Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120711:05:23:00
Voters as just voting for identity politics, but it's really about policy. if you go back and look at the democratic party in the 1930s, when fdr first ran for president, he got a third of the black vote, right? by the time we get past the 1960s and the civil rights act '64, republicans couldn't get more than 15% of the vote after that. but if the republican party really wants to stare into the abyss, they should realize that as late as 1960, right, when nixon was attempting to beat john f. kennedy, he got a third of the black vote. the republican party is now, with hispanics, on the cusp of w...