you ll know what the people are concerned about if you just read the papers on a daily base without looking at the polls or listen to your friends. what do they have to say? try to get outside of the new york chorus line. you know, what you want to do is hear what the rest of the country thinks as well. it s a big country, and a lot of interests are represented in a presidential debate and campaign. i got into the business because at the age of 20 i watched all night long the 1960 election returns come in between kennedy and nixon. i d been a political junkie since the time i was 10, and i was a political science major. i thought that s what i wanted to do with my life. sounds like steve kornacki. this complex country, nation of immigrants will make a decision about who will lead them for the next four years, and we won t have tanks in the street. we we won t have the white house barricaded in some fashion.