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Traffic highway safety administration as it is of other agencies. there's got to be a moratorium on the work that people can do if they are in government, for industry, and vice versa. number three, you have a system in which gm or any company when it makes a settlement out of court with people who have had problems in this case with ignitions, they don't have to be reported back to the safety administration. so the safety administration doesn't even know very often about settlements. >> let's talk about the first issue, the budget cuts. they are rational for not having investigated this previ...

But the fact is that politics has always been extremes, often flying in the face of what many experience as reality. the only difference now is that the extremes seem to be all that exists. we no longer share the facts upon which our opinions are based. because when multiple polls with scientifically accurate sample sizes all give the same numbers and are still questioned for accuracy or even when the bipartisan independent bureau of labor statistics which is firewalled from both the white house and the labor department accused of lying and padding numbers out of political partisanship or when...

President obama took office. 42% say the country is worse off. ezra, anything jump out as you look at those numbers? >> you always have to be careful with battleground polling dealing with smaller sample sizes and brings higher levels of error. you want to see a number of them. in this election so far, the pattern has been that obama is stronger in battleground states than he is nationally. usually you're seeing the battleground polls return better than the national polls. the margin is a little flip here, four to three in this poll and a much more substantial deterioration inside the internal...

Way. can it not? >> yeah, race is clearly an important factor. i don't think on average we have the white population that high. no question that race is an important factor. so are the other variables. age is highly related to the context as well. so is education and gender and so is having a cell phone only or land line. all of these are important factors. our statusticians and methodologists have been doing this for a long time and take those into account and try to put our samples and give the best overall sample that we can come up with based on as i agree with what mark just said. when we...

It is based on 3,000 interviews with registered voters and we provide analysis based on 9,000 interviews based on three-week rolling average. we are able to give people a stable picture of what's happening with the race as opposed to other polls where we saw obama was ahead by 13 points. clearly an out liar and daily tracking with large sample sizes, we think that we are making a real contribution to understand the trajectory, the trend line of the race. >> it's funny you bring up the out liar and bloomberg. we had criticism at that. she responded to it. one of the criticisms we talked about, ...