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Republican voter registration, the red bars, they have carried on as normal. look at the blue lines. democratic voter registration has absolutely fallen off a cliff after these changes in florida. by the florida times union's count, it is frankly practically disappeared. on wednesday, on the second day of the republican convention in florida this week, a federal judge said he would permanently block florida's new law that makes it harder to register voters in the state. the law had been put on hold by a court in may, and the news this week, the new ruling means that the law is not coming back....

Disproportionately affect minority voters who tend to lean democratic and they appear to be right. they released remarkable new analysis on voter registration in the state of florida. we talked about this a little during the convention, but i think this is amazing. have you seen this graph? coming into the '04 presidential election. before the '04 election, this is what the increase in voter registration looked like in florida. democrats in terms of registering new voters had an edge of 40,000 voters. in 2008, it surged again, this is the work the parties are doing to register new voters. for ...

but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don't keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don't. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he's kept 37% of those promises. he's working on 23% of them. he's broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn't kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because you...

will join me in a minute. i'll ask him whether mitt romney was absent or sleeping when he approved that claim. but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don't keep. we tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he's kept 37% of those promises. he's working on 23% of them. he's broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn't kept. some of those broken promises can be blame...

The affordable care act. the tiny red bars you see at the bottom of the screen, the number of people covered by the republican alternative. so the republican alternative would cover less than a tenth as many insured people as the president's plan, and that's what eric cantor said is the gop's plan today. the republicans really don't see covering the uninsured as, quote, the issue. they are comfortable with the system in the form it exists today. as i told you earlier, you should always listen to mitch mcconnell. joining us now is steve kornacki, host of the cycle. good to see you. >> great to ...