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this month to change how the state s electoral votes are awarded. that woot mean instead of obama winning all of the state s 20 electoral votes, veld gotten only 12. it s another example of republicans trying to fight a demographic war that s going against them. will this latest scheme succeed? jim burn is the chairman of the democratic party of pennsylvania and eugene robinson is a columnist for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. mr. burn, thank you so much for joining us. you have been keeping an eye on the other side up there in pennsylvania in harrisburg. what is it about harrisburg? when they get to the capital they sit around and play cards or whatever they do. they try to think of new weird ways to win a state without getting the most votes. it seems to be an indoor sport up there. well, chris, thanks again for allowing me to be on your show. we pushed back hard last year on the voterism d. and i don t know what it is when they go to harrisburg. some of it h
about folks are too lazy and knowing who he s talking about are single moms who are raising kids, who are working, who may number a county where there s no d.o.t. or in a county where the d.o.t. is open one day or may are a boss that if they have to go back twice and part of the game here in pennsylvania was when you went in for a free i.d., they ran you through all the hoops to see if you could get a driver s license. and then if that filed, said, by the way, here is a free i.d. that s much easier to get. and, you know, it just look, guys, we got to get back to a place, and frankly past gop chairs like ken mehlman have talked about this, where we try to win on the ideas. where it s not about suppression, not about intimidation. just running an honest race and cutting bait with the nasty tactics they seem to drag out whenever they get nervous. let me ask jim burn, the chair of the party, have the african-american community been emotionally responsive to this? did they know they w