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Total failures of the politicians in washington, particularly any party, to do anything about it, is whats driving this. i think its going to get worse before it gets better. >> governor dean, what went through your mind watching that demonstration? >> first, nice to have you back. i havent been on since you returned. >> thank you very much. >> great to have you back. secondly, i actually was asked about this earlier in the day. i think probably the hispanic population is lost to republicans for...

Party, okay, the harder its going to be for them to deal with this issue. >> thats right. and i think as we say 2014, not a big problem. 2016 big problem if youre running for president. maybe not so much if youre running down the ballot. look ahead a decade or two or three, the nature of this country is changing. the characteristic is changing. the hispanic population is just going to get bigger. that is the new electorate. >> it is. >> dante, susan, thank you both. always fun to get all of your...

Democratic. thats the green. the hispanic centers, all that green west of the mississippi river, are mostly in rural places that tend to vote republican. in 2012, the president won the big city counties, which represented 73 million people, 23% of them foreign born and he won those by 31 points. he also won the urban suburbs, those close-in suburbs that have a foreign-born population of 17%. he won those by 16 points. but in the hispanic centers, counties that are 56% hispanic on average, romney...

Asked to do or what theyre told to do. >> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where theres a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because theyre heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent ...

We will start looking at executive answers. there are real parallels between his struggle and whats going on now, he stood up for marginalized people. he i think there are some parallels and some inspiration. >> i think you have written about this, the five top states for hispanic population, you have california, texas, florida, new york and illinois, three of which are blue states, one is solid red and one is a battleground state. >> hes sister-in-law part of it because theyre not invested in t...

Think government should be smaller, provide pure services and think the government has month responsibility to provide health insurance for all. beware of false sense of security republicans. the country is getting browner. white millennials are by no means an insurance policy since they are less conservative on key issues. not identified with the republican party and also less numerous. the same research find 50% of millennials describe themselves as independents and three in ten say they are n...

Held onto a number of surrounding counties. jefferson county, for instance, golden, colorado, west of denver, went to president bush by five points in 2004. arapahoe county went to bush. but by 2004, the tide had turned. he won arapahoe by 10, a 14-point swing in eight years. its no coincidence that between 2000 and 2010 the hispanic population exploded in the denver suburbs, increase of 50%. statewide, from 17% to over 21% in 2002. of course, the split among hispanic voters, which used to be a ...

Republicans, for instance. >> i was down in austin last weekend for a family event, and i turned on the television to watch the commercials, and every republican running for lieutenant governor, every republican running for attorney general, was trying to get to the right of the next one, and the republican party just racing headlong to the far right, they are not going to do well among hispanics. senator hutchison and bush were exceptions. >> let me ask you this, martin, do you believe if the r...

Have to do. >> look, this is a fluke. we didnt get anybody well known to run for the senate. theres a woman with a short last name, she wants to impeach the president. were working hard, the party is working hard to make sure shes not the nominee, but look at the governors race, were going to have the first really well funded candidate in a long time. i think shes got a shot. its a self fulfilling prophesy we cant win if we dont run. we have a good candidate, we have to run. >> senator, you elud...

Primary. he beat you by going right. even texas, the state only wants to be center right. how does the republican party deal with this? >> first of all, we have reached out to hispanics for a long time. the republican party is friendly to hispanics, and we have strong hispanic members of the legislature, members of our county commissioners courts, we have mayors, and these are republican hispanics, so i think really texas is a model for how you bring in the hispanic population that is certainly ...