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>> this is socially engineering the vote. that's how i view it. are these bills a direct attack on democratic voters? >> not just democratic voters, ed. i think in some ways all voters. but the targets are certainly young people. the targets are elderly people. the targets are poor people. because those are the groups that will have the greatest hurdles to summount. in 2004 in ohio the lines were so long, it was very reminiscent of what happened in florida in 2012. people had to wait in urban areas for almost seven hours over 170,000 voters left the lines, they didn't vote because they were ju...

Corrections, elections have been running relatively smoothly. but now since the election of president barack obama, the republicans have decided that they don't like folks coming out to vote. and so they want to take it away. i mean, the restrictions on strict voter i.d. bills we know will have terrible impact on people in the state of ohio. the technicalities that they want to place on absentee voting, it just absolutely makes no sense. and this is not happenstance, this is deliberate. >> yeah. and finally, governor kasich, how can he be silent on this? i mean, has he not read the bills? is h...

0 no cameras in this event. but we know what they were talking about. >> we're getting more and more takers than makers in america. and we need to have more makers and less takers in america. if we have more takers, then we're denying people of their ability to make the most of their lives. >> if you raise the minimum wage, the inevitable effect will be number one, young people will lose their jobs. or not be able to get their first jobs. unemployment among young people will go up if the minimum wage goes up as president obama says. unemployment among hispanics, among african-americans, among ...

what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice. and i would make the argument that, you know, we have a great injustice going on in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives. and obama care is front and center in that. >> yes. he just compared fighting the health care law to fighting apartheid. rick santorum doesn't have to like the health care law, but he's a former u.s. senator. does he really think it compares to government-backed racial segregation. ...

0 concerned about their futures. but we are now starting from square one. it's a process that i think we need to take a lot of care, because there's going to be pain for a lot of different people. but in the long run, i think the future of the city will be bright. >> i offer to you tonight, this is unnecessary pain. there is a way out. kevin orr now holds the keys to the city of detroit. this guy, not an elected official, is apointed. he was hand-picked by republican governor rick schneider, to oversee detroit's bankruptcy. earlier today, orr said that pensions are going to be cut, and public ...