response was, i ve won. it s been downhill for him ever since. i have to show you guys something. cornell, you were saying that democratic strategist is wrong. i want to show something. there is some evidence the president s talking about in doing these forums is starting to generate some activity. this is his website. we showed you a week ago or so how traffic to his website had dropped off the table since 2008. it was up 63%. the week, 11% up. you see the recent activity by the president is driving up at least visits to barackobama.com. this is rock the poll data. they re liberal, moderate, in the middle. this is a question who do you want to control congress? 34% of young voters say democrats. 28% say republicans. this is the part that hurts. 36 % say it doesn t matter to me. so, cornell, these are voters the president s trying to
those? look. this is an example of how our political rhetoric gets spun up. and, you know, the internet and twitter and all these things are very powerful but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks calling each other names. that s true on the left or the right. that s something we have to avoid. we have to be able to have a conversation and recognize we re all americans. we all want the best for this country. that s the president at the mtv/b.e. tncht fo mtv/b.e.t. forum. it would be nice if we could have a conversation about these important issues but we ll not get a civil conversation in the next 19 days, are we? i don t think so. it s interesting to hear the president talk about postpartisanship but when he s out on the campaign trail, he has to talk to his democratic base. he has to get them out to vote. so, he s, again, sticking it to the republicans. he s trying to have it both ways. he s got to do that in this election year.
something that this has put a spotlight on and you could expect laws and more scrutiny on some of these mines that were really not up to par before this accident. reporter: you know, i m not sure i would agree with the speculative course with everything that patrick says about how much these miners lives will change. we have heard from family members who received letters from miners while here on the ground, that all 33 had taken some kind of pact of silence, that they weren t going to tell everything that happened in the mine. now, that first of all made me think, well, there s something dark and untward happened down there, was this some lord of the flies situation? i don t think so. i hear from others that it s a pact that together their power has increased so they can sign off on book rights or media interviews. what i would suspect as each of these 33 miners come out of
did to survive for the rest of their lives. so, it s changed them, changed this community. i really don t see them going back. one thing that does have to change is the state of mining in chile. both karl and i got to look at certain aspects of mining here. their mines here, they re frankly incredibly, incredibly unsafe. i looked at the aftermath of people living in this community, people whose arms were broken, people who lost feet to explosives. one man i talked to lost a leg to an explosion. he d worked in the san jose mine. he had a word for those mines, he called them kamikaze mines. if you went down in mines like the san jose mines, oftentimes you wouldn t expect to come home. it was a rick you were taking. at the san jose mine, there was a virgin mary, on the descent down they crossed themselves because it was that dangerous. so, that s something that chilean president pinera has said needs to change. the mine safety record here is
hospital, the media will focus on three or four of them. some of that so-called stars, the most extrovert, such as mario accept ul va sepulveda, hl right for himself. others were quiet, team players. that was the key to their survival, team play, not individual play. they will go home. i ve just come from one miner s house just now. i had to take something to his wife. i went down a side street and there was their house. and the front of the house is probably about 12 or 15 feet across. and it s not very deep. it s a concrete floor. it s just a breeze block building without any paint on the side. a very rudimentary. i mean, these are working class men. and my fear is that a lot of the 33 will simply go back home, in a couple days and think, you know, i m back to what it was.