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Wasnt very violent there. theres no clear evidence that the psychiatric conditions that he was reportedly under treatment for were linked to his time in iraq or anything having his military service. there are a lot of unanswered questions now, and its quite frankly irresponsible to jump to conclusions to suggest that his time out on the war zone led him to do this. >> when you look at the survey data that weve got now from veterans, and this is an extensive, its a big survey size in the story, a...

Four to five months. it was on the tail end of that conflict, at a time when it wasnt very violent there. theres no clear evidence that the psychiatric conditions that he was reportedly under treatment for were linked to his time in iraq or anything having to do with his military service. there are a lot of unanswered questions now. its quite frankly irresponsible to jump to conclusions to suggest that his time out on the war zone led him to do this. >> when you look at the survey data that weve...

I want to talk to you about that survey more broadly, but i wonder if you feel like theres been sort of excessive focus on the fact that the suspected perpetrator in that case served time in iraq, without us having any sense of whether that might be relevant to this. >> well, i think everyone everybody sort of honed in on it and blew it oit of proportion, as you rightly point out. his time in iraq was four to fife months. it was on the tail end of that conflict at a time when it wasnt that viole...

Them an identity by mentioning their names and repeating their names, creates additional -- helps to create additional little monsters. we find that these types of crimes occur in clusters. so to that extent, lapierre is not that far off when he says how many are out there waiting? we have no idea. >> the data, we looked into the data on this copycat effect and theres been interesting findings in both directions. its fairly unsettled. theres been some findings that suggest theres a copycat effec...

Attention and the way we give them an identity by mentioning their names and repeating their names creates additional little monsters. we find that these types of crimes occur in clusters. and so to that extent, lapierre is not that far off when he says how many are out there waiting? we have no idea. >> the data, we looked into the data on this sort of copy cat effect, and theres interesting findings in both directions. it is fairly unsettled. there are finding that is do suggest the large copy...

He said he will get 325 electoral votes. former clinton advisor, dick morris. look, dick, i love you. i think gov. romney is going to win florida, virginia and ohio. i think hes going to win new hampshire, colorado, maybe iowa, probably iowa, wisconsin is close. he will be the 45th president of the united states. i do not see the blowout you see. explain. >> well, first, i stand by my prediction. we are going to win 325 electoral votes. we are going to win the popular votes by five points or mor...

Thats much better than the political polls we see, but at the same time 60,000 households compared to how many people are actually employed or unemployed in this country? >> it also begs the question, you know, are you doing anything to earn money, are you working, would you like to be working more? we know how polls are. >> and on the other one, the payroll report thats basically, based on companies sending in survey data and sometimes the person sending it in doesnt get to it, and thats why th...

And, you know, the polls -- at least recently, show him falling behind. >> well, alicia, you know, in politico, romney campaign officials are lists this as a strategy seeing the problem. he says, quote, in a lot of current survey data, theres a desire among the electorate to know more about mitt in terms of how he would lead. over the next six weeks, the campaign is going to provide a lot more of that. i mean, really? he needed a survey to tell him that people want to know how he would lead? >> ...

outcome, ohio. where the candidates spoke speaks volumes in the battleground. in northeast ohio, blue from 2008, cuyahoga county, democrats must dominate to win close races statewide. mitt romney was here, hamilton county, where cincinnati is in the southwest corner. pivotal for republicans in close statewide races. may notice president obama carried that area or part of it in 2008. republican challenger hopes to look at the last three plus years, convinces voters not to give the incum...

The obama re-election campaign has a choice. should the obama re-election campaign run against mitt romney, the severe conservative or mitt romney the flip-flopper who used to sort of, kind of be sort of a liberal. according to politico, one campaign adviser thinks running against the severe conservative is the better path to victory. bill clinton echoing survey data presented by obamas own pollster, joel benson, quietly argued that the empty core approach failed to capitalize on what they see a...