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Questions there and done well. the town hall format obviously in new hampshire and being in people's living rooms is really what works eye-to-eye with voters. kasich has already done that he is doing more of it. the other thing he did john at the beginning to travel around the country to sell a balanced budget, to states not necessarily in the first states in the voting cycle, south carolina nevada, new hampshire and iowa. but other states to get them to sign on to balanced budget amendment to the constitution. i think he will push that hard during his campaign. jon: what about money? that is ...

Voting cycle, the hours of lines of people waiting, the black caucus was very involved to making sure we protected as many peoples' rights as possible, but when i look at lines, i don't know how one could say we don't still need protection in the country. especially when you see african-american and latino people waiting in the lines. >> you shouldn't have to tell african-american latinos that we are out to get you. we don't want you to vote and we are doing all that we can to stop you. and we want you to know it. the governor wants you to know it. the state legislature want you to know it. th...

>> scary. >> status. >> ineffective. >> arrogant. >> out of touch. >> complicated. >> arrogant is a pretty strong word to use. they think they are trying hard. both the white house and congress, yet you say they are arrogant. >> that's not what i see. megyn: well, just some technical iys there. but the bottom line is they do feel let down by washington. what do they plan on doing about it? >> i would say they feel abandoned and betrayed and what they plan on doing. they are paying attention, they are watching cable news programs. they are planning to vote. i think we'll have a high voter turno...

The republican side. we hear so many names, up to 20 names. you and just don't know, right? >> it's wide open. i'm actually registered as an undeclared voter in california. can't say independent because if you say independent, the independent party, i made that mistake one voting cycle but, you know, it's hard to say. the republicans field is so vast and so wide, maybe someone is going to step up. maybe they won't. >> it's so interesting, governor cuomo came from nowhere to balance the budget in new york. you saw governor christie wins post of the polls in popularity and in california you can'...

>> the reality is that a lot of the measures taken up by legislatures at the state level affect the voting accessibility of a certain population of folks. when you curtail early voting, when you challenge voters to produce a state issued i.d., all those things can be skewed along the lines of race and they are generally speaking. we can act like that's not the case but the reality is the efforts on the part of the republicans at the state level to improve the voting process has certain consequences that affect certain groups of people -- elderly, people of color, poorer people and those of the...