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Tighter race. romney's strategy depends on winning the suburbs as well as driving up margins with social conservatives and active military and veterans in colorado springs and the rural areas of the state and doing well with voters here. the swing county like the state as a whole has become more hispan hispanic. colorado is 18% latino. that's up from 11.8% in 2000. the question is whether they cast ballots this time around. so how do voters in denver's swing suburbs known for being independent thinkers feel about the candidates? tom bro ka talked with a bunch of undecided voters in the great s...

Under assault by law makers from across the country, organized labor is fighting back. this year, it's giving politicians an ultimatum. sign what they're calling the second bill of rights or face the consequences in november. the pledge calls for better wages and protections for unionized workers. joining the panel now to talk about the future of labor is daniel katz, dean of the school of labor studies and dean of the school of professional studies at national labor college. also editor of "labor rising." great to have you on the program. we were just debating the made in america scandal engu...

Standard role for vice presidents where they start becoming more of the attack dog while the president tries to stay a little more above the fray. but it was fascinating to watch the odd timing that biden's speech had been scheduled for weeks and all of a sudden the white house this week decided to have their energy speech at the same time maybe making sure that cablers had a choice of which speech they wanted to cover. last night the campaign premiered its white house biopick if you want to call it that. most notable in the film is the defense of the health care bill and it's led by former pr...

Precisely the same power as corporations which is the epitome of a balanced decision which is what one would be looking for. megyn: so the unions don't like this, but they benefited from it, and the corporations as well. you know, they have the right to this free speech, in essence, is what the supreme court was looking at, and they said, they do. >> it also added one other power that's extraordinarily important to the unions because they have, they are a ground force. i mean, they work so hard for their candidates. for once they would go only to a union household, now they can canvas and soli...

There's something else that's been very frustrating. i call it crony capitalism. that's the path he's taking. he got hundreds of millions of dollars from labor bosses for his campaign, and so he's paying them back in every way he knows how. one way, of course, was giving general motors and chrysler to the uaw. >> so there was mitt romney in michigan wednesday, still trying to explain his opposition to the government's bailout of the auto industry. and going on the attack against unions. mitt romney who says his focus is on the middle class may want to pay closer attention to unions and to a fe...