republicans. this has been an american fight. the word gerrymandering goes all the way back to 1812 when eldridge jerry designed a district in massachusetts that looked like a salman der and somebody said no, no, that s not a salman der that s a jerry man der. that s where it comes from. we have had 200 years of this kind of political games. president obama to be a liberal democrat and behave in a partisan way we shouldn t take him seriously if he tries to posture it s about good government. brian: newt, he has had some success already. he has gotten some votes in michigan and he is going for north carolina. a lot of these battle ground states. this could have implications to the balance of the house. sure. it could have some implication of the balance of the house. the problem the ultimate problem liberal democrats have is that their votes tend to be very concentrated in large cities and very, very hard to get enough
hopefully in under 60 seconds. you were able to reduce to a numerical a quantitative score whether gerrymandering crossed a line in a particular state, is that it in a nutshell? that s the key to the second prong of the test. it asks whether the math has shown a large and durable discriminatory effect. well i can go i hope it s successful. my cards are on the table. i think that gerrymandering needs to be reigned in, both parties have done it, they ve done it for a long, long time, all the way back to eldridge jerry, but we re self-sorting. there s a self-sort taking place in this country where we associate, i d say, too much with the like-minded. it s not going to be a panacea if you re successful. good luck, professor. thank you very much. still to come, your best and
4% unemployment also notice lute lute full employment of policy he says is abandon the 1970s when concerns about inflation began to take precedence. it s about one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] thank you, joe. i am happy to introduce bob. bob pollin is one of the leading economists in the united states. heterodox economists are the best kind. they are the ones that think outside the narrow box of orthodox economics. bob is a professor of economics at the university of massachusetts and codirector and co-founder of the political economy research institute at umass, a very important research institute backed does excellent academic scholarship with a public purpose. bob s books include a number of looks, contours of descent on the u.s. economy and in 2003, two books on the living wage, 1998 book of the living wage, building a fair economy and a reasonably measure of fairness, the economics of the living wage and his most recent book is the topic for tonight, back to full
ultimately, it may be that when the democrats don t have the white house anymore at some point in the future or if more republican super pacs come in then some of the nightmares that the democrats had this past year might come true, where the money will just blow them away. some political professors that i revere and talk to from time to time tell me that because the democrats had the house for 40 years that the republicans want it for 40 years and the only way that they re ever going to have it is to make sure that they jury rig all the gerrymandering that they re doing to make sure they have a chance to do that. it s part of their long-term strategy. that s why local elections are so important. for anybody out there who says don t vote for the state representatives, i only vote for the presidential. the gerrymandering decisions, which come from in the 18th century it s a combination of eldridge jerry, who was the governor of massachusetts that drew maps that looked like salaman
the republicans. that might not stand up. ultimately, it may be that when the democrats don t have the white house anymore at some point in the future or if more republican super pacs come in then some of the nightmares that the democrats had this past year might come true, where the money will just blow them away. some political professors that i revere and talk to from time to time tell me that because the democrats had the house for 40 years that the republicans want it for 40 years and the only way that they re ever going to have it is to make sure that they jury rig all the gerrymandering that they re doing to make sure they have a chance to do that. it s part of their long-term strategy. that s why local elections are so important. for anybody out there who says don t vote for the state representatives, i only vote for the presidential. the gerrymandering decisions, which come from in the 18th century it s a combination of eldridge jerry, who was the