you possibly can. push back against all this voter suppression going on. but really what you ve got to do, you ve got to win state houses. that s what you have to do. you have to win state houses to make sure that you have a level of protection that which would be the progressives that would keep the righties from doing this kind of stuff that will change election outcomes down the road. so what can you do about gerrymandering? those are the things. but number one, it all starts with you, your heart, your soul and your belief, and nothing is lost until you give up. stick around. rapid response panel is next. i m mary thompson with your market wrap. the dow dropping 49 points, the s&p down 8 and the nasdaq fell 9 points. shares of blackberry up after the company announced it would be sold to fairfax financial. $4.7 billion. and apple stocks spiked 5%
ohio. gop governors and state legislatures across the country have been passing measures aimed at keeping democratic voter away from the polls and really it s only getting worse. joining me now to discuss this bigger picture in our panel tonight is msnbc contributor michael eric dyson, back with us. and also goldie taylor, managing editor of the goldie taylor project and msnbc contributor. goldy, you heard the comment from huested, and he s on fox news doing these interviews, because they know the righties know how important ohio is and how important the secretary of state s position is in ohio. the democrats want to win in 16, they re going to need ohio as they have needed in past elections. but he said easy to vote and hard to cheat. do you believe that? absolutely not. you know, these republicans, secretaries of state are nothing more than deputies of the national gop. if you look at the states where we are closest in terms of flipping blue or red, that s where the pressure is
the soviet union and freed hundreds of millions from behind the iron curtain so putin is right to be concerned about american exceptionalism. the fact is there s a pernicious ideology that comes from the teacher s lounge that says goliath must be defeated by david. the united states is goliath. we must be defeated or become david without the sling shot. what i believe is right now president obama is building a case for republican presidency that the republicans never could have done on their own. it s as if calf rove is wearing an obama mask and doing it himself. the shrinking stature is making way for the need for a scary adult. the reagan that came after carter. right? yes. i don t know. i don t know. look, look, for decades, the grown-ups were running the gop. we re running washington, but, and the people like me, the far righties were called fringe. i guess we re still considered fringe. but the grown-ups have grown old. they re clinging to the notion
the soviet union and freed hundreds of millions from behind the iron curtain so putin is right to be concerned about american exceptionalism. the fact is there s a pernicious ideology that comes from the teacher s lounge that says goliath must be defeated by david. the united states is goliath. we must be defeated or become david without the sling shot. what i believe is right now president obama is building a case for republican presidency that the republicans never could have done on their own. it s as if calf rove is wearing an obama mask and doing it himself. the shrinking stature is making way for the need for a scary adult. the reagan that came after carter. right? yes. i don t know. i don t know. look, look, for decades, the grown-ups were running the gop. we re running washington, but, and the people like me, the far righties were called fringe. i guess we re still considered fringe. but the grown-ups have grown old. they re clinging to the notion
phenomenally well while the middle class disappears. the president has got to draw the line, stand with working families, support a progressive agenda. in that case, i think we can win and do some phenomenal things. senator, i don t think anybody could have said it any better. and that s where the country is right now. so in the midst of all of this conversation about these righties out there saying that, well, they re listening to their constituents, and so that s why they can t give the president the vote on to strike or the power to strike or the legal approval, whatever you want to call it to strike syria, because they re listening to the people, i think they re hypocrites if they go home and turn their back on a 70% approval rating to get a jobs package done. i mean, it just is amazing. and the only way this is going to happen is if local media people around the country hold these righties accountable. you wanted this when it was a high percentage, but you didn t want the backgr