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Person i knew who owned a small business said i cant take another four years of obama. im voting romney. i just felt it added up to a very big victory. there has been a giant seed change in this country. >> bill: dr. bickers, you have a little bit more of an analytical, you being a professor at the university of colorado, a little more analytical approach. who do you think is going to win and why? >> well, we agree that governor romney is going to win. we think its going to be around 330 elector...

With the opportunities, and these are issues that people are touching on in the presidential debate. not square on. >> if we go back to the 1936 argument, right, its one thing to face poverty in this moment, but its another thing if you think that your children will also be unable to escape it. do we end up with a different kind of voting behavior? do we end up with middle class people voting differently from wealthy and working class people if they think these are permanent conditions for their...

Kinds of battles going on towards which liberals turned their attention. battle for gender equity and so on. unions kind of slid from the liberal conscienceness. now theres a price to pay. now the white working class, which was formerly democratic, suspect anymore because theyre no longer in unions, and union membership really does affect voting behavior. i think there has to be a liberal refocus on this if theres going to be any kind of, a, lasting democratic majority and, b, broadly shared pro...

Campaigns call a universe, multi-layer portrait of voters they believe can predict voting behavior, including whether youre an unlikely voter or not orro even a democrat or republican. method of communication campaigns learning to motivate voters based on what makes them tick. for example one gentle reminder civic duty, another one warned about consequences of not voting, using fear. todays outreach is more akin to behavioral psychology and that additional poll six. sasha eisenberg correspondent...

Elections in the 21st century. how campaigns try to predict voting behavior. good morning from washington, friday september 14th, 2012. this is daily rundown, im chuck todd, daily reads of the morning. protests in the muslim world inspired by the video. protesters clash with police in front of the u.s. embassy before a protest called by the muslim brotherhood for after friday prayers. protesters threw stones and molotov cocktails. protests escalated in malaysia, bangladesh and sudan. in yemen, p...

Southern democrats, liberal northern democrats. liberal northern republicans. conservative midwestern republicans. all of that mish mash. its all sorted out now. the republicans are a right centered party, democrats are left of center. people like to call themselves independents because they like that individual feel that comes with that. when you look at their actual voting behavior it is getting more and more predictable. an independent who votes for a democrat is basically a democrat. an inde...

Soon we will move to likely voters that is just to try to get who will really show up. pollsters do tt, everybody does it a bit differently but asking people questions about how interested are you? how closely are you following. past voting behavior. the most important question your intention to vote, asking them how likely are you to vote? that is a question that cant accurately be answered so far out. people will start paying more attention a little bit later. that is when we can get a good re...

Wasnt speaking to the needs and concerns of the constituents and it was not only what he said, but what he didnt say. his father took a strong stand on the voting rights and he couldnt mention voting rights on his speech to the naacp in texas while theres a major lawsuit going on shows to me that either he doesnt take that issue seriously or wasnt taken that address to us seriously. >> but it seems to me theres this, theres a situation in modern politics where the racial politics and the racial ...

A survey out last week found him in a statistical tie with barack obama. so its true. every vote does count in a race like this. the question is whether every voter will actually get to vote. joining us now is reverend david, pastor of the greater st. matthew baptist church, president of the detroit chapter of rainbow push coalition and highland park chapter of naacp. reverend, good to see you. >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> voter fraud sounds to folk, fairly it is if youre having it ...

Problem. there is no voter fraud in michigan. theres hypocrisy in the republican party. passing these bills, sending them to the governor to sign them, to restrict voting behavior. 1.2 million voters voted in the last election cycle. there were zero cases of verified of dead people voting. there were four cases of undocumented citizens voting. theres no voter fraud in michigan. were wrestling with voter suppression by this legislation, voter suspension because of emergency managers.