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Want to point out these gerrymandered districts, because it is unbelievable. i think we have a whole audio-visual slide show. look at this. the gray area represents the district. that literally -- they are rorschach blot tests more than anything. what's happened to this country in terms of voting districts is unbelievable. ly si will say these are both democrat and republican. >> you can point to a 50%-50% poll in north carolina which you can also throw out window when you look at these. this is clearly a base play. this is the conservative republicans on the part of the governor. that's what'...

these beaches had been closed for people to get into the water, and we talked to a life guard just the other day about the strong rip currents that they are concerned about. take a listen. so i see the white caps out there. is that safe for a person to get into the water? >> no. it is not. the thing is with closing water completely, you let somebody knee deep they want to get waist deep. you let them waist deep they want to go in. >> reporter: what is a rip current? >> it's a channel of water pulls out to sea, too much water close to the shore, rip current will pull you out to sea, i...

Stamps. >> how is this a winning message? >> it's not. they're nuts. >> it's a base play. it's one that plays with a very narrow slice of the electorate. they may decide at this point looking at how badly how they got beaten over this during the holidays, do they look at these numbers and say okay, let's dial this back a little bit. there's going to be partisan warfare all year. i think the idea is we muddle through 2012, get to 2013 and then we deal with entitlements, then we deal with the bigger issues. there's going to be no major legislation coming out of this congress. >> except that the ...

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