believe cost the gop a winnable colorado senate seat in 2010 is three points behind mark udahl. incorrect in a poll released this week. call time. ken buck 300 point question this outspoken senator said he or she is opened to making a presidential bid. bernie sanders. correct. sanders formally served as the mayor of vermillion s largest city, name it. i didn t hear. sanders formally served as the mayor of vermont s largest city. name it. burlington. correct. 300 more points for kerry. president obama will speak about the economy next week at the headquarters of what? dreamworks. one of the last surviveing members of john f. kennedy s cabinet who also proved to be its most entouringly controversial member was this defense 2nd who passed away.
. so i remember, i used to cover politics in new jersey, there is this senate race, john core sign, the multi-billionaire, whatever he was, it was the year al gore won new jersey in a landslide by 17 points and karzai barely won. the same new jersey was john core sign won the election but bob flampgs won the company, because he came so much closer against all that money. i wanted to apply that question looking at 2012. did obama win is the result we saw last year the victory is that a result of obama winning the campaign? is there things he firmly did or the result of structural factors? i think it s us as a combination of both. i want to go back to one thing we were talking about voting is an emotional experience for people. there is all kind of brain
with the 100 point round, we go with this. after their intrafamily dispute was publicly aired this week, mary cheney said she is not supporting her sister liz s campaign. correct. 100 points for trey. after pleading guilty. trey radel. someone came to play. 100 point question. among the 16 americans on whom president obama bestowed the presidential med am of freedom on wednesday was this recently deceased long serving hawaii senator. daniel inoway. this is an instant bonus question, trey. obama awarded the med am of freedom to what retired basketball coach. dean smith. 100 more points. he didn t hit the buzzer. he gets it. 850,000 or 600,000, the department of housing and urban development announced this week it estimates this many americans
300,000 votes nationwide. they re selling units, right? i was in obama field office the size of a closet. if you go on the website, you geocode them and the counties which are frankly useless political unit for campaigns in the 21st century. they were useful for assigning judges on the 19th. just because the data is organized, you guys analyze it. i don t think that s a particularly effective way of measuring. there are many caveats that catch that anal says in the book. obviously, we don t have the individual level of data a campaign would have within they can tell you we contacted that person this many times. let me tell you what the obama company would say in response to this question. lynn and i interviewed the geekiest people in the obama company. we ve asked them of the 4 point national vote margin, how much do you think was attributable to the company did.
dan wagner said i don t know. dave nexterson the director of experiments said i don t know that number. the national field director said i don t know that number. so i think that gives them the point, that s one of the reasons we pushed back against game changers. we do the best we can to measure the effects of the campaign. sasha points out, that s absolutely true, these are not perfect ways of measuring things, at the same time this is a difficult question to answer. i think the obama campaign the smart guys will not tell you. lynn, you watched it. you wrote about it every day. when you looked back at everything you covered in the final result, what do you think? why do you think obama won last year? i want to follow up on karen s point. they had the data to know how many voters they needed to bring in to make up for their deficit. so you use all the information that you have. you realize we are behind x in this preseat or however they want to define it. so they have the ability