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More than four million people have voted in the presidential races. early sflovoting in 34 states underway. long voting lines in north carolina, a good news/bad news thing. it is inspiring, its exciting to see people so psyched to vote. see these big, long lines. its high voter enthusiasm, high voter determination. also, however, it indicates a shortage of polling locations for the first week of early voting. its exciting that the lines are long, and its also not necessarily good that the lines ...

For say, south of 20%. so all they are doing with this kind of politics actually is strengthening the odds that hillary clinton or some other democrat will win in 2016. 2014, any benefit from gerrymandering and benefit from the concentration of democratic votes in urban areas. but as you look down the road long term, you look at states like arizona and texas, with these emerging hispanic voting blocs, republicans are going to be in trouble in the midterms of 2018 and 2022, this is short term pol...

The winner of the general election is when ohio loved richard nixon too much. because ohio is such a bell weather, and because its always so close there, ohio has ended up being really really important in election years, and thats not just because of how they vote in terms of who they vote for, its also become important how ohio votes literally. how they go to the polls, whether or not they find it easy or difficult to cat their very important vote. how ohio votes matters to the nation, and in 2...

Election is when ohio loved richard nixon too much. because ohio is such a bell weather, and because its always so close there, ohio has ended up being really really important in election years, and thats not just because of how they vote in terms of who they vote for, its also become important how ohio votes literally. how they go to the polls, whether or not they find it easy or difficult to cat their very important vote. how ohio votes matters to the nation, and in 2004, the way ohio voted wa...

Longer voting lines. alex wagner will have her special women in politics. house minority leader nancy pelosi, senator kirsten gillibrand, jay bailey hutchinson and others join her today at noon. dont miss i [ male announcer ] if we could see ener... what would we see? ♪ the billions of gallons of fuel that get us to work. ♪ wed see all the electricity flowing through the devices that connect us and teach us. ♪ wed see that almost 100% of medical plastics are made from oil and natural gas. ...

Voting lines in north carolina, much the same that ohio moved toward today. when chuck asked governor mccrory why he and other people of north carolina voted to cut several days out of early voting in north carolina, the governor responded by saying you know, theyre not cutting early voting. really, he says they were compacting the calendar. compacting the calendar. try that on your boss the next time your late. hey, im not late, im just compacting the work day, in north carolina, theyre compact...

Legislator will start to go and vote and make the process of voting a lot harder and slower for you? congratulations, if you voted for a republican you got what you paid for. the republican voter in north carolina was on today on msnbc, chuck asked him about the law he signed to dramatically roll back voting lines in north carolina, much the same that ohio moved toward today. when chuck asked governor mccrory why he and other people of north carolina voted to cut several days out of early voting...

The election day. also because youve got these very intensely crowded african-american areas in big cities like philadelphia where the people, the voting lines are so long. weve got new numbers now. 20 minutes to vote youre an african-american. it takes so much longer people want these options. and now the state legislatures run by republicans say we dont want you to have these options because we dont want you to vote. isnt this all true what im saying? >> i think this is where mr. bonds point i...

Sports men. >> how insensitive can you be to be giving robocalls in the homes of people who have lost loved ones. i hope its a contrast to this kind of insensitivity. >> i think so. but if i could have one more message, it would be what hadiya said when she came to washington to be at some events with us and also to sit with the first lady during the state of the union. we were at a press conference and a member of the press asked her what message she had for members of congress and looked out a...

1965 to prevent racial discrimination, to stop the taxes, literacy taxes and violence rampant across jim crowe south. nine states are required, mostly in the south, to get federal permission before changing their voting procedures. this provision stopped unfair voting changes like districts redrawn to minimize the vote of african-americans. recently, its been used to block photo id laws in south carolina and texas. and cutbacks in early voting in florida. yet, in 2009, chief justice roberts wrot...