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Section of rock. what is it hoping to find? rick folbaum is watching this from right here on good ol earth in the newsroom. rick? >> reporter: scientists deny having anything to do with the satellite glitch in the michael sync report. we want to give your science geek viewers an update what is going on. you are among our most favorite viewers by the way so heres an update. nasa rover curiosity that landed early last month is making pretty big progress. curiosity using the robotic arm to a martia...

Let let the defense cuts go through. its looming -- the time is running low. >> molly, do you think an agreement could be made before the january 2 and deadline? >> as david said it all hinges on the election and congress has pretty much checked out until then. then the question becomes do they respect this deadline or do they look for some kind of stopgap. thats going to depend on who gets elected and what the composition of the next congress is going to be. youre already hearing talk on the hi...

Sizeable bounce at the convention. these four national polls show the president has moved ahead of mitt romney. with a poll out this afternoon showing a six-point lead for the president. also, the presidents favorability rating has gone up 6 point. during the same period, romney has gone down by 5 points. ouch. nate silver says, the conventions may have changed the composition of the race and romney and say facts dont matter, his new memo says, quote, dont get too worked up

Plus you can use four times less versus the leading value brand. dont worry, theres plenty left for you dad. we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra soft? . want to bring cory robin to the table at the university of new york, author of fantastic book "reactionary mind." cory, great to have you back here. >> thanks for having me. >> michael, heres what i want to talk about. the country is changing demgraphically, obviously, in its racial composition. i think this is a well-known fact. ...

Terms of what coalition of interest it is and the demographic foundation is and were talking about race and the ethnic and racial composition of the party and the fact that, you know, the defining feature of american politics for a long time, obviously, was essentially the legacy of the civil war and the parties, the modern two-party system as it was created was created when the republicans displaced on the abolitionist, as part of the abolitionist movement and in the wake of that, two parties, ...

Voter turnout machine." this is a core truth about american politics. we have a multiracial society with two political coalitions. one, democrats, contains almost all of the african-americans, a majority of latinos and asians and a minority of white people this is what the other political coalition looks like. if the obvious racial disparity you see at the political rallies inflected in the institutional makeup of the parties this is the breakdown of the u.s. according to 29010 census. this is t...

>> there was a secret meeting of sorts? >> they gathered two days after the 4th of july. romney up in lake winnepesaukee. most of the national press up taking pictures of him in his swim trunks and this secret meeting taking place. look at the composition of the group, largely republican establishment, and the only way to think about these groups, holding pens for senior officials in waiting. if you look at this group, its a better way to think about what a romney administration might look like ...

>> if you want to be a politician in korea, a black belt in tae kwon do may not be a bad thing to have. >> fights are so common in south koreas parliament that theyve become a spectator sport. >> this looks like a coup. i dont know if youd want them in charge. >> there has been a ritual aspect to confrontation in korean society. one of the challenges with korea as a relatively new democracy is that this is not really a political culture in which debate and compromise are prized. >> since 2004 th...

56-43. in the latest gallup tracking, issued at 1:00 this afternoon, president obama is leading among women by 8, 50-42. so he is wing women this, time around. but by 50% less than last time around. and he is running to even worse among men than last time, so the races in todays tracking, 47-46. look, if you go inside these numbers, yes, the democrat will win the womens vote, but how much isnt republican will win the mens vote. but by how much? if you are looking at the womens vote, younger, sin...

56-43. in the latest gallup tracking, issued at 1:00 this afternoon, president obama is leading among women by 8, 50-42. so he is wing women this, time around. but by 50% less than last time around. and he is running to even worse among men than last time, so the races in todays tracking, 47-46. look, if you go inside these numbers, yes, the democrat will win the womens vote, but how much isnt republican will win the mens vote. but by how much? if you are looking at the womens vote, younger, sin...