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boosting the sex industry more than the economy. and with the us elections coming up in a barrel what's really on the minds of american people are just going to chicken speaks to jim clifton c.e.o. of a company conducting opinion polls and states who says sometimes pollsters are more in tune with the public than politicians. i'm sitting down with jim clifton the c.e.o. of gallup the organization that can got thirteen polls in over one hundred forty countries and that's where you go when you want to find out what americans think about some of the most important issues of today mr clinton thank you very much for joining me live pleasure what seems clear about opinion polls is that it very much depends on the questions asked and with this regard there's something i'd like to kind of mark there were two different polls not by gallup first given the choice

between israel conducting strikes on iran's nuclear program the united states and other world powers pursuing their go shaded solution with a rag nearly seven out of ten americans choose not to see and there was another poll when the question was asked differently would they support a military action if there is evidence that they're building a weapon the majority said yes so there were two polls one are going to already say yes to war and another one over there already said yes to diplomacy. what do you think about that. the wording of questions just makes an enormous amount of difference one of things that we've noticed is if you put the word freedom or free in a question it really changes its outcome it's also one of the reasons why special interest groups try to put the word free in their campaigns so like unions with card check you know the respect he called a free choice act but any time you put the word you are very powerful

and. in our questions if your question is do you believe that the people writing that question can make it come out any way they want and say pretty much so what are your poll saying about iran. americans are not nearly as war aggressive as we were. a few years ago we have enormous. war fatigue now that's not really a positive for ron in the way that americans believe that iran has nuclear capabilities they believe that they're evil all that they want to do bad and all that kind of thing but americans really want to take a break from war this is what the polls say yeah policymakers they probably regularly follow you know port polls are imposing tanner or do you think

a very negative. can stop a war that's a hell of a question. and can it stop a war i think it can play a role in stopping a war by the way when. president roosevelt said we might have to take our boys to war against germany americans i mean overwhelmingly said no war and roosevelt went to war anyway so that certainly the gallup poll and public opinion certainly didn't stop that war whether or not it causes just to pull out of iraq pull troops out of afghanistan i don't think the poll does that but like a lot of other. information i'm sure it plays a role you mentioned iraq in the run up to the iraq war. right before the war

seventy two percent support among the americans and that's a court was much lower before the war was and now so there was a factor of rallying behind the leader what do you think of the fact more on what the pm polls on the leaders or the leaders on the. sort of neither one what it is that is that americans are getting educated on what the crisis is so so in america only about twenty percent of americans follow the news like you and me and all those people that were in here a little while ago so when we're taking our polls like of possible learn iran you've got a whole bunch of americans aren't following it all up until it gets serious so it's about screening the news for immigrant the news gets there and i would say spinning as much as just advancing those has there been a poll by gallup recently that you would look at and say oh boy why doesn't the government pick the result into

a power grid and act accordingly great. guy and i i roll around on the floor i've had this same job for twenty four years but i roll around on the floor all the time i just look and say how how can you not how can you not see this. one is. there's about six million. businesses in the united states almost all of them are small so what the government thinks is that the businesses aren't growing because the banks won't loan a money. that's a real important promise that they have so then they all say what are we going to do get banks to loan is a perfect example of not knowing what's on the minds of the people and then making stupid policies that make everything worse so we do a poll of the six million businesses and we say to them what's the biggest problem you have for growth they don't say they don't say it getting money they can get money what they say is that they lack confidence in the economy because of the all the new regulations as far as foreign policy one of the places that i get concerned

our state department intelligence defense everybody we there is a huge black hole. and that we were not very good at. mathematically describing huge shifts of the will of civilizations of people i was given example right now if you were to ask the united states government to mathematically describe the relationship between muslims and the west. so he's a good little better get a little worse or stand about the same. they're honest answer all of them as we don't know. how the hell do you manage relationships between i mean that's a really important. relationship as far as

geopolitics for the united states goes russia goes everywhere goes but they have no math and so they don't know if it's get a little bit better it's getting a little bit worse but if you don't know that when you're making policies around it you make a mistake mistake a mistake. there thing that you don't know is what's driving let's just say the suffering so let's take egypt we saw suffering rising very quickly before the revolution so you knew about it beforehand but the government was not being absolutely we as a group of leaders in the united states aren't very good with them are called behavioral economics so we tend to deal with activities after they've happened rather than. earlier on the curve before they happen you see so what we could have done is i mean let's say that you wanted. to help egypt i don't know if you want to help in the barracks leadership or not but we could have said hey you guys better be careful that suffering is rising very very quickly who requests those calls

nobody. how do you decide on the questions we have a group of what we think are the best pollsters in the world employed here. and then we go out and and there's a whole bunch of very very good pollsters and behavioral economist at universities and then we go and ask their opinions deserve a get a phone call from a government official saying thank you as the american people what they think about this and that very important issue. yes we know we get those all the time so i'm so we probably got i was i was so we got hundreds will get hundreds of them this week. and they also have questions to ask what you know we take it into consideration many questions drive you say bias and order and all that but then our analysts go into a room and they write what they believe to be biased question of those people pay

us is polling a business. it is for us. where does the money come from well actually . our clients we do proprietary work for fortune five hundred companies and what we're really good at is doing polls of their customers with huge samples and we help them build strategies so they can be more competitive what's the dynamic in terms of opinion polls as far as the economy among the american people running away was four years ago. well. of course we were going just fine and two thousand and seven the first part of two thousand and eight then we crashed down and we've been down. but now it's coming back a little bit not a lot but back you know but cut back

a little bit and after when president obama the next election i don't think quite yet. well we ask right now if you were to vote tonight who to vote for obama or romney and according to the gallup poll if we vote tonight romney will beat him because you know you may very well vote for romney but not for him you're just voting against the president ok is there a survey what are the main reasons not to vote for the president and shish strictly unemployment. one reason i think just one reason as far as foreign policy. i think foreign policy plays no role at all right now i mean it is something really big happened so israel bombs iran and we've got to back them up. i mean some good will make a little bit of a difference but americans are the place right now they don't want to hear about foreign policy they should. i mean they should be concerned about a lot of their same with another we don't hear about war we don't hear bernie about

we want to hear about how come my brother in law and my sister in law and my sister my kids not only don't have work but they have no hope for a job we should get up those unemployment real close to twenty percent in this country. not eight point five twenty because you know if i come over and know your lawn and you pay me twenty dollars that department of labor statistics does not count me as an employed very few people know that so the number of employed is very very soft there's a hundred fifty million people that want work so that means that thirty million are out of work sixty percent of them tell gallup they have no hope for getting a job so that's eighteen million and that just puts a damper on all voting. the president. there's two questions there do i think they should. do they yes thank you very

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british prime minister powers they have with his arms sales pitch in asia opening up the case of war arsenal to a nation surrounding china. and there's still a chance of a truce as a special envoy to syria while u.s. congress hawks cozy up with syrian rebels and step up calls to supply them with arms. plus critics say strategy plans for a vegas style gambling empire to make money and jobs could actually boosting the sex industry war. i had was here back at the top of the hour with more updates anytime you sports.

hello there you're watching the sport here in r.t. and here's a taste of what is coming up over the next few minutes king county's happy little paul get their first win in five with a dramatic last minute big three struggling black bird dog barcelona move to been appointed leaders real madrid with the four no wind. and fighting tool boxes cardboard derek just or talks about punching punditry and hockey out as the band fly to speaks exclusively to heartache. that stopped the football where last minute goal by andy carroll gave ten man little paul a three two victory he would part last night it ended a dramatic night which had seen the reds go to the last thanks to a break from my keyboard rekers they will pull down hard standing keep alexander they don't need to send off for a foul and junior haul it and even though replacing goalie brad jane state q.b.

is resultant penalty the strike at school twice and the second half to level the match only for carroll's not in the winner at the data it is little first win in five games ahead of the f.a. cup semifinal clash with davis in the weekend i'm black but from eight in the relegation and. another games leaders munchie united are way relegation threatened we're going tonight mention the city they were eight points behind in second host west brom's struggling q.p.r. weldon's fonzie and arsenal could consolidate their place with it when the world but aston banga is wary of elite sport and club. it's over a good. look at the results and the problem he returned to how much. the next. because. you keep score points when you don't expect them to grow up with enough troops so will force. i believe. it is important on

two fronts of course forward but is where. we have been or markedly consistent since two loans when off once. but it's important to keep doing what. well over in spain barcelona and now just a point behind rionda period after a fall off rushing of taffy at the nou camp alex sanchez scored twice on the nights in the cattle and he stood in the touching distance of reality to have a game in hand though another result of the signer kicked up their europa league hopes with a win over espanol that reality so she that three one one reality bet is that every now and again for paul this produced a fairytale story in the french club had seen minnows jassi go from the third division reach the semifinals but their dream run and it last night with a foreigner or defeat on just you know from corsica had beaten league one leaders non-pay eight in the quarter finals but the game turned in the thirty eighth minute when they went down to ten men and the colony i was red carded for

a vile tackle and in the second half really on ran riot. got there first the standard low post soon added another as if yes here is resistance crumbled and climb on granny a piled on the agony with ten minutes from time before almost added the final goal so cornell to leon and in the final they will face divisions i was really a force in a play where the semifinals are. powerful and supreme bernie ecclestone insists next week's brain grand prix will go ahead despite security concerns but the event could be scrapped in the years to come however this weekend the focus does turn to the grand prix in china and ferrari twice former champion fernando alonso will be looking to stretch his lead at the top of the driver's standings in shanghai the spaniard usurped top spot after a surprise first place in the malaysian grand prix last month but lewis hamilton

from mclaren would have their ideas the briton started from pole in the two previous races to finish third in both teatime reigning champion sebastian vettel has also yet to top the podium so far this year rory admit their car needs some improvement if a long job is to keep his title hopes alive. i certainly wasn't expecting and really thought i'm one drive in even the championship and i mean you know from the early testing we'll see realize we've got quite a few issues that we need to fall down and you know everyone i'm at the factory working hard at that when we still got a long way to go. but you probably fancy yourself as a bit of a formula one driver as you speed down the motorway on the way home from work well seven times champ michael schumacher has taken time out to explain the finer points of just one steering wheel and it isn't exactly a simple. as you can see it looks pretty colorful and it's pretty intense in terms of the function you have most important function is physically right and left side

. where you look at it and it is to keep it and go for it well you have the boost but then afterwards for the close with allows you to sort of release eighty horsepower for ten seconds and that you find out you so afterwards you go on the mixture and those are two engine buttons that you can set. the changes that you want to try them you discuss upfront. but you have confirmed in case you want to come into the pit lane unexpected and the guys know immediately something is wrong he will come see you think your research in order some major function you can reset the steering. you have a reverse but if you move you. you may have to and it's no big asian to have a use you need to be functional breakwaters check clutch chick and now we come to

the center rosaries again and the other one is for the clutch as well before you go buy a meter of tires that you have available you have three different eyes there are three different value meters you pre-select the main menu button and trim differential weapons plus obviously you shift in your clothes for that you have to. i think i'll just exciting to work anyway while we're on the subject of technology . gearing up for this summer's olympics and it is aiming to test six thousand athletes in a bid to catch the. changes they'll be placed this tree just outside london it covers an area as large as seven tennis courts and all the samples taken from the athletes will be brought here experts say the technology used to catch if then this is improving all the time and great strides have been made since the previous olympics which saw eighteen athletes disqualified for day playing four years of

gone since the beijing olympics and the sciences advancing very rapidly the mass spectrometers that we use the very sophisticated instruments will actually tell us the components for. blood or urine are very specific and they are far more sensitive than they were embracing and they can actually work far more rapidly and make it. funny that does bring us to one of the most controversial men in boxing derek the british heavyweights license was brought in march are his public role with david haye has little chance will see him in the ring again though robert danin caught up with him here in moscow. he's sure his boxing skills in the ring becoming the british heavyweight champion in twenty turn but more recently we've seen him out of control out of the ring pulling his controversial pre-fight slur of bitterly can score and spitting in the

younger brother space the image of the bad boy has caused derek to soar on his career the twenty eight year old had his professional license withdrawn by the british boxing board of control this march at the last straw press conference brawl with david haye silwood me if you do it all will through the pressure all rounder world from world cup. told move forward fight it goes for me. i do because i enjoy the most and. unfortunately true stories no longer allowed to george being a professional boxer and we might get a first here in your role of books in alice. books that's probably. going for oil.

money. being a good use in form of. part of the move for a reasonable person for smaller guys. to go out come. on skills and skills. and while many still wonder why one of the most anticipated bells of recent years mayweather vs sparky l. is yet to happen stories sure why no will. why not. make more money winning for people to frasier when one of them lose since playing. marty. up so that is all the support

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