the poor economic recovery. but -- >> look at how many choices there are. americans haven't decided in this whole slate who they're going to pick so you get a -- you know, you get a diluted -- >> in terms of its predictability, let's remember. at this similar point in time, mondale was beating reagan by nine points. dole was beating clinton by five points. so the predicted value of a generic question at this point in time is virtually nill. >> all right. i hope y'all have a great weekend and thank you for a very interesting debate here. toss it over to brian now. >> let me tell you what's coming up next as we have 90 minutes left to go. republicans want to require a balanced budget by law. why are so many democrats rallying against it? we're going to talk to chris van holland, democratic congressman. amongst the leadership. he'll be here live. schools saying let them worry about the sensitive subjects. there's a law that lets teachers tell your kids about gay history. then -- we gave the "fox & friends" all american summer