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Discrimination still lingers on. >> bill: skin color. i can't say yes or no. i can tell you. this you and i are kind of contemporaries. we started out in the media about the same time. every corporation that i have worked for in the past 37 years has actively recruited african-americans. they want them. all right? qualified african-americans. they are looking for them. now, i don't know whether -- i don't work in the other industries. i don't know whether there is institutional racism in the oil industry or the banking industry. i don't know. so, i really can't make any definitive statement ab...

Talking about the independent rej strered voters. most of those are hispanics, are kids that don't know whether to go on the democratic or republican side. we have found that a lot of hispanics, you were at florida international university where a lot of the students are hispanic, they don't identify with either party. we have not done a good job of democrats of letting them know what it means to be a democrat. >> the hispanic vote is key to president obama's success here in florida. you're saying that the kids don't seem to be party pickers. it's going to come down to the candidate? >> absolu...

We have seen great numbers in registration numbers. i will tell you that i have a feeling that although today was the last day in the next few days we'll see the reports from the obama campaign as to their registration numbers and you'll be shocked. they have registered an unbelievable amount of people in the state of florida. i think that everybody is going to be pleasantly surprised. and now the next step is to get every one of those young voters to vote. >> did the debate have an effect on their attitude? >> you know, i don't know that many of them were actually watching it. maybe a little ...

Chance and most say they did not know enough about you. does that surprise you? >> i don't think so at this early stage. we're just beginning a general election, we've gone through a primary, not a lot of people have focused time on the characteristics of a new candidate like myself. and people will get to know me better. my guess is they're going to get to know more about me than they'd like to by the time we're finished. bill: a lot of people that have talked to me about that process think that you're a tough guy to crack. is there truth to that? >> it depends upon who's asking. >> you know,...

Primaries and shouldn't separate them. i got involved earlier in the week in coverage of the italian cruise liner so we ended up with this time squeeze and we had to give gingrich time to respond. we contacted him tuesday. so it ended up the decision being it should go on tonight and we did not want to put it on friday which we felt was 24 hours before the primary and just too close. >> bill: do you ever have -- >> -- that was the debate inside abc news. >> bill: okay, so whether -- this will influence the vote. i mean, i don't think there is any doubt about it will. do you ever have any qualm...