Democratic gurus James Carville and Stanley Greenberg were the guests at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast this morning, where they discussed the results of a Democracy Corps poll on the deficit. The results from the survey aren’t likely to inspire jaw drops: 93% of the 1,000-plus voters polled say they view the deficit as a major problem or crisis, their biggest professed concern with the deficit is the “burden for future generations,” and yet they prefer four-to-one for the government to fix the problem by cutting spending — which sounds an awful lot like only other people would have to make sacrifices — than by raising taxes.

But that’s not to say the meal didn’t provide some more novel discussion launch pads. Below are the Top Ten Largely Context-Free Nuggets from the hour-long event. (N.B. This will work best if readers imagine Linda Richman – as channeled by Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live – delivering these as she gets verklempt and tells all, in her gaudiest Yinglish and flashy fake nails, to “Discuss.”)

1. It took 39 minutes for the Voyeur nightclub to come up.

2. The pollsters created a word cloud to show the results of an open-ended question given to participants, in which people were asked to say whatever word came to mind when they heard the phrase “the federal budget deficit.” The third biggest word in the cloud (meaning it was the third most frequent response) was the word deficit. At least the connection is clear.