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Ticket stuff than vote down the bottom. people run out of steam and stop filling out the bubbles as they go down their ballot. that's almost always how it goes. that's not what happened in georgia last year. of all the races on the ticket, fewer people voted for lieutenant governor, secretary race on the ballot than any other race. by a lot. what was going on? around 80,000 fewer people voted in the lieutenant governor race than in other races even further down the ballot like votes for labor commissioner. more people voted for labor commissioner than lieutenant governor, the number two electe...

Odd picture. this is a sample ballot. typically, there's a dropoff in the number of votes cast as people make their way down the ticket. if you use this as a guide, in state wide races, what i mean is the most people tend to vote in the governor race. more people vote in the governor than lieutenant governor. more people vote for lieutenant governor than the secretary of state race. more people vote for the secretary of state than the state attorney general. this trend usually happens all the way down the ballot in state wide elections. it's the opposite of a trickle down affect. kind of decay...

President obama on my side if i'm a democrat and mitt romney on my side if i'm a republican, but to your point if i'm in california or massachusetts, i'm on my own. >> or virginia, florida, and you have lots of company. >> and sometimes you want it and sometimes you don't and it depends upon what kind ofç district you are running in. members of congress are all about running for the re-election, because politics is local, but we know that the national polls show that the congressional approval rating is 12%, but when you ask that person about the local member of congress, that number is high...

What kind of stuff? >> rf refrigerators, stove, big ticket stuff. holidays, you see it. a lot of times we don't pay attention to it. when they break down we get them to get them because we need them. but if you wait until holidays, that's when your biggest sales are going to be on appliances. >> around the holidays, just that time to get rid of stuff? >> trying to get rid of it? >> any holiday, or christmastime and thanksgiving time? even some of the smaller holidays like columbus day and labor day. >> columbus day? >> yes. especially right now, too, in this economy. everybody is not buying. >...

The big ticket stuff that would have stopped it the last time around, too big to fail, derivatives, almost all of those measures were rejected outright tore watered down to near meaninglessness. i think wall street feels they dodged a bullet with the bill. they're going to complain and say it's an onerous bill. >> gillian, if you go back to 2007, 2008, are there provisions at the moment in this bill that would prevent the financial crisis that we went through from happening again? >> well, we still have to see where financial reform is going to end up and that's quite an important thing to rea...