. >> reporter: but too many percents and you risk sounds like yogi berra, who said baseball is 90% physical, the other half is mental. a recent survey showed 42% of americans don't believe the polls. bottom line, percents don't always make sense. keep in mind, tonight, both candidates looked like they were addressing the 100%. but really, they're vying for a much smaller piece of the pie. really, they're trying to capture the undecided voters in the swing states who happen to be watching. that's not the 99%, not even the 47%. but that tiny fraction will end up deciding who won. >> if you want to focus on a percentage in this election that matters the most, it's 4% of the people that are undecided who are still waivering back and forth. >> reporter: and to these guys, that might be the most important percent of all. i'm david wright for "nightline." >> thanks to david wright for that. thank you for watching abc news. we them you check in for "good morning america." we're always online at abcnews.com. jimmy kimmel is up next. we'll see you here tomorrow.

sharing the stage challengers in two others am my berra a. >>> workers could soon see a boost in the magic. the city could join a handful of others by creating its own pay floor for residents. san jose's minimum wage currently stands at $8, but would get a bump up to $10 if measure d is approved at the polls next month, and would rise every year with inflation. if it passes, many small businesses fear they'll have to lay off employees, cut hours, and pass on higher prices to their customers. matt mahood, president of the silicon valley chamber of commerce says an independent study just commissioned by the chamber forecasts a similar outcome. >> the general conclusion is if you raise the minimum wage by 25% immediately in the city of san jose, that you're going to lose jobs, and it's going to be significant. and it's actually going to hurt the people that it's intended to help. >> the chamber of commerce opposed measure d before the results of the report. do the figures and predictions check out? investigative reporter sam brock takes a closer look in tonight's reality check, coming u

listen, the airwaves in sacramento are saturated with lundgren and berra ads and quite a few for ricky gill and mcnearny and i mean, this is hot stuff going on here. there's a lot of outside money. er think there's a place where the presidential thing does affect these congressional races and that's in turnout. i don't think we're going to see the kind of turnout this year we saw four years ago and that could hurt the m thes. there's really nothing driving voter turnout in california. there's nothing going on at the presidential level. there's no u.s. senate seat seriously at stake. there's really nothing out there to get that kind of visceral reaction to get a turnout. and if is turnout is substantially lower, that will huwet the democrats. >> belva: we sort of grabbed your story a bit. >> that's fine. >> belva: do you agree that outside money is having an influence? >> it absolutely is. whether it's the partisan super-pacs, business or whatever, there's a lot of money being spent here. buff i guess is very good for political consultants in california. >> belva: we turn to dan walters

the best way i have to describe china's economy, to steal a line from yogi berra is one-half market economy and three- quarters centralize control economy. they are big enough. they are powerful enough that they can probably pull this off. we will have to see how it happens, but that is an important thing for the world economy. europe, on the other hand, is another story. if you believe in the mayan calendar that the world will end in 2012, europe might be the reason for it. it has an awful lot of problems going on. you read about the sovereign debt crisis in the news. that is one problem. that is probably the least problem that they have. the second problem they have is most of the banks are undercapitalized. they need to increase their capital and as a result, they cannot make the loans needed to expand the economy, and that is a big concern, and banks are bigger in europe than in the united states, much more prominent in terms of driving the economy. the third most important part is the fact that they are really going into a recession, and it will not be as big a recession is what occurr

. >> pelley: to borrow a phrase from yogi berra, day sgra view all over again. a baseball team made up of player nobody wanted is back in the playoffs. >> reporter: they are the poorest team in major league baseball with a roster stocked with rookies and low-paid veterans pulled off the junk heap. the oakland as were pegged to finish last in their division. >> people figured we'd lose 110, this has been satisfying. >> reporter: instead they finished first. if what general manager billy beane has done sounds like a hollywood story, well, it already was. >> the problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. then there's 50 feet of crap. and then there's us. >> reporter: brad pitt played beane in "moneyball." based on a best-selling book it's a david-and-goliath tail with a g.m. with a small budget for salaries outthinking everyone else using a statistical formula to find winners. you have to find undervalued players. >> you essentially have to have players whose performance is better than what we're paying them. >> reporter: b

. >> reporter: to quote yogi berra, this is deja vu all over again. this place is going mad. want to point out all of these people who are throwing beer and champagne and dancing around with brooms because of the sweep. what happened this time is different than last time. if you can pan over the other way, over there. someone actually brought out a big sound still on a pickup truck and there are spontaneous dance party going on in the middle of the streets. you are a big giant's fan? >> i am. >> what is your name? >> monica. >> reporter: tell me what this feels like to win the second world series in three years? >> everyone is saying two years ago and it's great to be back here and welcome the giants back to san francisco. >> reporter: what brought you out here to chestnut? >> everything. you know? all the fans. >> reporter: i don't know if you guys can hear me now, but thank you, monica. on a personal note i have to tell you that my car is parked right behind the pickup truck. so i don't know if it's actually going to survive this mob out here right now. live in san francisc

he's also backing berra and hernandez as they try to unseat gop congressmen.bout 3,000 students and supporters attended today's rally. >>> janine de la vega joins us now live from san jose after talking with one man who is at the center of a high profile sexual accuse case here in the bay area. janine. >> reporter: julie i spoke with will lynch who says he was molested as a child by a priest. now this summer lynch faced charges here at this courthouse for taking revenge on that former clergymen. today he shared his opinions on the sandusky case. >> reporter: lynch comes across as a very educated young man. >> harking back to my own abuse. what i found particularly dispushing was sandusky's demeanor. his denial, his laughing and shurking it off, like this is all a misunderstanding. >> reporter: the judge sentenced him to at least 30 years in prison. >> we're pleased to a sentence. it was a life sentence but it was a lot less than we thought it could have been. >> personally i would have liked the statement if the judge had given him everything he could have giv

we're making lots of money but we're -- we're doing as best -- is this some weird yogi berra-ism?e're making lots of money, we're growing, but we have to vote republican. >> the best of the times. i've never been better. i'm building the bigger house in if we were to be a communications team for a republican ceo and suggest that the memo should say, it's in our shared obama really is anti-business and anti-growth as these people make him out to be. look at this nonsensical quote. >> oar people outside the united states. no, chris, this is the great mystery of the rage of the plutocrats. the reality, when you look at the numbers, actually barack obama has been a pretty good president for the plutocrats. as you say, stock market has recovered. clinton was, too. the stock market has recovered. it's the middle class that's -- >> what drives a guy who makes a ton of money, has a lot of power, or woman, to be fair -- >> there aren't that many women. >> why do they vote republican? is it they don't like having a president who knocks them? they're embarrassed by his children when the pres

he's also backing berra and hernandez as they try to unseat gop congressmen.,000 students and supporters attended today's rally. >>> janine de la vega joins us now live from san jose after talking with one man who is at the center of a high profile sexual accuse case here in the bay area. janine. >> reporter: julie i spoke with will lynch who says he was molested as a child by a priest. now this summer lynch faced charges here at this courthouse for taking revenge on that former clergymen. today he shared his opinions on the sandusky case. >> reporter: lynch comes across as a very educated young man. >> harking back to my own abuse. what i found particularly dispushing was sandusky's demeanor. his denial, his laughing and shurking it off, like this is all a misunderstanding. >> reporter: the judge sentenced him to at least 30 years in prison. >> we're pleased to a sentence. it was a life sentence but it was a lot less than we thought it could have been. >> personally i would have liked the statement if the judge had given him everything he could have given him

send to your friends, and you have a natural, easy, and cheap way to fragment -- >> is it the yogi berraes there anymore, it's too crowded. >> that's certainly one of the things. you can look at facebook and say it's, you know, boring, it's square. >> i think it's premature to say that facebook is sort of going to be a dinosaur or anything like that. i know that's not exactly what you're saying, and i agree with you, the advertising issue is significant. i look at some of these, like a twitter, for example. i see what they're doing -- in fact, one of the more important stories of twitter right now is twitter is a great feed, but when it comes to financial news and stocks, stock twits has really carved something out and twitter is going to try to take that back. i don't thinktter take that back, which gets to the fragmentation you're talking about. >> exactly. let's remember these are all advertising plays. where do you make money on advertising? you make it by targeted. you make it by offering an audience that's more valuable than a broad-based undifferentiated, not very inspiring audien

deja vu all over again as yogi berra would say, reminded me of putting people first, bill clinton after the new hampshire primary he had that pamphlet in florida when he went down battling off the late paul son gas. what is the strategy in coming up with a pamphlet now with only 14 days to go? >> of course, the pamphlet reflects the ideas that the president has advanced throughout this campaign about where we need to go as a country, building on the progress that we've made, andrea. it's the plan that he talked about at the conventions. it's the plan that he talks about every day. we wanted to codify it and put it in one place as voters making their final decisions, contemplate those decisions they have a chance to look at the specific ideas the president is offering. to advance our education system, rebuild our manufacturing sector, to balance our budget in a responsible way, to seize the opportunities of a new energy future and that's all reflected in that pamphlet. we also want them to look at governor romney's plan because what they'll find is a bunch of topic heads and nothing unde

we're making lots of money but we're -- we're doing as best -- is this some weird yogi berra-ism? have to vote republican. >> the best of the times. i've never been better. i'm building the bigger house in if we were to be a communications team for a republican ceo and suggest that the memo should say, it's in our shared obama really is anti-business and anti-growth as these people make him out to be. look at this nonsensical quote. i wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. the company is dg the best we've done in our history. we're making lots of money. we're doing -- is this some weird kind of yogi-bearism? in other words, we have to vote republican? >> these are the best of times. i've never been doing better. >> the stock market, the dow, it's climbing to 140,000. it's going to break all records. my belief it is because as jobless recovery because that's the business plan. cut costs by cutting intermediate management, reduce salaries, reduce packages with health care and do with-t with machines -- >> oar people outside the united states. n

this one is the hall of fame placard of yogi berra.g up for auction and experts say the sale may be a record breaker. >> i believe that once the books change hands it will be the largest personal collection of books autographed ever changing hands. >> reporter: for kallin, getting rich isn't his objective. he's hoping to save his daughter's life. she suffers from a rare auto immune disease. >> i want to sleep all day but i still get up, i have a 17 and a 15-year-old that i'm trying to raise and two women to be productive women and so i have to be there for them. >> reporter: at her skyrocketing medical bills mounted her father decided the best way to help is to sell his prized possession. >> i was amazed. i sat there for probably about 30 minutes just looking and looking and saying to myself wow my father, you know, this is it for him. >> reporter: the auction could raise as much as $4.5 million and in doing so kallin he hopes to raise awareness about her condition which remains without a cure. >>> interesting thing. a lifetime's work.

a famous baseball player and philosopher yogi berra once said, it is very difficult to make predictions because the future hasn't happened yet but predictions, do you think congress will undertake substantive changes to the dodd-frank act either in the lame-duck session of the 112th congress or next year's congress? dennis, we can start with you and sweep down the line? >> i think it depends in part on the outcome of elections. if it is a roughly status quo election, president is reelected and senate stays in with democrats in charge and not by much and house stays republican i think substantive changes are not likely. i think there will be repeated daily attempts at what are called technical amendments and technical fixes which is going to be the trojan horse through which the industry will try to roll back moist of this which is what they have been doing the last two years. i think at the end of the day i think it will be difficult on a status quo political landscape of getting really big substantive changes. >> peter? >> i agree with that. >> see, we do agree. and we will have much s

going to do a little differently than my biggest hero and my most famous philosopher, owe -- yogi berrayou know how he describes a fork in the road? if you come to a fork in the road, take it. [laughter] well, we're going to come to a fork in the road on november 6th, and we are going to take it in the one direction or another. and i can't think of a time -- not even 1980 -- where the country will be very different a year from now depending on the choice we make on november 6th. it could be a different country a year from now one way or the other depending on whatever side you're on, what you can't escape is certainly with regard the our domestic policy, our economy, our health care, our energy policy this country is going to be headed in one of two diametrically opposed directions. so let's look at, let's look at the -- i'm going to give a talk later on taxes and what's going on with regard to tax reform, but just look at taxes. if we elect or reelect president obama, we know the direction he's going to be pushing in, the direction he's going to be pushing in is to raise taxes on the t

on november 6th will be done different listen -- differently than my biggest hero and philosopher berra described it. if you come to a fork in the road, take it. [laughter] well, we're going to come to a fork in the road on the 6th, and we'll take it one direction or another. i can't think of a time, not even 1980, that the country will be very different a year from now depending on the choice we make. could be a very different country one way or the other, what you can't escape is certainly with regards from the domestic policy, our economy, our health care, our energy policy, this country is going to be headed in one of two die met dimetrically -- i'll give a talk on taxes and what's going on with tax reform. you look at taxes. if we elect or re-elect prawrm, we know the direction he's going to be pushing in, the direction he's going to be pushing in is to raise taxes on the top percentage, whatever that percentage he decides it to be, $250,000 or more, the reality is that's not going to get him any money. he's going to have to raise taxes on a much larger percentage of americans if h

a november 6 will do a little differently than my biggest hero in my most famous philosopher, yogi berra how he describes a fork in the road. if you come to a fork in the road, take it. wow, were going to come to a fork in the road on november 6 while going to take it in one direction or another. i can't think of a time, not even 1880, or the country will be very different a year from now depending on the choice they make on november 6. it could be a different country you're from now one way or the other, depending whatever side you're on, which you can escape is certainly with regard to her domestic policy, our economy, health care, energy energy policy. this country is going to be headed by one of two diametrically opposed directions so let's look at -- i'm going to give a talk later on taxes and what's going on with regard to tax reform. but you just look at taxes. if you elect or reelect president obama, president obama will be pushing that direction to raise taxes on the top percentage, whatever that percentage he decides it's going to be, probably 250 or more. the reality is that's

is going to happen on november 6th and what general baker didn't say is the aaa baseball team yogi berra a great philosopher and one said predictions are pretty fast particularly about the future. and i think it is when to be really interesting to see what happens on tuesday, november 6. but i will tell you it will have a direct effect on what he does day in and day out and what i do day in and day out because when you think about regulatory overreach or federal overreach or the balance that should exist between the states and the federal government, you know, we talk about federalism as an academic concept. it's real. it's the of checks and balances. we know about the horizontal checks and balances at federal was some is what congress does every day it passes the law and invests certain responsibility and reserves some of that and there's so was the vehicle operation and our first 20 or so months in office i lived in a very personal and direct way actions by this administration and by the federal government that has affected us dramatically in oklahoma. in the energy context there is so

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