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. >> joining me now is msnbc contributor melissa harris-perry, a professor of political scientist and columnist for "the nation." and richard wolffe, an msnbc analyst. thank you both for joining me. now it's a stimulus plan that's dead on arrival, is when we look at how the president says he's going to pay for it, because sometimes when you get into the detail, you find where people's interests are. he wants -- so it may be that because the president is talking about some of the wealthy and corporate interests that the republicans have of late then the big representatives, since he's saying they're the ones who have to pay for this job creation, that might be why they've got their backs up the beginning of the week, which is not like talking golf with vice president biden the other night. >> reverend sharpton, i wish it were that. in a certainly way, at least it would be substantive, either a philosophic all or a very real political argument. el or that they have political interests that align them with these individuals who will see some increased tax burden. i don't think it's even

joining us now, melissa harris-perry, msnbc contributor, political science professor at tulane university and author of "sister citizens." melissa, it's great to see you. it's great to be here. >> i'm sorry. it was a goal post moving. i didn't want to get hit by it. >> is it a goal post moving? is it a small democracy being seen by republicans as capital "d" democracy, as something that in itself benefits the democratic party and then therefore must be squelched? >> in a certain way i just hate i have to sit here as a progressive and say, no, we have to keep the electoral college just as it is. 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 be

msnbc contributor melissa harris perry is a professor of political science at tulane, also a columnistation" and spends a great deal of time working here at msnbc as well. >> and a lot of time on social media. >> i know. i know. i follow you. >> i am that demographic. >> here are the numbers just released by the pew research centers, internet and american life project. they look at 2,277 online adults who are social media users between the ages of 18 and 39. 65% of those adults use online media, but what's really amazing is when you break it down by specific ethnicity, african-americans at the top of the use scale, 69%. hispanics and latinos come in a close second at 66%. what do these numbers say? what do they represent? >> i think what they represent is a kind of entrepreneurship in our public discourse. so one way to think of this is that as these demographics are changing in the country, as you have a more majority-minority population, then these voices that haven't had sort of the traditional routes into, for example, cable television news or radio, they use social media as a way

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melissa harris perry joins me now from new orleans.e at tulane and a columnist for the nation. melissa, nice to see you this morning. kids born around the time of 9/11, they're now roughly in fourth grade. they've only known an america in the wake of 9/11. how do you think growing up in a war time, a wartime like this, has affected this generation like no other? >> you know, it's such a long and protracted war. and at the same time a war that feels very distant for these young people. you know, when osama bin laden was killed, this year, my daughter, who is of the same generation, born in early 2002, only had a vague idea of who osama bin laden was. or why it mattered, or why there was such an emotional outcry, both in our household, and across the country. and so, i think for many young people, the unfortunate reality is that it's a kind of normalized experience. if it's been part of their entire childhood, it may be hard to see how the world could even be different if we weren't at war. >> my niece and nephew both born after 2002, an

. >> msnbc contributor melissa harris-perry. thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks. >> "the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >>> thanks for staying with us the next hour. debunction junction, what's your function? first up. >> i tell you, i had a mother last night come up to me in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn't know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. people have to draw their own conclusions. >> that was republican congresswoman michele bachmann on nbc's "today show" this morning following up on her criticism of texas governor rick perry in last night's republican tea party debate for having supported vaccination of texas schoolgirls against the virus that causes cervical cancer. miss bachmann arguing in essence to millions of viewers on the

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