yes, on this issue specifically. where less than a third of latino voters say they agree with the dominant republican position on this issue. after the republicans won a record number of state legislature states in 2010 and a bunch of governorships too, republicans in those states, since the 2010 election, have just been focused on abortion, like never before. they enacted a record number of new anti-abortion laws, more than at any time since roe versus wade became the law of the land. the same thing happened at the federal level, as soon as republicans took control of the house, after the 2010 mid-term elections. hr-3, as in the house republican s third bill overall, their bill was an anti-abortion bill. they have also tried to ban abortion after a certain time limit in washington, d.c. they ve tried to roll back access to birth control. and remember when they threatened to shut down the entire government if they were not allowed to defund planned parenthood? where they were in power
and far too few republicans. the latest pew survey has a national margin of 3 points for obama has 4 points more democrats than republicans. but the gallup poll which is the most authoritative last week concluded that there were now three points more republicans than democrats in the country. so it s d-4 and the reality is r-3. so it s a 7-points distortion. so if you are showing romney losing by 3 he s running by 4. if you take the finding in the pew poll that republicans are 6% more likely to turn out than democrats. so instead of it being plus 7, instead of switching to it a romney win by 4, you now have a romney win by 6 or 7. and then you take the undecided vote which always goes against the i am couple bent. you allocate it 2 to 1 for
came here to follow paul ryan why? i m here because paul ryan has refused to engage the voters of the first congressional candidate since he was tapped by mitt romney. he s authored the most destructive budget the united states has ever seen. if by running on the national ticket, is he not answering these same questions that voters in a swing district like the first congressional district of wisconsin? isn t he answering these questions? they re seeing a side of paul ryan they ve never seen before. the national spotlight has not been very kind in his positions. he co-sponsored hr-3 with todd akin, redefining rape, and he wrote a budget that calls for killing medicare. everybody thinks it kills medicare. it is the premium support. and he redid it. he reconfigured his plan because it was getting so much criticism. it s no longer the guaranteed benefit medicare is. it turns it into a voucher program. if you re using that program to opt into medicare or going out
has been brilliant so far. it s really important to remind everyone what the house republican caucus is, to its core. what it has been, what it represents about the actual governing of the republican party. this is something, rachel, you covered roly well. as soon as they got control of congress, this is what they started waging their battles on. this is what the house republican caucus started waging its battles on, trying to get rid of planned parenthood. hr-3. redefining rape. yeah, so one of the things that is interesting is the house republican caucus has been very absent from these two days. and i think we can talk about that later. that s a strategic choice because the obama campaign, the last thing they want to remind people about is the fact the next generation might be barack obama and john boehner again at the table, which sounds awful to everyone, but the way to the caucus, the way they manifest in the convention so far is through
the spotlight is on the gop s tough talking rock star tonight. new jersey governor chris christie. picking him for the keynote speech says a lot about the republican brand. but just what is the republican brand these days? joining me now is chris hayes, host of up with chris hayes on msnbc. he s author of the new book twilight of the elites. chris, thanks for your time tonight. good to be here. this convention comes after a very tough contentious primary season and here we are with chris christie. where is the gop brand today? the reason that chris christie is attractive to the gop establishment is he manages to fuse two things together which is a hard trick to pull off. as we are seeing in the era of todd akin and paul ryan and hr 3