some of the big large movie areas and actually they're going to be shown at half time at the uconn basketball game. so that's a pretty good audience too. so that's one of the things we're doing, i just want to mention one other thing we're doing as a partnership again. and we're doing something that a civic health index. this is a national program, some of your schools may be the congressional office on the name of the citizenship council. it's an attempt to look at the civic health of your state, not just civic education but social indicators about whether people are participating in their communities. whether they're trying to solve problems at a local level or volunteering on local boards and organizations. what it does is it sort of starts a conversation about what we were talking about earlier, whether we can have a conversation about civic life in this country. we did an index. it's a survey sort of thing, but it was great because i could form a partnership with some local organizations that are also interested in civic assessment we got a lot of publicity for it. we'll have real xhufrt conv

movies in some of the big large moviey areas and actually, they will be shown at half time at uconn basketball game. so that is one of the things we are doing. and i want to mention another thing we are doing as a partnership again. a the connecticut civic health index, it's a national program. some of the states may beo it's through the congressional office and i have forgotten the name of it, it's an attempt to look at the civic health of your state. not just civic education but social indicateres about whether people are participating in their communities and volunteering on local borboards organizations, it's starts to talk about whether we can have a conversation about civic life in the country. we did an index, it's a survey sort of thing. it was great, because i could form a partnership with some local organizations that are also interested in civic assessment and we got a lot of media attention for it and we are having forum around the state. communications about what our state needs to look like, how can we get people participating, because at a local level in many states the idea of runni

basketball between uconn and villanova. they both stink this year, but a good finish. final seconds, the length of the court. ties the game we're going to double o.t., but a 30 foot pull up. nails it. uconn rallies from an 18 point deficit to beat villanova 73-70. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," one week until the voting in michigan and arizona. polls show both states pretty much up for grabs between those two gentlemen. we will handicap the races with our "morning joe" crew. and when we come back here, we'll huddle around the water cooler to watch the return of colbert. he explains his absence when "way too early" comes right back. >>> newt has a ton of baggage. >> romney trying to hide from his romney care and his support for job killing cap and trade. >> santorum pushed for billions in wasteful port. >> every election cycle we talk about how ugly and negative the process has become. this morning we have evidence this go round is unusually so. tell yourself that more than 50% of campaign advertising in the republican primary has been devoted to neglect will difference attacks. in the 2008 primary,