automakers, if this is good for them. well, we heard about what ford is doing, and we have those incentives, those $1,000 incentives to get toyota consumers to switch. and certainly when you talk about something that s so intimate as your gas pedal getting stuck and you losing control of your car, that s going to make consumers a little hedgy, a little worried about driving a japanese vehicle, a toyota vehicle. so you have these u.s. automakers now sort of eyeing the big fish there. this was the company that was known as mr. t in the region. and now they re looking at perhaps this is a chipping away at the very core toyota mantra, that being quality. if you can really break down a company for what it is known for, for what drives this particular company, then you can perhaps win over not just a few customers here, don. we re talking about millions of customers around the world. all right. kyung lah in tokyo. thank you very much for that. you know, they have been beaten, jailed, a
sure we can protect our interests in massachusetts. reporter: so who is turning out to these events? well, family, friends, neighbors, as well as some of those independent voters that were absolutely critical to scott brown s win. still, it s not entirely clear when the senator-elect will officially be seated. he told a crowd last night he expects it to be february 11th, about a week and a half away, but state officials here in massachusetts tell cnn the first step, certifying the election, they at least hope to have that, expect to have that done sometime this week. don? kate, thank you very much. republican excitement about scott brown is really off the charts. he s even being talked about in some quarters as a potential presidential candidate. earlier today brown told abc s barbara walters that any chatter about a white house run is premature. i don t even have a business card. i haven t even been sworn in. i don t have any exploratory committee started. i don t have anything.
you voted reluctantly for john mccain in 08 but did not agree with his policies but felt he d be better on the economy than barack obama at the time. wasn t president then. you re from illinois. you didn t vote for him. if you do all these conservative things what makes you not a conservative? are you an independent in title? i m fiscally conservative. the republicans have strayed from that in the last several years. i feel betrayed by them. i adhere to a fiscal conservative message. you feel betrayed by the republican party of the last couple years? i don t agree with their platform at all. okay. omar, that brings us to our next question. there are some people who don t believe there are independent voters and independent voters are just the people who are not happy with the current party in power. independents make up 40%, at least, as the cnn poll say, 42%, but steadily 40%. that s millions of americans.
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