In a world before Youtube, when someone wanted to declare their undying love for Pokemon, he had to go shouting in on the streets like a crazy person.

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You could go crazy trying to graph the net worth of Americans on a bell curve.

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"You have these moments - you're waiting to go on and you've got Sir Ian McKellen on one side and Stephen Hawking on the other, and you go, this is just crazy, " he says.

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Numbers like that make policy wonks go crazy, but in the voting booth, most Americans will pull the lever based on a different measure: how much they trust a candidate's integrity, and empathy.

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One of the things that we did last year was take on a defense program that many thought we were crazy to try to go after and try to cut.

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