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Southwestern pennsylvania and if he can get the people in virginia who may be conservative for democrats, if he can bring them in and with the liberals and mainstream democrats, you have a winning ticket. if you think xlin ton can bring them in, people holding out right now on the president? >> i think he is going to make a powerful endorsement tonight and will be a great speech. but at the end of the day, i always think that the power of endorsements in campaigns, with very, very rare exception...

Pretty remarkable when you think about it. all of the folks going into precincts and hearing speeches that possibly could sway how they vote on that secret ballot. jon: its hard to believe after all of the bus tours and everything we just mention theyd there are so many people undecided. what is the atmosphere there like right now. >> reporter: there is a lot of excitement, the weather is great, its crisp and clear and chilly, nothing iowa handle. you listen to the governor, you listen to matt s...

Are intimidated and wont do it. do doctors who are considering making the decision that youve made talk about that threatening environment as a determinative factor about what kind of medicine theyre going to practice, where they are going to practice medicine, where theyre going to offer abortion services? >> i really havent talked to a lot of other doctors in this community that would even consider it, so its not come up in conversation. certainly the person that has been helping me train is v...

This is an issue on which one very far fringed side of the debate has decided that violence is the way theyre going to get what they want, either by directing violence individually at people on the other side of this debate, or by simply creating such a physically threatening climate that people are intimidated and wont do it. do doctors who are considering making the decision that youve made talk about that threatening environment as a determinative factor about what kind of medicine theyre goi...

Kansas is that it seems like this is an issue on which one very far-fringed side of the debate decided that violence is the way to get what they want by directing violence individually at people on the other side of this debate or by creating a physically threatening climate that people are intimidated and wont do it. do doctors who are considering making the decision you made talk about that threatening environment as a determinative factor about what kind of medicine they will practice and whe...

So theyre really hitting peoples cousins and ungs cles and brothers and sister across the board demographically, white and black, every conceivable walk of life. i think its stupid. >> one of the -- i think theres a divide, in political science. and some people think that -- in political science think that politics matter. and some people think that politics is sort of a show we put on, like a circus for the entertainment of the population. sort of a way we get our ya yas out about the culture w...

>> one of the -- i think theres a divide, in political science. and some people think that -- in political science think that politics matter. and some people think that politics is sort of a show we put on, like a circus for the entertainment of the population. sort of a way we get our ya yas out about the culture war. but the thing that determines the elections is the unemployment rate. the number of people unemployed determines whether or not the party in power stays in power. >> i tend to fe...

>> i cant -- i dont have enough information, andrea. they on their own words have said, look, they raised the issue but both the british and the scottish governments said that wasnt in any way a contributing or certainly not a determinative factor. the problem is i dont know how you put the genie back in the bottle. i think that this should be an object lesson for any country that, you know, when people have been convicted of such horrific crimes as the lockerbie bombing was for pan am flight 10...