31, doesn t it? go ahead. in some sets, it s not surprising. because after all, if you could live in florida in the sunshine in the wintertime rather than new york in the cold and snow, who wouldn t want to do that? in another way, it is going to be a challenge for the president as he looks at the map next time. there are six electoral votes that move from states he carried to states he didn t carry. he had a big margin, but it looks like going into this next election, it s going to be a much different kind of playing field, so these things do matter. i think the point you made about hispanic voters is important for republicaning. the hispanic vote going two to one for democrats right now. george bush made some enroads with hispanic voters and those have been taken away. rubio might solve the problem,
african-americans or latinos or women or young, white people to vote. what is unequal about that vote? for people who are like rush limbaugh, portray themselves as the protecters of liberty and american values, there is nothing less equal about african-americans voting than there is about white people votings. they are americans voting. people of all colors should be encouraged to vote. i think it s interesting that for some reason, they feel afraid of americans, their fellow americans, voting. that s what s missing in this. it becomes republicans don t want hispanics and young people and women and african-americans to vote. and to be fair, you know, say what you like about george w. bush and boy, did he ever do that, but he actually recognized that african-americans needed to come back to the republican party. the latinos needed to come back and he actually made enroads
his plan in massachusetts? according to romney, not exactly. we ll get to his verbal gymnastics at the top of the program. meanwhile, president obama is on a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. can he make enroads among those working class voters? and speaking of those voters, how will they respond to new reports of romney s extensive offshore bank account sns does romney have an image problem? and a florida life guard loses his job for trying to help save a swimmer s life. and finally, what went wrong at this fourth of july celebration in san diego? all of the fireworks exploded at the same time. making for a bombastic, but brief display. we ll figure out what happened in the sideshow tonight. we begin with mitt romney calling the health care mandate a tax. michael steele is an msnbc