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Now? christine romans, ali velshi show you how to measure your tolerance for risk. >> a series of records in stocks, should i buy stocks here? is this a time to get in or out? we say those are wrong questions. what is your risk tolerance. >> first step in investing. theres an easy way to do this. cnnmoney.com, risk test. were not going to take you through 15 questions. a representative sample of three questions which help people determine how much risk youre prepared to take in ill hypotheticall...

>> i would guess theres great pluses and minuses. we didnt study that in this particular questionnaire. we had over 200 questions. by the way, it was a national representative sample. we didnt sample the match.com population but based on the u.s. national census. we got the right numbers. gay, straights, every rural, suburban, age group, et cetera. when you marry somebody you have complications from a different background. like traditional holidays and so people do still naturally tend to be dra...

The decisions happen quickly. a typical c eo makes decisions really kind of on a moments notice. it is not the same sand in the gears way that washington works or a state capital works and, in fact, when romney was govern nor of massachusetts, he didnt like dealing with the legislature. he was not much of a pol in the sense of working the room or getting to know people or dealing with people in the way that we think of, you know, a master politician like lbj or bill clinton. >> im not sure, thou...

Politics. it has been like that since the bombshell robert spitzer study mainstreamed this kind of thinking back in 2001. it has been that way for 11 years now. it has been that way for 11 years, until last week when all of a sudden it stopped being like that. because last week dr. robert spitzer made it known that he would please like to take that study back from 2001. he would like to retract it. it does not mean what people think it means and he wishes it would not have published. last week t...

Heart of what they do in politics. it has been like that since the bombshell robert spitzer study mainstreamed this kind of thinking back in 2001. it has been that way for 11 years now. it has been that way for 11 years, until last week when all of a sudden it stopped being like that. because last week dr. robert spitzer made it known that he would please like to take that study back from 2001. he would like to retract it. it does not mean what people think it means and he wishes it would not ha...

Think things are not going well. things are not on the right track. our government and other institutions that weve relied on for decades are not getting out of the way or helping when necessary. so we thought, lets look at that. but more importantly, lets look at the solutions to that. >> its fascinating, because one of the things ive been struck by is this kind of anxiety thats existed in the electorate. since 2001, you know, the 2002 election, this anxiety, to your point, these big pillars th...

Polk county. it was his biggest margin in raw vote over mitt romney was in polk county there. and its paul thats leading but i want to emphasize were missing a ton of vote in polk county. we have places like dubuque county all the way on the mississippi river where we have yet to get any returns in but i can also tell you this. i told you about our modeling that the boiler room is doing first and third based on different models. there is a precinct model we do. there is a county model we do. bas...

In control of the nuclear weapo weapons. >> dave walker, we also want somebody that can handle the debt crisis we have. one of the big problems is the fact that most americans, mika and i see this. we go and give speeches and the people who come out and watch us give speeches are not people that watch the kardashians. they are people that read "the times" or "wall street journal" and are really engaged. yet i am shocked, shocked at the lack of knowledge some people have about what is driving our...

Not only are people going to be able to fill this out themselves but were doing a statistically valid representative sample of registered voters. well have the results of that by december 20th. well know what americans think. the truth is americans are ahead of elected officials. they know a lot more about this than their elected officials realize. >> there are a lot of skquestio about social security and the social security trust fund. does it add to larger deficits? >> heres the key. the defic...

Health care bill as socialized medicine and cuts to medicare, that there is no rule in politics against arguing in the alternative, no matter how illogical or cynical. thanks to a new poll from russell sage foundation we now with more accuracy about the politics and world view of the 1%. foundation polled a representative sample of 1% and found, not surprisingly, theyre mostly conservatives who dont want to raise taxes, worry about deficit. with you now know the beltway conventional wisdom refle...