Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120909:12:31:00
Scientists have been looking at this and we're very surprised, right? because the parties are moving asymmetrically apart. the republicans are moving way to the right and the democrats are moving modestly to the left. how can this be if the independent voters are roughly in the center? we have been struggling through that. what i would say is political science has reached a couple conclusions. one, this is clearly activist-driven. and the activists on the right are -- the tea party are really power pfl. >> hold that thought. you compare the first thing the democrats did when george w. bush was...