a book is not a response to chris mooney's book.it is simply saying, as paul harvey would say, with the rest of the story? simply say yes, the right get some use wrong, to pretend the left is great on science isn't true. and i was a point of our book. revealing what the left was wrong in science. data is data. it doesn't have a political agenda. we have to learn to distinguish science from policy. when science dabbled public policy committee sometimes get in trouble. you need to learn to distinguish what the science says from what a scientist speaking as a public policy advocate says. if we can put aside our political differences, we should be able to agree on lessons of science teaches us. so you can handle the truth. apologies to colonel joseph. and that's it. other to thank aei, kenneth green, our mascot at uw. john m. simon kenneth green has been instrumental in getting me here. one final slide. in this book, we talked mostly about barack obama here. rush is one chapter piercy imagine how much information they packed into this t

so to help us sort it out we have chris mooney. chris, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> you've been on the ground in specifically ohio and florida. the big news out of ohio is they have the boss and big dog, bill clinton and bruce springsteen, stumping for the president. do they have aan impact in swing sets? >> they get attention, and they bring people out. that's not to say mitt romney and obama can't bring people. in the month of october they're pulling more than 10,000 people into rallies. the key take away here is the era of the national campaign is over. you have to think of it as a big pinball machine rigged with magnets to key states. these candidates don't focus on other states anymore. we look at a handful to spend a lot of time. >> that really new in the modern era? has that changed over time? >> it has. there was a great piece in national journal today that talked about how california used to be a swing state where places went back and forth. we see these things change. now this era of the end of the na