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An important state. but, i mean, could it be someone like you even mentioned a sports figure. can you imagine sports figure i guess arnold schwarzenegger an actor. >> i don't know about a sports figure. certainly a lot of republicans looking for someone who is outside of politics. we saw that in 2012 with someone like herman cain who received a the love support as independent businessman that was his brand. >> a lot of people being critical of president obama because he didn't have a lot of experience. he had never been a governor. he was a state senator and they criticized for voting presen...

They can't seem to find it in washington. >> it's reflected in the self identification of what political party people self identify with. two polls in a row and until we see it a second time in a row, do we make note? a majority of folks did not identify. when we asked what party we identify with, a majority did not identify with either party. we think this is only the third time ever this happened in the history of our poll and yet two polls in a row. what do you take away from that? >> it leads back to the frustration with washington and the political process and people feeling that they are...

I was pretty convinced this was online radicalization, self-identification, but we need to determine whether there was some kind of mentor or facilitator on the other end and we need to determine whether there was any linkage or training on the other end. that's what the national security community will be looking at in the weeks moving ahead. >> there's a the lot of unanswered questions here and i'm sure you're right, they will be looking at that. christopher swift, thanks very much for that analysis. up next, more than 3,000 people injured. dozens have lost their lives after a powerful ear...

That the republicans self-identify as conservatives to a far greater degree than the democrats self-identify as liberals. 70% versus about 40% in round numbers. and that self-identification, thinking of yourself as a liberal or a conservative, has really changed over the past ten years. >> and that is something. so, basically, a majority of republicans self-identify as conservatives before they say the word "republican." do a majority of democrats self-identify as moderate before they say "liberal." >> a majority say either conservative or moderate. >> but they don't say liberal? >> only 40% s...

>> thank you. >> that's what i mean, there's no inherent cross-ethnic, cross-temporal, cross-time relation. religious people are in the forefront of freeing the slaves and so on. >> no, that's -- >> i understand that, that's my point. there is, you know, i think there's very little inherent logical correlation. >> between people's level of religious belief and their political affilation. and yet we have in problem the opposite of that. we have a strong degree of correlation between people's political behavior, their political self-identification and their practice. >> countries that have the h...