. >> peter hart led this discussion at the annenberg public policy center. this is about two hours. >> thank you all for being here. if you can put your name tags facing toward me, that will help me a lot. there's bill down at the end and victor. great. how are you? everybody in good shape? thank you all very, very much for being here. let me introduce myself. my name is peter hart. i take public opinion polls, and i'm from washington, d.c. this has been an ongoing project we have done at the university of pennsylvania for almost 10 years. it is just a chance to visit with voters, find out what people are thinking or where things are at, and we thought at the end of the first year of the obama administration would be an excellent possibility to sort of drop in, see where everybody is coming from, and it also allows us to show you the annenberg center, the new building, which i think you will agree, is gorgeous. so thank you all for be -- all for coming in. i know a lot of you are from the surrounding areas. what i would like you to do is go around the table,

following that, pollster peter hart host as focus group in the fill dill fi yeah area. also weekly addresses from the president and a speech from carly fiorina on health care registration. >> this is c-span's "america and the courts." next a discussion on the relationship between the supreme court and the media. journalists who cover the high court talked about the public's understanding of the supreme court and the media's role in educating the public on the judicial branch of government. princeton university hosted this discussion last month. >> anyway, it is so exciting to be here. thank you so much for inviting me. what a classy group. but forget all that. what is especially thrilling to me is to see andy m -- amn marie slotchchick. she was the dean here for several years. but 23 years ago she was the maid of honor at our wedding. so ann marie, wonderful to see you. i'm real estatey delighted to see with emily adam and dalia because i think we do different things even as we do the same things. we cover the court in different forms in different -- in different ways,

. >> in a few moments peter hart hosts a focus group and weekly addresses from president obama and the on health care legislation. following that a look at highlights from today's senate health care debate. >> senators are continuing their debate of health care through the weekend. with book tv programs resuming after the debate. watch the senate debate on health care live, gavel to gavel on c-span 2, the only network with the full debate unedited and commercial-free. to read the senate bill and the house version and watch video-on-demand, go online to c-span's health care home. >> thank you all for being here. if you will face your name tags directly towards me, that will help me a lot. bill, down at the end. victor. thank you all very much for being here. my name is peter heart. i am from washington, d.c. this is an ongoing project for almost 10 years. it is a chance too visit with voters and find out where things are at. we thought the end of the obama administration would be an excellent point to drop in and it also allows us to show you the annenberg center, the brand-new building

and it was pat and peter hart. i know. and i was just like -- this was fascinating. it was really cool stuff 'cause i'm an old -- i'm a frustrated high school athlete. i loved the competition. the reason why i was kind of drawn to this is because of the competitive nature of politics. and so i kept taking courses. and then went to uva for grad school and then kind of migrated to washington. i had never been to d.c. before in my life. before i came here to work. well, came here trying to find work. ended up as an intern in survey research at the republican national committee. while i was working the phones at the rnc, i worked the phones 40 hours a week. and then worked 20 hours -- no, the internship 40 hours a week and worked the phones 20 hours a week. raising money for the republican national committee in 1974 or so, which was immediately after watergate. it was a little tough. and then my internship and my intern coordinator was a guy named karl rove. so it was an interesting experience. i then decided you know what? i wanted to go work on a congressional campaign

. >> if you want to know more i'm sure he'll tell you but some of the big names diane feldman, peter hart some of the basic names in democratic politics. the fun things he graduated at university of mass. she said in a rugby player. i thought that was cool. i recently sat to visit with morgan freeman. i don't understand rugby so maybe you can explain. >> thanks for the very kind introduction. so, as lids aside my name is transfixed. i've been doing polling for ten years now. everything from presidential level. i worked for obama and kerry in 04. senate races, gubernatorial, down two states alleged racist. so pretty much everything from top to bottom. i just recently started my own firm about six months ago, something like that. and i am happy to walk you to the very fun and exciting world of polling today. so as a sort of go through this if you have any questions, just growing and that. i know some of this is going to a little dry in the beginning but i just want to give everyone a little bit of a background. i don't really know how much knowledge everyone in the room has a polling, but j

and it was pat and peter hart. i know. and i was just like -- this was fascinating.'cause i'm an old -- i'm a frustrated high school athlete. i loved the competition. the reason why i was kind of drawn to this is because of the competitive nature of politics. and so i kept taking courses. and then went to uva for grad school and then kind of migrated to washington. i had never been to d.c. before in my life. before i came here to work. well, came here trying to find work. ended up as an intern in survey research at the republican national committee. while i was working the phones at the rnc, i worked the phones 40 hours a week. and then worked 20 hours -- no, the internship 40 hours a week and worked the phones 20 hours a week. raising money for the republican national committee in 1974 or so, which was immediately after watergate. it was a little tough. and then my internship and my intern coordinator was a guy named karl rove. so it was an interesting experience. i then decided you know what? i wanted to go work on a congressional campaign. and i finished my grad s