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another straw poll victory. the president -- the republican presidential candidate finished first at the conservative values voter summit this weekend winning 37% of the straw poll vote. herman cain came in second with 23% and rick santorum finished third with 16%. herman cain said the bad economy is having a greater impact on african-americans but the gop candidate says racism is not the reason why. >> i don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way. is there some -- are there some elements of racism? yes. it gets back to if we don't grow this economy, t...

Learn more, and then the bullying might happen, and that might stifle some kids. how do we work with that? >> well, you know, it's all a question of diversity. and making kids used to dealing with diverse and diverse environments where there are many disciplines going on. so ari, i think it's not just about mixing kids of different ages, but i think it's about mixing kids with different interests, different expertise. we don't want to segregate kids into those who like music and those who like engineering and those who like art. i think it's even more important to bring together kids with vary...

As we poll our own mess they say it's persuasive, whether you're in the city or country, rural, small, large, it's everywhere. what they say to us is they have a real need for additional training. the other thing we do is we've developed curriculum, anti-bullying curriculum that is age appropriate for the elementary but most of all what we do is work with all of the adults in school. and we want someone to be that caring adult in every school, someone that a student can turn to and be listened to and provide assistance. we just have to stop, prevent and fix this bullying problem. >> i think fo...

Taken their own lives after being relentlessly bullied. you may remember carl joseph walker-hoover. he's there on the left. he was in the sixth grade. students taunted him, saying he acted gay. he hanged himself. he was just 11 years old. jaheem herrera, also age 11, same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, bullied, taunted by the girls, called a loser. eric mohat bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father's dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often as we have seen parents of kids who've been bullied find that schools don't take t...

Jaheem herrera, same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, taunted by girls, called a loser. eric mohat took a gun from his fath father's dresser drawer and turned it on himself after being bullied again and again. all too often parents of kids who have been bullied find the schools don't take the problem serious enough. here is what carl's mother said on capitol hill. >> i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought the bullying problem to...