good to have you i don t here. great to be here. some republican-controlled states, including ohio and virginia are talking about making their state vote for president the same way they vote for congress and the legislature. which right now is set up in a way that dramatically favors republicans, no matter how people vote. is it feasible that they could do this? it is feasible, sure, because they have the power. we re talking about states here where you control where the republican party controls the governorship and controls both houses of the legislature. so they have the power to do it. the significance, i literally have some back of the envelope calculations. that s an actual envelope? with some calculations on it. i think it s worth pointing out. you have four states you mentioned, pennsylvania, virginia, michigan, ohio. right now this year in the 2012 election, the electoral vote count from those four states was 61-0, obama. he won all four states. if you get a vote for
cycle. good to have you i don t here. great to be here. some republican-controlled states, including ohio and virginia are talking about making their state vote for president the same way they vote for congress and the legislature. which right now is set up in a way that dramatically favors republicans, no matter how people vote. is it feasible that they could do this? it is feasible, sure, because they have the power. we re talking about states here where you control where the republican party controls the governorship and controls both houses of the legislature. so they have the power to do it. the significance, i literally have some back of the envelope calculations. that s an actual envelope? with some calculations on it. i think it s worth pointing out. you have four states you mentioned, pennsylvania, virginia, michigan, ohio. right now this year in the 2012 election, the electoral vote count from those four states was 61-0, obama. he won all four states. if you get a
election, president obama and the country prepare for the next four years. thank you, america! god bless you! god bless these united states. announcer: from abc news, this is america this morning with rob nelson and paula faris. good wednesday morning, everybody. four years ago barack obama stood on the brink of history the morning after his election. now four years later he stands on the brink of a second term. the president has won re-election after a hard-fought campaign, saying he returns to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever. and he claimed a decisive and sweeping electoral victory over challenger mitt romney, although the popular vote is a lot tighter. but in the end, almost all of the key battleground states, including ohio and virginia,
campaign and facing a congress as divided as it was before the election, president obama and the country prepare for the next four years. thank you, america. god bless you. god bless these united states. good wednesday morning, everybody. four years ago, barack obama stood on the brink of history, the morning after his election. now, four years later, he stands on the brink of a second term. the president has won re-election after a hard-fought campaign, saying he returns to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever. and he can claim a decisive and sweeping electoral victory over challenger, mitt romney. although, the popular vote is a lot tighter. but in the end, almost all of the key battleground states, including ohio and virginia,
comic-con, except the characters originated from japan. i don t know if you d ever catch me there. my animae character would have pigtails or ponytails or braids or something. all right. do it for me. i ll check it out. i m working on it. good morning, everyone. of course, the weather is the big, huge story out there this last weekend, but if it wasn t for the incredible heat, you had incredible storms rolling through. you really couldn t win as we went throughout just a sweltering, hot weekend. now, this is the storm reports. the storm actually started friday early in the day in chicago, and then one thunderstorm complex went in a path like this, and it did all of this damage, all the way down from d.c. through virginia, including ohio and west virginia, and that s what knocked out millions of power. now, when you have one big line of thunderstorms like this, it s called a derecho, and that s the meteorological term for when you have a line of thunderstorms that produces wid