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Voices are former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, now an nbc news political analyst, and joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. thank you both for being on the show tonight. >> our pleasure. >> thanks, reverend. >> governor rendell, is this a conversation mitt willard romney and the republicans are hoping not to have this year about income equality? >> sure, but that's a false hope. there's no way we can't discuss that issue when more americans than ever are in poverty, when in my home state, 1 out of every 10 people is on food stamps. i never thought i'd tloif see that. with statistics ...

We don't have a hard-and-fast crowd estimate for how many people were there but nobody disputes he beat the record, that he beat lbj's record. and a big part of that was the historic nature of his election as the first african-american president but another part of it was the momentum coming out of his victory in the 2008 elect n election. he won election in 2008 by 10 million votes. the electoral college was 365-173. the democrats added 21 seats to what was already their majority in the house. they went all the way up to a super majority in the senate and, yeah, the 2008 election had been har...

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The republican primary for oregon's senate seat. she will face democrat theic senator jeff merkley in the general election in november. also we have the rarest of all political dramas in this area. a true blue hotly contested democratic primary. at this hour, incumbent congressman hank johnson appears to be fending off his challenger tom brown in his congressional district in dekalb county. he is the former sheriff of dekalb county. what makes it interesting is incumbent democratic members of congress don't get serious primary challengers in most cases but hank johnson did. we will keep an eye...