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The bomb has been dropped. what? >> both in the way that he talked about mccain and the way that he talked about romney. one of the things i loved about what he said about romney was he drew it in as a whole family, talked about george and lenore. >> classy. >> it was. it forced that crowd to applaud mitt romney. that's part of the process. you have to knit everybody back together. we're going to stay on process and specifically on the process of how we got here, in other words, through voting. how do we keep voter suppression and jerry man derg on the agenda even after the win. ♪

Everyone. it affects women, it disproportionately affects people of color. this is a case of a parent and a child. if the child acts up and lies and miss behaves constantly, the next time the child comes to the parent the parent is going to monitor everything he does. that's what the case with the voting rights is about. these states have a very shameful, very unfortunate legacy of tram bling on the voter rights act. you should say where that's not happening -- >> also doing things like having this conversation and coming from people who can break down what the laws are, how they affect people...

Voting booth where everyone is able to exercise this franchise. almost everyone. for many displaced by hurricane sandy, getting to the polls on tuesday became not just a hardship, it became an impossibility. an impossibility that our foot soldier of the week, lydia beasley, refused to accept. she began volunteering at her local ymca after it was repurposed into a storm shelter with 500 beds populated mostly by displaced elderly and special needs citizens. during some down time she sat listening to evacuees seriously debating the presidential election. she asked them, will you be able to vote? ...

And everything, everyone thinks 245 chan that change is going to happen like that. i would get in arguments with my progressive friends and they want it now. >> this goes back to the beginning of the show where we were talking about president obama as the process president. we live in a big, diverse democracy, you're going to lose about half the time, right? that's just -- it's sort of the nature of the process. you're going to go in, you're going to lose, you're going win. that's why my nervousness. the winning or losing as you point out, it's not immediate, it's about long term processes. yo...

You had the obama win but you had to eat with proposition eight. it makes me nervous. >> it should make you nervous. when you think about the electoral process, the democratic process, if you allowed civil and human rights to be on the ballot, i'd be a slave. let's start here. i thought the maryland initiative was particularly significant. i agree it should not have been on the ballot. the legislature enacted the law that allowed it to be validated by the ballot itself. governor martin o'malley was smart. he knew if he wanted to get support of the populus there he had to open it up. then he be...