near the balboa park station and we got to further development our relationship both as political science majors at sf state and we both had taken an active participation in some community groups. mestly at sf state. and in our time together i got a chance to see his work ethic and what he applies himself as. we took the l s.a.t. recently and w i think the board would be delighted with his attitude and his effort he would part put form. >> is there any other public comment? if you did come to the last rules committee and if you want to speak at this time?

we have been watching voters and we have met a couple with political shirts and a political science major that criticizes people that don't vote. >> this is a privilege. they take it for grant the. so having the right to put input into the government, i think it is important. >> after 911 i was influenced by what happened then, i had to buy the shirts. but these are the best ones that we have. >> we wear these things once or twice a year. >> like 4th of july and election day. >>> after throwing out the ballots, the voters asking to insert these in the machines that look like shredders. a memory card will be removed to transfer the results. channel 2 news. >>> in san francisco, voters are selecting several ballot measures, david stevenson is at city hall with the preparation for tonight's vote count. david. >> frank, yes, a number of ballot measures that san franciscoians will have to vote for still a 50 minute wait to get into city hall here and vote. take a look at the video we shot earlier. turnout is expected to be strong but may fall below the standard 71 turnout for presidential elec

i am a political science major at my state college. ow a little bit about the dynamics of how politics works on an elementary level. you say in your article that obama and the next four years would be willing to cut deals with republicans, possibly. why if he was elected in 2008, why didn't you listen to the voices in congress on the republican side, and why did he pushed through a health care reform act that all of us as americans feel so strongly about? it would have been so nice if he had chosen by partition chip -- bipartisanship then and we would not be in a stalemate. of americans, a lot do like obamacare. it is not fair to say that everybody hates it. but in the first two years of his presidency, he had big majorities in congress. if he had not fought for everything that he had gotten and what he wanted to do, the left -- i mean, they are already unhappy with some of the compromises he made going in, the things he did not fight for, such as the public option. i think a lot of people on the left to see obamacare as a compromise. i

i am a senior political science major at colorado state university. you would think that as a graduating senior the number one thing i would care baucus getting a job. in a way, that is what a lot of people are thinking about. but i want to be in local government practitioner and i am thinking about the debt in a different way. i think if we allow things to go as they are or make a decision that is not the right decision, we will find ourselves unable to provide the services to local areas that we have promised we need and i hope to one day be a part of. in addition to that, fix the debt has amazing core principles that regardless of where you come from, you can find a way to rally around. reducing spending, tax reform, and the entitlement reform of things we can come to the table and talk about. i urge that you do that. thank you. >> thank you very much. finally we will hear from wanda rohm, an owner of presto printing. a longstanding advocate for small and women owned businesses. >> i think being a small- business advocate has become my new life dri

i am a political science major at my state college. i know a little bit about the dynamics of how politics works at an elementary level. you say in your article that obama would be willing to cut deals with republicans possibly. why, if he was elected in 2008, and we no republicans voted for him, why did he listen to the voices in congress on the republican side, and why does he pushed through a health care reform act that all of us as americans feel so strongly about? president obama would show a partition there we would not be where we are now. -- what a show partisanship then, we would not be where we are now. guest: not quite fair to say everyone hates obama care, because a lot of americans like it. if you dial back to the first two years of the presidency, he had big majorities in congress. if he had not fought for everything and what he wanted to do, the left would have -- there were already unhappy with the compromises that he may going in. the things he did not fight for such of the public option. as much as conservatives are ex

i was going to major in english and political science.it in basketball, i wanted to be a political columnist. like george will -- not necessarily his politics. sorry george. i watch abc news, i see george stephanopoulos talking. i see that dude on fox, the a-hole. >> bill o'reilly? >> yeah. bill o'reilly. and i see your colleague, tom brokaw. that's what i wanted to get into. i love politics. you know what i'm saying? i see the katrina response. i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on

willie majored in college in political science, but what was his minor, geology, french, russian literaturean literature. >> finger painting, it sounds funny. >> you were both wrong. >> the correct answer, en. fr francais. >> we're in america. >> he even lived abroad in provenc sgle what's the score, 2-1? >> question five. when willie was a boy, he sent -- >> still a boy. >> postcards from family vacations to which of his heros. are they, a, michael jackson, b, knicks star patrick ewing, yankees slugger dave winfield or hulk hogan. >> dave winfield. >> you're good. >> he wrote dear winfield postcards to keep the baseball star up to date on willie's summer vacation. >> i was very young so i would write dear winfield, played mini golf and made a hole in one and sent to to yankee stadium. >> why did you think dave winfield would care? >> because i was 7. >> it is 2-2. >> i love it. >> and it's 2-2. >> tiebreaker. >> age. >> how old is willie geist? >> i'd say 39. >> and al roker? >> 41. >> and the correct answer is 37. >> natalie. >> i was -- i said 39. >> if i go over, nobody wins. >> one mor

i was a junior at colgate and i was majoring in political science, and i was enrolled in a course on national security and foreign policy affairs. and that was taught by a very good, very conservative professor, and i consulted with this professor because i thought that i wanted to enter that area upon my graduation. so as i prepared to leave campus between my junior and senior years, he gave me several books to read, one of which was nixon's "1999: victory without war." and that book had such a tremendous impact on my thinking about very crucial foreign policy issues that i sat down and i wrote nixon a letter dealing with the issues that he raised in the book. and it was a substantive letter, which later he told me was the reason it caught his eye. i mailed it, never expected a response. and about a month later i went to my mailbox, and i received a handwritten response from president nixon, telling me how much he thought of my letter, how much he appreciated the fact that i'd actually read his book and he invited me to come to his office in new jersey and discuss american foreign p

. >> let's continue our chat now with san jose state political science professor melinda jackson. if the democrats get their super majoritye assembly and the senate, the senate not for certain yet, what will that allow them to do? in what areas will we be affected most? >> reason prop 30 was on the ballot this year is because california requires 2/3 majority to raise taxes that is very difficult to get. if the democrats are able to have a super majority in both state legislature houses this would allow democrats to pass tax increases on their own that could make a big difference in terms of the state budget. >> we saw something historic last night the first couple of states to approve at the ballot box, same-sex marriage. talk about that for us. >> yes, this goes with the generational change we are seeing. the first time that voters have approved same-sex marriage. we've seen a huge shift in public opinion on this issue in the last few years. -- younger american are looking at this issue much differently than older generations. maybe influencing their parents and grandparents too. ma skwrorpt of americans -- majority of a

major legislation. >> host: what do teach? >> political science we almost always have been in the neighbor -- the number one they get a technical and others to i keep my finger in the american government course. we have a required course that said what goes on at the abell academy when ollie north does not understand the military? so the budget hearings required us of course, we don't talk about all of the sudan's but i like teaching the course. >> the idea to give a government check there is extra responsibilities. >> and also one more project, a book giveaway? >> one time one-shot that we have a load of fox we collected a bunch of books have never been paid per truckload to go to a landfill. so let's do another and another. we just passed five 5/6 billionth book. looked at the football field. side to side with and that is about to tractor to there and it is a library and a box. then we send items so some of the review books we dead and we believe we have the largest volunteer base contribution in the world that we can ship in expensive way. we h

major legislation because of their actions. >> host: what do you teach at the nature academy? >> guest: political science.our department's proud of the fact that for the last 30 years, we've almost all been the number one people. people don't assume that in a technical school, but value added because they have social sciences, teach media and politics, and campaign election, and i keep my finger in the american government course, and we have a required american government course. the congress in its wisdom said, you know, what's going on at the naval academy when they don't understand civilian control of the military? in the budget hearings, they required us to create a required government course. we taught 75% of the students that anyway, but now it's 1 # 00%. i like teaching about it. it's a traditional course and ethics of the course. when you're in the military, there's extra responsibilities on you that normal individuals do not have. i teach american government, the good stuff. >> host: one more project you're involved in, in a book give away. what's the project? >> guest: it was a one-time, one-sho

may start to some major divisions over how greece should fulfill its debt repayment plan as to whether this go live to rob is from the london school of economics and political science these overlong from athens tonight good evening. could the delay of this bailout for the greek economy. to be honest probably not many and you might recall given that if you weeks ago or prime minister summers had warned that should this. bailout not come in the degree to call it had to buy the sixteenth of november and we'll we're still here standing at. walton everything around the country hasn't to follow it seems like it was a beautiful to a lot of years they say the world ticks on what i've read in there but there is some worry about the wider impact of course after that meeting last night in brussels e.u. leaders saying that if greece went could threaten the whole block and that. of course it's of course will the how bad the damage you think it could do to the block what do you think would happen if there were and how would the rest of the. to be honest in terms of kind of trying to assess the damage it would have to think very carefully about who we're talking about we would no

majority because they need or want to. the real issue in the debate today is one of agenda control. -- we have a way to think about this. in political scienceif you look at the way house majority participate, it tells us about the way the senate majority is trying to behave today. they try to structure the environment so they can win, and they do so, but controlling the agenda at preventing the minority from participating in the process. that is not a surprise to anyone. that is what is being done in the seventh, and that is not how the senate has traditionally been run. there is a number of tools they have at their disposal to do this. the first one is filing closure. filing culture is something that is done out of weakness on the majority party -- prepared is a tool for the majority provide certainty in the process, provides a symbolic gesture on their part to create a demarcation that is clear. it is the only way in the senate you can do those things. in the house to conduct with a closed rule. more egregiously cannot we have this thing called same day cloture, where the idea is the bill is on the floor, the party filibusters' it for a w

majority in the state assembly. >> the republican party has no good news other that once you hit bottom there's only one way to go if you're going to survive. >> reporter: east bay political science professor says things couldn't have been more disastrous for the gop. he says the party needs to do a lot of soul-searching if they want to remain relevant in california and the country. >> the country is diverse. the definition of the diverse. the republican party believe they could continue to rely and there would be enough of those people traditional whites that they could be a viable party. >> reporter: he says not only does the party need to be more inclusive it needs to the move to the middle acknowledging the liberal shift of california voters. >> the republican party needs to figure out how to be the right party for california and if they can figure that out, they very well may lead their national party in a better direction. >> reporter: though he acknowledges the gop must do more to broaden its base, but he believes the party's fortunes will turn around. >> there are pendulum swings in politics. the republicans are focused and will have the opportunity to make their case aga

sciences. now we add to the responsibility of the presidents of the publics, they have to try to do the same thing with a board that's politically appointed and constantly changing. it's a major problem, but i think that president sullivan had it exactly right as to what they should be doing. >> well, let me comment on that al little bit. in july, the regions of the university of michigan approved the budget for ann arbor campus. they approved it on a 5-3 vote, one vote the other way, and it wouldn't have been approved. $6 billion a year, the size of which i'm a chair of the board of directors' governance committee. the university of michigan is infin nitly more complex, it's a global institution, but i could not imagine in a thousand years picking a board to govern that would have accountability in the way that we pick governing boards for the universities today. this quaint tradition that dates from the colonial years, and i guess it comes from the scottish tradition of having lay boards oversee extraordinarily complex institutions is a recipe for disaster, i believe. the best practices of corporate governance, not all of corporate good afternoon nans, but -- governance, bu