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Will help encourage them or not. >> maybe black democrats or black voters came out for thad cochran in mississippi, moderate establishment republicans can secretly work to end the gerrymandering process. >> there are somewhere. >> maybe it is -- florida has a lot of them. >> if it happened in florida, it can happen anywhere. joan walsh, joy reid, thank you for your time. you can always catch the reid report, must see television, 2:00 p.m. weekdays, here on a little channel called msnbc. coming up, a deadly confrontation just got deadlier. i will tell you where next. a complete multivitamin w...

Amount of time in the sun and that's it. let's not forget michele bachmann won iowa, so if all this attention is put on iowa now, we saw what happened with her presidential ambitions. he's doing what is in his best interests. it seems that was his government strategy. shutdown strategy, get some attention off of it. but republicans have a lot of work to go ahead and fix their brand, no doubt. >> and in a way, nobody loves ted cruz more than the democrats, chris, because of what he has done to the republican brand. and i think there are optimists who think the shutdown provided a democratic ope...

Gerrymandering process. i think the 2010 election in many ways was more important for the republicans, certainly these tea partiers, than the 2012 congressional elections. after 2010 on the census basis, they redistricted. >> the other factor we haven't mentioned is social media. i think as we saw with ted cruz quoting tweets on the senate floor, you can come to believe that your position is much more thoroughly supported than it is because you've got easily 1,000 tweets to support it. those thousand tweets aren't necessarily representative. >> again, in your district, barack obama lost in a l...

This seems to be what governors much of the republican caucus. >> you're going all college of cardinals on me with how the republicans thought about this. there was, judd -- obviously, eric cantor, he's waiting in the wings for something like that to happen. >> oh, absolutely. i think it's important to sort of take a step back and talk about how we got here. really, this is the product of a year's long effort to gerrymander the house of representatives, all the districts that most of these folk come from are so bright red because of the gerrymandering process. what we've ended up with is a gro...