. >> christopher conway. go ahead. >> i had a question. because we elect our presidential candidates by state and not by national popular vote, what is the role and rell van relevance that your poll takes? >> we're asked that a lot. a couple of things is, we poll nationally for a lot of things. we don't want to disentrance chiz people in ut and massachusetts who are definitely going to vote for republican and democratic candidates, it is good for us to see national little where people are standing, even if some of that information is less relevant. second of all, it's an e feshgt way to pick up what's happening even in the swing states. i mentioned earlier, we can't poll, like, we poll every night, 1,000 people nationally. huge commitment on the part of gallup, 350,000 interviews a year plus. we can't do that in all 50 states. it is just unfeasible. we can't track it. so, we think it's efficient to track nationally. those trends we see nationally almost always are translated into the swing states and the states, as well. so, in the electio

. >> let me go to christopher c conw conway, and bob, we'll be back with you in a moment. christopher, from philadelphia. go ahead. >> hi, miss bauerly. thank you for joining us today. you mentioned how the fec has a three and three nature, you can't have more than three members of any political party on the commission at one time. and obviously you need four votes for the fec to take any action. because of this, a lot of people have criticized the fec as toothless or slow-moving. as a commissioner, how would you -- what is your perspective on these characterizations? >> i would agree with some of them, actually. yes, it is the nature of the -- the statute set up a system where no more than three could be from one political party. that has not always meant that there are three democrats and three republicans. at this point in time, we have three republicans, two democrats and an independent. but we do need four votes to take action and so that does require bipartisan, if you will, compromise on most of the things that we would like to do. sometimes i've personally found tha