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the reason to seek public office, the reason to get elected in the first place, what your job is if you win an election, is that you get to make policy. and the whole point of making policy is supposedly to address problems in our country. here's a sample problem. mississippi, the great state of mississippi, has health trouble. heart disease is the number one cause of death in the united states. well, the highest rate of health disease death in the country is in mississippi. diabetes also a massive american health problem. alabama and mississippi, it turns out, are neck and neck on b...

being the worst for diabetes. the most recent nationwide stats put alabama at 50 out of 50 states, and mississippi at 49th. the really astonishing number, though, in mississippi, is infant mortality. for every thousand kids born in the united states, how many of those kids do not live to their first birthday? overall, this is the rate in the country for infant mortality. here's what it is in mississippi. hmm. mississippi has the worst infant death rate in the country. not only is mississippi the worst in the country, if mississippi were a country, it would rank below sri lanka and be...

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we're live this afternoon. it sounds as if the police are turning up the heat on the dad now. >> the father has not been named a suspect or even a person of interest, but investigators said publicly his story doesn't add up. his house is too mall and too many other people there that night for someone to sneak in, snatch the girl and leave. so they're hoping releasing the information about the blood might get someone to come forward. the baby's blood was found early in the investigation, some visible to the highment more found -- visible to the eye, and the family was told it was more...