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Deal as everybody says, i think it's worth breaking it down, which i'm sorry to say i'm now going to do by standing up. okay, behold. modern u.s. political shockers, a chart. all right. this is a representative sample, what we're going to build here, is sort of a representative sample of large scale american -- large scale shocks in american politics that have happened over the past 30 years. 30 years ago, in 1994, the loser -- excuse me, 20 years ago. 1994, the house speaker was tom foley. tom foley, who was an incumbent, who was very important. he was speaker of the house. he was not, actual...

Okay, behold. modern u.s. political shockers, a chart. all right. this is a representative sample, what we're going to build here, is sort of a representative sample of large scale american -- large scale shocks in american politics that have happened over the past 30 years. 30 years ago, in 1994, the loser -- excuse me, 20 years ago. 1994, the house speaker was tom foley. tom foley, who was an incumbent, who was very important. he was speaker of the house. he was not, actually, turfed out by his own party. it was a general election defeat. also, it was not a blowout. he lost his seat in a rac...

Candidates can be very effective messengers connecting. >> there's sort of a dilemma almost for democrats which is in the "the new york times" story we're talking about, which is, you know look at the number like we have from this new suri of millennial and you say wow, there is a huge future here for democrats, one of the biggest reasons why democrats seem to do so well among this new poll among millennials is they're so much more diverse. when you get to the silent generation, there aren't enough nonwhite people to be surveying right now to be a representative sample and now you're talking a...

Representative sample of the seriously conservative voters who can often decide the first primaries and caucuses ever 2016 in the presidential race. they have been voting for 2 1/2 days in the annual straw poll. last year it won by rand paul, something of a favorite. well received. the balloting ended at 1:30. the votes will be public in the next hour or so. it could be a boost for a number of candidates looking to get a stamp of approval from conservatives. one of the candidates who was particularly tough not just on the obama campaign, ageneral ga, also on the leadership in washington. mitch...

Same way, you don't have an environment or you don't have a group of people reporting the political news of this country that is very reflective of america. in fact, it would be hard to find a less representative sample of people out there. if you went to san francisco or cambridge and rounded up a couple people standing around in the town square. you would be more likely to find conservatives in those places than you are in many media newsrooms according to the surveys that have been done. >> tucker: i would mandate that 20% of newsroom has to be from wyoming and south dakota, see if that wou...