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Details emerge, its obvious the plans dont help the people that are the most needy amongst us. this is the greatest indication of how democrats abandoned the middle class, which is the fixation on college as only way to accomplish the american dream. there are needs for workers across the economic spectrum. sad link the next generation of americans with enormous debt for a fewer year degree they may or may not be able to use is not the american dream that most americans know and love. jillian: d...

Its old school, but it works. >> this is congress at its finest. leadership races are not won among the voting population. its among the caucus, the members elected to congress. the members, they want faith in leadership in exchange for votes. a lot is based on personal relationships. some of it is concerns about backlash for opposing the leadership. thats why people arent betting against nancy pelosi because she has so much power to influence rank-and-file members, how effective theyll be in th...

Were looking at the same places. were coming down again, 87% of the precincts reporting. fi gillum running up a lead here. is it possible? yes. starting to get tighter. youre starting to think are we going to get the votes? broward county, 9.5% statewide voting population. we dont know turnout. its 9%. maybe a little more. maybe a little less. andrew gillum running up a healthy margin. the question is theyre looking at the voting lists trying to figure out are there enough? if you go through the...

Weve got to be able to figure out a way to do two things. part of whats exciting to me is you now have, among democrats, a test case, five test cases to see if a more progressive populous message can work. stacey abrams in georgia, gillem in florida, beto in texas and you have paulette jordan in idaho, all of whom are doing something unusual. theyre proud to be progressives. they look somewhat different. if all of them lose, what that says is democrats, guess what, this idea that we can have a m...

President to florida at this moment is obvious lly a net positive. >> you have the opposite happening on gillums side. he is bringing out president obama on friday. you the kind of dual forces, the dual coalitions. >> right. >> and well see who really makes the move there early voting shows folks are up and theyre energized there but you have to wonder if that is coming from the general voting population and folks who would vote either way or new voters who may not have come out previously. >> o...

Previously come out in these midterm elections. and donald trump is holding a rally in your state a couple of times and in the last week before, that may be the last little push you need to go from a possible democratic voter to an actual democratic voter. >> the florida visit, florida twice is interesting. >> yes. >> the other states that he is going to, west virginia, well he won by 30 points. florida he won by a few points. its not clear that sending the president to florida at this moment is...

To go to the same exact polling location. there is only one polling place for all of dodge city, and its been that way for the past 20 or so years. the aclu of kansas says the average polling location in the state serves 1200 people. dodge citys voting population is 10 times that, yet they still only have the one polling place, which is conveniently located in the predominantly white part of town. in the last nonpresidential election, 2014, hispanic turnout in that county was just 17%. compared ...

There is only one polling place for all of dodge city, and its been that way for the past 20 or so years. the aclu of kansas says the average polling location in the state serves 1200 people. dodge citys voting population is ten times that and yet they still only have the one polling place, which is conveniently located in the predominantly white part of town. and these constraints have had an affect. again, most of the people who live in this town are hispanic. dodge city makes up most of the c...

Ceo clarissa lamar. i think the dodge city -- >> youre using my code name. >> sorry about that. so i think the dodge city story -- it probably answers the question, i think you and i probably have this conversation every two years approximately is why is it that the latino vote is so far under its population. at least in dodge city, kansas, its by design, apparently. but is that the case nationwide or is there something else going on? >> a couple of things. first of all, everyone looks at the la...

Ceo maria kumar. i think the dodge city -- >> youre using my code name. >> sorry about that. so i think the dodge city story -- it probably answers the question, i think you and i probably have this conversation every two years approximately is why is it that the latino vote is so far under its population. at least in dodge city, kansas, its by design, apparently. but is that the case nationwide or is there something else going on? >> a couple of things. first of all, everyone looks at the latin...