were basically all to the right of louie gomert. elected republicans are more conservative than their constituent...

State of new jersey, officials are making sure that voters can cast their ballots despite the devastation from hurricane sandy. voters whose polling places were flooded were busy filling out forms yesterday to cast provisional ballots. in florida and other key battleground states, there are reports of robo calls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the telephone. during halftime of monday night football, espns chris berman interviewed both president obama and governor romney. he...

Campaign process. it kind of froze it in place for a couple of days. and arguably, you can make the case that didnt help governor romney. because he seemed to be on a roll at that point. >> momentum -- >> but its really hard to know until we start to get the results, and hear what people say about how it affected their voting pattern, and it affected their behavior, quite honestly. i do think that president obama, arm in arm with governor christie, with the kind of picture that the campaign must...

. >> so that question, again, how are you going to convince everybody youve got to take care of yourself a fundamental argument about the american social pack not the campaign process. >> mitt romney wants his fake and eat it too. had hes constantly negotiating like a literary theorist, this is on the canvas of many politics because intentionality must not obscure what consequence and meaning are about. mitt can say those are the words are uttered but not what i meant. so hes on some kind of tha...

The kacaulderon thats the midd east, kind of interesting. >> and the platform its given her. everybody was surprised when she was chosen to be secretary of state around the world, and i think theyve been even more surprised by how much of a platform this has given her, and yet how cleverly shes managed to stay out of this political campaign process. she hasnt been damaged by the campaign process. she hasnt been damaged by the weak economy in the united states, and i think thats a kind of real tr...

>> can be effective. i talked to strategist and some voters who think that they wanted to see more of this side of the president. they wanted him to not just slam the private equity and governor romneys business background. they wanted to see what his ideas are and so what you saw in those ads were the president basically saying these are my ideas, these are governor romneys ideas. this is the contrast, this is the choice as he called it. and so, its not a choice between two men as he said but a...

Which, you know, were not gendered attacks per se, attacks on her identity as a veteran and obviously the sacrifices shes made. there did seem to be something almost icky about the fact that this woman and veteran was being challenged in her very identity as a hero is there something running for office as a woman that leads to a certain kind of vulnerability in the actual campaign process for you? >> well, you know, whats interesting, arizona, voters actually prefer women generally over men. but...