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Count this vote. this is just the beginning of the process here. but so far western officials and particularly u.s. officials are very upbeat about the prospects of this election being better than last year, julie. >> connor powell, thank you very much. now to the economy in a new study that finds the biggest problem holding back small business is not what politicians like to focus on, taxes or too much regulation. the report by the national federation of independent business claims a simple law -- blames a simple law, low demand. people not buying enough stuff to get small business growing ...

Stuffing last year. ambassador i cee nberry said it was a much better vote. it was an improvement. it was the type of progress the united states needs to see out of afghanistan, and he claimed that part of the progress was due in large part to the new u.s. strategy here in afghanistan. >> we can see progress being made. it comes slow. sometimes there are setbacks, but clearly yesterday if it was a good day for a democratic representative government of afghanistan to move forward, yeah it is a great day for america. >> now, both ambassador eikenberry and other officials here in kabul are urging...

Most polls, in fact we will put our own fox news dynamics poll right now, almost half say it is extremely important to vote -- to their vote in the upcoming election. there is the number. why aren't democrats pushing for a complete end to earmarks? >> one of the very first things we did when we took over the house in -- the house and senate in 2007 was put together an ethics package. part of it was authored by then senator barack obama and it was to reduce the number of ear -- earmarks. we have cut them out and since 2007 we continue to cut back. >> it is not moratorium. i am talking complete ...