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Pockets and typical republican donors. they got $30 million for the quiet project. but instead of applying that money to the senate races and congressional rations and governors races around the country, that get all of the attention, instead of those, what they did at red map was political genius. as a pure political move, it was a visionary thing they put that big money from big ticket republican donors that only had big national ambitions, they took that money and they spent it in the most un...

President not bad for $1.5 million total for the state. jeb bush raises that much money before lunchtime in one day. that was enough to get the whole state. one of the biggest coups was wisconsin where they thought it was worth the investment to try to topple the senate majority leader. he was a fixture in wisconsin. even in a red year, it did not seem like a guy like russ decker could lose. but he had never run in a race where red map would come in and spend $500,000 on that race in the last tw...

Biggest victory that year. the republican state leadership committee started a project they called the redistricting majority project, or red map for short. and for this red map project they started raising a lot of money. it was not formally affiliated with the republican national party. they were not strangers, but they were at arms length. so red map, separate from everything else the party was doing, publicly trying to do well. it was the job of red map to specifically try to win in the stat...

They flipped two of the four. congratulations. you just won control of the new york state senate for $1.5 million. they spent $1 million on michigan house races. that was enough to pick up 20 seats. 1.5 to the alabama republican party, when properly targeted was enough to flip enough seats the house and senate flipped from republican to democratic control for the first zim time since the reconstruction area after the civil war. on an average fund-raising day right now jeb bush literally raises t...

The house right now. they are excited to admit even though republicans hold the house even though americans voted for more democrats in the house. this is from a republican strategy document. suggesting that 2012 could have had a part in 2008 to democrats. republicans did not lose control of the house despite the way that america voted. republican ares kept a 33 seat majority in the house. it was red map and the republican party breaks down how it worked to do that state by state. pennsylvanians...

State vote for. even though democrats got more votes. pennsylvanians cast 83,000 more votes for candidates than their republican opponents but elects a 13-5 majority to rpt them in dc. still, elected a 9:00 to 5:00 republican delegations to congress. in ohio they say ohio allowed a 12-4 majority to return to representatives despite voters casting 52%. they brag about the same thing happens in wisconsin as well. we reported on this phenomenon and on the republican party bragging on it on tuesday ...

Cases are in the state of tennessee. this is a race to notify the patients who might have gotten the steroids. i want to put that red map back up. thats the states involved. we are talking about 23 different states that this medicine was shipped to. they all got routine injections. people we are back pain and steroids but they may have been contaminated with meningitis. now there are 6 states with confirmed case. we are talking about 39 cases in six states and there are now 5 fatalities. first t...

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Santorum supported which were bush initiatives. >> exactly. >> as much bashing as the bush administration, republican years to -- >> the santorum record. >> why did you support no child left behind? why did you support the bailout? >> that was a w. thing. >> lets take a look. weve got to get to the map here. this is friday. you have your new nbc battleground map of which way states are leaning. for general election. the magic number to win the presidential election is 270 electoral votes. lets s...

Wrong with me. they are more inclined to say theres something wrong with jeb. >> jeb was more the trusted conservative of the two. especially now. >> much more philosophic than w. >> it is fascinating how all of the most effective hits on santorum by romney at the debate the other night were for things santorum supported which were bush initiatives. as much bashing as the bush administration, republican years to -- >> the santorum record. >> why did you support no child left behind? why did you ...