The senate with 64 votes, 67, 70, that s sort of a talking point that, sure, will influence boehner a bit but the point is you probably have to pass it with majority of democratic support. so you don t want to send down a bill that s unacceptable to big chunks of the democrat caucus in the house. okay, you got 70 votes but now you lost a third of the democrats in the house and you can t get it passed. i think not only a lot of the people i talk to but reformers are interested in getting a good bill with 62 votes and the pressure will still be on john boehner at that point. let s say they did it with 60, the bare minimum. we re talking about six republicans flipping over and voting for it. i wonder the reaction, michelle, in the republican world if something like that happens, do they feel the kind of pressure george is talking about or does that create an opportunity for conservative republicans to say, hey, this is like six rhinos, seven who jammed the amnesty bill down our throats,
Rights house, one with a public accommodations clause, became possible. on june 2, 1964 lbj signed one into law. something else happened that month, july 1964. less than two weeks after the civil rights act of 1964 was enacted, republicans gathered at cow palace in san francisco. i think it s still there. i think there s a minor league hockey team that plays there. anyway, they gathered in july 1964 and nominated for president a senator who had sided with the conservative southern democrat who is had tried to kill civil rights in the senate, barry g d goldwater. in the old confederacy he was a hit. goldwater fared better in the south in 1964 than just about any republican candidate since reconstruction fared. this was a clarifying national election for conservative white southerners who really began to see the national gop as their friend.
Democrat. i grew up in the hampton roads area and i think back to when we used to think of northern virginia as this liberal bastian that everyone ignored, oh, those people up there, and now they are virginia, by and large, certainly in terms of the population. i think the governor s race is sort of a the ultimate test because you have terry mcauliffe who is establishment, schmoozy democrat, and cucanelli, very far right, we talk about polarization, he is the republican right wing now, in certain ways. i think it s a real, like, choice. he s probably the kind of candidate a generation or so ago republican or democrats when conservatives were in the south could are gotten away with nominating in west virginia. maybe cucanelli wins this thing and we change our minds but this is a test of how much virginia
That is well, rick, you no. rick knows as i know, south became more democratic, whites in south vote more and more republican. the blacker the states, the more the republican whites vote. mississippi and alabama, look at 90% votes for cain, romney, bush. the question over time, the democrat, if it happens latino went to 72%, the increasing identification of latinos with the democratic party, will that create a next wave of i ve seen counties like in east texas where it almost feels like that s already happened. it s it won t be a free vote. i think to thank tom schaller and abby rappaport of the american prospect, how voting for the party not the person will likely save a democratic senate seat, at least this year.
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on