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Minorities, white population, you have all of america now mixed up in the same state. i think that is the lesson you learn from ohio. if you really want to get engaged with the country. the problem with ohio this year is we're not quite sure what the people in your state are thinking, if they are going to go republican or stay with democrats and barack obama. i say that because of what happened in november with the ballot measures. one went down 2-1 against the republican governor and the republican legislature about unions, and then the voters turned around and equally rejected by 2-1 the hea...

>> bob: you can use it? >> kimberly: yes. in 2003. in the fifth circuit, guess who got involved to stop it from getting to the u.s. supreme court? the obama administration. wrote a brief on behalf and now it's -- >> bob: what is the arguement? >> kimberly: he is had better grades an minority applicants and were given advantage through affirmative action. critics say there seems to be a need for this before. if you look at the demographics of who in fact is enrolled in school and you compare it with the different ath necessity, white population, et cetera, african-americans, latinos it's dispro...

>> bob: you can use it? >> kimberly: yes. in 2003. in the fifth circuit, guess who got involved to stop it from getting to the u.s. supreme court? the obama administration. wrote a brief on behalf and now it's -- >> bob: what is the arguement? >> kimberly: he is had better grades an minority applicants and were given advantage through affirmative action. critics say there seems to be a need for this before. if you look at the demographics of who in fact is enrolled in school and you compare it with the different ath necessity, white population, et cetera, african-americans, latinos it's dispro...

Policy and what it means for your bottom line, plus, how to save serious cash at the gas pump. all that and more straight ahead at 9:30 a.m. eastern. also, we've got the changing face of america. we'll be talking about that throughout the morning as well. that changing face. new numbers delivered from the kren is. census. for that, christine romans. >> a census, racially and ethnically diverse population. of the 308.7 million people here in the united states, up 10% over the past decade, 1 in 6 are hispanic. the 50.5 million grew 42% since 2000. break it down further, how the rest of america...

Percentage of the state. i want to go to joy on this. this -- people don't underestimate. you look at the map of this country, it's all red, except it's blue most of the times, because of the areas where people live, big cities, they dominate presidential elections. and in philadelphia, that one county, out of 67 counties in pennsylvania, dominates the state, because that's where so many people live. >> yeah, absolutely, chris. i went into a deep dive worm hole on pennsylvania today, reading one of the hold bibles of the state. and you're absolutely right. you have this big behemoth that is ph...