. >> reporter: this restaurant serves japanese noodle ramen. the staffere eaks japanese. the menu is written in japanese but this restaurant is in seoul. >> translator: political issues will not affect the popularity of japanese food culture here. political disputes and culture exchanges are completely different issues. >> reporter: now south koreans can dig into japanese food in restaurants all over seoul. two years ago mika and her south korean husband jumped at a opportunity to introduce ramen to the capital. they modified their recipes a bit to appeal to the south korean palette and their business flourished. >> reporter: this month they will open their fourth store in seoul. >> translator: i think our customers like japan. i think they enjoy talking to our staff without touching on political issues. >> reporter: the exchanges aren't just culture. south korean companies grew into leading global companies. now managers of japanese firms count them among their most important clients. the south korean government has been encouraging foreign companies for decades to inves

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and we look across the kitchen table at our families eating ramen noodles for the the third time this week and wonder how that's fair. we read that the wealthy get bigger tax breaks in hopes that their money will "trickle down" to us. then we turn the page and we read about how our school districts are forced to cut staff again. >> that's one of the biggest things that changes in this period. money becomes more important for campaigns and it also becomes much more important in terms of lobbying which in some ways is the more important way that money changed american politics. it's really the development of lobbying over this last 25, 30 years that stands out as the most dramatic role of money in american politics. we tell the story in the book of the tax reform act of 1986. because this was one of these great examples when the lobbyists were overcondition. you know the gucci gulch right outside of the senate chamber where the well-heeled lobbyists attend to members of congress, well, gucci gulch was a place of, not of celebration, but of despair after 1986 because all of these tax loo

my2k tweets somebody actually said "got to stock up on bottled water, flashlight batteries and ramen noodles. people are just playing with twitter and they're tired of the substance. >> brown: i think it was just this week, howie, the obama campaign manager -- former now, jim messina, he was talking about this very issue, about keeping supporters, those millions that they got, engaged. but do they know how the do that? is this like everybody else trying to figure out how to keep it going? >> this is the second opportunity. because after the election of 2008 when president obama had built this digital machine given the technology at the time it kind of atrophied. they were not able to keep it up. i think here's there's a concerted effort, we have the obama for america, we used it in the campaign successfully, let's continue to recruit and activate this volunteer army through digital means, facebook, twitter, youtube, as you were saying. but i don't know if they can maintain the level of enthusiasm once the election has passed. >> brown: what about, lauren, the other side? the republicans -- y