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Republican ares. no positive vision or ideas for the future. bottom line that is what the presidency and leadership is about and really what george will is saying is that the republican party lacks a vision, ideas and ultimately saying they should give up the ghost on the presidential election because they lack a direction for the future. sadly, he is right about the party. he is wrong about what they should do tactically. >> heather: let's talk about tactically, though, trey, i will let you jump in there. tactically talking about the congressional races. as super tuesday unfolds, you may have...

Politicians in california writing $20,000 checks to the person that was drawing the lines so they can keep their district. we said, enough is enough. we need to reform the system. so what did we do? we got democrats, republicans, independents. we put diversity panel together and said go draw the lines. make it better than what we had before in the past. and guess what? i'm not saying i'm doing cart wheels over the redistricting process, but it's a lot better than what we had before. it's a step in the right direction for california. jimmy, you couple that with an open primary, and there's goin...

Host of "power play" on fox news live.comp. joins us from washington. he has long been a controversial figure in the house but try as they might, republicans have never been able to dislodge him. he's doing it himself. >> well, and you know, jon, part of the dislodgement comes from the fact that massachusetts is losing congress at seats. they've gone through a redistricting process that while it might not have made the congressman particularly vulnerable in a true blue democratic district, it might have made it more challenging for him. and here's an interesting thing to think about. if you're...

We need term limits. the founders never intended for -- for us to have career politicians. you know, we've been dominated by the extreme idealogs with regard to the primaries. we've got career politicians more concerned with keeping their job than doing their job. >> i'm not sure i agree about term limits. i think we over history have had really extraordinary members of the house and senate who were veterans and who really understood and learned their craft. and learned how to make committees work. and the difference is the redistricting process. the money. and the way our -- the way our elect...

Illinois seat and a conservative mississippi seat and i think this is very similar, possibly to what happened to the republicans in separate when you look at how strongly democratic this seat is. jon: some democrats say look it's a special election, turn out is low, you know, the folks who normally would get out there and vote just weren't there today, not a big deal. >> reporter: well, they are right to some degree. i don't know that bob turner can survive the 2012 election if his seat remains as it is and it probably won't through the redistricting process. when you look at the dissatisfacti...