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Who is she dpendiepending on in state at this point? >> i think that the court constituency for the democratic party needed to be energized, i think the first lady, bernie and chelsea have done a great job of infusing that energy into the state. core constituency, latinos underperform and need to turn out in arizona. this is a young state and overwhelmingly in support of hillary, they need to turn out. and communities of color, native american communities. working folk, core constituency. what the first lady did in energizing reached beyond the core constituency but talk directly to women, acr...

Working folk of america? merry christmas. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. will republicans ever admit saving the automobile industry was the right thing to do? text a. for yes, text b. for no to 67622. you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring the results later in the show. i'm still waiting for the story on fox. they ought to be jumping up and down underneath the christmas tree, saying, we're out of the car business! we're finally done. it's over oh. whew. we dodged that bullet. no more obama motors. for more, let me bring in the m...

And, of course, another issue about income inequality in this country, and actually paying workers. in new jersey, what the heck happened here? voters actually went against chris christie? and voted for minimum wage? an increase by 2014? that's right. the minimum wage is going to go from $7.25 to $8.25 an hour. can we mark that up as another win for the working folk of america? well, let's go to the middle of the country. how about cincinnati, ohio? remember cincinnati? measure two, measure five, all that stuff, going after the public workers? is, well, last night voters have rejectsed a contr...

Happyness." >> you got a dream, you got to protect it. people can't do something themselves, they want to tell you, you can't do it. you want something, go get it. period. >> so chris, is there no middle class in america anymore? >> no, there is not, and i've known that for some time. there's only rich folks and working folks and let me define both of them for you. rich folks, if you are an owner of a highly profitable business or a significant equity player in such business, you qualify as rich folks. if, however, no matter what your salary is, you could be downsized, laid off, outsourced or ...

The focus of three attack ads and now, one labor union is add tog that a series of new videos, including sanitation workers who actually picked up mitt romney's trash from his home in california. >> my name is richard hayes and i pick up mitt romney's trash. when i'm 55, 60 years old, i know my body's going to break down. i don't know mitt romney doesn't care about that. zbr and one of the stars of another video in that series is joan raymonday, president of ask me local 127. thanks for joining us. good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm well. that video has more than a million views on youtube s...