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Into state races in a way that democrats had never contemplated and it paid off, and now theyre doing all this redistricting, or gerrymandering as we used to call it. in sum total, do you believe they lost all those seats under obama because of his governance or because of his countenance? >> i think theres a bit of both in there. some of it was the economy. what you have in 2010 is a recession that keeps building even after obama got into office. thats part of it there. then there is countenanc...

Another incredible night last night, willie. maybe the best pitcher over the past 30, 40 years. >> weve heard bob gibson and pedro martinez. his e.r.a. through may is 0.71. which means hes giving up less than a run a game. he threw 10, 12 pitches to start the game over 100 miles an hour. theres no question hes the best pitcher in baseball, and on the way to being one of the greatest of all time. >> mike barnicle and the aps jonathan lemire are still with us. and joining the conversation, we have...

His record and how he is not in the mainstream and yet, she doesnt identify anything in his record. and she talks about womens rights as it relates to judge gorsuch, when the truth is, that her rights, her record as it relates to women, is unbelievable. this is a woman who -- when we find out from the free beacon that women in her senate office are paid $0.71 per dollar that men are paid. >> bill: she was impressed by that revelation by the washington free beacon. i dont know if people saw it. l...

In fifth just ahead of michele bachmann, just behind newt gingrich and all the other guys. this is from the guy who came into the race not that long before as the prohibitive front-runner. on the night of those iowa caucuses, he told reporters basically that he was quitting the race. >> would the voters decision tonight in iowa, ive decided to return to texas. assess the results of tonights caucus, determine whether theres a path forward for myself in this race. >> in presidential politics, that...

After quitting the night of the caucuss, he did go home to texas where opinion he announced he was rung again. why not? he had come in fifth in iowa, sixth in new hampshire, he got 30.71% of the new hampshire primary. he said he was coming back in because he had a plan to win if south carolina. he did not win in south carolina. he dropped out for good from the presidential race two days before the primary in south carolina. but that extension of his campaign. it gave him an opportunity to screw ...

Right now the minimum wage is about 80% of the poverty wage. we wanted to get it above the poverty line and index it from then on. $10.10 gets you just above the poverty line. if we had indexed the minimum wage from the 60s or 70s, it would be $10.71 an hour now. so see, people that are working hard at the minimum wage, they have lost about 30% of their purchasing power in the last 20 years. >> its impossible to live on it. >> you cant. >> before you go, you did an sfw interview with the quad ci...

Higher open when trading begins later on tuesday. this is where u.s. futures stand in the premarket action. the dow 30 up 0.50. the nasdaq up 0.71 and the s&p 500 up 0.6. we take you to libya where leader moammar gadhafi in a rare interview with abc and the bbc denied his people of protesting in the streets against him. >> they love me all. >> if they do love you -- >> they will die to protect me and my people. >> well, whatever your position on that, gadhafis opponents got a boost on monday f...