including the pill. that s what their proponents intend and it is seen as a likely impact of this thing that mitt romney just said he supports. wow. the republican front-runner for the presidential nomination wants to ban the pill. i have a follow-up question. i mean, not a single beltway reporter has asked him a follow-up question about this. as to whether or not he really understood what he was saying yes to. did you really mean it, sir? you really want to ban the pill, mitt romney? can you explain? can somebody please ask mitt romney a follow-up question on that? do we believe him that he s laser focused on jobs, jobs, jobs? we here at the rachel maddow show cannot get a call back from the romney campaign when we asked him the follow-up question. can somebody who can get mitt romney s people on the phone ask him that? just ask him. anyone, please? joining us now is melissa harris-perry, professor of political science at tulane university and msnbc contributor. melissa, thanks for
to ban many common forms of birth control. including the pill. that s what their proponents intend and it is seen as a likely impact of this thing that mitt romney just said he supports. wow. the republican front-runner for the presidential nomination wants to ban the pill. i have a follow-up question. i mean, not a single beltway reporter has asked him a follow-up question about this. as to whether or not he really understood what he was saying yes to. did you really mean it, sir? you really want to ban the pill, mitt romney? can you explain? can somebody please ask mitt romney a follow-up question on that? do we believe him that he s laser focused on jobs, jobs, jobs? we here at the rachel maddow show cannot get a call back from the romney campaign when we asked him the follow-up question. can somebody who can get mitt romney s people on the phone ask him that? just ask him. anyone, please? joining us now is melissa harris-perry, professor of political science at tulane university
this is a structural thing. this is deep and national. and sometimes it comes down to decisions that are very, very, very individual and very local. we ve been bringing you the story of two county clerks in colorado. where the new republican secretary of state has ordered the counties not to send ballots to voters who would usually expect to get them. in denver, the voters happen to live in heavily hispanic neighborhoods. anybody who hadn t vote ed sinc the election in 2010, no ballot for you. in pueblo county, the voters are u.s. troops overseas what would usually get sent a ballot. the republican secretary of state in colorado said he wanted left out of the ballot mailings this year. on friday, a judge ruled against the republican secretary of state in colorado in a lahearin on a denver case, he ruled denver s ballots could get mailed out to the disproportionately hispanic voters. as we reported on friday night, in pueblo county, the clerk there heard the verdict, in the
the democrat senate campaign committee nationally announced at the national level the dscc will be fighting back. they re asking for help from the justice department in protecting voting rights state by state and also say they ll be making a renewed push to register voters and mount get out the vote efforts in the states targeted by republicans changing the laws. maybe that could help. maybe it will. i think the attention to this issue certainly helps if only because it makes people who these laws are designed to discourage from voting, it makes those folks know somebody is trying to keep them from the voting booth which can have a motivating effect on the need to vote on election day. this kind of coordinated sustained national assault on voting isn t an esoteric thing. it isn t an idea. it isn t a plan. it is happening. it is concrete and nuts and bolts and hard to counteract. fighting for these kinds of rights, fighting back is about how we decide things in america. it is at the lev
people don t know it, has to do with the occupy wall street protests. the occupy wall street protests in new york that have just entered their fourth week. the protests gained enough national traction that individual candidates for president are now being asked about the protests as they campaign across the country. here for instance is republican presidential front-runner mitt romney denouncing the occupy wall street protests earlier today at a campaign stop in new hampshire. i think the idea of dividing our nation at a time of crisis is the wrong way to go. all the streets are connected. wall street s connected to main street. and so finding a scapegoat, finding someone to blame in my opinion isn t right way to go. all the streets are connected. wall street connected to main street. you know, that is actually a checkable thing. if you check it, it turns out not to be true. here s a map of manhattan. there s wall street at the very bottom of manhattan over there on the left. and t