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>> well, the party -- the party left me. the platform of the republican party i support. so let's look at it this way. you can vote for scott brown, who as i said before doesn't vote for life, doesn't vote for guns, votes for dodd-frank which is a regulatory nightmare and votes with the democrats at least in the last year of his term 62% of the time. that means he voted with the republicans 38% of the time. or you can vote for bob smith, who left the party for four months saying, look, if the party doesn't particular to the principles, then we don't win. quote ronald reagan. ronald reagan, no ...

A lot of that driven by early voting. then you look at the presidential races. this law is supposed to take place in 2016. in 2008, look at that. barack obama actually won the state of north carolina, shocked a lot of people. very narrowly, but 49.9 to 49.5. really only very narrowly lost it in 2012. so north carolina is obviously a swing state. do you think that's what this is about, 2016? >> well, it's about that. it's about the shifting demographics in the south, 23% to 25% of our voting population are african-american. 3% are latino. that's 28%. you only need about 22% of whites to vote th...

Cantor was for wall street, and i am for main street. so the feeling from the financial community, whether justified or not, is that they have indeed lost a friend, or someone who was sympathetic, if not empathetic to them. what do you make of that? >> i think his challenger, you know, took popular talking points and used it to his advantage. whether he actually comes to washington and votes that way and doesn't vote in favor of wall street, or doesn't vote in favor of businesses or business-friendly environments is another question. i think he was trying to take advantage of a popular talking...

Access to data and better tools to make the most of the data. over a year later, that data is still really pretty bad. the republican party has a serious data problem. something is deeply wrong with the gop's campaign structure if the party's presidential nominee and the house majority leader cannot rely on their pollsters. joining me now from atlanta is founder of citizen politics patricia murphy and correspondent for the uptimes, josh barrel. >> the problem is that data doesn't vote. people vote. and when you have a pollster getting in there polling likely republican voter, the problem is yo...

The time, vote like shock troops. gop, older white voters who show up even if it's a special election for dog catcher. those are the people who are going to decide elections. who doesn't vote are those people who are least likely. they show up maybe during a presidential on year, almost never in a mid-term and never ever during a special election like this. what democrats have to do is change that behavior over time. they have to show that every election matters, that these issues matter and that who they send to office, who is going to be voting, going to be voting for or against your interes...