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Fewer. john: on the scale between fun and horribly grueling, what was the campaign like? [laughter] >> it was exactly that. [laughter] it was fun to horribly grueling. looking forward here to fun here, so looking forward to fun. [laughter] >> governor johnson, i heard yourself and judge gray filed a case of the anti-trust laws of the republicans and democrats monopolizing the debates. is this correct? what came of it in? >> we filed, it's pending, there's emergency clauses on both lawsuits, and the judges ruled there was no emergencies and i didn't have to be in the debates immediately and the...

Votes as she got. [cheers and applause] high five on that. [applause] all right. who is next here? yes. >> i'd like to ask david how do you assess the likelihood of the expanding number of incumbents in the tea party to influence republican policy, hopefully national policy in the direction of more liberty? >> i hope that will be the case. the point i've been making to the tea party the past three years is you have to stay engaged after the election because the spending interest and represent seekers never stop paying attention to congress, and citizens usually do. they get excited. they get p...

First. several states passed ballot initiatives to say "up yours" to obamacare. alabama, wyoming, montana, they all said citizens of our state are not compelled to participate in a health care cents, and missouri, citizens there said we're not having a health care exchange there for the affordable care agent. john: the feds can compel it, but it's harder. >> right. it indicatings the citizens of missouri are thinking about this issue correctly that it's a bureaucracy at the state level regardless if it's the states or feds, it's a bureaucracy, not a marketplace. the bad news in terms of ballot...

Now we're up to this 170,000 pages of rules. each one is an assault on opportunity and personal freedom. maybe i'm too negative. let's get an expert look at what the election meant for freedom from the all-star panel. david boaz, hadlel heath, and deroy murdock. >> i was shocked he got back in with the record he had. there is some good news -- john: you said it's vital it's not a slight republican win, but a crushing defeat for obama. discredit socialism in the u.s. for a generation. >> well, that didn't work, did it? >> didn't work. >> good news, john flake won a

News? >> other than the marriage and marijuana initiatives and the health care initiatives, i think that can be taken as a sign that there are a lot of libertarian leaning voters, libertarian instincts in the public so maybe it's not that just they left obama, but republicans drove away independents and suburbans with a lot of the social policies. in the house of representatives -- >> there's interesting people not house of representatives, people from the ron paul movement, rand paul's state of kentucky -- john: won 62%. >> a big area, and won the first re-election in michigan, which was good...