Election Focus Group Meeting

Oct 26, 2008

University of Pennsylvania | Annenberg Public Policy Center Peter D. Hart Research Associates

Pollster Peter Hart conducted a focus group with "persuadable voters" from Lake County, Ohio, who were undecided or leaning toward a candidate. The participants were screened to include a mix of demographics and political leanings. The group answered questions and discussed their perspectives on various issues and the candidates in the 2008 .. Read More
Pollster Peter Hart conducted a focus group with "persuadable voters" from Lake County, Ohio, who were undecided or leaning toward a candidate. The participants were screened to include a mix of demographics and political leanings. The group answered questions and discussed their perspectives on various issues and the candidates in the 2008 presidential campaign. Following the focus group, political reporters who watched the group shared their reactions. The Anneneberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania hosted the event.

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00:00:08 Unidentified Speaker HOW ARE YOU DOING? HOW ARE YOU? I FEEL LIKE I HAVE ONE TOO MANY TEARS HERE. CAN YOU MOVE YOUR NAME...
00:04:01 Unidentified Speaker I WORK AT A LOCAL FACTORY IN OHIO.
00:04:06 Unidentified Speaker HOW MUCH INTEREST YOU HAVE?
00:04:09 Unidentified Speaker IT IS 8.
00:04:17 Unidentified Speaker IN A TIRE SCHOOL TEACHER. IT IS ABOUT AN 8.
00:04:23 Unidentified Speaker MY NAME IS STEVE. I AM AMY IS TECH FOR A HOUSING COMPANY. I WOULD SAY I AM ABOUT AN 8.
00:04:41 Unidentified Speaker RAHMAN. I LIVE IN LAKE COUNTY. I WAS AN ACCOUNTING ANALYST FOR 30 YEARS UNTIL THEY SOLD MY DIVISION...
00:05:00 Unidentified Speaker MY NAME IS JASON. AND A SINGLE FATHER AND I WORK IN RETAIL. BUYING INTEREST IS ABOUT A SIX.
00:05:10 Unidentified Speaker MY NAME IS MICHELLE. I AM NOT WORKING RIGHT NOW. BUT WHEN I AM IN A WEB DESIGNER AND GRAPHIC ARTIST...
00:05:23 Unidentified Speaker AND AMOS PETE'S. -- MY NAME IS PETE. I AM ABOUT A FIVER 6.
00:05:36 Unidentified Speaker MY NAME IS GRETCHEN. I AM A SINGLE MOM AND I WORKED IN RETAIL.
00:05:44 Unidentified Speaker WHAT NUMBER WOULD YOU BE?
00:05:47 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD BE ABOUT A SEVENTH.
00:05:50 Unidentified Speaker MINE AND IS RALPH AND IN A RETIRED FIREFIGHTER AND IN ABOUT A NINE OR 10.
00:05:58 Unidentified Speaker I WAS A LEGAL SECRETARY FOR 22 YEARS UNTIL A MONTH AGO AND NOW I AM A NANNY FOR A LAWYER AND I ALSO...
00:06:11 Unidentified Speaker MONEY MYSTIQUE. IN A CONSTRUCTION WORKER. THIS IS ABOUT A SEVEN.
00:06:29 Unidentified Speaker IN A NEW MOTHER OF TWO. I WORKED IN A HOSPITAL. I AM IN MY FINAL SEMESTER TO GET MY ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE....
00:07:04 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS GREAT. A WORD OR PHRASE SAY YOU WOULD USE TO DESCRIBE HOW THINGS ARE GOING IN AMERICA TODAY....
00:07:16 Unidentified Speaker 4.
00:07:21 Unidentified Speaker DOWN THE TUBES.
00:07:24 Unidentified Speaker UNSTABLE.
00:07:27 Unidentified Speaker [INAUDIBLE]
00:07:41 Unidentified Speaker OPTIMISM.
00:07:44 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS NOT LOOKING GOOD.
00:07:48 Unidentified Speaker NOT AS BAD AS IT WOULD SEEM.
00:07:52 Unidentified Speaker CHAOTIC.
00:07:54 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
00:07:59 Unidentified Speaker DUWAIK UP EVERY MORNING AND MAKE THE MISTAKE OF TURNING ON THE TELEVISION. IT IS ALL THAT IS TALKED...
00:08:14 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WAS YOUR WORD?
00:08:16 Unidentified Speaker FRUSTRATION.
00:08:17 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
00:08:21 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY THE INSTABILITY. HE TURNED ON THE TV IN YOU HEAR ALL BAD NEWS AND YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING...
00:08:41 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT WATCH THE NEWS ANYMORE. WE LIVE IN A GREAT COUNTRY BUT IF YOU TURN ON THE NEWS AND IT IS...
00:08:54 Unidentified Speaker AND YOU SAID NOT AS BAD.
00:08:57 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS I AM TRYING TO BE OPTIMISTIC. I JUST THINK IT IS SOMETHING WE WILL GET THROUGH.
00:09:09 Unidentified Speaker ARE WE GOING TO GET THROUGH?
00:09:12 Unidentified Speaker I THINK WE HAVE TO BE PATIENT AND NOT REACT TO EVERYTHING SO QUICK. YOU JUST NEED TO ROLL WITH THE...
00:09:35 Unidentified Speaker AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY WHAT IS GOING ON -- HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY AFFECTED?...
00:09:54 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY HANDS? I HAVE NINE HANDS.
00:10:05 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS THE LOSS OF INVESTMENTS AND MONEY IN THAT SENSE. I DID LOSE MY JOB A FEW AGO DUE TO CUT BACK...
00:10:22 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE BEEN A TEACHER IN THE PAST AND I HAVE A RETIREMENT FUND AND PART OF MY PLAN HAS BEEN INVESTED...
00:10:40 Unidentified Speaker TO SAY THAT IS DIRECTLY AFFECTING YOU, UNLESS THAT IS COMING IN AS INCOME THAT WILL AFFECT ME AND...
00:11:23 Unidentified Speaker I AM DRAWING MY ATTENTION SO IT IS AFFECTING ME. IT IS A DECREASE.
00:11:33 Unidentified Speaker HOW IS IT CHANGING YOUR LIFE?
00:11:37 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT DO MUCH ANY MORE LIKE I USED TO DO. BY SPENDING IS MINIMAL. I TRY TO KEEP IT DOWN TO WHAT...
00:11:49 Unidentified Speaker I AM NOT AFFECTED.
00:11:52 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE?
00:11:57 Unidentified Speaker I TOOK OUT MY 401K TO PAY FOR MY HOUSE AND SO IT WAS PAID FOR. I'M CHRIS RAISED BY PARENTS WHO DID...
00:12:23 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ASK A DIFFERENT QUESTION? HOW DID YOU GET HERE, AS THE COUNTRY?
00:12:34 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE BIG PART OF IT IS LACK OF EDUCATION. I DON'T THINK THAT WE HAVE THE ADEQUATE AMOUNT OF...
00:13:05 Unidentified Speaker MARY, HOW DID WE GET HERE?
00:13:09 Unidentified Speaker @ THINK A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH LOANS. PEOPLE ARE LIVING THE GOOD LIFE AND THEY THINK THE MONEY...
00:13:24 Unidentified Speaker HAD DID WE GET HERE, STEVE?
00:13:33 Unidentified Speaker LOANS, LIKE SHE WAS SAYING, LIVING ABOVE YOUR MEANS.
00:13:44 Unidentified Speaker IT SOUNDS LIKE IS OUR FAULT AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO OURSELVES. HOW MUCH IS US AND HOW MUCH ARE THE...
00:13:57 Unidentified Speaker CORPORATE GREED AND LACK OF CONTROL BY THE GOVERNMENT. THE POLITICIANS TODAY DO NOT LOOK FOR THE GOOD,...
00:14:26 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THEY ALLOWED -- THE BANKING SYSTEM WHEN THEY ARE EVALUATING CREDIT, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE CREDIT...
00:15:07 Unidentified Speaker PART OF IT IS US AND PART OF ITS IS POLITICIANS, WE ARE ALL GUILTY.
00:15:12 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY AGREE? HALF OF US AGREE.
00:15:21 Unidentified Speaker WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN ACTIONS. PEOPLE HAVE LOST SIGHT OF WHAT IS IMPORTANT. IT HAS BECOME...
00:16:02 Unidentified Speaker ON YOUR YELLOW PIECE OF PAPER HERE, RIGHT DOWN IF YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT....
00:16:47 Unidentified Speaker THE SYSTEM IS NOT SET UP AS IT WAS. I AM ONLY 20 YEARS OLD. I CANNOT HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE, BUT...
00:17:37 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS GOING TO TAKE ALL LOT OF GUTS FOR US TO TURN IT AROUND.
00:17:45 Unidentified Speaker HELP?
00:17:48 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL HAVE TO TIGHTEN OUR BELTS. IT CORPORATE AMERICA TO GET ON LINE WITH US. IT IS GOING TO TAKE...
00:18:08 Unidentified Speaker YOU DISAGREE? WHY?
00:18:17 Unidentified Speaker A LOT OF WHAT HE SAID -- THEY DO NOT HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES. THINGS ARE SO DIFFERENT. I HAD...
00:18:52 Unidentified Speaker I DISAGREE. THEY DON'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAD. WE HAD SO MANY. EVEN THOUGH YOU OPEN UP...
00:19:33 Unidentified Speaker NEXT GENERATION BETTER OFF?
00:19:37 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE OPTIMISM. I DID NOT THINK IT WAS LIKE AND HOW IT WASN'T UP HARRIS GOT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND...
00:20:26 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL BE HANDING THE BATON BACKWARDS OR FORWARDS?
00:20:31 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS A GOOD ONE. I BELIEVE IT WILL BE BACKWARDS. WE ARE SO FAR BEHIND IN EVERYTHING. LIKE EVERYBODY...
00:21:25 Unidentified Speaker TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE THINKING.
00:21:31 Unidentified Speaker I'D LIKE TO THINK WE SHOULD PASS THE BATON FOR. I HAVE A SIX SURE OLD DAUGHTER AND I THINK IT IS MY...
00:22:10 Unidentified Speaker ANYBODY ELSE?
00:22:22 Unidentified Speaker BACKE IN THE MANUFACTURING -- THERE WERE SOME LAYPEOPLE THAT WERE LOSING THEIR JOBS AND TOLD THEY...
00:22:33 Unidentified Speaker THE REASON?
00:22:35 Unidentified Speaker THEY SAID WE ARE DISCLOSING IT DOWN BECAUSE THERE WERE NO JOBS.
00:22:40 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN LAID OFF? MOST PEOPLE. OK. I AM GOING TO SWITCH SUBJECTS....
00:22:57 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS OUR MIND SET. IF WE THINK WE'RE POINT-OF-SALE, THE CHANCES ARE WE WILL. IF WE THINK...
00:23:16 Unidentified Speaker THE ONE TO TALK ABOUT THE CHOICES YOU HAVE BUT TO BEGIN WITH. I LOVE YOUR HONEST ASSESSMENT THAT COMPARED...
00:24:24 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THERE IS MORE OPTIMISM IN THE CAMPAIGN. THERE IS ALSO A LOT MORE ATTENTION.
00:24:34 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS A LOT OF ATTENTION. . NOTHING I HAVE SEEN SINCE 1968.
00:24:47 Unidentified Speaker IT FEELS LIKE A DIFFERENT TERRITORY. THERE'S A DIFFERENT FEEL TO THIS. THE DEBATES HAVE BEEN OVER ...
00:25:14 Unidentified Speaker HOW DO YOU FEEL?
00:25:19 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS A LOT OF INFORMATION OUT THERE FOR EVERYBODY. THEY ARE DOING A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF TRYING...
00:25:33 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS YOUR FEELING? IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU COMPARE IT TO 2004, AND YOU FEEL LIKE IT IS A BETTER...
00:25:53 Unidentified Speaker THEY ARE GETTING THE WORD OUT AND THEY HAD EVERYBODY TALKING ABOUT IT. I DON'T REMEMBER BACK WITH ...
00:26:03 Unidentified Speaker TELL ME WHAT YOU ARE THINKING?
00:26:09 Unidentified Speaker HAL I WAS INTERPRETING IT IS THERE IS MORE EXPOSURE AND THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE INTO IT, BUT THE QUALITY...
00:26:42 Unidentified Speaker I PUT THE SAME FOR THE SAKS SAME REASONS. YOU ASK THEM ON HEALTH CARE AND THEY DANCE AROUND IT AND...
00:27:01 Unidentified Speaker ANYBODY ELSE?
00:27:13 Unidentified Speaker THE MUDSLINGING HAS BEEN RIDICULOUS. JUST LIKE THE ISSUES, IT IS LIKE, WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND...
00:27:39 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY PEOPLE SAY I FOLLOWED THIS CAMPAIGN MORE CLOSELY THAN OTHER CAMPAIGNS? THERE IS MORE INTEREST...
00:27:58 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THEY ARE GOING AROUND AND AROUND ON THE ISSUES. THEY DON'T TELL US WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO...
00:28:11 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS MY QUESTION. 12 PEOPLE AT A TABLE AND WE RECRUITED YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE NOT HARDCORE PARTISANS...
00:28:57 Unidentified Speaker I AM NOT LOCKED IN.
00:29:03 Unidentified Speaker BETWEEN NOW AND ELECTION DAY WHEN I GO TO THE POLLING BOOTH, MY MIND CAN GO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER....
00:29:51 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY MORE RESEARCH OR SOMEBODY TELLING ME THE THINGS THAT I NEED TO HEAR THAT OUR POINT TO MAKE...
00:30:00 Unidentified Speaker WHAT YOU NEED TO HEAR?
00:30:03 Unidentified Speaker I NEED THE HEALTH ISSUES EXPLAINED TO ME. I AM RETIRED AND I AM -- I CANNOT QUALIFY FOR MEDICARE GET....
00:30:20 Unidentified Speaker OK. WHAT WILL HELP YOU TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION?
00:30:30 Unidentified Speaker I THINK I WILL BE WATCHING TELEVISION LESS AND READING THE PAPER MORE. I STILL WANT TO UNDERSTAND...
00:31:34 Unidentified Speaker BRANDY, YOU ARE STILL OPEN? WHY? WHAT YOU NEED TO LEARN?
00:31:43 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR PLAN DOES FOR A PERSON MIGHT TAX BRACKET. ALSO, THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT....
00:33:15 Unidentified Speaker EXCELLENT. AND NICE ANSWER. JASON. HE SAID THAT YOU HAVE NOT MADE YOUR FINAL DECISION.
00:33:29 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW THEY WILL IMPROVE EDUCATION. I AM BIG ON HELPING CHILDREN. I...
00:33:51 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY FROM THE HIGHS PERSON TO THE LOWS PERSON IN THE COUNTRY TO HAVE...
00:34:08 Unidentified Speaker TO YOU FIND YOURSELF OPEN ON THESE QUESTIONS TO MAKING YOUR FINAL DECISION.
00:34:14 Unidentified Speaker ALSO, THE ECONOMY. PEOPLE CONSTANTLY USE THE WORD CHANGE. WE ARE GOING TO DO THAT. A FEW OF THE PEOPLE...
00:34:44 Unidentified Speaker ARE YOU OPEN? TELL ME --
00:34:57 Unidentified Speaker THE CANDIDATES HAVE NOT TOLD US WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO. WHEN THEY WERE DEBATING BY THEMSELVES,...
00:37:31 Unidentified Speaker AGREE OR DISAGREE IF YOU ARE TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT JOE THE PLUMBER. DO WE HAVE A PLUMBER IN HERE?...
00:37:54 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO GO AROUND THE ROOM AND I WILL START WITH WILLIAM HERE AND I WANT YOU TO TELL ME WHO YOU...
00:38:32 Unidentified Speaker IN VOTING FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE HAS THE FRESHER AND IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO GET THIS COUNTRY GOING IN DIFFERENT...
00:39:36 Unidentified Speaker UNDECIDED.
00:39:40 Unidentified Speaker AND YOU GIVE US WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
00:39:47 Unidentified Speaker I AM LEANING TOWARDS MCCAIN AND THE REASON IS FOR A FEW THINGS. THE RELIGIOUS AND FAYED ISSUES I CAN...
00:40:35 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS DEALING WITH THE ENERGY ISSUE. MCCAIN MAY HAVE A SLIGHT EDGE THERE BECAUSE BEING MORE...
00:41:02 Unidentified Speaker YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH EVERYTHING. [LAUGHTER]
00:41:09 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT SEE A LOT OF
00:41:10 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
00:41:24 Unidentified Speaker I AM LEANING TOWARDS MCCAIN. I THINK HE IS A STRONG MILITARY LEADER. HE HAS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. ...
00:41:53 Unidentified Speaker I WILL PROBABLY LEANS TOWARDS OBAMA.
00:41:58 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
00:42:00 Unidentified Speaker YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW MY OPINION ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ.
00:42:04 Unidentified Speaker IT'S OK.
00:42:07 Unidentified Speaker KNOW, REALLY.
00:42:09 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T THINK WE REALLY NEED TO BE THERE. I THINK IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY. THE ONLY TIME WE HAD A TERRORIST...
00:42:30 Unidentified Speaker I AM ALSO OBAMA. I KNOW YOU GUYS DON'T LIKE THE WORD CHANGE BUT SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE. THE REPUBLICANS...
00:43:05 Unidentified Speaker I WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN. I DON'T CARE FOR EITHER ONE OF THEM. I FEEL MORE SECURE WITH JOHN MCCAIN...
00:43:55 Unidentified Speaker GRETCHEN?
00:43:59 Unidentified Speaker AL LEAN MORE TOWARDS OBAMA. I AM WITH MICHELLE. IT IS TIME FOR A NEW FRESH PERSON TO GET IN THERE...
00:44:43 Unidentified Speaker ROUTE?
00:44:46 Unidentified Speaker I AM LEANING TOWARDS MCCAIN BECAUSE CHECKS AND BALANCES. YOU HAD THE SAME THING WITH THE REPUBLICANS....
00:45:11 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE BEEN A DEMOCRAT FOR 40 YEARS AND I AM TRULY UNDECIDED. THIS MAY BE THE YEAR THAT I CHANGE TO...
00:45:44 Unidentified Speaker STEVE?
00:45:47 Unidentified Speaker I WILL PROBABLY VOTE FOR MCCAIN BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERIENCE. JUST LIKE PEAKE AND COOKIE.
00:45:57 Unidentified Speaker RANDY?
00:46:00 Unidentified Speaker I AM LEANING TOWARDS OBAMA. I AM NOT DECIDED 100%.
00:46:13 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY SAW JOHN MCCAIN ON "MEET THE PRESS?" NBC WILL BE VERY PLEASED.
00:46:26 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
00:46:31 Unidentified Speaker JUST BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN. I WAS A LIBERAL IRRITATED WITH HIS QUICK ANSWER ABOUT SARAH PALIN. I HAVE...
00:48:21 Unidentified Speaker GREAT. GREAT DIVERSE VIEWS. I HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU, COKIE. I AM SCRATCHING MY HEAD. HERE IT...
00:49:23 Unidentified Speaker SOMETHING HERE MAKES ME FRIGHTENED ABOUT VOTING FOR OBAMA. I WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON....
00:49:39 Unidentified Speaker STAY WITH US.
00:49:42 Unidentified Speaker HILLARY IS WHO I WANTED. I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THAT SHE DIDN'T -- I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HER. THAT...
00:50:53 Unidentified Speaker WHERE THE COUNTRY IS THAT, PEOPLE ARE NOT VERY HAPPY. NOW IT IS COMING UP TO MAKING A CHOICE, AND...
00:51:21 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE A CONGRESS THAT IS DEMOCRATS, SO IF WE BRING THAT REPUBLICAN IN WHO HAS THE DEFENSE BACKGROUND,...
00:51:42 Unidentified Speaker WHAT BRINGS YOU TO THINKING ABOUT VOTING FOR JOHN MCCAIN?
00:51:45 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE IT IS HIM.
00:51:47 Unidentified Speaker WILL HOLD YOU BACK FROM VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA? -- WHAT HOLDS YOU BACK FROM VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA?...
00:51:56 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT HAVE ANY CONFIDENCE. BIDEN I DO. IT SHOULD BE TURNED AROUND. IF BIDEN WAS UP FOR PRESIDENT...
00:52:10 Unidentified Speaker WOULD HOLD YOU BACK FROM OBAMA IS WHAT?
00:52:15 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE HIM.
00:52:18 Unidentified Speaker CONFIDENCE IN HIM ON THE BASIS OF?
00:52:21 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW AS A PERSON HE WAS ALWAYS FOR THE PEOPLE GROWING UP, AND SOMETIMES I LOOK AT IT LIKE IT IS...
00:52:51 Unidentified Speaker RALPH, ALWAYS BEEN A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN?
00:52:56 Unidentified Speaker I VOTED BOTH PARTIES, A DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN.
00:53:00 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU VOTE FOR ROSS PEROT IN 1992?
00:53:02 Unidentified Speaker YES, I DID.
00:53:06 Unidentified Speaker AND IN 2000, GORE AND BUSH?
00:53:08 Unidentified Speaker I VOTED FOR BUSH.
00:53:10 Unidentified Speaker AND BUSH AND TERRY?
00:53:12 Unidentified Speaker BUSH AGAIN.
00:53:14 Unidentified Speaker IN 1996 DID YOU VOTE FOR DOLE OR CLINTON?
00:53:17 Unidentified Speaker I VOTED FOR DOLE. I HAVE BEEN REPUBLICAN GOING BACK. I ALSO VOTED FOR GEORGE WALLACE IF WE'RE GOING...
00:53:33 Unidentified Speaker IS THERE ANYTHING OBAMA CAN DO TO WIN YOUR VOTE, OR ARE YOU PRETTY WELL --
00:53:39 Unidentified Speaker I AM LEANING TOWARDS MCCAIN. BOTH THE CANDIDATES ARE NOT TELLING ME ANYTHING. LIKE I SAID BEFORE ABOUT...
00:54:35 Unidentified Speaker TO PERFECT?
00:54:36 Unidentified Speaker TO PERFECT.
00:54:41 Unidentified Speaker DOES ANYBODY ELSE FEEL TOO PERFECT? PETE DOES ALSO. WHY, MARY?
00:54:47 Unidentified Speaker HE IS TO POLISH. HE GETS IN FRONT OF A CAMERA, AND HE IS FEEDING YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO HEAR....
00:55:05 Unidentified Speaker THEY HAVE NEVER TOLD US ANYTHING. IN 40 YEARS IT IS ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME. WHEN HAVE WE EVER LISTEN...
00:55:18 Unidentified Speaker YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE THIS, BUT IF YOU LISTENED TO THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS, AS MUCH AS I DO NOT LIKE GEORGE...
00:55:55 Unidentified Speaker MICHELLE, REAL QUICK?
00:55:58 Unidentified Speaker THE MEDIA -- IT SEEMS LIKE THEY GET ONE ISSUE IN THAT IS ALL THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT. THEY ARE NOT...
00:56:13 Unidentified Speaker OHIO, KEY STATE. WHAT IS THE BEST THING THAT JOHN MCCAIN CAN DO TO EARN YOUR VOTE? I KNOW SOME OF...
00:56:26 Unidentified Speaker WHAT CAN HE DO FOR US?
00:56:29 Unidentified Speaker ANYBODY ELSE? WHAT IS THE BEST THING THAT BARACK OBAMA COULD DO TO EARN YOUR VOTE?
00:56:37 Unidentified Speaker SWITCH IT OVER TO BIDEN. [LAUGHTER]
00:56:43 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS A GOOD ONE. WE'RE GOING TO OF A PROBLEM ON THAT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER THINGS, I WOULD LIKE...
00:57:22 Unidentified Speaker I APPRECIATE OBAMA'S HONESTY WHEN HE SAID SOMETHING TO THE AFFECT OF IT IS GOING TO BE HARD TIMES,...
00:57:39 Unidentified Speaker LET ME ASK ONE OTHER THING, AND THAT IS A WANT TO HAVE YOU READ IT DOWN ON YOUR PAD -- YOU WRITE DOWN...
00:58:53 Unidentified Speaker 30 SECONDS, ANYTHING THAT COMES TO YOUR MIND, ANYTHING YOU THINK ABOUT. JUST -- THIS MADE AN IMPRESSION...
00:59:28 Unidentified Speaker THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION.
00:59:30 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY OF YOU SAID THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT MADE AN IMPACT ON YOU? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. WHAT WERE...
00:59:46 Unidentified Speaker IN THE BEGINNING I CONSIDERED BOTH CANDIDATES, BUT ONCE MCCAIN HAS SELECTED HALEN AND I SAW HER STAND...
01:00:01 Unidentified Speaker I WAS LITTLE SURPRISE THAT MCCAIN TICKED SARA PAILIN. THAT WAS A SURPRISE CHOICE FOR THE WHOLE UNITED...
01:00:12 Unidentified Speaker DIDN'T CONSOLIDATE YOUR VOTE FOR MCCAIN, OR DID IT MAKE YOU FEEL -- DID IT CONSOLIDATE YOUR VOTE FOR...
01:00:22 Unidentified Speaker THEY BE A LITTLE LESS CERTAIN BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW IF I CAN TRUST HER.
01:00:25 Unidentified Speaker GRETCHEN?
01:00:31 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED.
01:00:33 Unidentified Speaker HAVE BEEN A SHE IS NOT QUALIFIED?
01:00:35 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT APPRECIATE THE WAY SHE PRESENTS HERSELF. I DO NOT APPRECIATE SOME OF THE STANDINGS SHE HAS,...
01:00:47 Unidentified Speaker WHO ELSE SAID VICE PRESIDENT? THERE WERE A COUPLE OF OTHERS.
01:00:51 Unidentified Speaker I WAS SURPRISED THAT OBAMA PICKED BIDEN BECAUSE BIDEN CAME OUT AGAINST HIM IN HIS COMMENTS, AND ALL...
01:01:02 Unidentified Speaker DID THAT TURN YOU OFF? DID THAT BOTHER YOU?
01:01:05 Unidentified Speaker YES, IT BOTHERED ME.
01:01:06 Unidentified Speaker HOW PALIN? -- HOW ABOUT PALIN?
01:01:14 Unidentified Speaker I THINK SHE IS FEISTY.
01:01:15 Unidentified Speaker QUALIFIED?
01:01:18 Unidentified Speaker YEAH.
01:01:22 Unidentified Speaker STEVE?
01:01:24 Unidentified Speaker I SAID VICE-PRESIDENT. WITH BIDEN, HE WAS NOT WITH BARACK AT THE TIME.
01:01:34 Unidentified Speaker WHO ELSE BUT VICE-PRESIDENT DOWN?
01:01:39 Unidentified Speaker I LIKE JOE BIDEN ON HIS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ISSUES. HE DOES RUN OFF THE MOUTH A LITTLE BIT AND HE GETS...
01:01:55 Unidentified Speaker GO AHEAD. BIDEN WAS APPLAUSE IN YOUR MIND.
01:02:00 Unidentified Speaker I THOUGHT HE WAS A PLUS.
01:02:05 Unidentified Speaker AND SARAH PALIN, ANY EFFECT?
01:02:08 Unidentified Speaker INTERESTING, SOMETIMES YOU REACH A STAGE WHERE YOU SAY WHY NOT TRY IT? THE POLITICIANS WE HAVE GOT...
01:02:22 Unidentified Speaker JOHN MCCAIN WINS THE PRESIDENCY. WHAT IS YOUR EMOTION? I WANT A SNAPPY MOTION THAT YOU FEEL. YOU WAKE...
01:02:34 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT KNOW. CONCERN.
01:02:39 Unidentified Speaker HERE WE GO AGAIN.
01:02:43 Unidentified Speaker OF POSITIVES. YOU HAVE TO GO WITH WHAT YOU GET.
01:02:49 Unidentified Speaker " WE DID THE RIGHT THING.
01:02:51 Unidentified Speaker SAY A PRAYER AND HOPE WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.
01:02:55 Unidentified Speaker CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC.
01:02:56 Unidentified Speaker WHEN IS THE NEXT ELECTION?
01:03:00 Unidentified Speaker MOVE TO CANADA.
01:03:04 Unidentified Speaker HOPEFUL.
01:03:06 Unidentified Speaker HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO REACH ACROSS THE AISLE AND THE ORDER TO GET SOMETHING DONE, AND I THINK WE...
01:03:18 Unidentified Speaker PERFECTLY OPTIMISTIC.
01:03:21 Unidentified Speaker WORRIED.
01:03:27 Unidentified Speaker BARACK OBAMA WINS THE PRESIDENCY. WHAT IS YOUR A MOTION? I WILL START WITH GRETCHEN AND GO CLOCKWISE....
01:03:33 Unidentified Speaker HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE CHANGED.
01:03:38 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO SEE HIM LIVE UP TO WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.
01:03:41 Unidentified Speaker WORRIED.
01:03:42 Unidentified Speaker WORRIED.
01:03:45 Unidentified Speaker UNCERTAINTY.
01:03:47 Unidentified Speaker I HOPE HE CAN CHANGE THINGS.
01:03:48 Unidentified Speaker ON CERTAIN.
01:03:51 Unidentified Speaker HOPEFULLY THE WORLD DOES NOT BECOME DESTABILIZED AND WE HAVE
01:03:54 Unidentified Speaker NERVOUS.
01:03:58 Unidentified Speaker DIFFERENCE.
01:03:59 Unidentified Speaker NEW ERA.
01:04:00 Unidentified Speaker FRIGHTENED A LITTLE BIT.
01:04:06 Unidentified Speaker GOOD, AND THE NERVOUSNESS, FRIGHTENED, UNCERTAINTY THAT PEOPLE ARE EXPRESSING, TRYING TO SAY WHAT?...
01:04:25 Unidentified Speaker IT IS GOING TO BE A NEW ERA WHETHER IT BE MCCAIN OR OBAMA. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT NEED TO BE...
01:04:33 Unidentified Speaker THERE WILL BE CHANGED. BOTH CANDIDATES WILL BRING CHANGE.
01:04:37 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE PUTTING A LOT OF HOPE INTO OUR ECONOMY AND EVERYTHING ELSE CHANGING WITH THIS NEW PRESIDENT...
01:04:48 Unidentified Speaker NO MATTER WHO GETS PROMOTED THERE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE NERVOUSNESS AND UNCERTAINTY BECAUSE PEOPLE...
01:05:00 Unidentified Speaker IF OBAMA IS ABOUT THEATRICS, HERE IS HOPING THAT HE ASKS JOE BIDEN FOR SOME OF HIS OPINIONS INSTEAD...
01:05:12 Unidentified Speaker BOTH OF THEM SAID THEY WANT TO REACH ACROSS THE SENATE AND CONGRESS TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, AND HOPEFULLY...
01:05:31 Unidentified Speaker IF BUSH LOOKED TO CHENEY FOR DIRECTION AND IF OBAMA LOOKS TO BIDEN FOR DIRECTION AND MIKHEIL LOOKS...
01:06:04 Unidentified Speaker LET ME GO TO THE LIGHTNING ROUND. [LAUGHTER] I AM GOING TO THROW OUT THE NAME OF A PERSON. I WANT...
01:06:47 Unidentified Speaker DISAPPOINTING.
01:06:50 Unidentified Speaker MESSED UP.
01:06:53 Unidentified Speaker STEVE?
01:06:54 Unidentified Speaker LIKABLE.
01:06:57 Unidentified Speaker COOKIE?
01:06:58 Unidentified Speaker IDIOT.
01:07:03 Unidentified Speaker INEFFECTUAL.
01:07:06 Unidentified Speaker DID NOT LIVE UP TO DICTATIONS.
01:07:11 Unidentified Speaker RANDY?
01:07:12 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS MISDIRECTED.
01:07:16 Unidentified Speaker MICHELLE?
01:07:18 Unidentified Speaker I AM GOING TO HAVE TO GO WITH IDIOT, TOO.
01:07:21 Unidentified Speaker HERE WE GO, HILLARY CLINTON.
01:07:25 Unidentified Speaker POWER MAUNDER.
01:07:26 Unidentified Speaker LIKABLE.
01:07:32 Unidentified Speaker DO NOT TRUST HER.
01:07:34 Unidentified Speaker RELATABLE.
01:07:35 Unidentified Speaker NO, THANK YOU.
01:07:39 Unidentified Speaker WELL-MEANING.
01:07:42 Unidentified Speaker IN THE SAME MOLD AS BILL.
01:07:46 Unidentified Speaker HILLARY CLINTON?
01:07:47 Unidentified Speaker I CANNOT COME UP WITH ONE.
01:07:51 Unidentified Speaker CONCERN.
01:07:52 Unidentified Speaker I LIKE HER.
01:07:57 Unidentified Speaker STRONG-WILL.
01:07:58 Unidentified Speaker DO THE JOB.
01:08:01 Unidentified Speaker JOE BIDEN?
01:08:07 Unidentified Speaker A VETERAN, WHICH IS GOOD.
01:08:08 Unidentified Speaker DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING.
01:08:12 Unidentified Speaker STRONG ALLY.
01:08:16 Unidentified Speaker PETE?
01:08:17 Unidentified Speaker NO OPINION ON JOE BIDEN.
01:08:21 Unidentified Speaker VETERAN.
01:08:22 Unidentified Speaker WILLIAM?
01:08:29 Unidentified Speaker LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.
01:08:34 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING FOR HIM.
01:08:37 Unidentified Speaker GOOD, JOHN MCCAIN? MICHELLE?
01:08:41 Unidentified Speaker DO NOT SHOOT ME. GROUCHY OLD MAN.
01:08:45 Unidentified Speaker ANAS. -- HONEST.
01:08:53 Unidentified Speaker VERY PATRIOTIC, WELL-MEANING.
01:08:55 Unidentified Speaker PATRIOTIC, INTELLIGENT.
01:08:59 Unidentified Speaker GRANDFATHER.
01:09:04 Unidentified Speaker DEDICATED AND WELL-MEANING.
01:09:05 Unidentified Speaker PATRIOTIC.
01:09:08 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE IS DEDICATED. I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT WELL MEANING.
01:09:15 Unidentified Speaker NANCY PELOSI?
01:09:17 Unidentified Speaker I CANNOT STAND HER.
01:09:21 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT LIKE HER EITHER.
01:09:24 Unidentified Speaker AMBITIOUS.
01:09:26 Unidentified Speaker DISGUSTING.
01:09:31 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD SAY AMBITIOUS, NOT
01:09:32 Unidentified Speaker IDIOT.
01:09:35 Unidentified Speaker LOOSE CANNON.
01:09:39 Unidentified Speaker LOOSE CANNON.
01:09:40 Unidentified Speaker BARACK OBAMA?
01:09:45 Unidentified Speaker WAVERING.
01:09:47 Unidentified Speaker JASON?
01:09:51 Unidentified Speaker I FORGOT.
01:09:57 Unidentified Speaker I HATE TO USE IT BECAUSE HE SAYS IT ALL THE TIME, BUT CHANGE.
01:10:00 Unidentified Speaker MICHELLE?
01:10:01 Unidentified Speaker NO IDEAS.
01:10:04 Unidentified Speaker TO SMOOTH FOR ME.
01:10:10 Unidentified Speaker TOO POLISH.
01:10:12 Unidentified Speaker THEATRICAL.
01:10:15 Unidentified Speaker GOOD SPEAKER.
01:10:20 Unidentified Speaker SURROUNDED HIMSELF BY GOOD PEOPLE.
01:10:27 Unidentified Speaker TOO POLISHED.
01:10:29 Unidentified Speaker DOES NOT HAVE MUCH OF A TRACK RECORD OF BUT GOOD.
01:10:35 Unidentified Speaker DICK CHENEY?
01:10:36 Unidentified Speaker GEORGE W. BUSH.
01:10:40 Unidentified Speaker PATRIOTIC.
01:10:44 Unidentified Speaker CORPORATE SPONSOR.
01:10:45 Unidentified Speaker STEVE?
01:10:50 Unidentified Speaker NO COMMENT.
01:10:51 Unidentified Speaker PETE?
01:10:52 Unidentified Speaker DO NOT CARE FOR HIM.
01:10:53 Unidentified Speaker MICHELLE?
01:10:57 Unidentified Speaker GOOD OLD BOY.
01:10:59 Unidentified Speaker AS SNAKE.
01:11:08 Unidentified Speaker I WANTED TO GET IT OUT THERE. SARAH PALIN?
01:11:12 Unidentified Speaker GOOFY.
01:11:15 Unidentified Speaker NO OPINION OF HER.
01:11:18 Unidentified Speaker NO, YOU DO.
01:11:20 Unidentified Speaker BE HONEST.
01:11:23 Unidentified Speaker I COULD NOT THINK OF IT RIGHT AWAY. OUT OF HER LEAGUE.
01:11:30 Unidentified Speaker MULTITASK.
01:11:37 Unidentified Speaker SHE'S A HOCKEY MOM.
01:11:39 Unidentified Speaker I AM GOING TO HAVE TO AGREE. SHE IS OUT OF HER EARLY.
01:11:43 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS UP TO HER NECK. -- SHE IS OUT OF HER LEAGUE.
01:11:48 Unidentified Speaker GREAT GOVERNOR.
01:11:54 Unidentified Speaker UNTESTED.
01:11:55 Unidentified Speaker JASON?
01:12:00 Unidentified Speaker CHANGE AGAIN BECAUSE SHE IS IN THE MINORITY.
01:12:02 Unidentified Speaker BAD DECISION MAKER.
01:12:05 Unidentified Speaker CINDY MCCAIN?
01:12:11 Unidentified Speaker MCCAIN'S WIFE.
01:12:13 Unidentified Speaker WHO DOES GET A VIEW OF CINDY MCCAIN?
01:12:16 Unidentified Speaker VERY UNDERESTIMATED.
01:12:19 Unidentified Speaker OTHER VIEW? ANYBODY ELSE?
01:12:26 Unidentified Speaker SHE SUPPORTS HER HUSBAND.
01:12:31 Unidentified Speaker GOOD SUPPORTER.
01:12:32 Unidentified Speaker MICHELLE OBAMA?
01:12:35 Unidentified Speaker RELATABLE.
01:12:40 Unidentified Speaker RADICAL.
01:12:43 Unidentified Speaker ANYBODY ELSE?
01:12:46 Unidentified Speaker NO TRUST.
01:12:51 Unidentified Speaker I THINK SHE IS A RACIST.
01:12:58 Unidentified Speaker OK, AND WHY THE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA?
01:13:04 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY BECAUSE THE PAPER SHE WROTE AT PRINCETON.
01:13:07 Unidentified Speaker WHY THE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA? THESE ARE STRONG FEELINGS.
01:13:17 Unidentified Speaker IT IS ALMOST LIKE SHE IS NOT REAL VERBAL, AND WITH THE SEA AFTER TET FEEL ABOUT OBAMA SHE IS KIND...
01:13:34 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS SCARY.
01:13:35 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
01:13:36 Unidentified Speaker HER ACTIONS.
01:13:40 Unidentified Speaker HELP ME UNDERSTAND.
01:13:42 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS PUTTING HERSELF OUT THERE.
01:13:43 Unidentified Speaker HELP ME UNDERSTAND. SHE IS SCARY BECAUSE?
01:13:49 Unidentified Speaker JUST HER ACTIONS.
01:13:50 Unidentified Speaker IT IS A GUT FEELING.
01:13:54 Unidentified Speaker YOU SEE HER.
01:13:56 Unidentified Speaker IS IT THE WAY SHE TALKS, WALKS, RELATES TO PEOPLE?
01:14:01 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE PAPER SHE WROTE IN PRINCETON. WHEN YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE, WHEN YOU MEET SOMEBODY,...
01:14:17 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WAS YOUR WORD?
01:14:20 Unidentified Speaker RACIST BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT WHERE SHE CAME FROM AND HOW SHE GREW UP, AND THE...
01:14:38 Unidentified Speaker DOES ANYBODY ELSE -- INTERESTING. STEPHEN, LAST THING.
01:14:47 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MUCH OF AN ISSUE BUT YOU ALREADY HAVE OBAMA ISSUES WITH WILLIAM AYERS...
01:15:01 Unidentified Speaker I HAD YOU DIVIDE UP. HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE COLUMN I DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT HAD JEREMY WRIGHT AND...
01:16:50 Unidentified Speaker PALIN -- SARAH PALIN?
01:16:55 Unidentified Speaker I AM A 29-YEAR-OLD MALE, SO SARAH PALIN, BUT REALLY BARACK.
01:17:01 Unidentified Speaker MCCAIN.
01:17:03 Unidentified Speaker MCCAIN.
01:17:05 Unidentified Speaker OBAMA.
01:17:10 Unidentified Speaker AND WILLIAM?
01:17:11 Unidentified Speaker OBAMA.
01:17:12 Unidentified Speaker WHO DO YOU WANT TO SIT NEXT TO?
01:17:17 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY OBAMA.
01:17:18 Unidentified Speaker WHO DO YOU WANT TO SIT NEXT TO?
01:17:21 Unidentified Speaker PALIN.
01:17:24 Unidentified Speaker BIDEN.
01:17:28 Unidentified Speaker COULD YOU WANT TO SIT NEXT TO?
01:17:30 Unidentified Speaker MCCAIN, I AM A VIETNAM VET.
01:17:32 Unidentified Speaker OBAMA.
01:17:33 Unidentified Speaker JOHN MCCAIN.
01:17:39 Unidentified Speaker SO POOR JOE BIDEN ONLY GOT ONE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO HIM. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SIT NEXT TO PALIN, WATIE...
01:17:50 Unidentified Speaker THE WANT TO ASK HER WHAT SHE IS THINKING WITH WITH HER VIEWS?
01:17:57 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO GET HER -- GET TO KNOW HER BETTER.
01:18:02 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD RATHER SIT NEXT TO OBAMA, BUT PALIN BECAUSE OF YEAH.
01:18:09 Unidentified Speaker I WANT TO GET TO KNOW SOME OF THE VIEWS SHE HAS.
01:18:13 Unidentified Speaker WHO SAID THE PERSON I DO NOT WANT TO SIT NEXT TO IS JOE BIDEN? TWO PEOPLE. WHO SAID I DID NOT WANT...
01:18:38 Unidentified Speaker EXPERIENCE.
01:18:42 Unidentified Speaker WHY?
01:18:44 Unidentified Speaker FROM HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE WAR, HIS TIME IN VIETNAM AND ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO HIS IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE....
01:18:52 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST RESERVATION AS A PERSON ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,...
01:19:16 Unidentified Speaker HIS AGE.
01:19:18 Unidentified Speaker HIS AGE.
01:19:20 Unidentified Speaker ALSO HIS AGE.
01:19:23 Unidentified Speaker COOKIE?
01:19:26 Unidentified Speaker IT DOES NOT BOTHER ME HIS AGE.
01:19:30 Unidentified Speaker RALPH? GREATEST RESERVATION?
01:19:33 Unidentified Speaker HIS TEMPER.
01:19:34 Unidentified Speaker PETE?
01:19:36 Unidentified Speaker HIS HEALTH.
01:19:40 Unidentified Speaker GREATEST RESERVATIONS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT BARACK OBAMA BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?
01:19:45 Unidentified Speaker HIS EXPERIENCE.
01:19:49 Unidentified Speaker I AM GOING TO LOVE TO GO WITH INEXPERIENCE, TOO.
01:19:54 Unidentified Speaker I ACTUALLY HAVE NO RESERVATIONS.
01:19:55 Unidentified Speaker THAT HE WILL NOT FOLLOW THROUGH ON SOME OF THE THINGS HE IS TRYING TO SELL.
01:19:59 Unidentified Speaker NO EXPERIENCE.
01:20:02 Unidentified Speaker WHO HE SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH.
01:20:10 Unidentified Speaker OK, AND THE PERSONAL ELEMENT THAT MOST IMPRESSES YOU ABOUT BARACK OBAMA? THE PERSONAL ELEMENT THAT...
01:20:22 Unidentified Speaker THE WAY HE SPEAKS, HIS COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS. YOU COULD RELATE TO HIM. COOKIE -- COOKIE?
01:20:34 Unidentified Speaker HE COULD HAVE BEEN A VERY WEALTHY MAN WORKING IN LAW FIRMS, AND HE CHOSE THE OTHER WAY, SO THAT IS...
01:20:45 Unidentified Speaker HIS COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE FANTASTIC.
01:20:49 Unidentified Speaker ROBIN?
01:20:52 Unidentified Speaker THE THINGS -- THE SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE. COMMUNICATION SKILLS.
01:20:55 Unidentified Speaker HAVING GREAT COMMUNICATION SKILLS, THIS THAT MAKE YOU A BETTER PRESIDENT? -- DOES THAT MAKE YOU A...
01:21:07 Unidentified Speaker NO.
01:21:08 Unidentified Speaker YES.
01:21:13 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAVE TO SELL WHAT YOU WANT.
01:21:14 Unidentified Speaker IT IS GOOD TO HAVE SOMETHING BEHIND.
01:21:19 Unidentified Speaker YOU JUST HAVE TO SELL IT. YOU HAVE TO SELL WHAT YOU WANT TO GET INTO THE COUNTRY, AND IF HE CAN COMMUNICATE...
01:21:33 Unidentified Speaker I WANT SUBSTANCE.
01:21:34 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAVE TO SELL IT IN ORDER TO GET THE SUBSTANCE. HE CAN SELL IT.
01:21:39 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU THINK BARACK OBAMA HAS GOT SUBSTANCE?
01:21:43 Unidentified Speaker I AM GETTING THE FEELING KNOW.
01:21:47 Unidentified Speaker OK, AND THE REASON YOU HAD THE FEELING HE DOES NOT HAVE SUBSTANCE IS?
01:21:52 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE EVERY TIME I HAVE SEEN HIM SPEAK HE SKIRTS THE ANSWERS. HE DOES NOT GIVE YOU A STRAIGHT ANSWER....
01:21:59 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU WATCH THE DEBATE? WERE THERE THINGS HE DID THAT IMPRESSED YOU, AND WERE THERE THINGS THAT...
01:22:17 Unidentified Speaker I WATCHED THE DEBATES, AND IT SEEMED LIKE THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD TO ME.
01:22:23 Unidentified Speaker THAT WOULD BE BOTH SIDES ARE -- OK, AND IN TERMS OF THE PROFESSIONAL THE MANSION -- DIMENSION, HOW...
01:22:59 Unidentified Speaker HE COMES FROM A MEAGER BACKGROUND, AND HE DEFINES THE OLD NOTION THAT IN AMERICA YOU CAN DO ANYTHING...
01:23:24 Unidentified Speaker HOW IS HE GOING TO BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?
01:23:28 Unidentified Speaker HE COULD BE LIKE A JACK KENNEDY WITH THE WAY HE CAN PRESENT HIMSELF AND GET PEOPLE TO DO THINGS. ...
01:23:46 Unidentified Speaker IN WHAT WAY WILL HE BE A GOOD PRESIDENT, PETE?
01:23:50 Unidentified Speaker I AGREE WITH WHAT RALPH SAID. HE WILL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO BE VERY PERSUASIVE AND GET PEOPLE TO AGREE...
01:24:02 Unidentified Speaker ROBIN, WHAT WE WILL HE BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?
01:24:04 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE CAN REACH OUT TO ALL PEOPLE. HE IS THE PRODUCT OF A BLACK AND WHITE RACE, AND HE CAN TRY...
01:24:25 Unidentified Speaker GRETCHEN, AND WHAT WE WILL HE BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?
01:24:29 Unidentified Speaker IT IS LIKE THE COACH OF THE TEAM. HE WILL BE ABLE TO TALK PEOPLE THROUGH IT. THE COACHES HAVE THEIR...
01:24:52 Unidentified Speaker WILL HE BE A GOOD LEADER?
01:24:54 Unidentified Speaker HE HAS CUT HIMSELF THIS QUICKLY -- WHERE HE IS AS QUICKLY BECAUSE HE CAN TALK. HE CAN SELL THE PRODUCT....
01:25:14 Unidentified Speaker THE AGREE THAT HE WILL HELP OUR IMAGE ABROAD -- HOW MANY AGREE THAT HE WILL HELP OUR IMAGE ABROAD?...
01:25:33 Unidentified Speaker I DID.
01:25:35 Unidentified Speaker PETE, YOU ARE TOO LATE.
01:25:38 Unidentified Speaker I HAD MY HAND UP.
01:25:43 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND AND REVISE. PEETE HAD HIS HAND UP. MICHELLE, HOW ABOUT YOURSELF? IN WHAT WE...
01:25:52 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT THINK HE HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE, BUT SOMETIMES WHEN WE GET A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WE GET STUCK...
01:26:06 Unidentified Speaker I AM INTERESTED IN ONE OTHER THING. MARY, COOKIE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO TEND TO BE FOR OBAMA. IF JOHN...
01:27:04 Unidentified Speaker MANY PEOPLE RESPECT HIM. THEY HAVE SOME HISTORY WITH HIM IN WHATEVER CAPACITY, WHETHER THAT BE INDIRECTLY...
01:27:22 Unidentified Speaker GRETCHEN, IS THERE A WAY IN WHICH HE CAN BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?
01:27:26 Unidentified Speaker IF HE SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO BRING THE CHANGE ABOUT. I DO NOT SEE CHANGE COMING...
01:27:37 Unidentified Speaker HOW CAN HE BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?
01:27:40 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE HAS A GOOD FOREIGN POLICY. I THINK HE HAS MORE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE THERE. I THINK...
01:27:51 Unidentified Speaker HOW CAN HE BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?
01:27:53 Unidentified Speaker NO.
01:27:55 Unidentified Speaker YOU CANNOT THINK OF ANYTHING?
01:27:57 Unidentified Speaker NO.
01:27:58 Unidentified Speaker MICHELLE?
01:28:00 Unidentified Speaker GET AWAY FROM BUSH'S IDEAS.
01:28:04 Unidentified Speaker TELL ME ONE THING. HOW DO YOU THINK BARACK OBAMA WOULD DO IF THE CONGRESS WAS OPPOSING ONE OF HIS...
01:28:28 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE WOULD CAVE.
01:28:32 Unidentified Speaker OTHER PEOPLE THINK?
01:28:36 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD HOPE THEY WOULD WORK TOGETHER TO FIND COMMON GROUND IF IT IS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COUNTRY....
01:28:44 Unidentified Speaker HAVE YOU THINK HE WOULD REACT? -- HOW DO YOU THINK HE WOULD REACT? CONGRESS OFTEN SEES THINGS DIFFERENTLY...
01:29:02 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW HOW THEY SHOULD REACT,.
01:29:07 Unidentified Speaker CONSTITUENTS OF THE COMMERCE ARE DEMOCRATS. I BELIEVE BUSH HAD SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT IN HIS FIRST...
01:29:32 Unidentified Speaker I AM INTERESTED WHEN HE HITS THAT STICKING POINTS HOW YOU THINK HE WILL DO AND WHAT YOU THINK HE WILL...
01:29:44 Unidentified Speaker ALL PRESIDENTS DO IT. A STRONG ARM PEOPLE.
01:29:48 Unidentified Speaker I AM TRYING TO GET A READING ON HOW YOU WOULD ENVISION OBAMA HANDLING SOMETHING LIKE THIS. IF YOU...
01:30:00 Unidentified Speaker I COULD GO EITHER WAY.
01:30:02 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD THINK THAT MAYBE HE WOULD FOLLOW THE SAME TREND THAT MOST OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVE AND ADD ON...
01:30:14 Unidentified Speaker OK, STEVE?
01:30:15 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IF HE DOES NOT GET WHAT HE WANTS FROM CONGRESS HE MAY GO TO THE PEOPLE AND SAY THIS IS WHAT...
01:30:32 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT?
01:30:33 Unidentified Speaker TO MANY OTHER PEOPLE DEAL WITH -- TOO MANY OTHER PEOPLE DEAL WITH JUST ADD THINGS OR RATIFIED A LITTLE...
01:30:49 Unidentified Speaker HAVE YOU THINK HE WOULD HANDLE A DOMESTIC CRISIS -- HOW DO YOU THINK HE WOULD HANDLE THE DOMESTIC...
01:31:07 Unidentified Speaker I THINK JUST FROM THE WAY HE IS GATHERING THE NATION -- ON "MEET THE PRESS" IN GEORGIA ALONE THEY...
01:31:45 Unidentified Speaker PETE, GIVE ME AN IMPRESSION OF HOW YOU THINK YOU DO IN A SITUATION THAT IS A NATIONAL CRISIS WHICH...
01:31:58 Unidentified Speaker IN JUDGING BY WHAT HE DID WITH THE BAILOUT, HE WAS IN RIGHT AWAY, AND IF WHAT I HEAR IS CORRECT ABOUT...
01:32:26 Unidentified Speaker RALPH, GIVE ME A QUICK REACTION ON HOW HE WOULD DEAL WITH THE DOMESTIC SITUATION OF KATRINA OR WHATEVER....
01:32:37 Unidentified Speaker KATRINA NEW PRESIDENT WILL EVER DO AGAIN.
01:32:43 Unidentified Speaker -- NO PRESIDENT WILL EVER DO THAT AGAIN. HE WILL DO A LOT OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS....
01:32:54 Unidentified Speaker IS HE THE KIND OF PRECEDENT THAT WOULD GALVANIZE THE NATION TOGETHER?
01:32:59 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE CAN.
01:33:00 Unidentified Speaker RALLY THE TROOPS.
01:33:02 Unidentified Speaker TO YOU THINK HE CAN?
01:33:06 Unidentified Speaker WOULD YOU -- DO YOU THINK HE CAN? WOULD YOU AGREE?
01:33:09 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE COULD.
01:33:17 Unidentified Speaker OK, AND TELL ME HOW YOU THINK HE WOULD DEAL WITH OUR ADVERSARIES ABROAD? A RUSSIA OR CHINA OR WHATEVER...
01:33:35 Unidentified Speaker OUT OF HIS LEAGUE.
01:33:40 Unidentified Speaker OUT OF HIS LEAGUE, AND MARY AGREES.
01:33:43 Unidentified Speaker I HOPE HE HAS GOT SOME GOOD PEOPLE SURROUNDING HIM THAT CAN GIVE HIM ADVICE.
01:33:53 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE WOULD BE. HE KNOWS HE DOES NOT HAVE EXPERIENCED.
01:33:58 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT HEAR ANYBODY SAY NO, THIS GUY WOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT. I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT IF HE WERE NEGOTIATING...
01:34:09 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE WOULD, AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE EVERY PRESIDENT HAS PEOPLE THEY CONVERSE WITH BEHIND CLOSED...
01:34:19 Unidentified Speaker HOW ABOUT DEALING WITH OUR ALLIES? GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY, JAPAN, ETC.? HOW WOULD HE BE DEALING WITH...
01:34:36 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE WILL DO BETTER WITH OUR ALLIES.
01:34:38 Unidentified Speaker TURN IT AROUND. HERE IS WHERE I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT JOHN MCCAIN WOULD BE A GOOD PRESIDENT. I GIVE...
01:35:07 Unidentified Speaker FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
01:35:12 Unidentified Speaker EVERYBODY AGREES HE WOULD BE GOOD, BETTER WITH OUR ALLIES OR ADVERSARIES?
01:35:17 Unidentified Speaker ADVERSARIES.
01:35:19 Unidentified Speaker WHY YOU FEEL HE WOULD BEGIN WITH OUR ADVERSARIES -- HE WOULD BE GOOD WITH OUR
01:35:25 Unidentified Speaker HIS HISTORY.
01:35:28 Unidentified Speaker HE WOULD BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHO ARE OUR ALLIES AND OUR ADVERSARIES.
01:35:35 Unidentified Speaker ONE THING TO READ ABOUT IN THE PAST -- THE PRESS IS SOMETHING CALLED THE BRADLEY EFFECT. HOW MANY...
01:35:47 Unidentified Speaker IS THAT CHANGING YOUR MIND?
01:35:51 Unidentified Speaker COOKIE, YOU KNOW?
01:35:52 Unidentified Speaker NO.
01:35:54 Unidentified Speaker NOT REALLY.
01:35:56 Unidentified Speaker YES.
01:35:57 Unidentified Speaker NO.
01:36:06 Unidentified Speaker YES, THAT WAS THE MAYOR IN CALIFORNIA WHO WAS A BLACK MAN, AND HE WAS 14 POINTS AHEAD IN POLLS, AND...
01:36:24 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS A VERY CLOSE RACE, AND THEY TALK ABOUT THE BRADLEY EFFECT IN TERMS OF PEOPLE SAID I WOULD THINK...
01:37:05 Unidentified Speaker WHY NOT?
01:37:10 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE I THINK MOST PEOPLE, UNLIKE ME, HAVE THEIR MINDS MADE UP, AND THEY ARE GOING TO GO VOTE AND...
01:37:20 Unidentified Speaker IT IS NOT THAT THEY ARE EXPRESSING ONE VIEW ONE WAY AND VOTING SOMETHING --
01:37:25 Unidentified Speaker DOING IT A DIFFERENT WAY.
01:37:28 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY THINK THIS COULD BE AN AFFECT? I AM INTERESTED. PETE, HELP ME OUT ON THIS.
01:37:35 Unidentified Speaker I TELL YOU WHAT. THERE IS A LOT OF RACIST PEOPLE. THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE MAYBE NOT RACIST...
01:37:47 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU KNOW PEOPLE YOU WOULD BET THAT PROBABLY WOULD USE RACE?
01:37:55 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY YES.
01:37:59 Unidentified Speaker HOW ABOUT YOU, ROBIN?
01:38:01 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THERE WAS A BIG PUSH TO GET NEW VOTERS OUT, ESPECIALLY AFRICAN-AMERICANS YOUNG AND OLD, AND...
01:38:16 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU THINK THERE WILL BE A PUSH BACK IN TERMS OF THE WHITE COMMUNITY?
01:38:21 Unidentified Speaker YES, COULD BE.
01:38:23 Unidentified Speaker WHAT DO YOU THINK, GRETCHEN?
01:38:25 Unidentified Speaker I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY THEY ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM BUT WHEN THEY'RE BEHIND CLOSED...
01:39:08 Unidentified Speaker JASON?
01:39:09 Unidentified Speaker HE IS MIXED. HE IS BLACK AND WHITE. HE IS BOTH.
01:39:16 Unidentified Speaker MANY PEOPLE DO NOT FEEL THAT WAY. IF THEY HAVE A BOX, IT IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
01:39:28 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE COUNTLESS MAKES FRIENDS.
01:39:30 Unidentified Speaker OLDER WHITE FOLKS TO SEE THE BLACK. THEY DO NOT SEE THE WHITE.
01:39:38 Unidentified Speaker I HAD MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT, AND I STARTED LISTENING TO THEM.
01:39:42 Unidentified Speaker SORRY.
01:39:45 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A GOOD POINT, TOO.
01:39:52 Unidentified Speaker IN TERMS OF THE RACIAL AFFECT --
01:39:54 Unidentified Speaker I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT FOR THAT ONLY THEY ARE VOTING FOR MCCAIN, ISN'T IN THE PAST, 30% OF REGISTERED...
01:40:12 Unidentified Speaker IT IS LARGER THAN THAT FORTUNATELY.
01:40:16 Unidentified Speaker OF REGISTERED?
01:40:21 Unidentified Speaker OF REGISTERED VOTERS IT IS ALMOST IN THE 85% LEVEL AND OF THE TOTAL POPULATION WE WILL HAVE A MAJORITY...
01:42:50 Unidentified Speaker OUT OF 100.
01:42:54 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HEALTH CARE IS OTHER.
01:43:03 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ABOUT THE WAR?
01:43:05 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS PROBABLY THE OTHER.
01:43:10 Unidentified Speaker TERRORISTS.
01:43:23 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAVE GOT TO ADD TO 100.
01:43:27 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS FUNNY.
01:43:29 Unidentified Speaker PERCENTAGES.
01:43:35 Unidentified Speaker 45, 45, 10?
01:43:42 Unidentified Speaker ARE THEY PUTTING HEALTH CARE UNDER THE ECONOMY?
01:43:45 Unidentified Speaker HERE WE GO. A, B, AND C.
01:43:53 Unidentified Speaker WHERE YOU PUT HEALTH CARE?
01:43:55 Unidentified Speaker I PUT IT IN THE OTHER CATEGORY. A, B, AND C. HOW MANY POST THE ECONOMY AS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE? NUMBER...
01:44:21 Unidentified Speaker 45.
01:44:22 Unidentified Speaker 50.
01:44:23 Unidentified Speaker 60.
01:44:27 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY HAD SOCIAL ISSUES AS THEIR NUMBER ONE ISSUE?
01:44:32 Unidentified Speaker 7.
01:44:33 Unidentified Speaker 50.
01:44:34 Unidentified Speaker 50.
01:44:39 Unidentified Speaker HAD OTHER AS THEIR MAJOR
01:44:40 Unidentified Speaker 40.
01:44:44 Unidentified Speaker 85.
01:44:46 Unidentified Speaker 80.
01:44:49 Unidentified Speaker LET ME BREAK IT DOWN. WHEN YOU PUT 70 ON SOCIAL ISSUES, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?
01:44:57 Unidentified Speaker I AM TRYING TO SAY THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A CHANGE A LOT BEFORE WE STARTED DANCING IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE...
01:45:16 Unidentified Speaker ON SOCIAL ISSUES YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY WHAT?
01:45:21 Unidentified Speaker I AM TRYING TO SAY THAT IN MY OPINION THAT I AM PERSUADED MORE ABOUT THE SOCIAL ISSUES.
01:45:34 Unidentified Speaker DOES THAT PUT YOU MORE ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE OR THE PROGRESSIVE SIDE, OR WHERE DO YOU FIND YOURSELF?...
01:45:38 Unidentified Speaker WRITE IN THE MIDDLE. -- RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
01:45:45 Unidentified Speaker WHO ELSE? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?
01:45:49 Unidentified Speaker I AGREE WITH WILLIAM. THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET, AND WE ARE THE LEADING COUNTRY...
01:46:01 Unidentified Speaker WHO ELSE HAD IT? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?
01:46:08 Unidentified Speaker I SENT SOMEONE'S MORALS ARE DETERMINING HOW THEY ARE GUARDED -- REGARDING OTHER ISSUES ALSO. EILEEN...
01:46:25 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU SAY?
01:46:27 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE ECONOMY IS IMPORTANT, TOO, BUT DEPENDING ON YOUR VALUES AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN THAT CORE...
01:46:44 Unidentified Speaker WHO HAD C? STEVE, COOKIE.
01:46:51 Unidentified Speaker I HAD C.
01:46:56 Unidentified Speaker COOKIE, WHEN YOU CHOSE OTHER ISSUES YOU WERE TRYING TO SAY?
01:47:01 Unidentified Speaker I THINK OUR HEALTH CARE IS REALLY IMPORTANT. I THINK THE WAR IS REALLY IMPORTANT. THESE ISSUES, I...
01:47:09 Unidentified Speaker THE WAR.
01:47:13 Unidentified Speaker WHAT YOU WANT US TO DO IN THE WAR?
01:47:19 Unidentified Speaker THE SUNNIS ARE THE MINORITY, AND THE REST OF THE ARABS IN THE WORLD ARE SUNNIS, AND YOU HAVE YOUR...
01:47:51 Unidentified Speaker COOKIE, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO IN TERMS OF THE WAR?
01:47:54 Unidentified Speaker DO NOT GET ME STARTED. WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE LIKE WE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN IN
01:47:58 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE THERE.
01:48:02 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE TO FINISH IT.
01:48:04 Unidentified Speaker IT SCARES ME BECAUSE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT 2011. ALL THAT OIL, AND WE DO NOT GET ANY OF IT?
01:48:15 Unidentified Speaker THE WAR, WE SHOULD BE?
01:48:16 Unidentified Speaker NOT INVOLVED.
01:48:18 Unidentified Speaker GET OUT.
01:48:22 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION OF THE WAR IS THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUE OF FOREIGN POLICY.
01:48:28 Unidentified Speaker RAPID UP AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND AND IT.
01:48:32 Unidentified Speaker IT IS NOT A WAR. IT IS AN INVASION.
01:48:37 Unidentified Speaker THE ONLY WAY WE CAN PULL OUT AND HAVE SOME KIND OF STABILITY IS FOR THE IRAQI PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO...
01:48:46 Unidentified Speaker FINISH WHAT WE STARTED.
01:48:48 Unidentified Speaker FINISH WHAT WE STARTED, AND GET OUT.
01:48:53 Unidentified Speaker I CANNOT BELIEVE THE VIET NAM THAT -- I SAID TO MYSELF NEVER DO THIS AGAIN. WE DID IT AGAIN. WE ARE...
01:49:11 Unidentified Speaker STEVE?
01:49:12 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE TO FINISH IT. GET THE GUYS WHAT THEY NEED AND GET IT DONE.
01:49:18 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE TO MAKE IRAQ A STABLE COUNTRY, OR WE WILL HAVE TO GO BACK THERE FOR DIFFERENT REASONS.
01:49:26 Unidentified Speaker IN A WAR IT TIES IN WITH OUR ECONOMY AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE DEPENDENT UPON FOREIGN OIL WHETHER WE...
01:50:55 Unidentified Speaker EVERY STATE IS DIFFERENT ON THE BIG ISSUES. THAT IS GRAVY -- CRAZY, FIRST OF ALL. AM I DO NOT CALL...
01:51:05 Unidentified Speaker EVERY STATE IS DIFFERENT. WE'RE EVEN ALL OR NOT. WE ARE THE UNITED STATES. WHY IS EVERY STATE DIFFERENT...
01:51:20 Unidentified Speaker FINALLY, I THINK THE ISSUES LIKE HEALTH CARE -- HOW MANY SAY THAT IS THE ISSUE THAT IS DRIVING ME...
01:52:26 Unidentified Speaker HOW ABOUT NONE OF THE ABOVE?
01:52:32 Unidentified Speaker IT IS A SPECIAL DISPENSATION, MARY. HOW MANY SAY I TRUST MCCAIN THE MOST ON TAXES? OK, HERE WE GO....
01:52:51 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE OF WHAT HE IS LEAN IS OUT I WOULD NOT HAVE AS HIGH AS TAXES AND WOULD BE SAVING MORE MONEY....
01:53:01 Unidentified Speaker SO WHY ARE YOU VOTING FOR MCCAIN?
01:53:02 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE THE ECONOMY NEEDS THE MONEY TO GET BACK ON TRACK.
01:53:08 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE THE MOST TAXED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, I BELIEVE, AND I DO NOT THINK WE NEED ANY MORE TAXES.
01:53:14 Unidentified Speaker AND JOHN MCCAIN WOULD BE BETTER FOR YOU? , YES.
01:53:19 Unidentified Speaker AND WHY ARE YOU NOT VOTING FOR JOHN MCCAIN?
01:53:24 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAVE TO GO WITH THE GOOD WITH THE BAD.
01:53:27 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY SAY OBAMA WOULD BE THE BEST WITH TAXES? AND WHY ARE YOU NOT VOTING -- JOHN MCCAIN WOULD BE...
01:53:46 Unidentified Speaker I PUT DOWN 30% FOR FOREIGN POLICY, AND THE SOCIAL ISSUES, ABORTION, GUNS, RELIGION, OR MCCAIN, TOO....
01:54:15 Unidentified Speaker I WENT TO SEE PRESIDENT CLINTON AT THE HIGH SCHOOL PRAYER. -- AT A HIGH SCHOOL. , HAS ANYBODY HEARD...
01:54:45 Unidentified Speaker DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL AND
01:54:46 Unidentified Speaker OBAMA.
01:54:51 Unidentified Speaker JASON, DID YOU HEAR FROM ANYONE?
01:54:54 Unidentified Speaker NOTE.
01:54:57 Unidentified Speaker HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE WATCHED A LOT OF ADS? EVERYBODY.
01:55:03 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT WATCH COMMERCIALS.
01:55:10 Unidentified Speaker THEY MAKE ME DISINTERESTED.
01:55:14 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS ONE THAT HAD AN EFFECT ON ME. IS GOING TO ADMIT TO ME THAT THERE IS A COMMERCIAL THAT HAD...
01:55:29 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS THE ONE ON ABORTION AND STEM CELL RESEARCH THAT OBAMA PUT OUT THERE AND HOW HE WAS DEPICTING...
01:55:53 Unidentified Speaker ALL THE COMMERCIALS HAVE AN IMPACT BECAUSE THEY MAKE ME DISINTERESTED.
01:56:01 Unidentified Speaker I AM NOT VERY WELL VERSED IN THAT COMPONENT. I DID HEAR THE RADIO COMMERCIAL, AND IT WAS FROM OBAMA...
01:56:24 Unidentified Speaker ANYBODY ELSE?
01:56:28 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS THE ONE PROMISE YOU EXPECT JOHN MCCAIN TO KEEP IF HE IS ELECTED?
01:56:38 Unidentified Speaker THAT HE WOULD CROSS PARTY LINES AND BE RECEPTIVE TO DEMOCRATIC --
01:56:45 Unidentified Speaker THAT HE WOULD FINISH WHAT WE STARTED IN IRAQ AND WE WOULD LEAVE THEIR AS VICTORS.
01:56:55 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS WHAT I EXPECT ON OBAMA. -- I MEAN, FROM MCCAIN.
01:57:02 Unidentified Speaker GETTING OUT OF IRAQ.
01:57:05 Unidentified Speaker WHO ELSE? , ST..
01:57:11 Unidentified Speaker GETTING OUT MEETING AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME. ANYBODY ELSE?
01:57:19 Unidentified Speaker CUTTING GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND EXCESS SPENDING.
01:57:25 Unidentified Speaker OK, GOOD. ANYBODY ELSE? WHAT IS THE ONE PROMISE YOU EXPECT BARACK OBAMA TO KEEP IF HE IS ELECTED?
01:57:42 Unidentified Speaker GIVE US OUR TAX BREAK, THE MIDDLE CLASS.
01:57:45 Unidentified Speaker TAX BREAK TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM BARACK OBAMA?
01:57:54 Unidentified Speaker SEE THE ECONOMY GET BACK ON ITS FEET.
01:57:57 Unidentified Speaker FIND A SOLUTION FOR HEALTH
01:58:00 Unidentified Speaker OK. COME BACK A YEAR FROM NOW, BARACK OBAMA HAS BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NOT FOR QUITE...
01:58:34 Unidentified Speaker TAXES AND THE ECONOMY STILL IN THE SENATE -- SAME MESS.
01:58:40 Unidentified Speaker IF HE GAVE IN TO THE REST OF THE DEMOCRATS AND NOT GO FOR A CHANGE.
01:58:47 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ELSE?
01:58:50 Unidentified Speaker IF WE WERE IN THE SAME POSITION THAT WE ARE IN TODAY AND THERE WAS NOTHING CHANGED, THAT WOULD BE...
01:59:02 Unidentified Speaker THE CHANGE DID NOT COME.
01:59:05 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT THINK IT IS PRACTICAL TO SAY --
01:59:18 Unidentified Speaker OTHERS CHOOSE WHO IS LEADING HIM AND HE CHOSE POORLY AND, THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE CHAOS IN WASHINGTON,...
01:59:28 Unidentified Speaker YOU THINK IT WOULD BE STRONG -- D THINK HE WOULD BE A STRONG LEADER? MICHELE IS NODDING HER HEAD YES....
01:59:39 Unidentified Speaker YES, I DO BELIEVE HE WILL BE A STRONG LEADER.
01:59:47 Unidentified Speaker FOR EXAMPLE, IN NEW YORK CITY SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY HE DID RUDY GIULIANI BUT HE WAS A STRONG LEADER....
02:00:15 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HAS GOT TO WHERE HE IS APT BECAUSE OF HIS CONFIDENCE IN HIS SELF, SO I SEE HIMSELF AS BEING...
02:00:26 Unidentified Speaker I THINK HE IS VERY INTELLIGENT, AND I THINK, LIKE STEVENS SAID, HE WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR,...
02:00:43 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD AGREE.
02:00:47 Unidentified Speaker WHO SAYS I AM NOT SURE HE WOULD BE A STRONG LEADER?
02:00:52 Unidentified Speaker I BELIEVE HE IS A VERY INTELLIGENT MAN. I BELIEVE HE IS THE RIGHT PERSON AT THE RIGHT TIME. I DO NOT...
02:01:04 Unidentified Speaker I CANNOT READ HIM, CANNOT GET PAST HIM LIKE HE IS A STEP FURTHER WIFE. I CANNOT GET PAST THAT.
02:01:12 Unidentified Speaker DE THINK HE WILL BE A STRONG LEADER?
02:01:17 Unidentified Speaker NO, I DO NOT THINK SO. HE DOES NOT HAVE THE EXPERIENCE. I DO NOT THINK HE WILL BE THE LEADER THAT...
02:01:29 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS A DIFFERENT QUESTION. A STRONG LEADER CANNOT HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE, BUT THERE IS A STRONG...
02:01:47 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT IS WHY HE PICKED BY THEN. , WHICH CERTAINLY GOT ONE VOTE FOR JOE BIDEN TODAY. LET ME...
02:02:48 Unidentified Speaker I REALLY HOPE YOU DO WHAT YOU PROMISED TO DO.
02:02:51 Unidentified Speaker I AM GOING TO TAKE THAT OFF THE TABLE, ONLY TO GIVE YOU A FIGHT -- A HIGH FIVE. IN OTHER WORDS, THE...
02:03:43 Unidentified Speaker AND I HAD FAITH IN HIM BECAUSE BOTH, BECAUSE HE SEEMED TO ME WHAT I WANT SEE IN GOVERNMENT, DIRECTION...
02:03:57 Unidentified Speaker YOU HAVE BEEN UNDECIDED THROUGH A LOT OF THIS? WHO IS GOING TO GET YOUR VOTE?
02:04:03 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT KNOW YET. WHOEVER I DO VOTE FOR I WANT TO HAVE MORALS, I WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO REPRESENT...
02:04:30 Unidentified Speaker AND D YOU THINK THEY WILL BE EQUAL OR ONE OF THE TWO CANDIDATES WILL BE BETTER IN GAINING OUR RESPECT...
02:04:43 Unidentified Speaker I AM THINKING ONE IS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE MORE.
02:04:48 Unidentified Speaker AND THAT WOULD BE?
02:04:49 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD SAY JOHN MCCAIN.
02:04:50 Unidentified Speaker STEVEN?
02:04:55 Unidentified Speaker YOU WANT ME TO SAY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO VOTE FOR? I THINK I AM VOTING FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING...
02:05:09 Unidentified Speaker BE A GOOD LEADER AND GET OUR COUNTRY UNDER CONTROL.
02:05:15 Unidentified Speaker THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, IMPROVE ON THEM, WORK TOWARDS GETTING US OUT OF IRAQ. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME,...
02:05:27 Unidentified Speaker PROBABLY VOTE FOR OBAMA AT THIS GREAT AND I WOULD SAY YOU ARE THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA, BEEN BY RACIAL,...
02:05:41 Unidentified Speaker DO YOUR JOB. MAKE US PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY. MAKE A FOREIGN TIMES STRONGER. BUILD SOMETHING FOR THE...
02:05:57 Unidentified Speaker AND DO YOU THINK OBAMA CAN MAKE OUR FOREIGN TIES STRONGER?
02:06:03 Unidentified Speaker I THINK SO, HE IS RELATABLE AND TALK TO THESE PEOPLE, HERE DIFFERENT SIDES AND BRING NEW IDEAS TO THE...
02:06:12 Unidentified Speaker JUST KEEP US SAFE AND STRONG AND LOOK OUT FOR THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY AND NOT THE POLITICS...
02:06:32 Unidentified Speaker I WILL PROBABLY VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA AND I TRUST MY VOTE WITH HIM AND HOPE HE WILL ALLOW US TO BRING...
02:06:48 Unidentified Speaker PUT THE COUNTRY FIRST AND NOT HIS POLITICAL PARTY OR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP, AND PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID,...
02:07:01 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND. UNFORTUNATELY, YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT WE HAVE THE VOTING...
02:07:23 Unidentified Speaker THE WAY I FEEL TODAY, I AM LEANING TOWARD MCCAIN. MY FEAR IS THAT HE IS GOING TO DROP DEAD AND SARAH...
02:07:58 Unidentified Speaker AT THE RISK OF HAVING SARAH PALIN AS PRESIDENT IS LESS TO YOU THEN THE RISK OF HAVING BARACK OBAMA...
02:08:12 Unidentified Speaker YES.
02:08:16 Unidentified Speaker YES, AND THAT IS BECAUSE?
02:08:18 Unidentified Speaker JUST MY GUT FEELING.
02:08:21 Unidentified Speaker WHY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS AND THEY ARE GOING TO SAY I DO NOT GET ACCOKEEK. SHE ALWAYS VOTED...
02:08:40 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT FEEL THE STRENGTH, AND MY FEAR IS IF HE IS OPEN TO LISTENING TO EVERYBODY -- AND I BELIEVE...
02:09:13 Unidentified Speaker THE THINGS HE HAS DONE -- HE SAID YOU CANNOT BUY THE THINGS HE HAS DONE. , THE PERFECTION, HOW HE...
02:09:38 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU FEEL IT?
02:09:40 Unidentified Speaker IFILL WHAT? -- FEEL WHAT?
02:09:47 Unidentified Speaker I AGREE WITH COOKIE THAT I THINK HE IS TO PERFECT. EVERYBODY -- EVERYTHING SEEMS LIKE IT IS REHEARSED....
02:10:07 Unidentified Speaker THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO THIS CONSTANTLY.
02:10:11 Unidentified Speaker LIKE AN ADVERTISING FIRM CAME ALONG AND GAVE HIM PARAMETERS AND SAID THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO STAY...
02:10:20 Unidentified Speaker PEOPLE LOOK MORE TO OPRAH AND WHAT THEY ARE THINKING. PEOPLE NEED TO USE THEIR BRAINS.
02:10:28 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL NOT SLANDER OPRAH.
02:10:31 Unidentified Speaker I LOVE OPRAH.
02:10:36 Unidentified Speaker LET'S HEAR IT FOR OPRAH.
02:10:40 Unidentified Speaker MCCAIN, JUST BE HONEST.
02:10:47 Unidentified Speaker BRANDY, THE WIVES, TELL ME WHAT YOUR THINKING?
02:10:54 Unidentified Speaker I VOTED FOR OBAMA, WHICH IS WHO I AM LEAVING FOR. I WOULD JUST CAUTION HIM TO BE SERVED BY SMART,...
02:11:50 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS INTERESTING. DID YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME? THIS IS MARVELOUS. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH. A WEEK...
02:12:28 Unidentified Speaker I THANK YOU.
02:12:30 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
02:12:34 Unidentified Speaker GET HOME JUST IN TIME FOR THE BROWNS FOOTBALL GAME. THAT YOU VERY, A VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE...
02:12:50 Unidentified Speaker LATER A PANEL OF REPORTERS SPOKE TO PETER HART.
02:13:02 Unidentified Speaker LET ME GET INITIAL IMPRESSIONS. HERE IS WHAT I THOUGHT COMING OUT OF THIS?
02:13:12 Unidentified Speaker I WAS AMAZED AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO STILL FELT UNDECIDED, GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION. AND...
02:13:49 Unidentified Speaker PEOPLE OR VERY CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE THE COUNTRY IS RIGHT NOW AND THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO BE...
02:14:20 Unidentified Speaker 1 -- THE ABRUPT YOUTH -- THE USUAL CORPORATE MALFEASANCE. THERE WAS A SENSE I THOUGHT OF THAT WE HAVE...
02:14:59 Unidentified Speaker I THOUGHT, PETER, THAT THE DIFFERENCE IN PERCEPTION THAT THEY HAVE FROM WALKED I GUESS MANY OF US...
02:16:08 Unidentified Speaker I WAS STRUCK BY THE ABSENCE OF DEFINITION OF OBAMA AT THIS POINT IN THE CAMPAIGN. IN TERMS OF WHAT...
02:16:40 Unidentified Speaker THE POLISH IS A VERY MIDWESTERN ATTITUDE. THAT DID NOT PRICE -- SURPRISE ME SO MUCH. THERE REALLY...
02:17:26 Unidentified Speaker AND WORKED THEIR RESPONDENTS THAT STOOD OUT TO YOU THAT SAID, OH -- WHO STOOD OUT?
02:17:37 Unidentified Speaker RALPH AND COOKIE.
02:17:44 Unidentified Speaker I THINK RANDYBRANDY STOOD OUT. SHE WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THIS ELECTION. HER HUSBAND IS LIVING IN MARYLAND....
02:18:25 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS EMBLEMATIC OF THE FOOT THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY MIGHT HAVE GET THAT THEY MAY NOT.
02:18:36 Unidentified Speaker YOU CAN SEE A DISCORDANT SELECTION.
02:18:39 Unidentified Speaker COOKIE.
02:18:42 Unidentified Speaker SHE TRIED VERY HARD.
02:18:46 Unidentified Speaker IT IS A GREAT TESTIMONIAL TO JOHN MCCAIN. THEY ALWAYS SAID HE COULD BEAT DEMOCRATS, AND SHE VOTED FOR...
02:19:03 Unidentified Speaker SHE IS A RARITY IN THIS ELECTION, A DEMOCRAT WHO IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING GOING THE OTHER DIRECTION....
02:19:21 Unidentified Speaker ROUTE IS THE MOST FASCINATING. HE SAYS HE IS LEANING OBAMA AND HE WAS A GEORGE WALLACE VOTERS, AND...
02:20:01 Unidentified Speaker THE OVERALL SUBDUED NATURE OF HOW PEOPLE ARE APPROACHING WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY BIG ELECTION AND...
02:20:31 Unidentified Speaker AND WHILE THEY TOLD YOU ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THEIR OWN LIVES, THEY WENT BEYOND THE ISSUE OF...
02:21:02 Unidentified Speaker IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF MEN AND WOMEN WE HAVE LOST IN THE WAR, THE STATE HAS PARTICULARLY BEEN HARD...
02:21:14 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS QUITE STRIKING HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE SEEING TELLUS -- TELL US WHAT SOME SORT OF SACRIFICE WE...
02:22:12 Unidentified Speaker WHAT STRUCK ME WAS I FELT LIKE I HAD 2 1/2 DISCUSSIONS GOING ON HERE. I FELT I WAS VERY CENTERED AS...
02:24:36 Unidentified Speaker THERE WAS VERY LITTLE CONNECTION BETWEEN MCCAIN AND BUSCH. -- AND BUSH. TALK ABOUT A CENTRAL PREMISE...
02:25:13 Unidentified Speaker AFRAID TO HOPE. IT GOES BACK TO WHAT DAN WAS SAYING. IT IS SYMPTOMATIC TO THE HEADLINES. IT IS OVERWHELMING...
02:25:28 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE BEEN HARD HIT LONG BEFORE THIS ECONOMIC CRISIS, AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION....
02:26:10 Unidentified Speaker THEY SAID THE NEXT GENERATION IS GOING TO BE LESS WELL OFF.
02:26:15 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS VERY SAD. THINK ABOUT THAT.
02:26:21 Unidentified Speaker IT IS NOT REDUCED AS A SEEMINGLY HAS IN SOME OTHER PLACES WITH HERE WE ARE AFTER ALL THIS, WE REALLY...
02:26:36 Unidentified Speaker IT IS A BIG CHANGE, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE LEARNED HERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS ELECTION AND...
02:26:52 Unidentified Speaker I WANTED TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH ALL THESE LABOR PEOPLE GOING OUT, AND I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD...
02:27:27 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT THINK YOU HEARD THAT SENTIMENT AT ALL.
02:27:33 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS SUCH AN ACROSS THE COUNTY CENT OF IT.
02:27:36 Unidentified Speaker ANYTHING IN TERMS OF THE ISSUES THAT YOU FELT HE MARCHED OUT OF THIS THAT WAS INTERESTING OR STRIKING...
02:28:29 Unidentified Speaker THE OTHER THING ABOUT THAT IS THE VOTERS WERE VERY ABLE TO SAY IF MCCAIN GOT ELECTED HE WOULD DEAL...
02:28:54 Unidentified Speaker AGAIN, WE ARE LOOKING AT A SUBSECTION OF THE ELECTORATE, A VERY SMALL STRAIN, SO IT IS NOT EVERYBODY....
02:30:23 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, PETER.

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