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There are programs like head start that will get funded again. i want democrats to go back there, at the beginning of the year, and fight and fight and fight for those 1.3 million unemployed workers. what kind of party whose principled platform plank is to deny the kind of life sustaining help that people who are up employed get to feed their kids and pay the rent on their houses? it's a moral outrage and we ought to make a big issue out of it. and then move to immigration and force them to confront these difficult issues where the party professionals know they ought to do one thing. >> i resp...

Are equally popular with african-americans with democrats gaining favor because of fdr and the new deal. look not 1948. that's the first key turning point in modern history. an obvious reason for it, too. 1948 is the year that a democratic president, harry truman, signed an executive order integrating the armed forced and the year northern liberals successfully ratified a platform plank at the democratic national convention calling for civil rights. that move prompted a walkout by southern segregationists who then nominated their own rump ticket headed by strom thurmond. that explains the shar...

>> but it's a document that the vice presidential candidate, he would travel that road if he were given the chance. bob shrum, how do the republicans mop it up? where is the opening for the democrats here? i keep looking at suburban women across the country. it's like the republican party is just pushing them aside. >> look, if you look at pennsylvania, for example, in 2008, president obama underperformed what a democrat would normally do in the western part of that state. but he comfortably carried the state because he outperformed democrats in the suburbs of philadelphia. what you're seeing ...

Democrats here? i keep looking at suburban women across the country. it's like the republican party is just pushing them aside. >> look, if you look at pennsylvania, for example, in 2008, president obama underperformed what a democrat would normally do in the western part of that state. but he comfortably carried the state because he outperformed democrats in the suburbs of philadelphia. what you're seeing right now, what you're going to be hearing is the sound of women in those suburbs leaving the republican party, leaving mitt romney as quickly as possible. and by the way, mitt romney signed...

Vice presidential candidate, he would travel that road if he were given the chance. bob shrum, how do the republicans mop it up? where is the opening for the democrats here? i keep looking at suburban women across the country. it's like the republican party is just pushing them aside. >> look, if you look at pennsylvania, for example, in 2008, president obama underperformed what a democrat would normally do in the western part of that state. but he comfortably carried the state because he outperformed democrats in the suburbs of philadelphia. what you're seeing right now, what you're going to ...