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industry. now with the u.s. elections coming up in november what's really on the minds of the american people. spoke to jim clifton c.e.o. of a company conducting massive opinion polls in the states who says that sometimes pollsters and public politicians that's next here on alt. i'm sitting down with jim clifton the c.e.o. of gallup they were going to say that conducts opinion polls you know 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 the day it's the cliff thank you very much for joining me by pleasure what seems clear about opinion polls very much depends on the questions asked and with this regard there's something i'd like to

do kind of mark there were two different polls not by gallup first given a choice between israel conducting strikes on iran's nuclear program or the united states and other world powers pursuing our negotiated solution with iran nearly seven out of ten americans choose diplomacy and there was another. 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 where the majority said yes to war and another one where you already said yes to the chroma see. what you think about that. the wording of questions just makes an enormous amount of difference the things that we've noticed is if you put the word freedom. are free in a question it really changes its outcome that's also one of the reasons why special

interest groups try to put the word free in their campaign so like unions with card check you know there's a respect he's got a free choice. anytime you put the words you're very powerful. in our questions if your question is do you believe that the people writing in that question can make it come out any way they want i would say pretty much go to your calls. 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 and 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 say they probably regularly follow your approach polls not opposing to ride do you think a very negative poll can stop a war that's a hell of a question. you can't stop a war. i think it can play a role in stopping a war by the way when. president roosevelt so that 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 it's certainly a gallup poll and public opinion certainly didn't stop that war whether or not it causes just a 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 gallup showed right before the war seventy two percent support among the americas and that's support was much lower before the war was and out so there was a factor of rallying behind the leader what do you think of the facts more on what the pinion polls on the leaders or the leaders on the opinion polls. sort of neither a lot of what it is that is that americans are getting educated on but the crisis is so small 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 war in iran you've got a whole bunch of americans aren't following it all up until it gets serious you see them and so it's about spinning thing its way the right thing is that it's there and i would say spinning as much as just advancing news but for being our poll

gallup played out in a way to look at it and say oh boy why doesn't the government pick up with all the characters and act accordingly great. guy and i roll around on the floor i've had this same job for twenty four years but i roll around on the for all the time i just look and say how how can you know 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 the money. that's a real important promise that they have so then they all say what are we going to do to get banks to lot because 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 save they don't say get the 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's a huge black hole. in that we're not very good at. mathematically describing huge shifts of the will of civilizations of people this give an example right now if you were to ask the united states government to mathematically describe the relationship between muslims and the west so you get a little better it's got a little worse or staying about the same. they're on a stance or all of them and 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 getting a little bit better if it's 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 beast 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 what i'ma call behavioral economics so we tend to deal with activities after they've happened rather than. earlier on the curve before they happen and see what we could have done is i mean let's say that you want to. help egypt i don't know if you want to

help move very. bitter ship or not but we could have said hey guys better be careful of that suffering is rising very very quickly who requests that with her words nobody. how do you decide on the question 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 on to ask their opinions that you're to 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 saw i was soon we got hundreds will get hundreds of them this week and they also give the questions to ask you know we take it into consideration many questions are obviously biased unloader not all that but there

are analysts go into a room and they write what they believe to be a non-biased question other 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 pools of their customers with huge samples and we help them build strategies so they can be more competitive what's their dynamic in terms of opinion polls this economy among the american people on the way it was four years ago or the rate is now well. of course we are going just fine and two thousand and seven 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 put that back a little bit enough to when president obama next election i don't think quite yet. well we ask right now if you were to vote tonight who to vote for 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 is there a survey what are the main reasons not to vote for the president it's just strictly unemployment. one reason i think just one reason plus firestorm policy i think foreign policy plays no role at all right now i mean if something really big happened so israel bombs are ron and we've got to back them up. i mean some good will make a little bit of a difference but americans are

a place right now they don't want to hear about foreign policy they should but they don't i mean they should be concerned about all of this same with enough we don't hear about war we don't hear bonnie and 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 it's twenty because you know if i come over and mow 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 a very very soft there's a hundred fifty million people that want work so i 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 americans blame their president or

there's two questions or do i think they should. be they yes thank you very much like pleasure. you know how some lunges see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then even something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture.

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the headlines on are to the british prime minister hours ahead with his arms sales pitch in asia opening up the u.k.'s wasson all to the nation surrounding china. there's still a chance of a truce so says the special envoy for syria while u.s. congress so cozy up with syrian rebels and step up calls to supply them with. us critics say you spanish plans for a vegas style gambling empire to make money and jobs could actually end up posting of the sex industry more of the economy. with your latest headlines for the world

of sports a big day in russian football. the semifinals of the russian cup to look forward to today although they could bring back some bad memories for one player after the details in a second and plus we've got an interesting interview with the boxing bad boy. hello there you're watching the sport here on r.t. and here is a taste of what is coming up final bit beyond repair to take on folder rubina face rostov on semi finals day in the russian cup. plus king county's happy is liverpool grabbed their first win in five with a dramatic last minute winner against blackburn. on fighting tool box and bad boy derek is or talks about punching punditry and as the band fight he speaks exclusively to our take. that first anonymous go have the chance to reach their

first russian cup final for thirteen years today they take on fellow premier league side folder in the semi's to number the favorites despite having won only two of their last seven games their joint top scorer kevin koe down yet is also struggling a bit having only netted once in his last for a. but he will want today if you go to rest tonight after missing this sitter when the sides last met last summer granya is expected to lead the line on the revolt in volga who in the bottom half of the table are unbeaten in thought well that game is the second semifinal of the day the first sees the rubin face at premier league strugglers rushed off rubin looking to reach the final for the second time in three years. meanwhile in england a last minute goal by andy carroll a ten man little paul a three two victory over black and that he would part last night the reds went to miller thanks to a break from a two or three guys that then had standing keeper alexander dhoni sent off for a foul on junior hoilett third choice goalie greg jaynes then saved the subsequent

penalty but the striker went on to score twice to level the match only for carroll to nod in the win that at the death of his liverpool spurs speech revived games and they are eighth in a table blackburn remain in the relegation zone but the action continues deceiving leaders manchester united are a way relegation threatened wigan manchester city who are eight points behind in second host quest broad struggling q.p.r. well and aston could consolidate their place with a win over wolves but aston bangor is wary of the league's bottom side. overdoing. could result in the program to how much. the next. because it is for. you. don't expect them grow up with grassroots saw frost. don't confront of course forward brothers who are. markedly consistent since two more

one off ones. doing. well over in spain barcelona and now just a point behind real madrid after their rushing of qatar feet at the nou camp alexis sanchez scoring twice on and. do you think the lands within touching distance of you do have a game in hand in other results of the scene or keep up their europa league hopes with a win over espanol reality so she dad was one with real betis. every now and again football does produce a fairytale story in the french cup had seen united to go from the third division reached the semifinals but their dream ended last night with a four no defeat on joe from corsica had beaten league one leaders one per year in the quarter finals but the game turned in the thirty eighth minute when they were down to ten men anthony calling a rate card there for a violent tackle and in the second half leon run riot or like is that it got the first sandra lopez here so united another as resistance crumbled and climb

on get only eight piled on the agony with a third ten minutes from time called the final goal so for now to leon and in the final they will face either division psychobilly or stud but anyway yet the semi on wednesday. in other news f one supremo bernie ecclestone insists next week's bahrain grand prix will go ahead despite security concerns that the event could be scrapped in years to come however this weekend the focus does turn to the grand prix in china and ferrari's twice former champion fernando alonso will be looking to stretch his lead at the top of the driver's standings in shanghai ispahani took top spot after a surprise victory in the malaysian grand prix last month but ferrari admit their car needs to make some improvements along to keep his title hopes alive. i certainly will commit. one driver to the championship at the moment you know from

the early traffic and we'll see realise we've got quite a few issues that we need for everyone at the factory working hard. you know we've still got a long way to go. right frenchie self is a bit of a formula one driver as you speed down and motorway on the way home from work well seven times champ michael schumacher has taken time actually explain the finer points of just the f one steering wheel and it's not exactly 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 varies to people and go for it. well you have the button afterwards for the clothes 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 talk about those

are two engine buttons that you can see. the changes that you want to travel you discuss up front. but you have to confirm in case you want to come into the pit lane unexpected you present them the guys know immediately something is wrong he will come. and research research in or some major function where you can reset the steering wheel you have a reverse button if you use but ok usually you may have to and it's no big asian is in to be functional brake problems check question and now we come to the center rosaries again and the other one is for the clutch as well before you go to the meter of tiles that you have available three different size the three different meters you increase the length of the main menu button and to differential buttons plus obviously your shift in the clouds sure that you have to.

race there aren't any indicators to deal with now since bad boy character joran says he enjoyed his public david had incident soldiers or at least as british boxing license in march and may never fight again but in an exclusive interview with r.t. the heavyweight had a few regrets. of. his sure his books and skills in the ring becoming the british henry. in twenty turn but more recently we've seen him out of control out of the ring pulling his controversial pre-fight slipped off bitterly. and spitting in the younger brother's face and the image of the sports bad boy has finally caused derek zora he's career the twenty eight year old had his professional license withdrawn by the british boxing board of control this march the last straw press conference brawl with david

hate so what made you do it all going through the pressure all rounder more from the. whole i don't know i mean why would. i do because i enjoy it. unfortunately sorries no longer allowed to enjoy being a professional boxer your family might be the first to hear him in your role of books an analyst. and. being a. part of. we've been the best thing for smaller guys.

to go come. on all the skills and skills. and while many still wonder why one of the most anticipated belts of recent years mayweather versus what you know is yet to happen to stories sure white know will. never. win. it was going to make more money when people fight each other and one of them has since plenty of. money across it does it not also seem a bit pointless to people but for taking part in this is this album is modeled on it is the ultimate test of insurance and there are two competitors no one can catch in the sahara at the moment the men's leader is more opportunity he took his third big three from his main stages on tuesday finishing the thirty five kilometer route

in southern morocco in two hours thirty five minutes while lawrence kline completed a hat trick of stage wins in the women's rights issues just crossing the line she's the one on the right there and she remains on course to defend her title wednesday stages just play that eighty kilometers while the ultra marathon is just over two hundred fifty k. in time. so that's just more like her. shoes that so much of that isn't going to see people come out of people are very noisy and so i think this is one way to describe china is truly amazing to stand on the international stage with success comes china. hasn't be seen yet

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