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The obama case it was mostly television advertising. >> and still remember your may article in new york magazine where you said that they were disqualifying mitt romney in may as an unfeeling -- >> and earlier. >> unkind corporatist. >> part of what the trump people have learned is that lesson and theyre doing it digitally rather than on the air. but theyre spending so much month on facebook, theyre very so he mi sophisticated. and smart democrats are worrying about that. and they look at the de...

Republican candidates. they are going after president trump pretty aggressively but thats only part of the equation for them. we saw that with conor lam in a special election upset earlier this year and we are seeing it in a lot of these races across the country. thats where i expect most of the candidates in these real swing districts like the one we are seeing in pennsylvania will land. >> martha: republicans are raising a lot of money. that clf, $71 million versus $2 million in the same cycle...

Are you trying to harness something more in this movement and have politicians reach out to you? >> yes. some have. what i plan on doing during this gap year, which i still may not be taking, i havent made a final decision on, is im going to be working on a candidate basis, because there are republicans who are supported by the nra and not supported by the nra. theres democrats that are supported by the nra and democrats not supported by the nra. ill be working on a candidate basis to make sure ...

Dont want you? you have taken the country by storm. how do you explain this? did they reject you before the parkland massacre? how do you explain this? >> they rejected me about -- let me think, about two weeks ago, most of them. ucla and usd. we have a highly impacted university system in america. and i think there is a lot of really good candidates that dont get into college. it goes to show regardless of whether you get into college, you can still change the world. the hardest part is believi...

That people get out there. people are working during mid terms. and dont get this wrong here. this is not a republican or democrat thing. there are democrats that do take money from the nra as well as multiple other terrifying interest groups on wall street and various other places like that. what the nra does is they heavily lobby the gop mostly. thats what were trying to get after here. were going by candidate basis, not by party. were making sure that whatever individual that were helping out...

They show a lot of fluffs on the republican side, governor palins numbers are remarkable. this is a bit of an outlier poll but the fact that she leads obama on independents, that pool i recovered to, the pool you need to get, is an amazing null and it will fuel speculation she might get in. martha: its very interesting because its a different matchup than weve seen with her in recent months. alan, lets look at this independents number because the first number was among general voters, this is an...