New York Magazine surveyed 74 Beltway insiders-- 37 Democrats, 37 Republicans-- including Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom and Kerry right-hand Bob Shrum, on the election and state of politics. Here are the results:

What will be the biggest surprise on Election Day?

• Obama wins North Carolina
• Romney wins Ohio

Regardless of your ideology or party, who would keep the world safer?

• 68% said Obama
• 32% said Romney

Lying in politics is...

• 51% say: evidence of the corrupt, totally amoral world of Washington
• 43% say: deplorable but sometimes necessary in a dirty business
• 7% say: a necessary evil that justifies noble ends 

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