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Whole thing that did bug me. im looking at you because i dont want you to be offended. the constant talk about the gop reaching out to latinos, latinos, latinos. nothing mentioned about african-americans. latinos. why even bother? why even try? >> it does feel like -- part of it is because its been a long time since 40% of the black vote went over to the gop but latino voters under george w. bush gave president bush 40% of the vote. >> right. the funny thing -- first of all, i have to say this. ...

And -- >> that moment was from president obamas emotional speech to his campaign staff the day after he was re-elected. were still here talking about president obamas passion for the process. joining our panel are raoul reyes and nancy gooils. raoul, when i saw the president choke up about that, he also had gotten emotional the day before the election talking about the fired up and ready to go, a volunteer who chose not to go to chicago, im like, thats it. thats the process. he cares about his d...

And get them to turn out for things that directly affected them, to involve them in the process. >> even with -- when wisconsin lost, when they werent able to recall scott walker, that was an amazing example of the power of unions and number of unions. i am a member of sag. a loot of our members went to support other unions. they are their grassroots equivalent there too. >> no, go ahead. >> i think ohio really exemplifies it. because obviously in ohio you had john kasich, the governor, approach...

Universities, every kid who is in my classes ends up in circumstances where theyre from schools where youre encouraged to make mistakes. your experiment fails and you learn from that. to the extent that its about civic education, youve got to figure out things which means it has to be safe to fail. >> a lot of process. >> it goes back to where the administration is going to be in january. we have some months between now and january and where i hope things will be applied. youve got a situation w...

I buy that the press is a process president and would argue for it on domestic politics. he is a a different duck in the foreign policy land. many liberals would have a critique of some of his lack of process in some of the foreign policy stuff. is part of what hes saying that the recalcitrance of the republican house might bring out that aspect of president obama? >> well, i think there are two things. first, i think steve is absolutely correct. the republicans forced his hand. by showing that ...

The bomb has been dropped. what? >> both in the way that he talked about mccain and the way that he talked about romney. one of the things i loved about what he said about romney was he drew it in as a whole family, talked about george and lenore. >> classy. >> it was. it forced that crowd to applaud mitt romney. thats part of the process. you have to knit everybody back together. were going to stay on process and specifically on the process of how we got here, in other words, through voting. ho...

Everyone. it affects women, it disproportionately affects people of color. this is a case of a parent and a child. if the child acts up and lies and miss behaves constantly, the next time the child comes to the parent the parent is going to monitor everything he does. thats what the case with the voting rights is about. these states have a very shameful, very unfortunate legacy of tram bling on the voter rights act. you should say where thats not happening -- >> also doing things like having thi...

Voting booth where everyone is able to exercise this franchise. almost everyone. for many displaced by hurricane sandy, getting to the polls on tuesday became not just a hardship, it became an impossibility. an impossibility that our foot soldier of the week, lydia beasley, refused to accept. she began volunteering at her local ymca after it was repurposed into a storm shelter with 500 beds populated mostly by displaced elderly and special needs citizens. during some down time she sat listening ...

And everything, everyone thinks 245 chan that change is going to happen like that. i would get in arguments with my progressive friends and they want it now. >> this goes back to the beginning of the show where we were talking about president obama as the process president. we live in a big, diverse democracy, youre going to lose about half the time, right? thats just -- its sort of the nature of the process. youre going to go in, youre going to lose, youre going win. thats why my nervousness. t...

You had the obama win but you had to eat with proposition eight. it makes me nervous. >> it should make you nervous. when you think about the electoral process, the democratic process, if you allowed civil and human rights to be on the ballot, id be a slave. lets start here. i thought the maryland initiative was particularly significant. i agree it should not have been on the ballot. the legislature enacted the law that allowed it to be validated by the ballot itself. governor martin omalley was...