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Average of a latino woman is 28. why hasn't that helped them do better? >> potential is the key word. the way that texas politics is skewed and the way it was when the democrats ran the state, the primary was the default general election. today as texans go to the pole to choose their candidates for these major positions, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and down the line, you're going to see fewer than ten percent of texans show up. we expect that voting patterns are going to be similar to previous elections. that means around 1.4 million republicans coming out and somewhere in...

Pop up, but, in fact, what he's doing is enforcing some of the laws that, as sherrilyn said, are on the books and need to be enforced. >> i want to read from richard epstein, another conservative legal thinker. he said, look, the approach to voting rights enforcement was over the top and the need to keep it in place based on 1964 voting patterns is a serious error, but instead of backing off, he pushed individual cases that seemed meritless. your response on both of those. >> astonished. however, you know, i think we have to just recognize that as mr. miller said, there is an agenda among cons...

Congressman frank wolf announced he was not going to run again but democrats can't recruit a top-flight candidate for a district that ought to be an easy pick-up. this is verifying what democratic would-be candidates are learning around the country. >> there's enough money in politics you don't have to completely write off anything. but there is no question that from the beginning 2014 was going to be tough for democrats. the reality is, as voting patterns have become more polarized by age and race, mid-term electorate is older around whiter when 65% of whites over 45 are voting republican. th...

Cd-10. congressman frank wolf announced he was not going to run again but democrats can't recruit a top-flight candidate for a district that ought to be an easy pick-up. this is verifying what democratic would-be candidates are learning around the country. >> there is no question that from the beginning 2014 was going to be tough for democrats. the reality is, as voting patterns have become more polarized by age and race, mid-term electorate is older around whiter when 65% of whites over 45 are voting republican. this is always going to be an uphill climb for the democrats. when you look the s...

Obamacare and government overreach. the president won re-election in 2012 talking about this populous middle class, champion of these ladders of opportunity. if those are the competing narratives in 2014, obamacare on the one hand, champion being the middle class on the other, which is the stronger argument? >> well, obamacare is such a problem for so many people. and negative emotions tend to outweigh positive emotions in voting patterns. when you have a large segment of the population that has either been damaged by obamacare or fears it will be, and that is hanging around the neck of nearly...