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Conservatives find it important to live where people share their politics. conservatives tend to cluster in rural areas where there are big houses and more space. liberals seek metro areas where everything is within walking distance. the local extremes are moving apart on all levels. how do we get the majority in the middle to speak up? we welcome back friend of the show, igor, managing editor at progress.org. thank you for joining us. and i think this piece about self-segregating into neighborh...

>> comparing to hurricane katrina -- >> is this obamas political katrina? >> the death of hundreds of people -- >> a political katrina? >> the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people to [ bleep ] website. is offensive. >> the republicans have a one-note agenda. >> we all look like geniuses now. >> its to repeal the affordable care act. >> needs to be scrapped. now. >> attempted to do it over 47 times now. >> the republicans are having a field day. >> and thats all they want to focus on r...

Joining me now are congresswoman marcy captor, democrat from ohio. and john saults. he wrote a piece on think progress.org titled why does mitt romney want to restrict voting rights for more than 900,000 ohio veterans. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> congresswoman, let me start with you. explain to our viewers what romney is claiming here. >> well, what hes saying is that hes actually twisting the truth. because in ohio the accomplishment have denied early voting the last three -- tha...

Them go get a job right after you take a bath. >> how do you handle that at a dinner table. >> thanksgiving is about sitting down with our families and enjoying the food we enjoy, the values we share. i work on the idea of kill them with kindness. the idea is the larger issues that are more important to americans are what we should be discussing. if somebody is going to start off by telling you to take a bath and get a job, just dismiss that. its nonsense. what we should be talking about is the ...

Them go get a job right after you take a bath. >> how do you handle that at a dinner table. >> thanksgiving is about sitting down with our families and enjoying the food we enjoy, the values we share. i work on the idea of kill them with kindness. the idea is the larger issues that are more important to americans are what we should be discussing. if somebody is going to start off by telling you to take a bath and get a job, just dismiss that. its nonsense. what we should be talking about is the ...

We need to reassert something as simple as saying something to them go get a job right after you take a bath. >> how do you handle that at a dinner table. >> thanksgiving is about sitting down with our families and enjoying the food we enjoy, the values we share. i work on the idea of kill them with kindness. the idea is the larger issues that are more important to americans are what we should be discussing. if somebody is going to start off by telling you to take a bath and get a job, just dism...

Slogan has a surprise derivation, the update of john kerrys presidential campaign slogan let america be america again, which was taken word for word from the title of a 1938 poem by langston hughes, one of the many works that inspired this countrys civil rights movement. think progress.org was the first to report on the oddity of a right wing republican using a slogan that was derived from the words of a poet who lived far to the left of the democratic party. lee fang of think progress caught up...

As it was worded last week conservative republican rick santorums presidential campaign slogan is america again is the update of john kerrys presidential campaign slogan let america be america again, which was taken word for word from the title of a 1938 poem by langston hughes, one of the many works that inspired this countrys civil rights movement. think progress.org was the first to report on the oddity of a right wing republican using a slogan that was derived from the words of a poet who li...

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