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Hampshire. so that -- >> you know, this is the hip list. she has president obama at the university of michigan which has a crappy football team. but -- im a ohio state fan. >> the majority of college students, my niece said, are voting absentee. people are just assuming, like north carolina, that within the triangle that those students are voting north carolina. a lot of them are absentee ballots that will not be counted until the very end if theres a need for them to be involved. >> hillary cli...

He had been suffering from cancer. >> not only the album came out last friday, a carnegie hall event celebrating him. last night, it was announced it would take place in march. his son said im sorry and sad to say it is true. ill be offline for a while. prime minister david cameron tweeted i grew up watching david bowie. he kept getting it right. a huge loss. and ricky gervais wrote, i just lost a hero. rest in peace. he was in just one word, cool. in every definition of the world cool. everyone...

Stardust" came out. i was listening to "young americans." three seconds and you know that song. >> it is not just the sound. the soupnd and images. he changed the genre. the way he looked. he sounded. the cool factor for him was so high. >> kanye west was tweeting this morning as so many artists have been. he was fearless and creative. he gave us magic for a lifetime. magic and for a lifetime. he was reinventing himself so many times. in the most recent album came out last week. this album, dont...

Wants the upgrade, the update the newest thing. and youre sort of glorifying and spending time on things that are decades out-of-date so to speak. >> trust me, the brick phone is coming back. but it really is about the nostalgia and the cool factor and there is a lot of new technology that you can put into old cars now. as a matter of fact, we do it quite a bit on the show where we just recently took a 2015 dodge srt and stuck it all underneath a 1971 dodge. and so you really can have a little b...

Apple would talk about. you can see apps that you can do the same as on your smartphone but the whole point is that it is at a quick glance. the cool factors for those of you dick tracy fans you can have a phone call on your wrist and they are putting a big focus on health. if you want to get little notifications about how active you are in the day or in the week this can kind of be your personal coach-nudging tool. but for the most part i think were not really convinced of how this could change...

Hanging on for not much longer. it is great as a woman too to think about this show and what it represents for feminism. its right on the cutting edge. >> and, yet, there is this weird dynamic where even though we learn more and more about don draper and how despite his cool factor and his control, you know, in his professional world that he really is a loser in a lot of ways, and, yet, people still want to be him, and you have this great quote from john hamm who says im always surprised when pe...

Lets not write off white millennials too quickly. >> the cultural cool factor, if you want to call it that. i want to give you a picture of who was rooting for who at the last two conventions, republican and democratic? in terms of the culture war dem have eva longoria. democrats have george clooney. republicans, clint eastwood who did talk to a chair. a great actor, though. republicans had scarlett johansson. there is this coolness factor of the republican party doesnt exactly help them win mor...

Alarmingly different because our society is so desensitized. >> its about relevancy, too. >> not every movie? >> if you put a scotch in the movie "the notebook" i dont think youll see a lot of women going out drinking scotch overnight. >> there is a certain thing about the cool factor. think about even television shows that have product placements in them. people see those stars using that particular product. the next thing you know sales start going up. >> wave of the future on two topics today...

Go hillary clinton. isnt that movie about how gross that teacher is, anyway? reese witherspoon played tracys ambiguity beautifully. i love that entry, i love the movie, because you dont come down on a single side. and a lot of the book is like that. >> i want to clarify one thing. i didnt write the book. i oversaw the book. >> editor, we said, editor behind the book. i know theres other bloggers. >> so people get credit, absolutely. i mean, i think thats one of the more fair entries. there are o...

Will we have a shut-down? >> over the last week the momentum has been shifting against one, but its too soon to say. you can still have it. its a close call. >> great job, everyone. thank you so much. appreciate it. coming up on "the lead" if you have ever been disappointed after listening to online reviews, there might be a good reason. which businesses are paying for reviews and whats being done about it? plus, it gave the new iphone that extra cool factor and was supposed to keep your pho...