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The state it would take to win. >> pennsylvania, chris? >> i was in the democratic city committee meeting of the ward leaders friday noon. they let me in. they dont usually do that. thats when they hand out the street money. its real. 200 bucks for voting division. these guys are all pros. >> whats it used for? >> its all professional. its legal. you pay people to go out door to door starting at 11:00 in the morning. you roust them out of the house. you say, you have voted? go back and forth. yo...

Never beat us. we turn out 480,000 majority. always, and will again on tuesday. >> you have a ground game. >> old school. resources on the street. committee people in every voting division. you cover the city. 67 plus wards. they dont have anything like that, do they? >> 69 wards, cover every polling place and division. we have committee people in the 683 divisions within the city. probably without question the last democratic party organization in the country. >> last big machine. this is the p...

But the way that philadelphia is concentrated. those philadelphia suburbs are so full of white college-educated voters, those are just the kind of voters that are trending towards the democratic party. and pennsylvania, just interestingly enough, against ohio, it has a slightly higher college-educated white population. a slightly higher median income. its even an older population. but its just built just enough in the democrats favor that if you can turn out those suburban white voters and those...

Sitting among the democratic ward leaders. lets call it that, city big political machine. theyre covered through the city with wards. its broken into voting division. every voting division has committee people and they are the people who tend to the neighborhood concerns. the people who get out the vote on election day. know who voted and who didnt. they keep score. how do you score a ward leader is simple? chairman bob brady explains. how many votes do they get out. this is the fire wall. youre...

His efforts will ensure that philadelphia and pennsylvania gets hillary clinton elected president on tuesday. explain why republicans, who are professional people like yourself, seem to think they can carry pennsylvania. every year they target it and every year they are beaten. whats that about? >> propaganda. thats what it is called. never beat us, they are not going to beat us and they have never beat us. we turn out 480,000 majority. always, and will again on tuesday. >> you have a ground gam...

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Told me hes confident his efforts would ensure philadelphia and pennsylvania gets his friend, hillary clinton, elected president on tuesday. explain why republicans, who are professional people like yourself, seem to always think they can carry pennsylvania? every year they target it, it seems, and every year, they get beaten. whats that about? >> its called propaganda. theyre never going to beat us, theyre not going to beat us, and they cant beat us by any amount. theyre not going to beat us. a...

Vermont pushing for a hearing on an incident on election day in 2008. in the letter the republican senators write about their concern about the politicization of the civil rights division within the department of justice. whats this latest push about? michael smerconish is a radio host and msnbc analyst. michael, youve written about this and then steve jump in here. i want to try to get a very good presentation of what happened two years ago as best we can understand it. give us the sense of the...

Of the civil rights division within the department of justice. whats this latest push about? michael smerconish is a radio host and msnbc analyst. e. stephen collins is a philadelphia radio host. michael, youve written about this, then e. stephen. jump in here. i want to try to get a very good presentation of what happened two years ago as best we can understand it. give us the sense of the neighborhood involved, the voting division involved, what happened, michael, on this day when we all voted...