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Tea party candidate is added to the mix. the democratic candidate would win with 36% of the vote, the republican would get 25% and 15% would go to the tea party candidate. in other words, the tea party could be spoilers for republicans. a baboon is making a monkey out of officials in florida. the monkey has been running wild in the woods between tampa and st. petersburg. hes outsmarting his captors. an update on the chase. >> reporter: the guy behind me was captured, a baboon in the slammer, a...

Required under reconciliation rules. after that comes the rapid-fire votes. thats when republicans will try to wreak havoc with the process throwing in dozens of amendments designed to slow things down and embarrass democrats. nbcs luke russert is live on capitol hill with the latest. luke. >> reporter: well, david, about nine out of those 20 hours have gone through and been debated. harry reid is now taken back the democrat seven hours, essentially eight republican hours for the debate. republi...

Buy viagra or other performance enhancing drugs off of the health exchange programs, david. >> the idea here being, look, by making these so attractive to democrats they can pick-off enough they can essentially changed the language that passed the house and gum up the process. >> essentially what they want is for one of these amendments to pass. why? that changes the fix it bill. that means it would have to go back to the house for another vote. a small change but would have to go back and pro l...

Pollster doing this. you use some highly charged words, racist, hitler, dictatorial powers. >> we wanted to find how many believed these things. the reason we did this poll, a new book came out called "wingnuts" where he talked to a lot of people who hold these beliefs. i was flabbergasted when i saw the book and said lets find how many people agree with the positions. thats why we did the poll. im glad to say we did it before anybody else thought to do it. >> interesting numbers and a controver...

Methodology but found something like 38% of republicans think that president obama is doing some of the things that hitler did. do you believe that the numbers are that high? what do you make of some of the views on the republican right? >> i think its sad and disappointing. in a democracy we need to disagree. we can do that civilly. the leadership who have been responsible for sowing those kinds of information and confusion among people and spreading hate and bigotry really need to take some re...

Youll have folks in their home states, home districts wondering what the heck is going on there. they wont defend their position on the amendment because they will simply be told to vote no or vote yes. go ahead? >> especially because politically difficult because who is against keeping viagra from sex offenders but thats what the democrats are going to have to do to hold the line? >> indeed. that is one of the most interesting things. democratic senators will literally not know exactly what the...

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