john tester, he won by 3600 votes, tim johnson won by 500 votes, al franken beat by 300 votes, maria cantwell, we are like the latino vote, we can decide elections and by deciding who votes in the united states senate. >> what's stopping native americans turning out en masse from the reservation? >> once again it is the cultural awareness. we do have -- everything is local, tribal election is 70%, right here in my face. but once again you're dealing with an incredible lack, we don't have the skill set, the education, the resources. the most poverty -- we're three times the rate of poverty in the rest of the country. the unemployment rate on our reservation is 80%. mail-in balloting, you can't do mail-in balloting with regard to native americans. i have an 82 year old mother, if she gets a letter from the government she doesn't read it. >> what's the barrier to that same sort of turnout on election day for general election? >> they think that by voting for the tribal chairman or tribal council can make a difference but the lack of trust for government off the reservation is incredible -- remem

. >> i had the privilege of working for one member of congress, maria cantwell and organized by senatorl kul xi on as regular basis. since it was so male dominated, most of the women members, whatever their age, were newer members in the senate, especially when i was working a decade ago. that's another dynamic that is interesting here. you have people who are newer. we know from the tea party, new could mean very hard core and partisan. but new can also mean not as connected to some of the strict tours that bind both of these institutions particularly in the senate. they have said we've got to change the filibuster because we need democracy. >> the pushback to this conversation, what about michelle bachmann? far to the right and extreme if we had more michele bachmann it would not be helpful. certainly true. what we're talking about here is not every single woman. we're talking about in general, overall, when you have more women in the room at the decision-making table, the process works better. there is more consensus building and they found also in corporations that incorporating mor

democratic senator maria cantwell certainly believes it would. were up to the women this would be over already. she said there's still a lot of testosterone going around. >> this is a refrain we hear over and over. christine lagarde said if it was lehman sisters things would be different. women are brought to the table because of their ability to compromise. on the one hand you want to say don't stereotype but it's true. studies have shown this. women bring different things to the table in the boardroom at the negotiation table. you see it happening. look at kelly ayotte and others. >> on the flip side if there were all women there would be other problems. you need a balance. >> you want a multitude of perspectives at any discussion table. >> you want it to be lehman brothers and sisters. combination of different opinions. there are now studies that show that women lawmakers propose more bills, get more bills passed, work in a more bipartisan manner and those bills have a chance of getting taken up into law. both democrats and republicans are hea