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Ian Kemp was raised on the smell of cinnamon. And clove, chile peppers, cumin and ginger.  His parents, Bill and Beverly Kemp, started a spice company in Manor in 1983 when he was 5 years old.  The younger Kemp had already spent weeks on the road with his “hippie parents” who loved traveling to Mexico and Central America. En route from Nebraska, the Missouri natives passed through Austin enough times that they eventually decided to move here, in part to make that trip shorter.   “We would drive this white whale of a potato truck,” Bill Kemp says. “We put a kitchen and a bed in ...

Difference in nevada, colorado, florida, perhaps virginia, those competitive states with growing latino populations? >> if obama wins colorado and virginia you have to attribute it in part to that margin. when's sort of interesting, that's difficult to measure well and not all pollsters using spanish-speaking interviews and the rest but the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll i believe gave president obama 70% and the same as the decisions poll of the last week. that's actually slightly higher than percentage than the exit poll four years ago and equals the margin of four years ago, that's som...

The difference between that and the national vote is less than 1% overall. we lose sight of the fact that most -- half the votes in the battleground states in florida, virginia and north carolina and a little bit of an advantage working obama's way. that could give him the election if, if, if those polling leads hold. >> mark, obama recently had an off the record discussion with "the des moines register" and some of that leaked out to the rest of us. but one thing he said that was really interesting is that latinos -- should i win a big reason will be because the republican nominee and party h...

Just looking along gender lines, how important is that going to be in determining who wins in 13 days? >> i mean, i think it -- i think you're referring the gallup numbers out this morning. you know, he's down among nonwhite voters -- i'm sorry. among white voters, among both men and women since 2008 and it's the bigger an i agree gath trend that i think matters more than the gender gap. clearly, the obama campaign's put great emphasis thematically to appealing to women on the issues in the ads and you see him repeating on the stump and that has been part of i think their effort to hold back a...

In the buckeye state than any other. $177 million worth so far. did it help anyone? they're polling neck and neck there as they are nationwide in the real clear politics poll average and look at the ""the washington post""/abc news poll. i think that's one person. that's about as close as you can get in one of those polls. we start now with mark blumenthal at huffington post and a polling expert. let's start with ohio. there are scenarios for both of the candidates to win this election without ohio but it is the closest thing there is to a must win state i'd say for both candidates. what is yo...