if you are a farm boy from vermont, or if you make shoes in massachusetts, or if you are from illinois or ohio, depending on what parts, it's quite possible you have never seen a real live slave. to see slavery as an institute is an enormous factor in how union soldiers will think about emancipation. particularly if the way in which you see them is that's who's building your -- exactly. now, the opposite can happen sometimes, too, in that 500 of these slave refugees showed up, they're sick, they're starving, they feel like a burden to us. i have a war to fight. i don't want to deal with them. so the opposite can also happen. but i think the shock of seeing slavery, though, shouldn't be underestimated. they talk about that over and over, how jarring they find the actual sight of it. >> ethan? >> is it a fair statement to say the army was more pro emancipation than the rest of society? >> i think it gets there much faster, i do. i think so. as we'll hear in a second, i have to fight this thing. that's what we have to do to get rid of it. yes, there is a time lag between when the army will suppor

or illinois. it will be decided in florida, virginia, ohio, iowa and in states that really have seen an uptick in manufacturing jobs in particular. i think there's a positive outlook for the president. >> jon: i see. less of a turd policy and more of a [bleep], unless you live in a swing state. richard. >> the survey says... jon: oh, the number 4 answer. number one answer still on the board. next contestant. how would you like to polish that turd. >> in the ass? (buzzer ). >> jon: i think that's the wrong answer and the wrong game show. but bad economy. polish that turd. >> have any conversation in all of this debate about the two wars president bush funded and put them on the credit card. what was striking about what happened on friday was how quick the leaders of congress were out there wringing their hands. these are the architects of obstruction. >> let me tell you the story about massachusetts under governor romney. it did fall to 47th out of 50 in job creation. >> jon: interesting strategy. our turd stinks but everybody else sucks worse. >> survey says... (bell ringing ). >> jon: just one m

we do not have, you know, republicans of gary ohio, the republicans of illinois, or north carolina but we have a two-two-one system. two people from each party yourself and mr. foster being from opposite parties, of course. and -- no we don't have a tie breaker. and but the legislature of the in 19 60s. with the best single system in the united states. and largely it is because there is no tie breaker. we one of only two or tree states ha has an even number of numbers, you know, drawing the lines. so where there's a tie breaker, the two parties don't talk to .. go legislative districts in vancouver up to that line they did the congressional districts and the other did the eastern washington legislative districts, but you're right they are much more regular, and neither party has cheated the other and will have i think this year however it comes out congressional delegation reflects what the people want. >> looking at the country as a whole, bill bradley was in town this week on a book tour saying that as a result of the gerrymandering and the partisanship we have about 60 seats in the

fifty dollars fine with a small instead of a felony or even a mr meters and even a misdemeanor anymore illinois massachusetts missouri new york hampshire ohio pennsylvania all have these things coming up on their ballots to in some cases even regulate it like alcohol basically just make it a recreational drug or a medical drug. isn't this just common sense to end nixon's failed drug war since. i think i kind of one of these one of those places right again i have hazy opinions but i will say you like you know on one hand i certainly understand why you would want to decriminalize pot because i think a lot of people make the mistake make the mistake growing up of using it and they shouldn't have to live with that forever i mean i think that you will make a mistake if i did cetera but at the same time you go to a country like the netherlands and you realize this is not what i want for my country so i don't know it's a kind of a model why. nobody has ever died from marijuana fifty five thousand people a year in the united states just from cirrhosis. well i think one thing we haven't really studied the effects of marijuana use i think it's intere

or illinois. it's going to be in florida, virginia, ohio and iowa and in states that have really seen an uptick in manufacturing jobs in particular, i think there's a positive outlook for the president. >> what you're seeing for the other 44 states be dammed? >> i'm saying this is how electoral politics works and if those numbers stemmed a lot from california or new york, those states stay in the obama kole r lum. particularly, where manufacturing jobs have taken off in the industrial midwest, ohio, wisconsin, iowa. up and down the simply chain. mitt romney wanted to let the auto companies go bankrupt. barack obama wanted to give them hand and get them out. who do you think an auto worker or somebody in the supply chain is going to vote for? president obama. >> the president's campaign is deflecting blame and pointing the finger at congress. take a listen to this. >> the proposals we put forward that have been there for nine months, independent estimates have put those at a million jobs. so there are a million jobs sitting on that table in congress that they could move on. they need to get off the

or public referendum. in illinois, massachusetts, missouri, new york, new hampshire, ohio, and pennsylvania.ts want to go beyond allowing medical marijuana and go to full decriminalization of marijuana for everyone is one of the most conservative states in the union. in their state party platform, they write, "texas democrats urge the president, the attorney general, and the congress to support the passage of legalization to decriminalize the possession of marijuana and regulate its use, production, and sale as is done with tobacco and alcohol." now, we all know that texas democrats don't often get their way in texas, but it is not exactly a fringe party in texas. it is not the green party or the libertarian party. the democratic party in texas controls 48 state representative seats, 12 state senate seats, and 9 seats in the united states house of representatives. every important movement requires a first step. and now the texas democratic party has taken its first step toward fairness and justice in our drug laws. >>> don't tell me what you value, show me your budget. and i'll tell you what

illinois and ohio and virginia and pennsylvania, new york. traveled all over america, bringing his campaign to the people. >> as always, we want to hear from you on c-span. if you live in an eastern or central time zone, 202-737-0002 in pacific and mountain time zone. we're in lincoln, nebraska, home referred to as fairview. william jennings bryan and his wife moved here in 1902. he ran for the house of representatives. born in salem, illinois. walk us through the early years and how did he end up here in nebraska? >> he was born in 1860, into a world that was being transformed. the railroad growth, the civil war that followed, 1860-1865. he was too young to serve in the civil war, and that actually came back to again and again in his public life. he had not served in the military and so many men in politics in his period of political activity had served in the military, so he did not have that opportunity. as a young man, instead he ran for the bar, went into practice as a lawyer in lincoln, nebraska, in the 1880s. started his own law firm, a partnership with dolph talbot and he practiced basic law in a growing urban environment in the prairie. and that's when he became active in p

or west virginia. it's ohio. it's illinois, it's indiana. it's coal communities across this country.administration that has continually picked winners and losers when it's come to energy. obviously when the government picks the winners or loser it's the american taxpayer that's the loser. >> sounds like what the administration believes it is time to segway away from coal to something cleaner, less dangerous, more easily accessed. are you willing to admit that it might be time for some newer energy technologies? >> absolutely not. what you have seen with coal fired utilities over the last 15 years they have become increasingly clean. the bottom line is that coal is a resource. we have the largest coal reserves in this country and the world. india, china, the rest of the world is embracing clean coal technology. what we are seeing again with this president is an attempt to force other energy sources upon us. you see solyndra or just the list go goes on and on with the different types of energy ideas that he he is pushing. the bottom line is. this coal is the lowest cost electric genera

the early settlers of illinois, most of them, the period we're talking about, settled within 20 miles of either the ohio or the lower mississippi river. they were used to farming in heavily wooded areas. and to them for me was a formula should be cut down trees and pull out hundreds of stumps before you did. the idea of going out into the vast grasslands and dropping about was something it was very difficult for them to get to my to read to the other problem of course they can find in southern illinois was they had no ability really get tired of to link it if you have done this after you cut down a forest, you know that the stumps after youtube land, at that point it was impossible to get clear title to incorporate these people were not just the they were basically squatters because the public lands had not been put on sold or were not put on sale until 1814. so other than a few people who held under agent grants, most of these before taking a risk and settling in a wilderness at that point. and ran the risk that therefore might at some point be bought out from under them by some better money speculative f