smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steady gaining in the polls and historically there is a lot of precedent for urge is being candidates to keep gaining especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary and according to data released yesterday, 43% of americans, look at that graph, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. rs and ds are tied at 27. it tie as record for an independent showing making them the largest political bloc in the c
as they say sunshine is a great disinfectant. i like the public being able to provide some oversight role relative to public servants. but will you speak to some of the privacy concerns and considerations that i laid out in introducing this segment? yeah, sure. it is definitely a concern. most agencies though do not broadcast names and addresses and specific personal information over unencrypted airways. they will typically take that to channels that broadcastify does not allow. so it would be a lattimore difficlattimore lot more difficult for the general public to hear that information. what level of concern do you have about this trend toward encryption? do you think that it has gone too far? i rattled off some of the larger areas that are already headed in this direction. you know, public safety agencies have had encryption technology available to them for