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♪ oh, what a relief it is! heres a trivia question for you. what do calvin cool ij and grover cleveland and johnson have in common? they were all presidents at one point but theres something else were going for here. before they were all president, at some point in their rise to power, they were all mayors of cities. and these days, maybe thats the answer for democrats who want to make a name for themselves in the national arena. that would be a departure from reason -- let me show you why t...

County map of the country, and in 2016 there were 235 counties where president trump either won, but did worse than mitt romney but at least two points or where romney won, but it flipped to the democratic side last year. these establishment republican counties produced 11 million votes for trump. but consider this. there were 1,839 counties where trump won and did better than romney by at least two percentage points. those counties set trump 18 million votes towards his victory. 18 million to 1...

Think the people around him as the politico story reported that you need to feed him a certain amount of good news because especially the lastew weeks hes been in a pretty foul mood. the map that weve all seen, the county by county map of the counties he won compared by hillary clinton which basically shows a red united states ive seen on the oval office desk, something hes keeping copies around to sort of cheer him up as he goes through the day and recently hung a copy of it on the wall. the pr...

He encouraged me to take it home to my colleagues at "the washington post" and try to run it on the front page of our newspaper. so he cares a lot about that map. he cares a lot about these states. >> im sorry. he on his 100th day interview five months after the election wanted "the washington post" to run the election map on the cover? >> he did. i think he was sort of playing there, but it speaks to the pride that he has in that map, and he was showing it to his visitors. and, you know, he fee...

Ever been, and he wants to do good by those people. >> can i ask you about the map? was it the county map? is it the map by counties that shows huge swaths of red because -- >> yeah. it was broken down by county. some of these counties are very small, but it was very, very red. >> phillip rucker, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you very much. >> joining me now, academy award winning documentary filmmaker, author, and activist michael moore. >> theres 5,000 people on my block here in new y...

What parts of your past impact what you believe now and might believe tomorrow. i think the other thing is there is a significant empathy gap. not just here but everywhere. you know, i think most people havent had in their homes for dinner in a real way somebody who is significantly different from them either politically or raally or for whatever reason ve cloistered ourselves i think thathe liberal bastion of college campuses certainly can be true. ive been lucky here. the schools certainly com...

Election. you lose a few of these, the idea of winning back the house gets that much tougher. look the bottom line, this is the county map, this isnt the congressional district map, but this is how the trump/clinton race went last year and it just gives you a sense of the divide that democrats are up against. where are they strong. theyre strong in cities, suburbs, theyre strong in metropolitan areas, where are republicans strong? theyre strong everywhere else. and when you divide this up into 4...

Get a voter bill of rights in ohio constitution and we need everyone from across the country, because if we dont fight back, they will push us back. and so we have to be as relentless as republicans are to take away our voting rights. we have to be just as relentless to put voting rights in the constitution where its permanent. thats what were doing here in ohio as we are at ground zero. >> lawyers committee for civil rights conducted a study looking at a county map from 2012, study of the 2008 ...

Years ago. this is a county by county map. if you remember the bush-dukakis rachls you remember it wasnt that close. george bush won by 8 points t. broadcast networks went on the air on election night, the count was 81-0 for bush. it was a route the kind of route we havent seen in a presidential election since then. you look at that county by county map, there is no surprise its an ocean of red. more than 3,000 counties in america. mike dukakis won 118 of them. last year, barak barak wins a seco...

Insulated from paying a price at the polls in 2013. the bigger reason is that map, that county by county map. it shows us how geographically exact the coalition has become. there are now eenough votes to elect and reelect a democratic president. they are overwhelmingly concentrated in metropolitan areas. they are absent elsewhere. thats the real story. look at that map, cut it up into 435 districts. it would take a lot of work to make sure republicans dont have an advantage. population distribut...