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Meaning the next 20 or 30 years? >> oh, absolutely. i think -- i think that -- that -- that has the remarkability of that has been punctured by the obama election and now i think you will see that. and you see a country that is becoming more diverse so i think youll see candidates emerge, black, hispanic, women, who will compete for the presidency, and some will win. and i think one of the things that happened this last election was that because barack obama had won, the idea of a woman as presi...

To vote still and increasing brown populations and asian-american populations. and if we just invest, we could change things dramatically. you look at the state of south carolina, the tea party governor won by 60,000 votes. the average in the state i think is about 80,000. any given race, you know, statewide. theres 350,000 unregistered black folks there right now. >> wow. >> what were talking about, chris, maybe 6 million, maybe 7 million to sign up virtually all of them. it would change the st...

Brown populations and asian-american populations. and if we just invest, we could change things dramatically. you look at the state of south carolina, the tea party governor won by 60,000 votes. the average in the state i think is about 80,000. any given race, you know, statewide. theres 350,000 unregistered black folks there right now. >> wow. >> what were talking about, chris, maybe 6 million, maybe 7 million to sign up virtually all of them. it would change the state forever. and thats the on...

Prosecutions favor, but what worries me the most is the kentucky challenge, thats what mark was referring to, what a prosecutor or defense attorney has excused someone, a number of jurors on a given race and the other side can say, hey, that wasnt fair. it was a race-based excusal. they can put the jurors back on. message can be damaging to the prosecution. not only do those juror know and somehow it was improper to excuse them. the rest of the jury knows, too. so the prosecution starts out with...

Tripping, knocking himself out, this is his to lose at this point. >> i brought up the makeup of the jury, does it play one way or the other? does that matter? >> yeah, of course, it always matter, especially in a case like this where race is squarely on the table. in this case the prosecutions theory is george zimmerman racially profiled trayvon martin and reacted to him and behaved the way he did because he was african-american. so having a white set of jurors, more likely to identify the theo...

Make up of the jury. does it play one way or the other? does that matter? >> of course, it always matters, especially in a case like this where race is squarely on the table. the prosecutions theory is he profiled trayvon martin and reacted because hes african american so having a white set of jurors more likely to identify the theory they are more likely to identify with george zimmerman. the fact that -- so the race factor alone does play in his favor. i disagree a little bit with mark about t...

He seems old. i mean, he seems like they were glad -- they showed a lot of respect, it would be like ronald reagan showing up. i think the calendars time has moved on. >> the big picture question, presuming they both realize to split and to remain kind of connected but often willing to go -- each throw a candidate into a given race, that to split that way would give the democrats basically anything they want. does the gop wind up eating the tea party, or does the tea party end up eating the gop?...