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From an average of the most recent polls. will they round up to the nearest whole numb? will they use a decimal point? no idea. who knows? and that is nuts for the candidates, right, that their campaigns are being made or broken by something this arbitrary and opaque and random. but for the pollsters, its also a little bit of a moral issue, right? do you really want your work to be misused this way and in such a consequential way? misused as if you, the pollster, are saying something way more pr...

Flirted with them and invited them to come to his home. >> by late sunday, with no sign of casey, anderson or rogers, police returned to caseys home. >> this time the officer actually walked around the entire perimeter of the house, worked his way into the back yard, looked through a sliding glass door. he could see the bodies. >> inside the home butch casey, sharon anderson and marie rogers had all been shot in the head at point-blank range. detective craig scarlett was one of the first officer...

Main debris field? >> hi. the fact that we have those is indeed very good news. however, its extremely tricky to go back in time and find the places where those debris might have been. as the previous speaker was saying the currents are extremely variables. and those are sorts of problems we want to track sends back in time. >> and less random by the virtue that we have two items. it seems different than if we found a single item. does two items give us anymore help? the families are desperate t...

If this brings changes to big game hunting, all for the best. and also, hey, so what? you have to live with reputational annihilation, you took this lions life. i think that is always is the justification, right, for mob justice. the person did something, to that allows you to feel righteous. whats going on is less ben avenging my death, than it is about indulging in it ecstasy of outrage. it feels so good to be on the side of righteousness and punishments, especially when the person seems reall...

Righteous. whats going on is less ben avenging my death, than it is about indulging in it ecstasy of outrage. it feels so good to be on the side of righteousness and punishments, especially when the person seems really really deserving. i would say justice thats kind of random with no real connection to the severity of the crime, people always say, well, why this guy and not this guy, but i would say hes hardly the worst person in the world this week. so the idea to me that these public shamings...

I would say justice thats kind of random with no real connection to the severity of the crime, people always say, well, why this guy and not this guy, but i would say hes hardly the worst person in the world this week. so the idea to me that these public shamings -- >> john ross wrote a book about that. >> and john ronsons book, so what, you have some reputational annihilation. peoples lives are shattered, you know, their relationshipses their careers. >> let me argue the other side. youve got t...

Cain was ahead. >> bachmann maybe? >> the national polls are now determining who will be around the table for what are the iowa caucus and new hampshire primaries. much more important than perhaps the national toss-ups. those are the events to shape who gets -- how many tickets out of iowa and continues to south carolina. thats different than the national polling. >> seeing this on pollsters and how uncomfortable pollsters are with this responsibility ought to be sober enough that they should pi...

With this responsibility ought to be sober enough that they should pitch the idea. there is still time. they could pitch the idea. >> i think it shall how about one hour? eight people. another hour eight other people chosen at random. >> thats what iowa south carolina and new hampshire republicans suggested to the rnc. the rnc has given the one-finger salute so far. >> this? >> ill show you later when youre older. great to have you here. >> appreciate it. >> lots more ahead including richard eng...

He got picked up on july 24th. i wonder what it was that led them to her. i suppose they went back and scrubbed her whole life to see who might have given her trouble, ex-boyfriend and someone who was disgruntled with her. when we first covered this murder. i thought it was random. >> you know, what made me believe it just could not be random is she is is walking down the street with her boyfriend. hadnt said anything to anybody. the big question to me at the time we first did this was what was ...

Like he had the right to take away innocent lives. >> reporting live from lafayette, louisiana, will? >> reporter: still a lot of questions this week and the biggest is why did this gunman come out on thursday night and how was he able to legally purchase a handgun in alabama last year at a pawnshop when thats the same state that denied him a concealed carry permit. what we do know is that authorities say it was john russell houser who came to the theater on thursday night, he sat in the movie f...