party is trying to do this, but reince priebus is following the lead of the ted chris wing of the party right now. let me tell you, you re sitting in philadelphia with the cityscape behind you. it reminded me i grew up in pennsylvania, you re a professor at lehigh, with hugh scott, arlen specter, both republicans, and arlen would get like 35% of the african-american vote, a huge chunk, which is the historic percentage the republican party used to get, before it started to get 10% of the black vote, which is why it loses a net 80% of the black vote in the big cities, because 90 minus 10 is 80. it used to be two thirds minus a third was a third, and the republican party could win statewide easily. about you when you start losing a net 80%, you re in the not in the business anymore. here is pennsylvania republicans, speaking out openly about using requirement to limit the vote. here s pennsylvania house republican leader mike turzai in june of last year. let s listen to him admit they r
let s listen to this guy admit it again. we re not making this up. reporter: do you think all the attention to voter i.d. affected last year s elections? i think it did. think about this. we cut obama by 5%, which is big. a lot of people lost sight of that. he beat mccain by 10%, romney by 5%, i think probably photo i.d. helped a bit in that. what is this guy, under sodium pentothal? clarence, i don t get it. i don t even know why they admit it. what is the world they live? some people are tone-deaf to how they sound. his party is denying that photoo i.d. has anything to do with, when everyone knows the opposite. he kind of gave the game away, kind of like when lee atwater said we don t use the n word anymore, now we re more abstract. use words like school bussing or crime in the streets, blah blah blah. that s the same kind of thing happens here.
a problem getting white and blue collar male voters to turn out. that s probably what sunk romney. when you look at the low turnout among reliable republican voters in reliable districts, especially rural districts, that made a big difference, because romney was not connecting with the base. this is he connected once when he said 47%. that s the thing. everybody in america heard that one. that apparently had a bigger impact than anything else. a lot of republicans are below the average income. right. they re regular republicans, my family. regular republicans are not all rich. thank you. that s where the reagan democrats came from. ronald reagan connected with the blue collar white voters, but they ve not had that connection since in the gop, so they ve turned to tactics like voter i.d. tell me, professor, i ve only seen you do such great things on this network and i mean it.
birds, called by some, like ted cruz. cruz has offered his sympathy and implicit support to those looking to impeach obama. here s cruz at a town hall this week. it s a good question. you need the votes in the u.s. senate. can harry reid and the democrats controlling the senate i think the stage is said for 2014 to be a fantastic year for republicans. i believe in 2014, we can take the majority of the u.s. senate and retire harry reid. ed rendell, and john braybrenner, a strategist. with many impressive clients, i must say, i learned that today. let me go to the governor on this one. this attempt began way back with the you lie and birther iism and sort of an attempt to put an asterisk next to his name, so on the list of presidents someday
ed rendell, and john braybrenner, a strategist. let me go to the governor on this one. this attempt began way back with the you lie and birther iism and sort of an attempt to put an asterisk next to him name. so they ll be able to say he was never actually president, because he was from some other country or he was impeached or there was talk of impeachment. the bill he passed was never really an act of government. thib uses tissue rejection, i ve never seen it, they didn t like clinton. we all fought over different people. this is an attempt to say you ain t even there, obama. well, chris, i love it, and the reason i love it. love it? i tell you, i love it,