host: kerri toloczko, thank you. guest: thank you, anytime. the tea party rallies -- how influential with a cut in this process? -- how influential or they in this process? guest: they were among the first running advertisements. it was at first hard to tell how much was genuine, and how much was been ginned up by the insurance industry, other things. but august was not a good month if you are supporting this bill. this debate has gotten very, very polarized, for better or worse. you have basically got people who really want this and really don't want this, and without any deep understanding, if i can say so, of what is in this bill, and i know that to be the case, because if you go back and look at polls, saying "do you want this bill," and they say no, and then you go over what is in the bill, and they say yes -- people who clearly don't understand what is in the bill, i just know what they are here in. host: republican line, robert. caller: good morning. i've been holding a long time. my comment really is somewhat of a criticism upoof ms. r

host: kerri toloczko, thank you. guest: thank you, anytime. tea party rallies -- how influential with a cut in this process? -- how influential or they in this process? guest: they were among the first running advertisements. it was at first hard to tell how much was genuine, and how much was been ginned up by the insurance industry, other things. but august was not a good month if you are supporting this bill. this debate has gotten very, very polarized, for better or worse. you have basically got people who really want this and really don't want this, and without any deep understanding, if i can say so, of what is in this bill, and i know that to be the case, because if you go back and look at polls, saying "do you want this bill," and they say no, and then you go over what is in the bill, and they say yes -- people who clearly don't understand what is in the bill, i just know what they are here in. host: republican line, robert. caller: good morning. i've been holding a long time. my comment really is somewhat of a criticism upoof ms. rovne

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. >> host: kerri toloczko, the policy druker. thank you. this group, the tea party rally that we saw over the summer, how influential in your estimation were they in this whole process? >> guest: i think they were, as she said, the first group out running ads, so i think at the beginning not so much. i think over the summer it was hard to tell. to tease out how much was genuine, you do, people who are angry about this and how much was sort of gin up. we found that since then people who are janda by the insurance industry and by other things. but i think definitely, august was not a good month if you are supporting this bill. and it was a good month if you're not supporting this bill. so i think since then, you know, this debate has gotten very, very polarized for better or worse. you basically have got people who really, really want is an really don't want this. and i think without any very deep understanding, if i could say so, of what's in this bill and i know that to be the case because if you go back and look at the polls, the poll say