so-called leaders that represent us. it s the old issue that political scientists like to talk about. on specific issues, americans are april liberal when you ask them, do you like this program, do you want the minimum wage, do you like medicare. if you ask them philosophically, do you like government, they say no. so i think what some democrats, sometimes awaken to is the idea that if they talk about these specific issues, they can gain huge traction with the population. it s not necessarily moving to the left. it s just moving to where a lot of the population is. that s why this is populism, right? it is pop yulismpopulism. that s why a lot of governors have been quite nervous about this medicaid expansion, often battling with republican legislatures, where they actually want to do this, but they re getting i want for one more race real quickly i m watching carefully, the senate race where i live, and that is mary landrieu. she s got a very slim lead right now in terms of
latino vote, i think it s these issues go beyond immigration. and after republicans had been building their share of the latino vote, it wasn t at all clear where latino voters were going to go. they had been growing, for example, and they contracted back. i think the calculation is a little like the discussion of abortion rights. if you talk about, you know, i.d., or you talk about certain new rules to prevent fraud, it won t necessarily be translated as restricting the votes, but i think voting rights advocates have really pushed back much more aggressively than a lot of republicans anticipated to frame the issue. stick with us, we re going to go to florida, which had a lot of these conversations. we ll go to florida next, and you ll really want to go to florida, because before we move on, we ll provide you with one more update on the brutal weather conditions impacting much of the country. one of the coldest arctic air masses in nearly 30 years will blast through much of the c
for 2014, we ll have to exam. a decade ago, 12 of the largest american cities, six of them were run by republican mayors. now 12 of the largest cities, all democratic mayors, including bill de blasio, explicitly progressive, just inaugurated here in new york city. the question will be this year for these 12 mayors of these large, democratic cities, what progressive policies can they try to enact, given that they can govern over large cities, but how will that translate in any way into state politics? many are in republican-controlled states. you have power concentrated in blue islands and red i was going to say, if you look at that map, right, if you really pause and look deeply at that purple map, you see there really are almost no blue states. there s just blue cities, right? and then those cities are either powerful enough and populous enough to kind of generate that purpleness out, so you see those cities along the basically, it s all along the coast, where
housing. the thinking was that once the issue of housing was solved, veterans could focus on other issues. in august of last year, president obama praised phoenix s efforts to end chronic homelessness. here in phoenix, thanks to the hard work of everyone from mayor stan to the local united way to us airways, you re on track to end chronic homelessness nor veterans, period, by 2014. and just a little more than four months later in december of 2013, the city of phoenix declared it had become the first city to end chronic homelessness among veterans. by allocating an additional $100,000 in funds to house the remaining 56 homeless veterans. now, while phoenix may have been the first city to complete its mission to end chronic homelessness for veterans, it is not the only city in america to take on this resolution. when we come back, we will speak with the mayor of another city that is working to do the very
primary colors can. by now, our understanding of the united states partisan landscape is indelibly painted in shades of red or blue. in fact, the portrait of a bi-color america has been a favorite rhetorical of the president, when he s wanted to illustrate the differences that divide us but do not define us. the pundits like to slice and dice our countries into red states and blue states. red states for republicans, blue states for democrats. but i ve got news for them too. americans that sent a message to the world, that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. we are and always will be, the united states of america. we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. we are and forever will be the united states of america. he really does love that line. but if we look closer, beyond the boundaries, separating one