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Does this process begin? >> well, there was a formula used to identify which of the jurisdictions were the most likely to have some type of voting violation. so what the court is saying is now that is outdated and we no longer have those types of discrimination at the polls or literacy tests to exclude some african-american voters. so now it's 201. we need a new set of circumstances. >> so, mark, the vote was 5-4 with the opinion from justice ruth bader ginsburg. the current law still uses election data from 1972. fast forward to 2012, when black voter turnout exceeded that of white voters, is...
Movement and will continue to stand and tell women there is a contrast between a mitt romney as president and a barack obama and we have to re-elect barack obama. >> nancy keenan, thanks for your time today. i appreciate it. >> thank you. a programming note, sandra fluke will be joining us tomorrow. we will talk to her about the speech she's giving at the dnc and that will wrap things up for me today. i appreciate your time. see you back here tomorrow. we will talk, as i said, with sandra fluke, also meghan mccain, mark morial and bill adair. until then, follow me on twitter. don't go anywhe...
Achieve higher goals in education. with us to talk about that and much more, president of the national urban league, marc morial. we hear so many contrasts, how is the president received at your conference? is the excitement still there? >> i tell you, the excitement is incredible. what the video clip didn't capture is the president was actually talking to about 500 teen-agers in the audience at the conference. when he walked in, they went wild. they were wildly enthusiastic about the opportunity to see a president and to see barack obama. so that conversation was a bit of a colloquy which was...
>> you're right about benefits costs. that's one of the areas that can be trimmed and savings put in place. but the post office need as turn around the guy. there may be a turn around guy available after the second week in november to run the post office. just saying. >> mitt romney is going to be postmaster general if he loses? >> just saying. >> transition position. >> gene, thanks very much for joining us. check out gene's latest column in "the washington post" today which is a sweet kiss for governor romney. check that out, okay? ed rendell, you're going to stick around for us. coming up, ...