around the nation are going to see a much needed pay raise workers in several states including florida ohio and colorado will see anywhere between a ten cent and thirty five cent an hour pay raise next year it may sound modest but it translates to as much as five hundred bucks extra in their pockets at the end of the year more money in their pockets working people will spend more and those stimulate the economy this is what needs to happen on the federal level where the current seven twenty five minimum wage is lower than it was in the one nine hundred sixty s. when you in just adjust for inflation for working americans have the same purchasing power they had the one nine hundred sixty s. the federal minimum wage today would have to be at least ten dollars an hour should we stop allowing corporate executives to pay their way workers' poverty wages and realize once and for all that the real job creators aren't sitting in the boardrooms but working on the factory floor joining me now for more on this is marc harrold libertarian commentator and author of the book observations of white noise an

the group says workers in nine other states including colorado florida and ohio will see the minimumbetween 10 to 15¢ an hour. an estimated 855,000 workers will be affected by the changes. 19 states in the district of columbia will have rates above the federal were level. lawmakers trying to head off a possible doubling of milk prices in january. both parties in the house and senate agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of at the 2008 farm bill that expired in october. republican leaders have not decided how they will proceed. milk a cost as much as $7 a gallon if the government returns to a 1948 formula for calculating the prices. continue to drag grant gas prices across the bay area of the average price for a gallon of regular gas instead of francisco is $3.64. san jose and oakland are $3.55 and $3.54. these numbers compare to the state average of $3.56. ford motor co. says two of its vehicles are the best selling in the world. the company says its ranked and that the most sales during 2012. worldwide for its says there are more than 737 at thousand focuses reg

we could have looked like florida, however we looked like ohio. >> husted says ohio didn't look like florida? but if we ignore the people wearing coats in the video, the lines along pretty doggone identical, don't you think? the republicans tried to suppress the vote with shorter hours, longer ballots, and tougher voter i.d. laws. these voters refused to be intimidated. those same republicans cannot be trusted to fix the problem they created. let's turn tonight to california senator, barbara boxer. senator, great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate your time. when do you do election reform? well, i think when there's not an election going on and people are paying attention. i want to thank you for doing this. this has been a story that we have spent countless hours on, leading up to the election. but how do you see the federal government setting standards? what does the l.i.n.e. act do for states like ohio and florida, where there have been problems? >> well, first, thank you for all the work you've done on this. i'll tell you, my heart sank when i saw those lines, because i tho

messages that are happening in different places and the economic emphasis in ohio is different than florida. ohioas thinking about jobs and the auto industry. obama and romney campaign to make different arguments. that has always been the case. but is more and more the case now. what it gets to in terms of turnout is what we have always done doesn't change. we are basically asking people how interested are you in the campaign? how much does it matter? do you have a history of voting that suggest you're going to get out to the polls? there are other folks trying to make assumptions about how many minorities or whites based on the other information. get into thato but most of the campaign folks do. >> i've heard some changes about reaching voters. i'm wondering what other changes in the methodology -- what kinds of changes have you been recently? >> it's getting to be more of a challenge all the time. i attribute a lot of it to technology. we have learned to become more skeptical of unsolicited calls and there is more resistant to sharing the news to be which is understandable in an environment whe

we have seen in places like ohio, florida, wisconsin, how governors, particularly republican governorshave real influence on the conversation. pence is a conservative who is a believer and he's going to push an agenda that will sort of outline 2013. >> all right, perry, you picked two governors. >> jerry brown really important. first time ever since 1933, california has two majority, meaning two thirds of the house and senate are democrat. jerry brown and the democrats can do whatever they want. we have basically one party government and i'm curious what that means. >> how does he use it. >> a liberal panacea for the first time. >> and you went with a conserve tf potential rising star in south carolina who is struggling. >> nikki haley is struggling in her state. at the same time, she's a big national figure. the republicans are looking for diverse faces, and she's one of the leading ones. i'm curious to see what she does. >> stephanie, your picks were -- one was predictable, one was a little unpredictable. >> i picked elizabeth warren who is my home state's new senator. she has senato

we have seen in places like ohio, florida, wisconsin how governors, particularly republican governs have influence. pence is a conservative who's a believer and i think going to push an agenda that will kind of -- >> i think so, too. that's why i put him on my dozen. perry, you picked two governors. >> jerry brown, really important. first time ever and since 1933 california's a super majority, meaning two thirds of the members of the house and senate are democrats. jerry brown and the democrats do whatever they want. we have one party government in the biggest state in the country and curious what's that mean? >> how does he use it? yep. >> a panacea. nikki haley is struggling. at the same time, she's a big national figure. the republicans are looking for diverse voices and she is a leading one and curious to see what she does going forward. >> all right. stephanie, you picks were -- one was predictable. one to me was unpredictable. >> i picked elizabeth warren who is my home state new senator and of course senator kennedy's seat and very important to me. i think she is probably the most

we've seen in places like ohio, florida, wisconsin, how governors can have influence on the conversationpence is a conservative who is a believer. >> all right. perry? you picked two governors. >> jerry brown, really important. first time ever, since 1933, california the super majority, two-thirds of the members of the house and senate are democrats. so jerry brown and the democrats can do whatever they want. we have one party government in the biggest state of the country. >> how does he use it? >> how does he use it. the liberal panacea we'll see for the first time. and you went with a conservative potential rising star out in south carolina who is struggling. >> nick kki haley is struggling her state but at the same time she is a big national figure. i'm curious to see what she does going forward. >> all right, stephanie, your picks were -- one was predictable. one was unpredictable. >> i picked elizabeth warren who is my homestate new senator. she has senator kennedy's seat. i believe she is the most high-profile freshman senator. >> without a doubt. probably since hillary clinton. >

the group says workers and nine other states including colorado, florida and ohio will see the minimum wage jump between 10 to 15¢ an hour. an estimated 855,000 workers will be affected by the changes. in 2013, 19 states and the district of columbia will have rates above the federal level. lawmakers are trying the head off a possible doubling of milk prices in january. both parties on the house and senate agriculture committees have agreed to one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in october. however, republican leaders of not decided how they will proceed. mill could cost as much as $7 a gallon at the government returns to the 1948 formula for calculating no prices. ford motor co. says two of its vehicles are the best selling in the world. the company says the focus and smaller fiesta have ranked in the most sales during 2012. worldwide for its is there more than 737,000 focuses registered for september and the fiesta had more than 560,000. sports is to vehicles are a drop for customers do their compact size is an award winning ego boost engines. nasa's newest mars rove

unspeakable horror of that, has changed the equation. >> it is so e gree jous, when you look at florida and ohio, ex-felons never allowed to vote again in their life. but after five years, they can carry a gun in their hand. how do we have states where you cannot vote for the rest of your life but you can be a convicted felon, ex-felon, and i believe redemption should certainly go -- but you can carry a gun and not vote. >> even there, the nra people are hypocrite kal. there are some people who are seriously mentally ill, for instance, who shouldn't be allowed to have a gun. but they are opposed allowing a check system. they have these gun shows that pop up. and you can go into a gun show and, no matter how mentally and emotionally deranged you are, there's no waiting period. you're right. it's totally inconsistent. and it is also, even where they do say okay, there are limits on who can buy a gun, they make those limits totally unenforceable. we will be putting legislation through to make that possible. >> what do you say when you say putting legislation through? >> reinstating the assault weap

so seven, eight hours people were steady in their commitment in places like florida and ohio where theyried the hardest to suppress the vote. >> here we're looking ironically at a bunch of people who were white. how do you know it was aimed at minorities? >> well, we know that the laws themselves were aimed at minorities. the early voting laws and we know in florida we already have the head of the gop, the florida gop, and former governor crist admitting they did it for partisan gain, for their own party so they could win, but they didn't win. >> j.c., i want you to respond to these provocative comments. since 2011 at least 34 states introduced legislation to require photo identification to vote in, and in all but one case the legislation was introduced by republicans. in some cases there have been legal or federal challenges to the new laws. the purpose of the laws were clear to everyone to make it difficult for typically democratic constituents to vote. listen to what mike turzai said when he found out he was talking about these voters laws. let's listen. >> voter i.d., which is going

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i just don't know why florida, virginia, ohio, colorado -- colorado, i kind of know. why the republican message didn't resonate. i don't understand why the republican message did not resonate in those states. >> well, i can't speak to those other states in detail but i can tell you about florida that there is a tremendous amount of anxiety from people that feel like they are never going to make it to the middle class. they are never going to move ahead in life and leave their children better off. our challenge for those of us like me who believe and know that limited government is the right way forward and that the free enterprise system is the only solution of doing a job of communicating that taking our principles and applying it to their hopes and dreams. our take on this is spret were straightforward. it's not by making rich people poorer it's by making poor people richer. that's what our government is all about. that's what i hope we will could a better job so he we'll win those elections in the future. >> it looks like now that the president and the democrats ar

the group says the workers and nine other states, including colorado, florida and ohio, was see the minimumd between 10 and 15¢ an hour. an estimated 855,000 workers will be affected by the changes. this will take place in 2013, 19 states of the district of columbia will have rates above the federal level. >> lawmakers are trying to head off a possible doubling of milk prices in january. both parties on the house and senate agricultural committee have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in october. however, republican leaders have not decided how they will proceed. milk could cost as much as $7 a gallon is the government returns to a 1948 formula for calculating milk prices. >> ford motor co. says that two of its vehicles are the best selling in the world. the company says its ford focus and smaller ford fiesta had raked in most sales for 2012 worldwide, for says that there were more tha 707 and a 37,000 focuses that were registered through september. fiesta had more than 560,000. ford says that the two vehicles are a draw for consumers due to their compact siz

let's just change how we count the votes and in states like pennsylvania, ohio, florida, states like battleground states that we need to win and we're narrowly losing them now so let's get some of the electoral college and maybe it tips the election. >> i'm with ron before i even know i'm with him. it is about voter suppression. the counties that always go republican, they can't stand the fact that philadelphia has the population. they can't stand that fact that that effects the statewide results. >> it would benefit the republicans. a lot of minorities we like to cut them off. there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors. every state gets to set its own rules. >> there must be a rational. >> it became the consensus position over time. winner takes all. if you wanted to do the system, you could make the argument to divide it up by population in every state. that would be fair if you did that in every state, in which case it would reflect the popular vote. but that's not what they are try doing here. they tried to do this before the election. even a more waited way. i

no matter how much the resources were, if i were marching in florida or rallying in ohio or standingi saw an enthusiasm of people saying we can't be bought, we can't be bossed. whether you

let's just change systemically the way we change the votes and in states like pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, floridake that, these are the battleground states that we need to win and we're narrowly losing them now so let's at least try to get some of the electoral college votes out of this and tip the election. >> ron, you know why he's with him? it's not about the voter suppression. the 60 some counties that always go republican, they can't stand the fact that philadelphia and pittsburgh, large urban population -- minority populations, they just can't stand that fact that that affects the statewide results. so i've got an idea. why don't we divide it up? so we get a chunk anyway if we lose the cities. >> like michigan, pennsylvania, new york -- at least where you have a large big city and minorities, they like to cut them off. >> the thing is, there are no rules in the constitution about picking electors to the electoral college. every state gets to -- >> why do they -- >> it became the consensus position over time. that winner takes all. if you wanted to do the system, could you make the argument

speed which i commend you on doing, but secondly, with the return of money from at least florida, wisconsin and ohio and designated. and, mr. boardman, you're using that in some -- i don't mean this to be critical, but it's sort of a band-aid approach of because you don't have the money, but you're trying to pick projects that would make a major impact and improvements in the speed of that corridor. where are you on gateway as far as funding, planning, execution? what's -- where do you see it now and how much to get it done? and dateway is -- gateway is, maybe you could describe that, too, for the record. >> sure. gateway is a project that basically goes from just past newark into penn station, new york. it involves two new tunnels, a new portal bridge, some new tracks that go from, basically, lautenberg center all the way to the new two tunnels, and it also includes space within penn station for especially new jersey transit trains that don't have the same ability that long island railroad does to stop quickly and store or their trains on the, in the hudson yards or the west side yards. >> and wher

when a new study concludes that the long lines on election day in florida discouraged 49,000 people from voting, the ohio university analysis says 19,000 of those voters would have cast their ballots for mitt romney but the rest would have gone to president obama. governor rick scott initially denied there were problems and refused to extend early voting hours. both hispanics and blacks were disproportionately deterred from voting. >>> the german magazine mistakenly published an online obituary sunday for former president george h.w. bush just hours after a family spokesperson said the 88-year-old is recovering from his illness. the obituary wasn't flattering describing the former president as, quote, a colorless politician. it was taken down after a few minutes. today the legendary "newsweek" magazine will publish its last edition and playoff to a digital only format in the new year. new economics of the media industry made it a money loser. gallup has just released its annual most admired list. for the 11th year in a row hillary clinton is the most admired woman. for the fifth consecutive year presiden

. >> my name is julie, and i'm from boca raton, florida, but i haven't lived there all my life so originally cleveland, ohioast side. >> and how old were you when you lost your virginity, and what happened? >> jimmy: okay. well, they do things slowly in florida. we do know that. what do you say? how old? most people are saying 16. let's see what she says. >> i actually didn't lose my virginity until i was freshman year of college, so i was like, what, 19? 18, 19. crazy [ bleep ]. to be honest -- oh [ bleep ]. >> jimmy: all right. all right. now let's talk to someone else. >> my name is dobi from kansas. >> how old were you when you lost your virginity, and how did it happen? >> jimmy: all right. [ audience yelling ] >> jimmy: everyone is saying he hasn't yet. >> 16. at my house. >> jimmy: at my house, all right. all right. who else do we have here? >> mike riddle. i'm from texas. now living in california. >> and how old were you when you lost your virginity, and how did it happen? >> jimmy: anywhere from 4 to 70, right? what are we saying here? >> audience: 14. >> jimmy: 14. >> 14 and in the back of the chu

we've seen license plates from florida, from wisconsin, from ohio. they're coming from all over. really hard to say how many of the thousands of people here are from outside of michigan. >> all right, lori higgins from the detro"detroit free press" i the state capital. we also have alison kosik outside the state capital in lansing. we'll be following this as it unfolds in michigan. stay with us. we'll take a quick break. santho, ho, ho!anta! santa! want to see some magic? watch this! merry chr... (crash) ow! i landed on my keys. did you get that? oh yeah. that was amazing. here you go. that was a fun trick! see? santa's okay. walk it off santa. share videos instantly with s-beam. on the galaxy siii and note ii. for a limited time get two flip covers for the price of one. exclusively at verizon. [ woman ] ♪ what i want this season ♪ if you'd like to try and guess ♪ ♪ it is something very special ♪ i would readily confess [ dogs barking ] ♪ 'cause all i want this season ♪ ♪ is something from your heart ♪ la da da, la da da [ male announcer ] thinking of others this holiday season,

human rights, i chaired the first hearing to examine the potential impact of these laws in both florida and in ohio. in both states, we heard from experts and election administrators who warned that these new state laws would result in fewer registered voters, long delays on election day, confusion about i.d. requirements and increase in provisional ballots. madam president, this is just plain wrong. in a country where we want every eligible american to get out and vote, where we want higher percentages of participation, we have state legislatures inspired by this alec foundation dreaming up obstacles and ways to discourage voters. it really is sickening to think of how many lives have been lost by patriotic americans to protect our right to vote and then to have these lobbyists for their own political purposes denying that right over and over again to thousands of eligible american voters. one of the strongest tools we have to ensure the right to vote and to make sure it's not denied on account of a voter's race, sex or any other discriminatory basis is the voting rights act. as we work to continu

severe storms from the ohio valley all the way down to the florida panhandle. >> 82 in miami. 50s fromton to baltimore. mostly 40s across the midwest. 30s in the northern rockies and pacific northwest. >>> and now to health concerns for outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton. she's been battling a stomach virus that's led to other complications. with more on this, here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: hillary clinton is at home, recovering from a concussion, as well as a stomach virus. in fact, the two are related. the state department says the secretary returned from her latest trip with a stomach bug. but last week, clinton became dehydrated and fainted at her home. she apparently hit her head, because officials say she suffered a concussion. it's the second time in eight years she's fainted because of a stomach bug. but she's generally healthy, as she told barbara walters who asked about a possible presidential run in 2016. >> is your age a concern to you? >> it really isn't. i am, thankfully, knock on wood, not only healthy, but have incredible stamina and energy. >> reporte

ohio. loudoun county, virginia, hillsboro county, florida. bush won wood county by almost seven points.. these are boom town counties. these are the counties obama completely flipped and won. he didn't win all of these around the country but in these battleground states he certainly did. let's take a look at the monied burbs bush narrowly won in '04. mccomb county, racine county, wisconsin. porter county, indiana. we'll look at here, obama won them all and he won them all sort of swinging it by upwards of 5, 7, 8. this one swinging by 11 points. last place to look, the older and the poorer rural sections, an area where romney did well overall but saw his margin slip. union county, iowa. bush won by seven. obama here. dauphin county, pennsylvania. juneau county, wisconsin. another very white area obama flips it by seven points. so why did we see this shift in the political middle and should this be the real source of concern for republicans going forward? right now let's bring in the bhaen hind patchwork nation. he is at the desk. it was about the middle. there was this mythology that so

president bush was spending so much time in ohio and florida and pennsylvania and there's alcs all sorts of coverage that this had to do the electoral college. and it's easier to say -- easy to say this is electorial related but i want to look at it systemically and those states that ended up being battleground states for a president's re-election campaign did tend to get more visits from the population alone would have predicted and the same is true for new hampshire and iowa. host: our first caller for brendan doherty comes from eric in seedertown, georgia, on our sign for democrats. caller: nothing was going on until the black man, president obama got to become president. mitt romney did not put any of his money into his campaign election. these are things -- these are rich millionaires and billionaires. they don't have to disclose how much money they are actually giving. so the electoral college was based on a certain group of people so in order to keep the election so they can control and do what they want to. if you look at what's happening now, you have a more diverse population a

something like 286,000 white men who voted in '08 in ohio didn't vote in '12. and in florida, something like 400,000. and these white men were replaced in the electorate to some extent by white women. we were taking a group we won by 27 points and replacing them with a group we won by 12 or 14 points. >> here is a campaign geared to igniting and irritating angry white men, getting them riled up. i didn't think it took much rallying to get out and vote against obama. they didn't show a lot of them. >> it's hard to hear that because we lost power at some point because we were all talking in the dark, which was interesting. but what's interesting to me is they still seem not to understand the demographics of this country. they seem genuinely stunned they didn't get the male white vote out. they said they have been replaced with white women. they kind of gave the impression that had they just gotten that vote out, that they would have won. but there was an iffy -- >> that's true long term, but in the short term these white men were angry, but apparently they were in a crosswind.

held by senator ben in florida and ohio. we are testament about the renewed effort in many states, denied millions of americans access to the ballot box and voter identification laws. i was concerned these barriers would stand between millions of americans an about box. what we saw during the election showed that we are right to be concerned. purges of voter rolls, restrictions on voter registration, limitations under early voting, which in previous elections in april millions to vote. lead to unnecessary problems on election day. you had owners confusing requirement, competition in places like pennsylvania. arizona, texas, south carolina. throughout the country, political advertising, robocall's were so confusion and suppressed the vote. just because millions of americans successfully overcame a abusive practices in order to cast their ballot, that doesn't make these practices right. does not justify the burdens that prevented millions more from being able to vote. barriers are reminders of the time when discriminatory prac

florida by the way. question that i have for ohio and west virginia do you have the real i.d. in your state? >> yes, in west virginia we are the first states to start implementing that. >> florida is a real i.d. stadium for those of you that don't have real i.d. that can't be fun particularly on the female voters when they get a driver's license you have to show with your cord record and showing if your name was changed before marriage that is required under real i.d.. men have no such problem. the issue is this issue of -- >> maybe same-sex marriage will change that. [laughter] >> what is the model law if we can arrive at that because florida has no match, no vote at the front end. you are not eligible to be registered unless you are voter registration database and if you match up with the department of corrections and you are not a felon coming to match up with the highway safety, you have a valid driver's license that matches and weaker lottery corporate the last four digits of your social security number and pass that and you were allowed to be registered. that's how florida allows for an

passed a bill to allow people to carry concealed weapons in churches and in ohio, cars in guns at the state house and in florida, soon issuing their millionth concealed weapon and firearms license. just today, david, in michigan, republican governor rick snyder's pledged to take a closer look at the measure that would allow concealed weapons in schools and churches and reacting to the news not to what many probably assume from the start would be common sense of why would you need a gun in a school? a concealed gun. >> i understand the frustration you're saying. what the good news is that organizations like mayors against illegal guns are in the fight. and in michigan, in particular, the nra had wanted to make sure that the permit system in michigan was abolished for buying handguns and so i think that things are being done. remember, all of these actions happened prior to friday and what happened in newtown. i am telling you that i am absolutely hopeful and i think things are different. i hear that in the news. >> you bring up the nra. let's play what michael bloomberg. >> nra's number one objective this time w