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Steve lonegan, we just have time for one on obama care. he said i will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, i have no interest in helping to pay for your health care, i would hate to see you get cancer, but that is your problem, not mine. that is typical? >> that is absolutely typical. to call him a flame-thrower, does not do him justice. he ran against chris christie in the 2009 republican primary for governor. so he has had his turn around the dance floor in the statewide races. >> so steve, this is why cory booker looked so happy during most of the speech tonight. he knows that ev...

Level by the republican party. so they're red states that voted blue. and all of those states with that combination of factors you are seeing underground moves to stop those states from being battlegrounds, at least to stop them in ways that could help a democratic candidate in the presidency. we have been watching this, and now it seems as though it is falling into place, starting in pennsylvania early in 2012, and republicans who controlled the legislature there tried to change the way that state votes for president. so no one candidate could win the whole state. because they tried this in 2...

Of changing the rules. since the election we've also seen republican legislators in republican-controlled legislatures float the idea of changing the state's vote for president rules. in ohio, you can see that the data on this one was november the 8th, right after the election. in virginia, you can see the date here, a month later, december 9th. in michigan, december 18th, this is a phenomenon which is scarcely getting covered by the beltway at all. but in the republican-controlled states that voted blue for president. what republicans are trying to do in these states is figure out if republic...

States that voted blue for president. what republicans are trying to do in these states is figure out if republicans have the control in the state government to change who that state votes for, for president. if they have control, wisconsin this last election would have cast its 200,000 more votes for obama rather than romney. and instead, wisconsin would have cast half a vote for romney and half a vote for obama. under this most aggressive plan that has been put forward on the republican side, president obama would have finished nationwide with 5 million more votes than mitt romney, but mitt ...

And all of those states with that combination of factors you are seeing underground moves to stop those states from being battlegrounds, at least to stop them in ways that could help a democratic candidate in the presidency. we have been watching this, and now it seems as though it is falling into place, starting in pennsylvania early in 2012, and republicans who controlled the legislature there tried to change the way that state votes for president. so no one candidate could win the whole state. because they tried this in 2012, right before the election it was pretty much seen as a transparen...