indicator, in fact, a brilliant one of where the country is headed. virginia is like everywhere now. the race is close but according to the latest marist poll, terr leads ken cuccinelli by five points. it could be chocked up a to a significant gender difference in the race. only 39% of women are behind kuch nelly. more than any other state, virginia votes like america. in 2012, in the presidential election, president obama defeated mitt romney in virginia by a little under 4 percentage points nationally. now look at the vote in virginia. the results are almost identical. in each case, within a tenth of one point. so a growing gender gap in virginia could suggest a growing gender gap nationally. we ll see how this election turns out. political reporter, director chuck todd, moderated last night s debate down in virginia and he joins us now. let s skip the personality, sort of in all cases, not the issue. in many ways, it s about issues here and women voters.
that s going to sneak in here, because there s some issue. we ll see it the penalties would be lower with this gender dynamic than in reverse. exactly. what about involuntary manslaughter, which would be a sort of, oops defense. i pushed him and i meant to push him, i didn t mean to kill him, it s sort of reckless behavior. that s right on the money. in other words, my thinking was, that if they turn around to actually try to defend this case, they would work off her admission. i pushed him intentionally, didn t intend him to die. back to the gender difference. and her name escapes me, we covered her trial recent ly. she s still looking at the death penalty. that was a vicious killing. stabbed him 26 times and shot him. that s different than pushing someone off the cliff? well
the gamers learn to go and adjust and change and they can apply the skills they are learning and apply them to something else. it may be the most striking example of that that is a researcher who was somebody who thought video games were really negative. for laproscopic surgeons, they are looking at the monitor, but there is skill that is the number one predictor of the surgical skills. the second is how much time they are playing video games. way after that they are training and how many surgeries they performed. that s stunning. i was interested in the gender difference here and it strike mees that there is a chicken and egg problem. the boys tend to be better at spatial reasoning and they are attracted to video games and they play more than girls and
history shows that when there have been age differences the elder statesmen wins these vice presidential debates you had in cheney and edwards. cheney smacked down edwards, if you will, benson and quayle are the most famous. let s talk about the age difference, and, of course, the experience difference. we talked about the gender difference when it was sarah palin with joe biden, and this time around we re talking the age game. exactly. he has to be wise and knowledgeable and engaging without looking, you know, kond sending or in some way talking down to congressman ryan. congressm congressman ryan is a formidable figure. he has a lot of command of facts and figures. the democratic camp hopes he ll get lost in weeds and vice president biden can relate to his audience than congressman ryan. that s really up in the air. what about the fact in i think it s quite clear you have
the late term abortion doctor. she comes in and says you know what, president, this is about women s rights. this is not about freedom of religion. mr. obama buys this sebelius argument and therefore we have the controversy we have now. my question is for a guy who knows that catholics voted for him in 2008, he has got to know this is this is a loser and i believe he is going to retract himself on it. he is going to have to walk it back in some way, no doubt about it i think it will happen probably like late on a friday is when they usually drop that type of news. bill, there is some reporting today that indicated there was a gender difference in the white house. so, women kind of lined up for, quote, women s rights, which is a hilarious way of framing it. but it s all you know, valerie jarrett, kathleen sebelius and perhaps even the first lady who. bill: we don t want to speculate that. we don t want one thing we know she has not shied away