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It was the job of red map to specifically try to win in the states. and to get more specific than that, their plan, what they were designed to do, was to flip as many state legislatures as possible from democratic control to republican control. from blue to red. state legislatures, state houses, state senates. after the census is done every ten years, state legislatures get to redraw election districts both for themselves, like for state senate seats, but also for congressional districts. anybod...

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...

Half the election districts are not operating due to the rubble uprising. now back to justice with judge jeanine. for all the latest headlines, go to fox news.com. >> we continue to get more information on the deadly shooting in california. >> reporter: people are going to take away from this day after the press conference by the sheriff, whether this could have been prevented. there were three documented moments of contact or incidents of contact between the sheriffs department and rodger. it g...

Out at this point, greg? >> reporter: it looks like an important development, important outcome for a very troubled situation. as you mean, the industrialist billionaire declaring victory tonight after several exit polls show him with a clear majority in todays presidential election, he was one of the heroes of the protest in kiev late last year. he said tonight, he wants his first official trip to be here no the east to try, in his words to resolve the crisis, he will indeed have his hands full...

Press voices and media voices. he was a -- he ridiculed his political opponents in the most vile ways. he gerrymandered the election districts in a way -- of course, where have we heard that before? that happens elsewhere as well. but he did do it in a particularly egregious way in venezuela to aid in his electoral prospects. he didnt want to leave anything to chance. so, no, he was not what we would call a lover of democracy as we would like to see it practiced. >> as a leader who is, as you sa...

Threatening to shot down, at times did shut down independent press voices and media voices. he was a -- he ridiculed his political opponents in the most vile ways. he gerrymandered the election districts in a way -- of course, where have we heard that before? that happens elsewhere as well. but he did do it in a particularly egregious way in venezuela to aid in his electoral prospects. he didnt want to leave anything to chance. so, no, he was not what we would call a lover of democracy as we wou...

He gerrymandered the election districts in a way -- of course, where have we heard that before? that happens elsewhere as well. but he did do it in a particularly egregious way in venezuela to aid in his electoral prospects. he didnt want to leave anything to chance. so, no, he was not what we would call a lover of democracy as we would like to see it practiced. >> as a leader who is, as you said, suis generis, and who was so much larger than life and was so dominant in the politics of that coun...

This way and in pennsylvania its happening this way. i think americans dont always catch, and i think your point makes this well, theres no national right to vote. theres no federal level, every single american having -- it all rests in each and every state. so as ive heard reverend jackson say many times, there are 50 separate and unequal rights to vote or relatively less right to vote in each and every state. isnt it time to simply say, okay, even if youre a states rights kind of person, this ...

Disproportionately gone to the right. you look at how the system works whether through the jer remandering of election districts that they can only get re-elected if they appeal to the base and the influence of money in politics. >> and heres another factor. the middle is gone. the middle has been driven out both in the democratic party, the blue dogs, remember, during the health care fight, pushed out. and certainly republican moderates are like the dinosaur now. they are almost extinct. i thin...

Viktor orban did get another shot. his party won two-thirds of the sleets in parliament. and with that power they decided to rewrite the rules. that i rewrote the constitution. among other things they cut in half the number of seats in the parliament. they redrew the boundaries of the election districts in the country all at once. viktor orban said his way was much simpler. it made imimpossible to remove him from power. support for viktor orban party shrunk, they dropped from 53% to 44% of the v...