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Else in the country. it is not by happenstance that they are targeting the very battleground states that they lost. and had the previous plan been in place in 2012, governor romney would have received 12 of our electoral college votes, even though the president won ohio by over 166,000 votes. so were going to keep fighting, ed. theyre trying to steal the one woman, one man, one vote democratic idea in this democracy. but were not going to relent. >> i really think this is all about concentrating...

The same mess. and that is why democrats and progressives and fair-minded republicans, people in red and blue and purple states must continue to stand and to stand strong. ed, the greatest equalizer that we have in this country is the access to the ballot. and your socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity should not matter. and the fact that the republicans have their friendships all over, gerrymandering, and they dont care, and now theyre trying to steal the votes and rig the next presidential ...

Fundraising letter of mitch mcconnell. i mean, are things going to change? are we going to see the same old mitch? >> look, at the end of the day, what that legislation did is made it easier for some cabinet appointees to take their jobs. thats important. its going to speed up the process in the senate. thats important. but at the end of the day, ed, this country faces enormous economic crises. weve got to deal with global warming. weve got to deal with education. we have to deal with deficit re...

The same mess. and that is why democrats and progressives and fair-minded republicans, people in red and blue and purple states must continue to stand and to stand strong. ed, the greatest equalizer that we have in this country is the access to the ballot. and your socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity should not matter. and the fact that the republicans have their friendships all over, gerrymandering, and they dont care, and now theyre trying to steal the votes and rig the next presidential ...

Speak to experts, because if i bring a case against institution a, and as a result of bringing that case, there is some huge economic effect, if it creates a ripple effect so that suddenly counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly, its a fact that we need to know and understand. >> and i am joined tonight by mike papantonio, host of "the ring of fire" radio show and former president of the national trial lawyers associa...

Those states were red states previously, and they may go back. and demographics in politics shift. we need to stick with the founding fathers original concept because thats what is fair. >> is there any state where youre worried this is going to catch on and there is going to be a shift? >> i think its a bit early to tell, but i can assure you that we are certainly not going to let it go too far down the road without fighting back. >> all right. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, thanks for...

0 rick scott signed a law to cut early voting days in half. the latest academic analysis of the impact of that says at least 200,000 people did not vote in 2012, who otherwise would have voted because they couldnt wait in the eight-hour-long lines that rick scott created and then defended as the right thing to do. floridas electoral failure this year was so spectacular, it got a shout out from the president on election night, and a huge round of applause when he talked about those long lines and...

0 going to build a new roof anyway. he said the silverdome in tatters in the brief michigan winter is not really the disaster it look like. its more like a very, very rough phase 1, the demo phase. michigan is amazing. michigan republicans, you in particular are amazing. on inauguration day this week, while the president was being sworn in for the start of his second term, michigan republicans back home, they spent the day talking about turning an island in the detroit area into a new independen...

0 they do not give a bleep. because michigan republicans do not care what anyone thinks of them, certainly not the press, but apparently also not the voters, michigan is my personal nominee. michigan is my nominee for the one state that is shameless enough to actually do what a whole host of other states finally today are starting to get too embarrassed to go ahead with. usually the outlier in american normal politics is florida, right? floridas generally considered to be our weird state. florid...

Within 12 hours. the republicans are right on track for 2016, folks. lets turn to howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the huffington post media group. howard, i was struck by your comment yesterday on "hardball" where you said that the hearing was the last failed shot of the 2012 election and the first failed shot of the 2016 campaign. how are the republicans doing today? >> well, i think i said it was a desperate act, but failed shot will also do. ed, i really t...