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Means sometimes we have to take into account the demographic composition of districts, voting patterns in districts. that's fine and required by federal law. what's not perfemissible is whe you lock one party into power, doesn't matter how many votes one party gets, they always get a majority of seats. >> the other thing happening at the same time you have gerrymandering, locking republicans into power for decades, a decade, how long since this span is, you also have a new wave of voter suppression taking place, under the radar partly thanks to the media. brennan center reports 99 voter suppre...

Shifted. ♪ >> i understand from very reliable sources that senator kennedy served as a great force in making the release possible. >> all of a sudden jack kennedy was champion of the greatest civil rights leader of them all. >> i'm positive it changed the voting patterns of a lot of african-americans. >> and nixon's support amongst black voters falls off. nixon usually had good political instincts about this kind of thing, but he just blew it. >> there's no doubt that bobby and john f. kennedy exploited that brilliantly. jack kennedy was no civil rights -- he wasn't marching anywhere, that f...

>> she went be so upset by the results out of georgia six. look, it is a district that is drawn for republicans. it is a district full of republican voters who re-elected tom price with 62% of the vote. it is also a district that wasn't very high on donald trump. they only chose him by one-and-a-half points over hillary clinton. that's a big deal when you look at the voting patterns there over the last 30 years basically. so i think ossoff actually did reasonably well. he came close to winning the seat outright and capitalizing on a lot of republican infighting and scrambling for second place ...

Next general election because once regular voting patterns set in, he'll be blown away. i've seen these people get elected to these seats as a fluke, usually after a scandal. i don't get tt long-term plan for that seat for the dems. >> i was in boston a few years ago, chris. you remember that. we were talking then about scott brown. it's all about for the democrats getting away from being a beleaguered party that lost big in 2016, getting their mojo back, starting to think about a wave perhaps. they've got to win 24 seats in 2018 to take back the house. if they've got any hope of doing that, t...

He's wearing some of us out that have to defend it. i think the critical thing here, there is some irregularities but it's not about -- you know, each of us know little races that have been lost by a couple hundred votes here or there. the critical thing, 2 million people who died between elections, they don't get off the polls, they don't vote a couple times. move from california to new york, you may change, be registered in two places. that doesn't mean you vote in two places. those are all done statewide. there's 50 states. secretaries of state have the responsibility for elections. there's...