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Think things are not going well. things are not on the right track. our government and other institutions that we've relied on for decades are not getting out of the way or helping when necessary. so we thought, let's look at that. but more importantly, let's look at the solutions to that. >> it's fascinating, because one of the things i've been struck by is this kind of anxiety that's existed in the electorate. since 2001, you know, the 2002 election, this anxiety, to your point, these big pillars that we always depending on, banks, journalism, the party structures, government, congress. the ...

Polk county. it was his biggest margin in raw vote over mitt romney was in polk county there. and it's paul that's leading but i want to emphasize we're missing a ton of vote in polk county. we have places like dubuque county all the way on the mississippi river where we have yet to get any returns in but i can also tell you this. i told you about our modeling that the boiler room is doing first and third based on different models. there is a precinct model we do. there is a county model we do. based on those models, throwing out the entrance polls at this point, actually using the data that w...

In control of the nuclear weapo weapons. >> dave walker, we also want somebody that can handle the debt crisis we have. one of the big problems is the fact that most americans, mika and i see this. we go and give speeches and the people who come out and watch us give speeches are not people that watch the kardashians. they are people that read "the times" or "wall street journal" and are really engaged. yet i am shocked, shocked at the lack of knowledge some people have about what is driving our long-term debt. if you talk about medicare some people say oh, it's not medicare. it's foreign aid....

Not only are people going to be able to fill this out themselves but we're doing a statistically valid representative sample of registered voters. we'll have the results of that by december 20th. we'll know what americans think. the truth is americans are ahead of elected officials. they know a lot more about this than their elected officials realize. >> there are a lot of skquestio about social security and the social security trust fund. does it add to larger deficits? >> here's the key. the deficits are calculated on a cash flow basis. and social security has been negative cash flow since 2...

Health care bill as socialized medicine and cuts to medicare, that there is no rule in politics against arguing in the alternative, no matter how illogical or cynical. thanks to a new poll from russell sage foundation we now with more accuracy about the politics and world view of the 1%. foundation polled a representative sample of 1% and found, not surprisingly, they're mostly conservatives who don't want to raise taxes, worry about deficit. with you now know the beltway conventional wisdom reflects perfectly. we know no shortage of statistics to show how grotesque our nation's wealth distrib...