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Booths less than an hour from right now. what does this election boil down to? we've been at it for so long. it's good to take a step back. what's the fundamental choice? >> the difference between the two is their vision of how they see the country going forward. it's going to be one that, you know, uses the entrepreneurial prices out there, the spirit of the american people to go out and pull themselves up by their boot straps or one where government plays a significant role in determining outcomes and sometimes picking winners and losers. for a lot of people, they're going to step back, look...

In this country. we've known that since the great depression. these guy also take it and shred it. >> professor dyson, sorry to waste your time, i'm going to play some more of paul ryan. here he is. >> i come from a town that has been hit as hard as any but what happened next is the same thing that happens in communities around the country every day, our town pulled together. our churches and charities and friends and neighbors were there for one another. in textbooks, they call this civil society. in my own experience, i know it as janesville, wisconsin. >> what's your reaction when he goes t...

It's interesting that headline from bill clinton, you know, this is a big decision about what kind of country do we want to live in. both sides have said the same exact question. >> there are two great strains in the american tradition. one is rugged individualism. personality responsibility, pulling yours up by your boot straps. in the other case, we are all in it together and if you're down on your luck you may need a helping hand. the party successful is those that can reconcile those two. that's what we look forward to getting back to charlotte and the president's comment. we understand th...

Lots of -- latinos are conservative. they're not voting conservative but democrat z interesting is that governor martinez said, i think she used the word damn she went to a launch with democrats and talked issues and she goes damn i'm a republican or something like that. so those two things that there is a huge hispanic population that will vote republican. numbers don't show that so far. >> right and he talks about picking yourselves up by your boot straps which is something people come here planning to do. so a lot vote on pocketbook issues. so they feel like one part yes or another may be b...

Individual. texas may be the one place where people actually still have boot straps. and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. but we also recognize that there are some things we can't do alone. we have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. and it starts with education. [cheering] 20 years ago, joaquin and i left home for college and then for law school. and those classrooms, we met some of the brightest folks in the world. but at the end of our days there, i couldn't help but to think back to my klaas mates at thomas jefferson high school in