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Progressive plot to turn it blue. it's a simple matter of arithmetic. ben jealous, former president of the naacp walked me through the math. >> there are 600,000 unregistered black people in the state and 230,000 unregistered asians and latinos on top of that. and if we could just sign up 750,000 of them, it would be almost impossible for the republicans to win again. >> in 2008, john mccain won the state by 204,000 votes. in 2010, republican governor nathan deal won by 258,000 votes. in 2012, mitt romney won the state by 304,000 votes. organizers say there are roughly 830,000 unregistered vot...

2010, barack obama wins a state in 2008, and, again in 2012. according to that math, georgia turns blue. joining me now is ben jealous, a partner and senior fellow at the center for american progress as well as former president and ceo of the naacp. all right, ben, i think people think about the south and they think, well, it was the solid south. it was democratic, it was run by dixiecrats for years. southern strategy came along with nixon. 1994 the gingrich wave pushed a lot of the old democrats out. 2010 pushed the last remaining ones out. and it's just going to be a solid republican portion...

That means nathan deal loses in 2010, barack obama wins a state in 2008, and, again in 2012. according to that math, georgia turns blue. joining me now is ben jealous, a partner and senior fellow at the center. american progress as well as former president and ceo of the naacp. all right, ben, i think people think about the south and they think, well, it was the solid south. it was democratic, it was run by dixiecrats for years. southern strategy came along with nixon. 1994 the gingrich wave pushed a lot of the old democrats out. 2010 pushed the last remaining ones out. and it's just going to ...

Agent orange. the vietnam war era defoliant tied to a list of neurological disorders. they weren't matched by the va reforms needed to adequately address the new claims. agent orange alone took up 37% of the veterans benefits resources nationally from october 2010 to march of 2012. according to the gao. essentially, are what we're looking at is a bottleneck between a lot of vietnam veterans retiring and needing additional care because they're getting older, and veterans from the iraq and afghanistan war? >> it's both. soldiers have been griping since valley forge. this issue goes back quite a ...

Shooting have been placed on leave and the fbi is investigating. the website hacker group anonymous was behind this weekend's protest. the group posted it's own version of the police shooting video and threatened to shut down the apd's website, which it successfully did just one hour before sunday's march began. protesters say boyd's death is just the latest in a string of police using excessive force. the department of justice has been investigating the albuquerque department since 2012. according to an account by the associated press, of the 37 shootings on record by the albuquerque police s...