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Race in decades. cameron's conservative party on track for a slim majority in the parliament. fox business network's stu varney joins us now. stu, i've been watching all the news networks and newspapers. a lot of interest in this. why should americans care? >> that is the question i'm asked all the time. there is a very good answer for it. the election results in britain were a defeat for the left and a victory for the right. the same debate, the same economic debate, is taking place here in america. and the election results over there are a pointer for voter preference, i think over here. now...

Millstone for democratic candidates as we go forward. >> but i mean, you've got to remember a month ago, the numbers were more than flipped. they were more extreme in terms of favoring democrats. that was after the federal government shutdown which got blamed on the republicans. what i would say is look. charlie pointed out we're at 12 months away from the next election. there's a long ways to go. and i think the die nynamics ar going to shift. we don't know how it plays out in terms of six months from now as we watch the insurance companies set their rates. how about obamacare be viewed then?...

Or when we are fighting against slavery or racial integration, we wouldn't have put that up to public votes. there are certain rights that are guaranteed everybody under our constitution and those should not be up to the public to decide by voter preference or by whim and should not be subjected to the advertising and so forth that happens in political campaigns. these are rights that all americans have, equal protection rights guaranteed under the constitution, and shouldn't be put up to public vote. >> it's been so interesting that part of the conversation has become the sochi olympics. ther...

Be very superficial how we talk about politics and politicians and motor people when voting aren't doing a list of the ten issues that matter to me and who i vote for. you can really reduce voter preference. you talk about house races. there's 435 house races this year. i can tell you right now without knowing who has won the competency test who will win 90% of those based on party identification. we are -- most of us are basically partisan. we make a decision who is in the tribe and we work backward to say let's justify it now. if somebody looks more competent in the other tribe, it won't spl...

Since mid july are democrats have suffered a 16-point swing in voter party preference and in the wrong direction from their viewpoint. the other regular gallup poll on voter enthusiasm is even worse for democrats. republicans twice as likely as dems to say they are very enthusiastic about voting on november 2, and that so-called enthusiasm gap has held pretty steady tore months. democratic strategist chris cafinas telling politico "our message needs to be more positive, more hopeful more focused and he with need to talk to the economic reality of everyday americans and their families there is ...