why are they trying to break up the electoral college?it's not going to be by congressional district rather than by state? >> because obama might win pennsylvania. and if he gets the most votes in pennsylvania, he gets all the electoral college votes. that's the way it has worked in most -- >> 23, i think it is. >> -- in most of the states forever. >> but you have to give republicans credit for this much. they're all about power, they're all about getting elected. and any advantage they can get to turn an election in their favor, they're willing to go for. so destroying the electoral college system, that's fine with them if it gives -- >> -- tom delay having a new redistricting halfway through the decade. >> exactly. >> what about this breaking up the electoral college vote? first of all, it destroys the power of the small states that tend to be republican, so this could be counterproductive, right? >> well, we'll see. i mean, except for the fact that, you know, in states where they took over the state legislature, we'll have to see what

and if he gets the most votes in pennsylvania, he gets all the electoral college votes.s the way it has worked in most -- >> 23, i think it is. >> -- in most of the states forever. >> but you have to give republicans credit for this much. they're all about power, they're all about getting elected. and any advantage they can get to turn an election in their favor, they're willing to go for. so destroying the electoral college system, that's fine with them if it gives -- >> -- tom delay having a new redistricting halfway through the decade. >> exactly. >> what about this breaking up the electoral college vote? first of all, it destroys the power of the small states that tend to be republican, so this could be counterproductive, right? >> well, we'll see. i mean, except for the fact that, you know, in states where they took over the state legislature, we'll have to see what the outcome is. i mean, if you move to this new system and you've taken over the state legislature and you've redistricted yourself into power, then you're always going to get the vote. >> bill clinton j

i could see a legitimate debate about ending nationwide electoral college you know amending the constitution or or having every state all at once agree right that they're going to just go to. each district right but you know every vote but this kind of a halfway measure right of saying the districts are going to pick this came up with this how is this do you know if this came out of alec or is this republican strategist or is unique to pennsylvania or of the states claims so a bit of background here i agree with you that the electoral college is a disaster you know the idea that we can have a system where the person who gets the most votes doesn't win the presidential race is an embarrassment frankly and there is a process to fix that's called the national popular vote you get a group of states that equals two hundred seventy electoral votes that's a majority so all the sign on to a compact saying that they will give all of their electoral votes to whoever wins the nation as a whole so you can get rid of this or that republicans want to do it in little pieces that take apart the democratic s

obviously reform of the electoral college has been a standard progressive claim, right? the desire to move away from a system that actually buffers us from the popular vote, choosing who the american president is and vastly overrepresented underpopulated states because of the way the electoral college votes are determined. two senators and one congressman in these states that have very, very small populations. so on the one hand, you know, having a conversation about the rules of the game is the best kind of democracy with a little "d." when we see it happening in this format, clearly as you point out, not about ideology, not about a claim toward how democracy should work, but just about keeping this president from being re-elected, basically buying 2012, you know, election aflac, kind of a secondary insurance to make sure if they can't beat the president on ideas, if they can't beat the president on the economy, then they'll beat him on the rules of the game. that is absolutely a twisting of the purposes of american democracy. >> have you seen democrats or progressive g

the electoral college, check out the map. he says that these 7 states that matter are colorado, florida, iowa, nevada, new hampshire, ohio, and virginia. so, larry sabato joins us, political science professor at the universities of virginia. good morning, larry, good to see you. >> good morning, martha. martha: looking at your map, you basically say if you look at things now democrats can pretty much count on the 175 electoral votes and the g.o.p. could count on 206, is that right? >> look, essentially, when you look at the map, martha, a kindergartener could color most of those states red or blue. you know, all states are important. i'm not saying that only these 7 are important. but, political patterns matter. and, people's predilections toward voting democratic or republican are pretty set in most cases even when they call themselves independents and most of the states are already red or blue and look at the national polls and the national polls are nice, interesting and don't really matter. the only thing in our statement

when there is a tie between jefferson and burr in the electoral college, aaron burr suddenly decides that it might be rather pleasant to be president of the united states instead of merely vice president. thomas jefferson, who incredibly enough wins that election with an assist from alexander hamilton of all people, burr becomes vice president. thomas jefferson has a very, very long memory and decides to drop burr from the ticket in 1804. burr returns to new york. tries to run for governor. again, hamilton blocks burr's path. burr was never unduly disturbed by having killed hamilton. he had a rather macabre sense of humor. he liked to refer jokingly, quote, to my friend, hamilton, whom i shot. a few weeks after the duel, burr by this point has fled to safer ground in philadelphia. just two or three weeks after the duel, aaron burr wrote the following letter to his daughter. quote, if any male friend of yours should be dying of -- i recommend he engage in a duel and courtship at the same time. burr had immediately resumed in philadelphia just a week or two after the duel, burr resumed

>> i'm a electoral college guy. >> how do you explain it?nk it's easy to explain to an international visitor? >> yeah, absolutely. >> governor rendell? >> i think it's almost impossible to explain. >> that's how i -- you know, at the end of the day, when a foreigner asks about the electoral college -- >> around 11:00, go to the state capitol and vote at midnight. it works. it's a good system. >> michael steele, governor ed rendell, thank you both for coming on. >> thanks, chuck. >>> president obama is set to make a populist pitch in less than an hour from now. the big monday panel joins me next. >>> as the fight for florida heats up, the romney/perry slug fest is getting personal. going into class area. >>> first, it's the whiteohouse soup of day. i believe this was thursday's soup. five-day-old leftover chicken noodle. i hope not. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. [ woman ] jogging stroller, you've been stuck in the garage, while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription

there were 36 nonprofits ranging from a firm that wanted to get rid of electoral college to diabetes association. >> family and friends of michelle le will spend the searching the body for her. the family is still holding out hope they will find her. hayward police have arrested giselle esteban on murder charges. they believe she killed le because she blamed her for breaking up esteban's romantic relationship. le was last seen in kaiser permanente at the end of may. >> still ahead a birth control recall sparked a recall over unwanted pregnancies. >> plus, growing the next apple, the law that president obama signed today that could be the key to the next innovation. >> and changes and new charges against one of biggest banks, what >>> a pharmaceutical company is recalling several brands of birth control pills because of packaging error. the company says the packaging error could cause women to take it incorrectly putting them at risk for unintended pregnancies. consumers who have the affected packages should contact doctors or pharmacists. we have more information or on number you can

house of representatives to end up deciding the presidential election if there was a tie in the electoral college. >> i'm not in this for ego. i'm not in this for fun. i'm not in this for gratification. i'm in this for what's good for my country, what's good for our children and grandchildren and i'm trying to do the right thing. it's that simple. putting this thing in the house of representatives is negative and disruptive. >> this seemed like sort of a far-fetched thing to be worried about. this house of representatives is going to have to decide a thing. ross perot, did, in fact, that summer quit the race. then weeks after he quit, ross perot gave a whole different explanation for why he had quit. he told "the boston herald" he had a videotape of somebody from the bush campaign meeting with someone from the cia. he told campaign audiences and "60 minutes" there was some republican plan to disrupt his daughter's wedding. so he had to quit the race i guess to save the wedding? another one of his daughters explained to "the new york times" how that republican disruption was going to happen. appar

there were 36 nonprofits ranging from a firm that wanted to get rid of electoral college to diabetes association. >> family and friends of michelle le will spend the searching the body for her. the family is still holding out hope they will find her. hayward police have arrested giselle esteban on murder charges. they believe she killed le because she blamed her for breaking up esteban's romantic relationship. le was last seen in kaiser permanente at the end of may. >> still ahead a birth control recall sparked a recall over unwanted pregnancies. >> plus, growing the next apple, the law that president obama signed today that could be the key to the next innovation. >> and changes and new charges against one of biggest banks, what citibank customers wililill >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> a pharmaceutical company is recalling several brands of birth control pills because of packaging error. the company says the packaging error could cause women to take it incorrectly putting them at risk for unintended pregnancies. consumers who have the affected packag

so it is true that barack obama won decisively in the electoral college but the election was closer than many people suggest. tavis: with that backdrop, that sort of history that you referenced a moment ago, what does it say about the color line in america, to your earlier point, for obama to win the presidency he had to have one way of talking to white folks and black folk. what does that say about the line in this country? >> it is still here. a're still wrestling with color line that penetrates every aspect of american life. i do not care if we're talking about the movie theater. i do not care if we're talking about marriage or friendship or sports, about electoral politics. the race line is there. barack obama had to do a very careful dance. one part of the dance was to stay away from race. he was trying to stay away from it during the election campaign. he has tried to steer away from that during his presidency. tavis: is that something you celebrate? is that wise on his part? >> no. i do not celebrate it. in my view, it is a sad aspect of our politics that the president of the unit

the books for at least three dozen nonprofits, ranging from a firm that wants to get rid of electoral college to the latino diabetes association. >>> time to check out the weather. yesterday it felt so cool and a little windy. >> cool. >> we'll see if today is the same. >> the first cold front of the fall season, good morning to you. here is a look at it. you can see it right here in the form of some showers that moved through northern california, in the sierra and in to nevada right now. those are going to fall aparts over the next couple of hours. if you are heading that way, it will get clear rather rapidly. let's see what it is doing as far as wind. it has calmed down considerably, fastest in the east bay valleys, concord at 14. fairfield at about 12 miles an hour but it's all blowing in from the ocean and going cooler. most of our temperatures 1-155 degrees cooler. fremont the same, concord is one degree warmer. 8:00 this morning, mostly clear conditions, partly cloudy around the bay and coast. 40s and still in the 50s. by noon, sunshine and few lingering clouds around the coast and 50s

gop lawmakers including the state governor want electoral college votes to be awarded by the winner ofach district. they won all 21 by giving votes by districts. obama would have taken 11 votes and john mccain would have gotten 10. also an msnbc contributor. being pushed by gop lawmakers, they would debate over the benefit were it to happen. >> right. the way things are going thus far for the president, some say someone like mitt romney could win pennsylvania. maybe there is a close national election and romney would be denied the 20 electoral votes that pennsylvania will have in 2012. tameron, and you recognize this, we don't elect our presidents with the national election and a state by state elections. my problem with this is i don't like pennsylvania going this route alone. that's a selective process. i think it's gerrymandering. texans are saying we would like to respond with a vote. if you do this piece meal f they decide to have an election, that's a different conversation. >> two states use this winner take all system that they are considering. as i pointed out, it's not clear

win 270 electoral college votes, win the nomination. lican leaders in pennsylvania change the way the state awards electoral votes, it could start a national trend that puts more pressure on obama's re-election team. right now, 48 states are winner take all for electoral votes. how would the proposed changes impact the electoral math in pennsylvania. >> well, it would give the republican party that controls thomas the pennsylvania legislature and governor's office significant control. in the process, would disenfranchise voters and votes individually would not at all have the same weight they currently have in the current electoral congress process. it is kind of complicated because it goes to redistricting. right now, the republicans again controlling the house and senate could move one and simply make it rule in the land that based on congressional district, votes would be given to the presidential candidate. if this happened in 2008, president obama would have gotten significantly less electoral votes. he still would have won, but wou

. >> colorado's nine electoral college votes are a big help to the obama campaign in 2008, but can heount on them in 2012? colorado's democratic governor john hickenlooper is with us tonight. why the president carry colorado? >> it would be very close. i think it would be a -- it is hard to say if it was an election today. i think it would depend who his opponent was. >> who would you worry about the most? >> i think, you know, colorado is a very pragmatic state. and after elections, people really focus on getting stuff done. we're not terribly partisan. there are almost as many independents so somebody more pragmatic, mitt romney would be a tough opponent in colorado. >> bill ritter says a repeat of 2008 is very unlikely. i'd say he's looking at a high wire act here. you say it would be close. do you basically agree with the former republican governor? >> i'm not sure it would be a high wire act. i think part of what he's trying to do now is lay out a real, you know, kind of a nonpartisan approach of taking measures that have been promoted by republicans and democrats. cutting payrol

he concluded he could win the popular vote but not the electoral college, the election would be thrownuse and the ds or rs would control the outcome. i would not discount the possibility of a third party movement starting up in this country and taking traction, taking hold. because there is a disgust level in the country now with politics as is, that somebody could breakthrough here before -- before -- not in this election cycle, but maybe the next few years. >> it takes a lot of money. but we will see. you're right about the climate, though. david, gloria, thanks so much. >>> will he or won't he? new jersey governor chris christie says he's not running for president because he's listening to the entreaties. some believe he might just lean into it. [ male announcer ] what if we told you that cadillac borrowed technology from ferrari to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v. we don't just make luxury cars.

the other thing to remember is that the electoral college is created and the states get their electorsy counting the number of representatives and adding to that the number of senators. so that the south gets a bonus in presidential elections in 1800 the election betweens thomas jefferson who owns close to 200 slaves and john adams who's never owned a slave -- adams loses by 6 electoral vote. if you take the electoral votes away from jefferson and adams, causes by counting slaves, jefferson doesn't get elected president. america might have been a very different place if an opponent of slavery had been in office when we bought louisiana from the french instead of a man who spends most of his life supporting slavery and doing everything he can to protect slavery. these are very serious issues. >> you said there were 4 million slaves in 1860? >> the census figure is 3.9 million. i was rounding up. >> what was the monetary -- i hate to ask this question. what was the monetary -- >> you shouldn't be embarrassed by asking what the monetary value is. slaves are valuable property. >> yeah, i k

he concluded he could win the popular vote but not the electoral college, the election would be thrownouse and the ds or rs would control the outcome. i would not discount the possibility of a third party movement starting up in this country and taking traction, taking hold. because there is a disgust level in the country now with politics as is, that somebody could break through here before -- not in this election cycle but the next few years. >> it takes a lot of money. as ross perot proves. but we will see. you're right about the climate, though. david, gloria, thanks so much. >>> will he or won't he? new jersey governor chris christie says he's not running for president because he's listening to the entreaties. some believe he might just lean into it. ♪ ♪ ♪ when the things that you need ♪ ♪ come at just the right speed, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ medicine that can't wait legal briefs there by eight, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ freight for you, box for me box that keeps you healthy, ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ the two trai

are obviously going to play a key roll in this next presidential election when it comes to the electoral collegethe issue the democrats and republicans can agree on, the senate pushing a bill urging china to stop manipulating its currency, this after critics have long complained that china's juan is -- yuan is greaty underpolled -- undervalued. congress' wishes, putting it on a potential collision course with the white house. our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel takes a look at that. >> reporter: president obama has been pushing congress to pass this jobs plan, but senate majority leader harry reid, and fellow democrats, say he has a different priority now. take a listen: >> i don't think there's anything more important for a jobs tpherb euroo measure than china trade. that's what we're going to work on next week. china trade is a jobs bill, it's a long -- it's long, long overdue, it's a bipartisan bill and i feel very comfortable we're going to pass that. jon: republican leadership says this is senator reid giving members something they can vote for, saying to constituents they ar

you look forward to 2012, pennsylvania is pushing a new proposal that would change the state's electoral college process. this is important. the governor looks at legislation that would follow a model in nebraska, but maine has more electoral votes and now they follow the winner takes all approach which most states do, that means every candidate that takes the popular vote would take the electoral votes but if that's split between republicans and, think about the possible rom fiction -- ramifications in pennsylvania when you consider that pennsylvania, florida, ohio are big, big states. bill: they certainly are in the middle of the country, and in a moment, we'll talk to the republican louisiana governor, bobby jindual, from the south, he threw port his rick perry for president, and don't forget, fox news team hopes up with google for the debate september 22nd, next thursday night. you can submit questions for all the candidates, foxnews.com, scroll down to the spotlight section, click on the presidential debate there, and there's a link to submit your question. click on the ask a question tab,

they're saying is that they want to change their state from a winner take all system in the electoral collegeional districts. only nebraska and maine do that. but that could have a real impact. look at the last election. think about 2008. barack obama won 365, john mccain 173. but let's look more specifically in pennsylvania. there president obama because it was a winner take all system got all 21 electoral votes. john mccain received 0. they now have 20 electoral votes in pennsylvania after the census. this is what happened. look what happened if you break it down by congressional district. then you you get a different picture. john mccain won a lot of the real estate in this battleground state, but barack obama won these big population centers. under this proposal by republicans up there, which the governor likes, as well, they would say we're going to give one eelectoral vote for each district that he or she win, plus two additional votes for whichever candidate wins the popular vote in the state. so under that equation, instead of barack obama getting 21 votes, what would have happened is

suggest otherwise much the problem is he has played even worse than his cards and turned an electoral college map that was a blue state dream for him against john mccain into a minefield, no matter who the republicans run against him. if he wants to believe it was just the economy that did this to him or the bug-eyed screamers from the right-wing media or even republicans in congress general you're flecting in front of the tea party, then maybe obama doesn't make it back to grant park in november of 2012. grant park is where he made his first acceptance speech after being elected president. caller: i just wanted to tell our democrat friends from michigan the president didn't save the auto industry, the taxpayers did against most of our will, and that was for his union that got him in there in the first place. you have to look at the state of the top democrats and where they're from. i don't know how democrats think we can go on spending and not cutting anything. according to my democrat neighbors, they just a couple of days ago got a range on free stamps. why are they getting a raise on food

states like nevada, texas, and florida are gaining seats in the electoral college. host: ohio is next. danny on the republican line for tim storey caller: i was going to ask you about texas, but that was answered already, so i want to ask you about ohio where i am from. what is the population in ohio? i know we of lost seats. we were like no. 7. -- i know we have lost seats. guest: i am sorry, i do not know what the top of my head with a population of ohio is. my recollection is that ohio has lost two seats in the u.s. house. a u.s. house seat will be roughly 740,000 people after this census. all states grew between 2000 and 2010 with the exception of michigan, which actually lost population during that time some states grew much faster than others. what matters is that you are growing at a faster rate than the other states, so i do not know exactly off the top of my head where ohio stands in terms of the overall population, but it is a state where congressional delegation has been steadily declining. every reapportionment cycle for the past several cycles -- states

the senator says "this proposal more fairly aligns pennsylvania's electoral college votes with the votesace in 2008, senator john mccain would have walked away with ten electoral votes instead of zero. not enough to change the 200 outcome, but in a close election it could sway the result. >> it's just an attempt to rig the system. it's what's done from time to time in states across the union by both parties. in this case, it's the republicans in pennsylvania. >> reporter: there are other gop efforts under way to thing that 2012 election rules. five more states have moved to require voters to show state issued i.d.s, and swing states florida, ohio and wisconsin all with republican-controlled state governments have reduced the number of days for early voting. so have georgia, maine and west virginia. why all the changes? depends on which party you ask. >> politics always comes into play. in this case the one side is saying we need these laws to prevent or reduce voter fraud and the other side is crying foul saying that it reduces voter turnout, particularly among our voters. >> reporter: r

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he was unanimously elected president to the united states by the electoral college. obviously that will never happen again. mind you, he does all of these things without the benefit of a single focus group or pollster or political action committee. he is just responding to his own instincts. because he never seemed to be grasping for power people with that much more eager to give it to him. he clambered to come out of retirement, the more reluctant he was, the more people wanted him. now washington's presence in philadelphia in 1787 was absolutely vital. the constitutional convention was held behind closed doors. it's washington's position that reassures the skittish public outside the doors that no sinister cobol is being hatched inside. of course it is washington's presence, the assumption that washington will be the first president that ambles the delegates to create a cup powerful office at a time after the revolutionary war when there was a quite understandable fear of excessive executive power. if you look at the constitution article one of the constitution by

states like nevada, texas, and florida are gaining seats in the electoral college. host: ohio is next. danny on the republican line for tim storey caller: i was going to ask you about texas, but that was answered already, so i want to ask you about ohio where i am from. what is the population in ohio? i know we of lost seats. we were like no. 7. -- i know we have lost seats. guest: i am sorry, i do not know what the top of my head with a population of ohio is. my recollection is that ohio has lost two seats in the u.s. house. a u.s. house seat will be roughly 740,000 people after this census. all states grew between 2000 and 2010 with the exception of miigan, which actually lost population during that time some states grew much faster than others. what matters is that you are growing at a faster rate than the other states, so i do not know exactly off the top of my head where ohio stands in terms of the overall population, but it is a state where congressional delegation has been steadily declining. every reapportionment cycle for the past severalycles -- states lik

states like nevada, texas, and florida are gaining seats in the electoral college. host: ohio is next. danny on the republican line for tim storey caller: i was going to ask you about texas, but that was answered already, so i want to ask you about ohio where i am from. what is the population in ohio? i know we of lost seats. we were like no. 7. -- i know we have lost seats. guest: i am sorry, i do not know what the top of my head with a population of ohio is. my recollection is that ohio has lost two seats in the u.s. house. a u.s. house seat will be roughly 740,000 people after this census. all states grew between 2000 and 2010 with the exception of michigan, which actually lost population during that time some states grew much faster than others. what matters is that you are growing at a faster rate than the other states, so i do not know exactly off the top of my head where ohio stands in terms of the overall population, but it is a state where congressional delegation has been steadily declining. every reapportionment cycle for the past several cycles -- states

suggest otherwise much the problem is he has played even worse than his cards and turned an electoral college map that was a blue state dream for him against john mccain into a minefield, no matter who the republicans run against him. if he wants to believe it was just the economy that did this to him or the bug-eyed screamers from the right-wing media or even republicans in congress general you're flecting in front of the tea party, then maybe obama doesn't make it back to grant park in november of 2012. grant park is where he made his first acceptance speech after being elected president. caller: i just wanted to tell our democrat friends from michigan the president didn't save the auto industry, the taxpayers did against most of our will, and that was for his union that got him in there in the first place. you have to look at the state of the top democrats and where they're from. i don't know how democrats think we can go on spending and not cutting anything. according to my democrat neighbors, they just a couple of days ago got a range on free stamps. why are they getting a raise on food

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he was unanimously elected president to the united states by the electoral college. obviously that will never happen again. mind you, he does all of these things without the benefit of a single focus group or pollster or political action committee. he is just responding to his own instincts. because he never seemed to be grasping for power people with that much more eager to give it to him. he clambered to come out of retirement, the more reluctant he was, the more people wanted him. now washington's presence in philadelphia in 1787 was absolutely vital. the constitutional convention was held behind closed doors. it's washington's position that reassures the skittish public outside the doors that no sinister cobol is being hatched inside. of course it is washington's presence, the assumption that washington will be the first president that ambles the delegates to create a cup powerful office at a time after the revolutionary war when there was a quite understandable fear of excessive executive power. if you look at the constitution article one of the constitution by

electoral program in the country. tens of thousands of volunteers, all of you plus all of our leaders in local units, hundreds of units, mobilized, state area conferences, branches, youth and college units and in those states where prisoners are able to vote we'll have some prison votes on the branches. media, black radio, television, print online to help us with our psa and communications packages where you can go to your local cable station and give them our electronic psa's and get them on the air. training technologies in the field as well. people are lining up for us brothers and sisters because of who we are. mou, fraternities, sororities representing 35 million people and if we turn out a fraction of those folks we can have a significant impact on the election next year. let's talk about structure and accountability. from this convention to the next there will be a strict focus on voter rental administration and education. voter registration is self-explanatory. if you went to our workshop on voter empowerment you received a manual that's the best manual we've ever produced on voter education. it will have a couple of phases. we're not only going to be talking about the iss