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the house today. we've got the 18th airborne corps, the sky dragon. we have the 82nd airborne division. [ cheers ] >> we've got america's quiet professionals, our special operations forces. [ cheers ] >> from pope field we've got air force. [ cheers ] >> and i do believe we've got some navy and marine corps here too. >> yeah! [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and though they're not here with us today we send our thoughts and prayers to general held mutt, sergeant major rice and all the folks from the 18th airborne and bragg who are bringing our troops back from iraq. [ cheers ] we honor e...

change, we have one dead in an elevator accident in new york city. more as we get it. we're going to turn back to some politics now. brand new polls in the gop race for the white house. we're glad you're with us this wednesday. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm joan scott. here in the fox newsroom the gingrich surge is not slowing down. let's get to the numbers. a new "wall street journal/nbc" poll gives the former house speaker a commanding lead over mitt romney, of 23%. a different poll has gingrich with slim lead to the 40 to 23%. real clear politics average has is good news for former spea...

>> we've got a lot of folks in the house today. we've got the 18th airborne corps, the sky dragon. we have the 82nd airborne division. [ cheers ] >> we've got america's quiet professionals, our special operations forces. [ cheers ] >> from pope field we've got air force. [ cheers ] >> and i do believe we've got some navy and marine corps here too. >> yeah! [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and though they're not here with us today we send our thoughts and prayers to general held mutt, sergeant major rice and all the folks from the 18th airborne and bragg who are bringing our troops back f...

Those were florida, north carolina, virginia, ohio and michigan. it's been the -- let's look at a -- are either on the books or been pushed by state legislatures, including those five key swing states. let's start with virginia where african-american voter turnout jumped 20% between 2004 and 2008. this year the republican legislature tried to pass an i.d. law. this year the state legislature passed a voter i.d. law that bev purdue vetoed. another big swing state, ohio, a 15% jump in african-american voter turnout between 2000 and 2008. this year they passed a strict photo i.d. law that was

voter i.d. laws, are they happening now because of this? >> and everybody is laughing about herman cain, except these guys. is the joke really on them? chris hayes on the gop raising contain. "politics nation" starts right now. welcome. tonight's lead, republicans have hit a new low, even by my standards. today speaker john boehner lashed out at the president for bypassing this do nothing congress in order to help students and homeowners. >> this idea that you're just going to go around the congress is -- it's almost laughable. >> laughable? helping the middle classes laughable? bu...