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Opportunity for ambitious colleagues in the republican party than the democratic party. one, republicans want to highlight black politicians, the minority politicians like we see at the convention. but i have seen this in states across the country. there are an awful lot of black elected officials in the country, most of whom are democrats. in many cases, this is a result of the voting rights act, which produces sort of a majority-minority districts in states. the lines are drawn to encourage the election of black members of congress, for instance. when it comes then, for the democratic party ...

Electorate to have the politicians scared. >> that's exactly right. >> exactly right. >> at least on the federal level, it's ironic that the house of representatives is less representative than the senate, which was originally supposed to be not representative. why? because there's all these incumbent protection maps. >> with the gerrymandering of the house. >> with the gerrymandering in the house and the state legislatures protect the federal legislatures and also protect themselves. but my question is, with all these different standards, they have to try to say, oh, well we need more minorit...