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Increased from 60% to 74%. taking it from republican to turbo republican. >> turbo republican. jared, first of all, for folks who may not understand how this comes to be, how are districts -- how are congressional districts, how are they drawn? who draws them? what's the process? >> every ten years -- and this is in the constitution, there is a census of the nation. and districts are supposed to be redrawn based on the population shift that occurred over that decade as recorded by the goldie sen yal census. the redrawing is done by a state legislature. so in 2010 many state legislators became ...

If we could do at washington what we are doing at state level we could solve the problems. >> romney dismissed the notion that michigan out of reach. the last time is republican presidential candidate carried great lake state was 1988 when it carried four more electoral votes than it does today. due to the population shift. >> bret: rare for candidate to directly refute a v.p. vetting story. >> he called out abc news by name and called it entirely false. >> bret: thank you. >> you can see sean hannity's interview with governor romney and his wife ann that james mentioned at the beginning of th...

Are both hitting back calling klein a known liar. klein, a former "new york times" magazine editor dismisses that. updating a story we brought you earlier in week in our friday followup segment. bake sales in massachusetts schools will not be given the boot. for patrick asked health officials to reverse guidelines that would been a unhealthy school foods. at schools starting august 1. meaning no more sweet treat sales. after the subsequent public outcry, the state backed off and ordered classroom and fundraising events to be excluded from the rules. ♪ ♪ >> bret: tonight we will look at t...

Heads up that the national association of realtors was going to revise downward its overall health of the housing market. and the fact that it came out saying they overstated by more than 3 million home sales, well, that was pretty shocking. but the good news is we are starting to get some better news on home sales. existing home sales today came in the best level in something like a year and a half, yesterday, the construction starts were quite strong as well, the existing home sales, up about 4 percent. so here's what happened, according to the national association of realtors. they say chan...

Minorities now. in 2000, only 39% were minorities. the national journal's ron brownstein has an in-depth analysis of these shifts. brownstein points out, quote, at the current rate of growth, nonwhites will comprise a majority of children in the united states by 2015. that's only four years from now. now, the driving force behind the population shift, latinos. 50 million in 2010. that's a 47% gain. now, here's the bottom line. obama won overwhelming support of minorities in 2008, by 80%, a huge number. if he can maintain that support in 2012 or anywhere near it, he'll have a shot of winning st...