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It considerably worse, eamon? >> look, i think that we're actually at the tail end of kind of a generation long shift toward real polarization in the house of representatives in particular because of all this gerrymandering that we have seen. used to have southern democrats, and they over the past generation have been almost totally wiped out. so you're seeing ideological divides among the districts. and then the members themselves take part in the gerrymandering. >> sure. >> to make sure that each of the districts is very, very safe. they don't want to fight a battle every two years. so they ...

Sound bite you will understand all the complexities of national security or health care or the economic situation. and then you have the political consultants who are after all just marketing people who come in there, and they look for the hot buttons to push with no relationship whatever to all the complexities that go into fulfilling these promises. and you have an impossibility by the time somebody is elected. >> jennifer, what say you? we should note here jennifer at the "washington post"? >> yes. i think there are two points. one is that politicians have been disappointing voters for deca...

>> you want to get into this? >> that was california's brad sherman on thursday night grabbing opponent howard berman during a feisty debate. congressman berman's campaign manager now telling the hill they are not ruling out using that incident in campaign advertising. congressman sherman, meanwhile, has since said that he regretted his actions. is senator rand paul already ramping up for a presidential run in 2016? paul reportedly extending outside kentucky, going national with tv ads in ohio, west virginia, and florida. the ads paid for by his political action committee, rand pac. hammer d...

Congress an eye-popping 75%. let's go ahead and bring in today's brain trust. syndicated columnist bob franken, and the "washington post's" jennifer rubin, also a contributor to cnbc's "kudlow report." good saturday afternoon to all of you. kevin, i want to start with you. you're here in the studio with me. you wrote a piece. it's titled why vote. >> yeah. >> my ap government politics teach worry have a fit with this one. but in the article you say in part, quote, for more than a generation, this has been the central truth of american politics. how you cast your vote has almost no relation to ...

In a row would be extremely rare. house democrats are counting on a lot of redistricting in the wake of the census, the 2010 census maybe gave them a few seats in texas. but we're talking about an eight-seat democratic swing on a good night. and back on the senate, you got to take into account the coattail factor for president obama as well. wisconsin, virginia. if he does well in virginia, tim kaine does well. if he does well in wisconsin, then tammy baldwin does well over tommy thompson. >> i want to get both of your take over something. big picture here. the "new york times" reporting this ...