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Regionalism in congress, usually around energy issue, coal state people versus oil state people and so forth, but this is a spending issue that becomes more ideological and even cultural than even just fiscal. so, you know, they look at the northeasterners and think theyre big spenders. usually with something like disaster aid, that kind of stuff is put aside. as congressman king pointed out, it took six days for them -- excuse me, ten days to vote for that aid for katrina and its been two month...

Civil rights and seniority went into the republican party. and race began to fall away as the organizing principle in life. so the parties became more ideological separate from one another. democrats agreeing with democrats, republicans agreeing with republicans. as that happened, they began to act as units. we dont have a political system set up very well for parties to act as units. the founders didnt want there to be parties at all. they were very against factions even though they went on to ...

So, you know, they look at the northeasterners and think theyre big spenders. usually with something like disaster aid, that kind of stuff is put aside. as congressman king pointed out, it took six days for them -- excuse me, ten days to vote for that aid for katrina and its been two months and, yes, speaker boehner i think was concerned he couldnt ask his caucus to vote for this right after they voted for that fiscal cliff, but i think some of the democrats i talked to today on the hill said or...

We have nikki haley, marco rubio, paul ryan, mike pence, jeb bush and soon-to-be former senator from south carolina, jim demint. stephanie, the deputy campaign manager for the pre-election campaign and kevin madden, a senior adviser for governor romneys campaign. hello and thank you for being here. >> hello. >> i threw out my dozen, and i asked you to pick two. we will not do the 2016 composition now, but in a few minutes. >> all holding up. >> who jumped out at you? >> i am now ready and focuse...

Demographics are destiny. ronny won a higher percentage than any candidate since ronald reagan. he beat obama by 20 points. by 14 points among white women, five points among independents. he won all these groups by more than george w. bush did in 2004. he lost by a wider margin than john kerry because the composition of the electorate changed. as the obama campaign predicted, the white portion dropped from 74% in 2008 to 72%. the president carried nearly eight in ten including 71% of latinos, 73...

Examination of the congress today. i mean, incumbency has always been there for most members of congress, both the house and the senate, but there was, up until probably, i dont know, arguably the mid-70s, maybe early 80s, the composition of the congress included a majority of people who had lives other than politics before they went into politics. and thats all changed. >> that has changed. and i think that changes the mindset of trying to do something in washington. you know, that ridiculous "...

Congress coming in. does the composition in the new congress, can anybody figure out what happens there? >> well, i mean, numerically, its more favorable to democrats, right? the house will still be controlled by john boehner. so you still have that divided congress. but the calculation is not, you know, a numerical one. its the idea that if they go home -- first if they go home for christmas break, theyd feel the pressure, but it doesnt seem like thats coming. if they go over the cliff and they...

Called plop sweat. >> i would like to have a pro form of the session of the show and come in every three days and write something down. >> im about to get into my coin collecting story. when i used to collect coins -- >> this is ratings gold. >> this is called in budget circles and more boring -- >> budget circles. >> can you feel your ratings going up, alex? can you feel the people tuning in? >> two other factors before nicole rips your head off. >> we have to go to break. >> awesome. that mean...

Glasses. >> first off, if this was a technology, that man would be either blind or not able to taste oranges. >> what is great about it is that you have nothing to -- to -- in front of you. you have no glasses. so you can really enjoy the show. >> its so much better than glasses, because nothing is in front of your face. your eyes feel like theyre about to explode, but nothing is in front of your face. its such a better experience. >> so is this the next big thing? or the next big fake? >> franc...

Can do a good competition, visual effects composition. >> they make the video to show what they can do. jonathan posts the name of louiss company. and the blinking is made possible through the magic of 3-d graphics. >> we create some points over his face. we took some pictures of his face around him. so if with those pictures and the points, we create a 3-d face of francois. >> louis and his team then take a real blink and repeat it over and over again on the image. >> after that we put the face...