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Representatives who try to capture that anger. i think when it gets down to the presidential election, that -- those angry candidates have a way of falling off. the parties generally sometimes one party better than eat finds a way of captures voters' aspirations and really capitalizing on their hopes. i think anger doesn't play very well over the long run, and i think that the parties will move to find a way to build tear bases and incorporate more of the center. >> robert, what's interesting is political reform is never good politics. arnold schwarzenegger essentially spend his entire governs...

Allowed to get married like anybody else. balanced budget amendment only embraced by kefbs for years. half of the political center supports that, too. full results of the new survey are in the newest issue of "esquire." right now we'll do a little deeper dive with three of the men that made it happen. robert blizzard was pollster for mitt romney's campaign and is a partner of public opinion strategy. he and neil newhouse represented the romney wing of our survey team. tim pen netson, president and ceo of a strategy group. obviously he represented the obama team in designing this survey. richar...

Third movement. i think what will happen is folks in either party who are playing the red/blue game will realize these folks -- they won't let it happen. >> you won't let them make it happen. robert's not going to let them make it happen. >> no. that's right. >> they believe in individual responsibility and shared responsibility. >> and robert, very quickly, throughout this survey, i'm sure you're sitting there going, well, now i know why the president was using that language so much and borrowing the teddy roosevelt language. is that right? >> yeah. no. i think that's a fair point. i definite...

And while, you know, there were people who were very loyal democrats and republicans we've known for years through our political work there is a moderate majority in most places in america. and so we took a lot of time during the campaign, looking at their economic lives, their values, and understanding the things that are really important to them about their future. >> robert, when you looked at this survey, was the center bigger than you thought it would be at the end of the day? >> yeah, i think so, chuck. i think the key here is that for the most part you look at independent voters as bein...