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>> the new era of -- obama's new era of responsibility is the era of nobody taking responsibility. and the math is all going in the wrong direction. not only are more people becoming dependent, i thought the more troubling stat is that back in the 60s 12% of americans didn't pay income tax, but 49.5% of americans, half of the americans don't pay income tax. >> i paid recently. >> you government sons of [bleep]. we now this swing was coming. we knew these -- these poor people would suffer. >> i hang around with poor people all of the time. >> that's the females. >> nobody poor on welfare wants ...

Income, average of 32,440. >> gretchen: what does that say to you? >> here is what happens. the 49.5% of memories pay no federal -- americans pay no federal act. they pay other tax, but no federal income tax. when that number hits 50% or goes over 50%, these people vote. it doesn't eliminate their ability to vote. they will continue to vote in policies, policy makers who make sure that they're protecting the money. >> what percentage are reluctantly in that category? >> i don't know. does it matter? this number keeps getting bigger and bigger. the average -- not only the number of americans is...

Million people doing that, that means $2.5 trillion coming out of the system of the takers. the makers, who are about 50% of the population, only bring home 32,448. so for the first time ever, if you don't work, and you live on government subsidies, you actually on average bring home more than people who are working. >> not only that, so the makers, as you call them on the left-hand side of your whiteboard there, they're going to work every day, making money, paying their federal taxes. so they can pay for those people? >> the problem is, martha, comes out according to the heritage foundation ...

Convention there is an indication of that. and not just for north carolina, but also other states in the south, virginia certainly, florida, that we won in 2008. we just feel like it's important to always play on an expanding map, not a map shrinking back. north carolina sends that messa message. >> you won it in 2008, 49.9 to 49.5. that's a pretty tight margin. >> it was very tight. >> you want to keep it blue. the demographics of the state are as i understand it about 21% african-american, 7% latino. the median age is 36.6%. so as our political unit has come up with these numbers, seems that...

Gresham barrett. haley fell just short of the 50% needed to avoid a run-off. the winner tonight will face the democratic state senator vincent shaheen in the race to replace this man, the love gov, mark sanford. our chief political correspondent carl cameron is in columbia, south carolina. polls are now closed. what's the sense there tonight. >> very strong sense that nikki haley will be the republican nominee tonight. as you say she fell short at 49.5% in the primary a couple weeks ago shvment she was almost double what her opponent got so in this run off tonight it was widely expected that h...