>> the other fix here is our civic duty to engage in democracy doesn't end on election day. we get the conversation totally gets hijacked by these extreme voices, like the tea party, right? and in the midst of that, there are regular americans that need to continue to be engaged after the election, but they are not. so those voices of the every day people who could sway politicians just doesn't get heard. >> i still have hope. it was our failure. i stopped, we stopped on election day, we expected to invest our hope in him. what he said at the convention, i have hope in you, and he's calling for to us have hope in him too. he did come out and repeal don't ask, don't tell. kind of came out for marriage equality and created a pathway for citizenship. there has been enough that to me that he's done revolutionary to hope for a second term. >> mickey's point, one he doesn't want to government.