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Florida, for example. we registered almost 400,000 new voters in 2011 and 2012. that is people going to the doors and knocking on doors and going to events and registering folks. that is a huge difference in a state. even a state as big as florida or texas. when you start getting numbers like that. hundreds of thousands of new people going to the polls and given a chance to participate in their democracy and inspired by that volunteer, thats how you actually change the electorate, but then you h...

Jobs and middle class family physical congressional families fail to compromise. virginia, a state that could be among the hardest hit by the spending cuts, of course, home for the number two house republican eric cantor. canters message yesterday was the president is making too much of the sequester and, oh, yeah, when it comes to virginia, it might be really bad. >> we heard the president say last week that he was going to be forced because of the sekeseration to let criminals loose on the str...

Manuel its tuesday, february 26th and youre about to watch "daily rundown" with chuck todd. >> thank you, athan and carolina is my second favorite basketball team in the acc. another day closer to sequester, another day of public posturing and what appeared to be no serious attempts to stop the sequester or even meetings between the white house and congressional republicans to pretend that they might think about stopping the sequester. the only thing different today is the address, thats newpo...

The first republican to travel on air force one since may. virginias republican devastating cuts telling the president and congress its time to fix it now. mcdonnell will join us later this house. the white house admitted monday no talks or phone calls scheduled this week between the president and congressional leaders. instead yesterday for the second thyme in a row the white house press briefing featured a cabinet secretary issuing dire sequester warnings. >> i dont think we can maintain the...

Viewed liberal and 46% conservatives where you fit on the spectrum of the 100. and we saw two of the most centrist democrats are no longer in the senate. the middle has disappeared in the united states senate and, therefore, no deals. >> thats exactly right. theres nobody there to look for the common ground and then start to build out bringing in folks from either side. and thats where you find the solutions is in the middle. youve got to come to the compromise. you have to find people that are ...

Right at the end of his comments, eric cantor admitted about in virginia it is going to be bad. where are you in this on a sequester, something republicans -- >> it is going to be very bad for my state, but devastating to the military. secretary panetta said that. we have 19 estimates and lose 200,000 jobs over ten years, but, chuck, we have to cut spending. $1.2 trillion really a drop in the bucket. that is not even one year of the deficit. we need more than the sequester, but dont put 50% of t...

Bargain. should he agree to one year of those cuts and say, okay, fine, if youre not willing to do this, here are my cuts, take it or leave it. >> they all need to be adults and come to the conclusion it will take revenues and it will take spending cuts. you can wait until the cr on the 27th, but i bet they just kick that can down the road. >> thats what i think. i dont think theyre going to dothis. >> end up in september when they have to do a whole new thing. maybe between now and september to...