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Primaries. members are now responding and they won't compromise because it's viewed as an act of betrayal. if you get more mod rats and independents participating in primaries, then you'll get a more functional government. i hope that's what will happen. >> dana, barack obama, whether rightly or wrongly, fairly or unfairly, was elected in some measure, certainly ran on the idea that he was going to end the hyper partisanship of the bush era. i don't think there's any question it's only gotten worse. what's the answer? >> the sound bite you played earlier with harry reid and mitch mcconnell, th...

Politics, perhaps a third party? >> the frustration is as deep as i've ever seen it, chris. the poll numbers clearly reflect that. it almost makes you long for the days of the do nothing congress. the current congress is taking steps that harm the economy. so i think what we're likely to have is a period of increased instability. more anti-incumbent elections. it won't be felt in the house so much but you'll see it at the senate level which is not subject to the gerrymander. will it go so far as to have a third party? that's kind of unlikely. the polls show that most voters are open to that no...

Started. unfortunately this morning, that's not what we saw. it is still like trying to get through tsa security and that to me is unconstitutional. if there's a public safety concern, fine, so be it. right now, all i have seen is peaceful protests in the state capitol, and the people just want their voices to be heard. >> do you think that this fight in wisconsin is changing the politics of the state? i mean, it wasn't that long ago that governor walker was elected. we saw some new polling data that showed his approval ratings are tanking, far below what they would need to be for him to, for ...

1994. a lot were very conservative and at the same time able to broaden our message to bring in a lot of mod rats in the northeast. that is the challenge in electing and governing, as the democrats are finding right now. they really can't get their coalition of conservative democrats together. >> some people are saying moderates are becoming an endangered spiscys, same thing could be said for the republican party. on the republican side of the fence, what do you think? >> this is an unnecessary self-inflicted wound. the republicans build field a slight of credible and reasonable candidates, pe...

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