in iowa, they passed a measure to repeal the provision that allow medicaid funds to be used. it was a tie vote. a tie vote to block poor women who are the victims of rape or incest, singh ling them out from having access to abortion. it s a targeted bill to go after rape victims and invest victims to make sure they don t get something they might otherwise get. this is what s going on in republican politics right now around women s rights and abortion rights and the proper role of government. not to put too fine a point on it, but you have to ask is there a problem the republicans are trying to address. have rape victims just been coddled too much. have rape victims had it too easy? have they not had enough of other people doing things to their bodies that they don t want them to do? is éh@t a pressing problem calling out for intervention?
right? there s no sort of route to victory that doesn t include southern states. i can t imagine winning the presidency and not having north carolina, virginia and florida. i can t imagine it. those weree1 close race but the were certainly strategically af section you have to have. it s fairly conservative. áe conservative region of the country.rvative region of the they saw a big change in 2010. the presidente1lp took them in but in 2008, virginia, north 4jj depends who is home. i always contend lq á @&h(lc% democrats didn t throw us out in 2006. those were voters that came back were madfá at spending and government. they were different. it wasn t just the parties. i would ask this question, mayor.lp i don t think either party is going to win the election. i think it s thee1 person in th middle who doesn tw3 identify. the person who didn t vote in either primary, didn t participate in what we re running through right now and that thafó independent voter
stacking is the practice of redrawing districtok boundarieso thatw3 one voter group thinks is the majority but it s outweighed by an opposing group.ok cracking is breaking up political opponents into different districts, preventing them from becoming aw3 majority. when the first two don t work, you start packing. packing asq many opponents into one district as s7possible, leaving the surrounding one for folks more like you. remember, this is all potentially legal. continuing our discussion on redistrictinge1 and the partisa and racia dawson,fáavé(á(hsju)p& and kenjá yoshino. you wanted toe1 makk this point about continuous districts and this issue of on the one hand sort ofi] what makes a communit but alsor does not and how the supreme court has thought about racee1 being important versus politics and partisanship. right. i think i wanted to bounce off of what marc was saying. he was saying it s politics all the way down. can t take the politics out of thee1 politic.
surrogate. a selected surrogate from that area to step up and give a pitch about any candidate that they support. and if you ve got a high number of people who are undecided, all of a sudden, well, there s suszsy brown sitting over there, she runs the hardware store, there s farmer johnson off the road. he got off his tractor and came in this evening to find out what s going on.ç @&h(lc% he s undecided, too. all of a sudden they start milling in groups. somebody makes a strong pitch everyo and says, i m going to go with that guy. this is the ground game i think maybe rick santorum has and the ground game maybe michele bachmann has. this is the wildcard in all of this. of course, both romney and gingrich are attacking the front-runner, ron paul, on past controversial social positions. the staunch ron paul supporters think fellow iowans will see through all of this. iowans are very politically savvy and they ll see through
seriously. greta: the other states would too. i imagine that> they re part of the process. number one these states are smaller states, it s manageable for them to actually meet the candidates, to kick the tires to find out who these people really are as opposed to the first state s california it s whoever raises the most money is going to raise california. you want to![maqá i1#e qd#qbdx9:eñoeav#jzfçsñ> t1d÷=df$ nrp ÷%çh> greta: throw in rhode island. nevada was thrown in there because it represents a western constituency. iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, nevada not so much, üi/p,tç!#3$w ç@ki! dalíu1@:zwku( !wr:> greta: you don t think the other states would take it