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Incentivized. tack of paperwork and once you do that get taxed to death and once you do that you're ridiculed. we've been dissin ce disincenti. >> he's talking about lowering taxes by $4.4 trillion, 3.5% gdp growth and adding 25348 new jobs. when you read those numbers, charles, how should we think about that? is that even possible? >> let me put it to you this way. there's a statistic we don't talk about a lot, we should. it's called employment-to-population, the ratio the highest it's ever been is 64.7%, this is in april of 2000. if we were at that level right now, we'd have 13 million more ...

Flourishing in the offices of some people who run for president in 2016, bill. >> well, bob's point and congressman ellison's point that these laws are specifically designed to keep black folks, hispanic folks, college students, seniors, people who traditionally support democrats from voting is exactly right. i think that -- my hope is that, a, the voting rights act is figured out in congress. they try to go back at it. i think we all know that's not going to happen any time soon. >> we're pessimistic at best. >> right. second, in some of these communities where people see that people are acti...

And north carolina's tremendous innovation of allowing registration during the early voting period. all of those mechanisms were used more heavily by african-american voters and in fact president obama carried north carolina in 2008 not on election day, but during the early voting period. >> well, let me look at this, jean, the only good news here, is in the 2012 election, for the first time in census history, black voters passed on whites -- 66.2 of eligible black voters cast ballots, up from 64.7 in 2008. 61.4% -- down from 1996. at least in a presidential year, when there is an african-amer...

Election headquarters. president obama received overwhelming support from the black community in 2008, but even a slight change in voter turn out could make a huge difference in several key battleground states this time around. james rosen has more on several fac factors that could alter the outcome. >> reporter: political scientists have observed that in cities where an african politician has been elected mayor for the first time turn out by black voters when the mayor is seeking re-election tends to fall off. the national urban league warns in a report issued today that a drop in african-ame...