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Swung the democrat i can population. they call it the obama voters. they really turned out in '08 and '12. one of these counties in virginia that obama care i had both times. 2009, it went 57-41 for the republicans. it wasn't because swing voters switched leads. it was because the obama coalition stayed home in both elections. >> this is that off year. that surge and decline problem. you can say they went for president obama in '08 and 2012. it turns out a different electorate. not just in off years where you have the congressional but a truly off year. is that part of how you end up with a mo...

Into law from families of the victims. it comes a day after president obama's latest push to reduce gun violence by imposing tighter restrictions on gun ownership rights. in denver yesterday, the president is urging swift action. >> everyday that we wait to do something about it, even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun. the good news is colorado has already chosen to do something about it. jon: the jury is still out on whether or not we will see new gun laws on the federal level. but when it comes to state levels, more have expanded the rights to gun o...

Object is when it benefits, again, mine north, women, hispanics, blacks, that's -- they are trying to maintain, as you said in the last segment, a b bygone era and their children are rejecting them. that's what is happening. it's their children and grandchildren who have grown up in a puralistic society. >> victoria, the tea party to cause primary problems, though, for more moderate or mainstream republicans? >> they are losing their foundation. so we see at the national level they are losing steam but i also think at the state levels we're talking about where in 2012 we saw in that legislatur...

Marriage, other things like that, that are pillars of the republican party. but then i think they're right. show people of all ethnicities, of income stratus, show why the principles are best for america, why they work. again governors with laboratories of democracy a best place to do that. i'm glad reasons preeb does did that. i was on the initial committee that looked at this. we're winning at state levels but we're losing at the presidential level. this autopsy as he called it i think it is smart. let's be honest. people want to know how much we care before they care how much we know. we ha...

Explain what you hope to accomplish by this and also the numbers you're hoping to have show up. >> you know, we had a rally last week in new york, and this weekend, we're going to have not only this march in d.c. which we're co-sponsoring with the march on gun violence in washington, d.c. we also have 11 other events across the country that day. so for us, this is about frequency, it's not just about numbers. we're going to continue to be out in front of this issue of gun control, and we're going to continue to get moms to join us, to fight for common sense gun control legislation. every month...