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past several months. you know, we went back and took a closer look at incumbent presidents a year before their re-election, brooke. and i know youre interested in this as well. >> how do they compare? >> obama is at 46% a year before his election. november 2012. look at president bush. in 2003 he was at 50% and got re-elected. clinton was at 52% and got re-elected. the economy began to deteriorate and he was defeated in 92 to bill clinton. ronald reagan, 53% the year before his re-elec...

And give them the power to chain. martha: the petition gets signed by -- how many parents does it need to pass? and where would it go from there? you say they can replace it with a charter school, that may be easier said than done. >> for sure. and basically what is going to happen is parents are going to be able to get together like a parent group will be able to put together a petition process. as long as more than 50% of the parents sign this petition they can basically go to the school board...

Petition process. its a little ugly but its actually a lot of fun. >> i owe you an apology. i thought you were sneaking basketball into the "2010." the candidates did is it. >> theyre using a sledge hammer. >> this is a good opportunity for me to mention my mom went to uk. she was extremely disappointed the other day i did not mention kentucky. >> the not only that, picking kentucky. >> course to, go all the way. >> you have to. >> i will. my parents are from kentucky. >> if they dont, youve jin...

Already, party chairmen, county chairmen so that harold ford jr. cant even get on the ballot without a very expensive and time-consuming petition process. whats going on there? is gillibrand going to pull this off? >> i dont know whether she will or not, andrea. doing stuff like that feeds into the weakness that i think every incumbent has in this country right now, both republican and democrat. if she does that, tries and succeeds in keeping someone, harold ford or anyone else, off the ballot y...