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Trump visited pennsylvania last week to campaign. it is a largely white rural district. but new polls show republican rick saccone up by three points. the special election wouldnt be effective by the decision but midterms, the state map could look different. it could be a factor in a democratic wave this fall. a possibility under scored by the womens marchs this weekend. crowds were in the streets where 600,000 people turned out in los angeles and chicago where 300,000 people showed up, more tha...

Rick saccone up by three points. the special election wouldnt be effective by the decision but midterms, the state map could look different. it could be a factor in a democratic wave this fall. a possibility under scored by the womens marchs this weekend. crowds were in the streets where 600,000 people turned out in los angeles and chicago where 300,000 people showed up, more than last year. beyond the big cities, plenty of people march, 1500 in milwaukee, wisconsin. 700 people marched in downto...

Could this further endanger republican-held seats in the midterms? >> this is a big deal. this is the first time that a federal court has truck down a state map on ground of extreme partisanship. it reflects thanks are in the process of the supreme court. and so in north carolina alone, it could move three seats or so. its hard to tell until the map is redrawn. and long term if that gets played out again over and over across the united states and other heavily gerrymandered states, it could add ...

Its 13 congressional districts because the map is unconstitutionally partisan, it says. they have about three weeks to get this done. so its in place before the 2013 midterms. how big of a deal is this? could this further endanger republican-held seats in the midterms? >> this is a big deal. this is the first time that a federal court has struck down a state map on ground of extreme partisanship. it reflects things that are in the process of the supreme court. and so in north carolina alone, it ...

The fact is she won, virginia, colorado, new mexico and nevada. those are states that would have put her over the top if the blue wall had held. >> so clinton underperformed. you didnt have a huge surge in turnout. you didnt have a huge dropoff in turnout. you had trump win a larger percentage of the turnout than expected which goes dovetails with her underperforming. and then you the x factor on tom of it. what was the x factor? >> i think the x factor, to me, was the death of a thousand cuts. ...

Jim -- james rosen -- is here and what is happening to the embassy? >> they are moving to a new location a mile & half away. this state map shows the current location at the bottom of the screen and the new one at the top of the screen with vatican city at skroen -- screen left --. in light in benghazi this is not set back from the street. this host three united states embassy on the ground. mission to the vatican, republic of italy and the u.n. offices.

Richard hughey is here with a look at the closer fight for florida and theres none bigger. 29 electoral votes. >> big, big, here, chris. it has more say in who becomes president than ever before and its no doubt that florida has led for most of the election and activity on the ground, as well. the obama campaign has visited 46 times since june according to the washington post, the first lady a big part of that. field offices continue to grow there, now 104. the romney campaign has made 52 visits...

Located and they have santorum with a slight lead right now by one point over romney. further to the west, these are evangelical christians, these are people who rick santorum has targeted from the very beginning in michigan, and ottawa county along lake michigan has santorum winning that county by 17 points. so that is part of the reason why when we put our numbers into this state map right now, why we cannot call it. but some of the other numbers, once they come into the counties, will give us...

Clarence for it, which is the standard, and they go to the doj and say is this okay, and the doj signs off or doesnt and they work it out, and texas said we will do it. and texas added enough population for four new congressional districts and most of the population is latino, the texas state map includes not a single new majority district. so they are contesting it, saying its designed specifically to reduce the power over the 4,000 states latinos. do you think the story is getting enough atten...

Its a conundrum, steve israel is from new york and so theres a lot of pressure on democrats and israel to get a good map out of new york to give house democrats a lot of opportunities to knock off republican freshmen who were elected in 2010, but theres been a big push for reform in new york to try and take power out of the hands of the legislature, its probably not going to happen, it will probably still be three men in a back room in albany deciding the state map and it will come down to perso...