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Have to look at the current situation. you are mandated by law to buy insurance right now under obamacare. 13 plus million people have asked for a hardship exemption. and then 6.5 plus million people have determined to pay the penalty. so currently, if we look at the universe and say it's roughly 30 million people. only 9 million people engaged in the exchanges when required by law. the majority, almost two-thirds, if my back of the envelope math is right, two-thirds have chosen to apply for a hardship exemption or pay a penalty. >> mandate forces people to buy insurance. and if they don't hav...

Now, will he, as any president should, having won an election, want to steer the country in the direction that he promised he would steer it? sure. will he try to find people who will do that in these individual cabinet departments? the age-old problem in washington is presidents appoint people to run departments and then they wind up doing it the reverse. they wind up representing the department to the president instead of representing the president and the people to the department. but yes, i'm sure he will do this. >> paul? >> that may well be. but i would point out first off the election's...

>> clinton has jumped to a seven-point lead in the monmouth poll in nevada. 47%. >> thank you, mike, for your contribution. >> willie, you did some back of the envelope math, which is actually how we got to our theory of thermonuclear dynamics, which should have won us a nobel prize, and they could find us. they still haven't found bob dillon. he is still missing. can't find him anywhere. >> we invented an icy hot patch. >> we did. >> put it on your back. >> and also, i invented post-it notes. >> classic. >> yeah. actually it's in the post parade too. i didn't have to do the back of the envelo...

She should have spoken. >> congressman mfume, you got elected to congress about 25 years later, i believe, if i got my math correctly there, back of the envelope math, and we asked this question on our last poll, basically taking the line from dr. king's speech, being judged by the content of the character. you saw the numbers. i just read them. when did you feel -- we did you personally feel as if, other you know what, barriers have been broken down for me as an african-american male? >> well, that's a very good question, chuck. i remember being elected to congress in 186. in fact, john lewis...

Welcome back to special republican primary election coverage here on "the ed show" on msnbc. rick santorum is the projected winner in alabama, despite newt gingrich's efforts to win another southern state. santorum is the projected winner in mississippi and he has, therefore, taken both of these southern states tonight. and where does this leave mitt romney? let's turn to nbc news political director chuck todd. chuck? the delegate count. where are we tonight? what does tonight mean? >> well, let's do that first. all right. i'll go there. that is simply -- i've been doing back of the envelope m...