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daniel hemminger is the deputy editor of the wall street s wall street journal s editorial page. it is that voter enthusiasm poll that would be of the greatest concern over at team obama. why? anytime you get below 50%, megyn, you re in trouble. and that number, 39%, is pretty startling. they ve got to be tremendously upset about that. and one of the other numbers you put up there that is worth focusing on was 2008 for republicans, 35%. and we all do remember how when john mccain was running there was really an enthusiasm deficit for the republican ticket back then. and, boy, if barack obama has got himself into a territory similar to what john mccain was in 2008, yeah, the democrats have a lot to be worried about. megyn: i thought mitt romney was supposed to be this uninspiring figure that even the people on the right found boring and, you know, not that they just weren t that into him? why is republican enthusiasm up? well, i think it s up because it has a lot ....
this presidential election, so it s all about who you can actually get to show up at the polls. according to gallup, dan, republicans historically vote at higher rates than the democrats, so that is why when you have numbers and, you know, the rasmussen daily tracking poll, mitt romney s up four. last week it could have been, you know, i think it was the reverse. but the point is, it s tight. and everybody we have on here from the left and the right agrees it s going to be tight, it s not going to be a blowout election for either man on november 6th. and so the question is, who s actually going to show up at the polls on november 6th? enthusiasm may predict that. well, you know, one election that people forget but i think was crucially important, megyn, was that off-year election in november 2010. people forget that democrats got blown out of office at every level of government. they not only lost the house of representatives, they lost state legislatures in many of ....
if i didn t lock the door, i think we might be dead today. i just hear her noise. she was asking for help again and again, like, there was nothing we could do about that thing. some bodies out of the building. i saw they carried a body out, and they put a blanket over it. and they carried other bodies out, and you couldn t tell if they were alive or not. megyn: trace gallagher has more. reporter: and police now say because he could not target that school administrator, instead he grabbed a secretary at gunpoint, and he walked that secretary into that act chew puncture class room, and that s when he told everyone to line up against the black board. some did. others did not, and that s when police say he opened fire, began shooting and turning around and around as he shot. here, now, is the brother of one of the victims. listen. he grabbed the lady that does the filing and brought her and said everybody get against the board, and when nobody did, he started shooting ....
here is just some of the reaction now from the scene. it s like sometime you hear this firework, it goes boom, boom, you know, something like that. three or four times i hear that. if i didn t lock the door, i think we might be dead today. i just hear her noise. she was asking for help again and again, like, there was nothing we could do about that thing. some bodies out of the building. i saw they carried a body out, and they put a blanket over it. and they carried other bodies out, and you couldn t tell if they were alive or not. megyn: trace gallagher has more. reporter: and police now say because he could not target that school administrator, instead he grabbed a secretary at gunpoint, and he walked that secretary into that act chew puncture class room, and that s when he told everyone to line up against the black board. some did. others did not, and that s when police say he opened fire, began shooting and turning around and around as he shot. here, now, is t ....
Are out to get them, they believe in the threat, and in that case, they act on it. and that s what i believe and the tragedy here is that with the proper medication, these people can be treated and live relatively normal lives? well, a very interesting point. arizona, unlike many other states, has a very unique law. and the law states that any person, a faculty member, a teacher can petition the state to have a psychiatric evaluation done. no one did this. if this had been done or if a friend, a counselor, a teacher had taken him a parent? a parent! had taken him to a hospital, there are antipsychotic medications that would have removed the very paranoid delusions that you are talking about, or reduced them, in most cases, and if that had occurred, we would not be talking about the tragedy today. finally, you re a lawyer too, in addition to being a psychologist. yes. ....