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Efforts achieve incredible success. that's what america is all about. americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. >> the big pivot that the white house and the democrats are right now engineering in american politics is toward the issue of how much people get paid for their work. the minimum wage issue levered away from being just a washington issue to now being a political fight that can be fought all over the country. with anyone. joining us now, democratic pollster, celinda lake. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me...

Efforts achieve incredible success. that's what america is all about. americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. >> the big pivot that the white house and the democrats are right now engineering in american politics is toward the issue of how much people get paid for their work. the minimum wage issue lefered away from being just a washington issue to now being a political fight that can be fought all over the country. with anyone. joining us now, democratic pollster, salinda lake. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me...

Democrats who support it in any one region more than other parts of the country? >> yes. this is what is so fantastic about this issue is there are not big regional differences. if you want a southern strategy which we're always talking about republicans, we need a southern strategy as democrats, well, the minimum wage is your southern strategy because southern voters vote on this issue even more than northern and midwestern and western voters. there are more minimum wage workers in the south because we have less unionization and really moves women voters in the south. watch for a michelle nun...

United states capitol, a nice fire burning behind and looking remarkably refined. great. what are your policy proposals to make that dream better for everybody? here's what she said. we have plans to improve our education and training programs. >> details to come. >> dot, dot, dot, dot. that's all you have to tell the american people, that you're going to do instead of what barack obama is going to do? get off the sofa and go back to the apple orchard and maybe you can understand what minimum wage workers are actually earning these days. >> big thanks to all of you. we will be right back. viol...

Good. 64% of minimum wage workers are women. 15.3 million women would get a raise if the minimum wage were raised to $10.10. women's take home pay affects men and american families. why is there resistance to this issue? >> the corporations are backing that, what rand paul is saying, the top americans that are so wealthy, they don't understand what it is like for the middle class and the lower class in this country trying to make ends meet. i talked to women all across this country working two jobs, sometimes a part-time job with two full-time. congress has not passed anything since the ledbet...