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That if you dont like what your elected officials are doing then you get some petitions, and you run for office. and he also talked about getting involved on the local level. the precinct level, redistricting. thats what caught my attention also. >> the president spoke about race relations improving. lets listen. >> now ive lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, no matter what some folks say. you can see it not just in statistics, you se...

Petitions and run for office. and he also talked about getting involved on the local level. the precinct level, redistricting. thats what caught my attention also. >> yeah. paris, the president spoke about race relations improving. lets listen. >> now ive lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were no matter what some folks say, you can see it not just in statistics but in the attitudes of young americans across the political spectrum. but were not where we need to be...

Around the country saying that its all rigged suggesting at the precinct level, suggesting at the media level that this whole thing is rigged against him, that there will be widespread voter fraud. theres no evidence for that. and he is bucking a democratic tradition of peaceful transfer of power. not a good move, particularly when you want to expand his base of support among those voters who are questioning whether he has the temperament or the qualification to be president. >> nia-malika is it...

Of -- of assembling the vote between now and november 8th is a certain way that the american people can ensure the integrity of the election. im confident well do that. go ahead. >> reporter: are you suggesting that the existing longstanding bipartisan tradition of poll watching at both party that is has worked out for years is not enough? or do you want something in addition to that? >> i think -- i think poll watching and the accountability thats built into state laws that govern elections has...

Depress the vote there. communities that are flooded, communities where it will be difficult if people to get around, in places like new jersey and eastern pennsylvania and new york and connecticut, these could tend to be more democrat areas and people would have difficulty there and it would depress president obamas turn out but we have a long time between now and election day and people fired up about the election one way or the other and i suspect most will try and make their way to the poll....

Won in iowa, we won in minnesota, we won in colorado, and missouri is yet to be seen. and we think we probably won in nevada, because were counting the precinct votes. the only thing that i might add is theres nothing wrong or deceptive about this. anybody can stay. woody allen says 80% of success is showing up. our people show up. and they have a right to do that, and they are committed, and so they are running as delegates at the precinct level to the county convention where they will again ru...

Minnesota, we won in colorado, and missouri is yet to be seen. and we think we probably won in nevada, because were counting the precinct votes. the only thing that i might add there is nothing wrong or deceptive about this, anybody can stay. woody allen says 80% of success is showing up. our people show up. and they have a right to do that, and they are committed, and so they are running as delegates at the precinct level to the county convention where they will again run as delegates from the ...

And that weakness is why ron paul, i think, looks very excited every night when he apparently is losing these states but he doesnt think he is. here to explain further is doug wead, senior advisor to the ron paul campaign, were grateful he has chosen to come and talk with us. mr. wead, thank you for being here. >> youre welcome and im glad you were born, too, so i wouldnt have to sit here and talk to myself. >> that would be very, very borg. thank you for saying so. in explaining this process im...

And that weakness is why ron paul i think looks excited every night when he apparently is losing these states but he doesnt think he is. here to explain further is doug wead, senior advisor to the ron paul campaign, were grateful he has chosen to talk with us. mr. wead, thank you for being here. >> youre welcome im glad you were born, too, so i wouldnt have to sit and talk to myself. >> in explaining this process im absolutely sure i got something wrong, because it is a complicated process. is t...

The caucus process came out of democratic party reforms in light of the 1968 convention. the idea was, we dont want to sigh any smoke-filled rooms. >> iowa caucus historian, jeff stein, said that led to big changes in his state. >> for 1972, they decided to elongate the process, start picking delegates at precinct level, then the county and then the state and to the national connection. -- national convention. so there was citizen input from the start itch the new, elongated process, required io...