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Yesterday, in effect what they're us doing using rules of the senate to their advantage to avoid policy outcomes they don't want. take them at their word for that. now it would be silly to deny there is not a political component. of course there is. there is politics to all of this. gregg: how do you reconcile their belief that there should be no additional background checks to the way the american public feels and i will tell you what i mean by that? let's put it up on the screen. the fox news latest proposal to reduce gun violence, 85% are in favor of requiring universal checks, a slimmer ma...

Then 2004 president bush won in ohio. by a slimmer margin. by only 118,000 votes. it had been uncomfortably close for republicans in ohio in 2000. even more in 2004. part of what makes ohio such a swing state is in terms of the way people vote, it's a microcosm of what you find in the rest of the country. people in the less populated areas vote republican. more concentrated parts of ohio tend to vote democratic. and for people who lived in the more populated parts of ohio in 2004, it was profoundly difficult to vote. voters across urban ohio found in their polling places did not have enough ma...

Good to have you with me. >> thank you. >> do you think there's a slimmer margin for people like michael steele and president obama? >> i think most people understand we still have instructial inequality in this country based on race. you know what is interesting about the democratic chairman and republican chairman michael steele speaking at our conference this week, last year newt gingrich spoke and talked about how we still have racial inequality in the country. in answering the question, steele had to say, yes, there's a slimmer margin. i don't think he necessarily made the statement in th...

Take responsibility, shoulder that burden, make the necessary changes and move on. >> steele has faced fierce criticism over his management of the republican national committee and questionable spending including the latest up roar over a $2,000 tab at a sex-themed nightclub. steele taking heat over his response when asked if he thinks race is a factor in all this criticism of his leadership. >> do you feel that as an african-american you have a slimmer margin for error than another chairman would? >> the honest answer is yes. >> why is that? >> it just is. barack obama has a slimmer margin. a...

Then suggesting some of the criticism aimed his way is over his skin color. >> we've got a lot of questions on my blog for you. one came in from myron. do you feel as an african-american you have a slimmer margin for error than another chairman would? >> the honest answer is yes. >> why is that? >> it just is. it's the -- barack obama has a slimmer margin. a lot of folks do. it means a different role for, you know, for me to play and others to play. and that's just the reality of it. but you take that as part of the nature of it. it's not -- it's more because you're not someone that they know....