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National identity that is based on it. but around the world these days, we're seeing the rise of another kind of national identity, one that can be darneller and more troubling. in the recent elections for the xwrurpian parliament, nationalist, pop you list and even xenophobic parties did surprisingly well. the uk independence party beat ute all the established parties. france's national front won handily guess the ruling socialist party. the golden dawn in greece won half a million votes, awarding seats in the parliament for the first time. many commentators have sdribd it as a consequence of...

Watched his chief justice get blocked by a filibuster. johnson didn't have enough time in his presidency to nominate a chief who could get confirmed. so the next chief justice, the vacancy that opened up for a democratic president johnson was then filled by richard nixon. thus beginning 45 years of conservative chief justices. with good health, the current conservative chief should be there another 25 years. republican justices have been much more successful in handing off their seats to republican nominees than democrats have been. it was pointed out in "the new york times" saying the six mos...

Nominees than democrats have been. it was pointed out in "the new york times" saying the six most conservative justices based on their voting patterns to have retired in the last 50 years, all left the bench under a republican president. by contrast, only one of the six most liberal justices has departed when a democrat was president. he wrote that in the recent times article, which considered the arguments pro and con on whether ruth bader ginsburg should resign in time for president obama to replace her. her opinion on this question is quite simple. >> the number one question is, can you do ...

Talks about the polarization of birth control. empirically, how much do they get from 1980 from the reagan moment forward to 2012, basically it's about half, right? in fact, less of the vote went to the democrats. now president obama elected with 53% of the catholic vote, 51% in 2012. it's probably less irish catholic and more latino catholic. are we overstating this great polarization around aca? >> i'll speak to that. i would say, first of all, you're right. there is no catholic vote. catholics have assimilated to where they're more on the whole of the american voting patterns. on the aca, g...

Senate races. recent study shows a dramatic change in voting patterns. age didn't used to effect who you vote for. as you can see here, the young and old voted the same way. in 2004, 18 and 19 yields voted more democrat. this partisan voting gap is the biggest in the modern era. millenials are more likely to call themselves liberal. there's a catch with that. young voters are in sync and don't see themselves as democratic at all. they are less likely to identify with a political party. if they don't see themselves as loyalists, how do they vote in an off year election. one is marijuana. a new ...