the republican party needs you. >> thank you for enlightening us on the millennials. the background on that was very helpful. but my question to you. i want to state i am a proud reagan republican because my first vote was 1980 when i was 18 years old and i voted for him twice. that is a commentary on our youth today because they are not going to the polls. that is something you didn't speak to. my question to you is what is it the republican party can do to attract them to the polls? >> they're not going to the polls for republicans but they're going to the pole. they were 18% of the electorate in 2008. if they turn out the same there were fifty million of them who were eligible to vote and half of them, slightly more than half turned out. that is proportionate to the voting electorate. in terms of that demographic they are representing proportionally. slightly even better. they are voting. they are just not voting republican. what i think we need to do is read my book. [laughter and applause] and make the case. they may not be to end it right now. they may be tuned i

it was the southern democrats that held out against it. >> but that was a different republican party. >> since the '60s. >> and then in 1964, barry goldwater got the republican nomination and ran on a platform of states' rights, which was opposed to the civil rights movement. and that drove black people to the democratic party. >> you're absolutely right. dr. king went to the pulpit of his church and made it very clear where he was standing, because of the democrats -- >> let's get a shot here. 30 seconds. you can make your case. why are democrats -- why are most african-americans wrong to vote 90% democrat? >> well, because you're not leveraging the one asset that matters most to the political class. and that is your vote. if i give all my votes to one individual, at some point she will stop listening to me. if you pay no attention to my vote and i have no incentive to pay attention to you, guess what? i'm sitting out here -- >> and voting strategically. even though you don't agree with republicans, give them a little once in a while so they'll play ball with you. >> but make them co

blaine's and the republican party.uests are waiting for me in the reception room and they will be my guess throughout the program. i will show you a clip from a round table discussion that we hosted. they discuss james g. blaine and his time. >> 1884 against cleveland. ironically, in 1876, it was b laine who prevented ulysses grant from making a comeback and winning a third term. >> besides being secretary of state for james garfield and chester arthur -- >> he was secretary of state under three presidents. >> what else did he do? >> he was a speaker of the house. he was a governor. >> he changed some of the rules in the house. the speakers are always changing the rules somewhat to their advantage is. >> this was after the civil war when congress was much more central, much more potent than it had been. their reaction against the strong executive said in. to be the secret -- the speaker of the house, to be a power in congress meant a lot more fun than it would today. >> do you have anything to say? >> what do you think

things that i like to tell my students is don't confuse anti-slavery with pro-black because the republican party advertised itself as the white man's party. that is, they wanted to ban slavery from the territories primarily because they did not want black slaves competing with white labor. because if that were the case, then, of course, free labor, slave labor would push out the working man because you have to pay wages to the working man. you don't have to pay wages to the slave. so the republican party advertised itself as for the white working man. and it was very popular in the midwest and in the cities of the northeast as well. now, the second strain in the republican party was the anti-catholic movement. in the early 1850s, a new political party appeared called the know-nothing party, and this was in response to the irish immigration. the irish imgreated to -- immigrated to america even beginning before the american revolution, but it accelerated as british policy tended to impoverish and otherwise reduce the irish to peasants. and the irish seeing absolutely no future for themselves in ir

and the cnn tea party republican presidential debate. ow, if you will, with two grassroots conservatives. my friend wolf blitzer is moderating. eric erickson is editor of the conservative redstate.com. and the organizer of the international tea party coalition. here's my question, you have a tug of war between grassroots conservatives and the republican establishment, if you will. who, who in this field is your candidate? >> i don't know. you know, i see a lot of candidates, each have qualities with which i identify. i can tell you the easier question to answer is who do i not identify with, who do the grassroots not identify with, i would have to say that's mitt romney. >> he's second in the polls. do you view this now as romney the establishment candidate? >> right now romney and perry, if perry flubs tonight's debate, then michele bachmann has another shot at it. if he does, that locks in perry versus romney. that doesn't help romney. >> if you're hearing a little noise behind us, it's democracy. we protesters from different causes out

and the very very ugly pima county republican party yes the republicans in the same county the congresswoman gabriel giffords was shot in are planning to raise money by selling raffle tickets to often auction off a forty caliber glock and gun the same type of gun that was used to shoot congresswoman giffords in there and killed six others earlier this year republican party is selling one hundred twenty five tickets a ten bucks a ticket and goes to the gun comes with three thirteen round magazines and just will grips and a case at least they didn't include the same exact high capacity magazine that was used in the tucson massacre and uses a pile and give away the pima county republican party is going to net about twelve hour blocks which it will likely use to contribute to more right wing anti immigration gun nuts in that state and that's very very good. coming out sound the alarm visionary michigan governor rick snyder is a committee a terrible crime stealing from the poor and handed over to the rich so how will the thousands of needy families stay afloat in the peninsula. and what drives th

anti-slavery because both came together in a new political party in the 1850's called a at the republican party. initially was founded as the anti-slavery party. one of the important things i'd like to tell my students is don't confuse anti-slavery with perot black because the republican party advertised itself has the white man's party. that is they wanted to ban slavery from the territories primarily because they did not want black slaves competing with white labor because of that was the case then the slave labor would push out the working man because you don't have to pay wages to the slaves. the republican party advertised itself as the white working man and was very popular in the midwest and the city's of the northeast as well. the second string was the anti-catholic movement. in the early 1850's a new political party appeared called the know nothing party in response to irish immigration. they started before the revolution but the accelerated as british policy tended to empoverish and reduce the presence and there is absolutely no future for themselves and ireland. many were dying from

what the republican party hands us. >> but up first tonight, stunning evidence of why the stakes of that republican civil war are so consequential. new lows for president obama on just about all of the tests you use when an incumbent asks for four more years. the president's overall approval rating, at a new low. his grades on leadership, worst ever. and nearly 6 in 10 americans now doubt the president has what it takes to manage the government effectively. yet, another low point. on the road today in ohio, the president suggested republicans know he's on the ropes and are now willing to punish unemployed americans to keep his numbers down. >> already yesterday there were some republicans quoted in washington saying that even if they agree with the proposals in the american jobs act, they shouldn't pass it because it would give me a win. give me a win? this isn't about giving me a win. this isn't about giving democrats or republicans a win. it's about giving the american people a win. >> let's get behind these startling new numbers tonight with cornell belcher, he worked for the obama ca

rp lapp the commanding lead among the tea party republicans and surprisingly tea party favorite michele bachmann comes in fourth among her own crowd. and perry wins along non-tea party republicans. winning in both groups. they do shed light on how the candidates are faring. let me go with you on that. john, that seems to me, is the field simply so volatile that a guy comes in not from washington, gubernatorial experience, governor of a big state, good jobs number. those tr the tickets? they don't know -- 21% of the people in the new poll gave him a favorable rating. 38% want him to be president. twice as many support him for the nomination who know him. >> clearly there's a republican hunger for a broader field. that's why perry shot to the top your number in the poll showed,ened another poll showed the same thing. 17% for romney. >> do they know perry? >> of course not. that's why the number might be ephemeral. why the debate tomorrow is so important. >> and two stages. you pick a profile of the candidate you like. whether gary hart, outdoorsy, young, whatever. and then look inside and

and as of this weekend, here's what the republican party had to say to any republican who does not vote for their party's plan. "be it resolved that the nebraska republican party will not support in any manner financial or otherwise any state senator who opposes the return of the state to the winner take all electoral vote plan. either by failing to vote for such in committee or on the floor of the legislature." if you don't vote for us to change to winner take all, the republican party will disown you. why is the nebraska republican party playing such hardball on this? making this a do or die issue for nebraska republicans? they must vote to change this or -- earlier this year back in january, brought this up. the republican senator who sponsored the bill to get rid of nebraska's election system told "the lincoln journal star," quote, we would not want to see obama re-elected in 2012 by one electoral vote in omaha. so the principle at work here is that changing this rule would be a way to deny president obama an electoral vote. changing this rule is a way to deny president obama a shot

i think democrats ought to link the republicans to the tea party, the republicans seem to want to be linked to the tea party but it's unpopular with mainstream america. >>> we got to take a quick break. we'll have more. we'll check back with all of them throughout the program. another look at the candidates and the facts, keeping them honest. we'll be right back. that's a recipe for failed investing. open an e-trade account and open doors, seize opportunities, take action with some of the most powerful yet easy-to-use trading tools on the planet all built to help you maximize the potential of every dollar you invest. successful investing isn't done by throwing ideas against the wall and hoping. it's done by lowering your costs and raising your expectations by using unbiased research and powerful screeners to build a diversified portfolio with stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and every etf sold. and we'll help you every step of the way. with 5-star research and free education covering everything from the basics to advanced investing strategies. start now and we'll give you up to $500 and l

and if enough of the vestigial republican party, the older establishment republican party, if that remains-- though it's much quieter now--. >> rose: the main street republican party? >> if that remains the center of gravity firm will win the republican party. but we'll find out. this race is so interesting because now we have two credible exemplars of those two strains of republicanism before all of the tea party evan jell an candidates were so flawed they could never have been the nominee let alone president. now in rick perry off pure dysnation ofhat impulse and a very credible caidat who can go against bhirpl is a pure dysnation of a different kind of republicanism. also a very credibl candidate and we can see them fight it out and we will then know what the g.o.p. of 2012...2011 is. >> rose: i know what my guess is. go ahead. >> no, i i find very discouraging what polies we're going to see coming out of this. we're in the worst recession since world war ii, whatever you want to call it. there doesn't seem to be any consensus in t country about what to do and i'm certainly left very di

this is the golden boy of the republican party.yone isç talking about hims a vice presidential candidate. but when he gets a peach put in front of him and he can lean against the podium, it's a really different story, isn't it? he says rachel and i are extreme because we believe in the institutions that help make this country great? 80% of americans. what americans really want protect medicare examine medicame -- and medicaid. 80%. do you think that's changed much? i think it's gotten stronger since the ryan plan has come out, and they have actually voted in the house to change medicare and medicaid. i'm offended by marco rubio, examine i think we're seeing that he is not a true american because he runs from debate. senator, come to me or i will go to you. you name the time and the place. and let's sit down and have a professional conversation about what you really mean when you say that we as americans have been weakened by something that has clearly benefited our society and allowed people to live in their later years in dignity

and it's not in the bloodstream of the republican party. you would see a vast majority of the republicans, you just cited the percentage, so that means 94% of the republicans think that this issue is dumb to talk about, particularly now that it's been solved. so i think that individual spent his money, you know, his chance to get on national news, he flies his little plane around with his little tail on there and you move on. it doesn't mean anything. >> so it's a small, insignificant minority -- >> a small -- >> as a republican -- >> ron reagan, how come i don't fully buy the fact that there isn't an undercurrent of anti-obama almost deeply tribal attitude about the guy that gets so deep under the skin, they don't know what to call themselves, birthers, they'll come up with something or they can't use that against him. that guy flying the plane was a real person. >> i imagine that the group in that hall last night for that debate, i imagine if you polled them, more than 6% of the people in that hall thinks that obama doesn't have a legitima

now, the republican party is 157 years old, it took them that long to get down to 33. democrats 47. eat, but somewhat better. the tea party favorable is 31. and it's negative is 51. i think this is what david gergen was alluding to, when he talked about how independents and traditional republicans could be frightened by some of that fervor. we saw nancy pelosi in ad after ad demonizing republicans for being hitchinged to nancy pelosi. the republicans want to be hitchinged to the tea party, but it's very unpopular with mainstream america. >> we have to take a break, also tonight. another look at the candidates and the facts, keeping them honest. my doctor told me calcium is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. >>> did any of the candidates in the debate get their facts wrong? >> we're looking now at all the attacks on the health care reform act. nobody seemed to go after that harder than michele bachmann. zbh

now, the republican party is 157 years old, it took them that long to get down to 33. democrats 47. great, but somewhat better. the tea party favorable is 31. and it's negative is 51. i think this is what david gergen was alluding to, when he talked about how independents and traditional republicans could be frightened by some of thatter er that fervor. we saw nancy pelosi in ad after ad demonizing republicans for being hitchinged to nancy pelosi. the republicans want to be hitchinged to the tea party, but it's very unpopular with mainstream america. >> we have to take a break, also tonight. another look at the candidates and the facts, keeping them honest. [ groans ] you okay? i'm not looking forward to my flight. try this. bayer aspirin? i'm not having a heart attack. it's my back. no, this is new bayer advanced aspirin... clinically proven to relieve tough pain twice as fast as before. what, did you invent this or something? well, my team did. i'm dr. eric first, from bayer. wow. look. it has microparticles. it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of p

the tea party dominating the republican party.augh has the upper hand because of these large audiences he has. the republican party has gotten a bit smaller, it's more homogeneous than it ever was before, but what i think interesting is is that the president put this kind of pressure on him. who is controlling politics right now? it's not speaker boehner. >> isn't this total control for the president? >> i think there is a record of disrespect aimed at this president and really aimed at the president see through this president. but number one what the white house or the of, strategically thinking for us, and rush limbaugh and a vocal tea party controls the republicans right now. >> it's almost as if he's got to run it up the flagpole and see where everybody is and then you'll get his take on it. >> the republican parties are not too interested in creating jobs. this is also part of the disrespect, but also, let's understand what their agenda is is. their agenda is about cutting, their agenda is is about protecting the wealth of th

this is a fundamental question i think for the tea party and generally for the republican party. e peel like jeb bush who are really trying to push this party towards a more big tent party in terms of opening it up to latinos and even african-americans, but last night, you know, that question came up, and it was sort of rolled into the whole idea of illegal immigration. you almost heard rick santorum equate illegal immigrants automatically with latinos and i don't think that's necessarily what latinos want to hear and certainly isn't a way to attract them to the party. >> they may not want to hear it because it's not true. >> thanks. >> exactly. >> governor rendell thank you. thanks both of you for your time this evening. >> thanks, al. >> up next, is that the state of georgia, is it about to execute an innocent man? more tonight on the troy davis case and new calls for clemency and new doubts about the case against him. when your eyes are smiling... you're smiling. and when they're laughing... you're laughing. be kind to your eyes... with transitions lenses. transitions adapt to

that dynamic in the republican party, the dynamic between the republican party and the far right wing edge of its base tells you a lot more about what's going on in national politics right now than anything going on the other side of the aisle. particularly anything going on between president obama and his base. republicans nationally as well as the beltway media are busy accusing president obama of pandering to the extreme left wing of his democratic base by calling for tax increases on corporations and on the wealthiest americans to help balance the budget. as the republican attack goes, it's only the far, far, far, far left like the maddow left that wants this sort of thing and shame on barack obama for giving into those left wing crazies. according to conservative columnists like david brooks of "the new york times" today, "president obama repeated the populist cries that fire up liberals but are designed to enrage moderates and conservatives." you want to see how enraged moderates are at the idea of tax hikes on the wealthiest americans? 65%. that's the percentage of moderates in

if you look at this republican party, this is a reactionary extremist republican party. its first goal is to defeat president obama. generations in this country have grown up with reforms, the new deal of the great society, humanizing reforms. they've given people opportunity and mobility. they've built a stable middle class. this republican party wants to dismantle those reforms that have built and supported i would say capitalism with security. have supported that middle class, have supported the working poor. there have always been debates about the size of government, but look at eisenhower. he's built some of those bridges and roads in boehner or mcconnell's district. nixon, the clean air act. you have republicans who understood the need for government. today we have a republican party that wants to dismantle government and take us back to a time of great insecurity. you're on your own, jack, seems to be the motto for the republican party that wants to gut, dilute the possibility of reform, of opportunity for people who need jobs in this time of national emergency.

governor perry, a tea party republican. man of the tea party express and from irvine california, amy, i want to get to your point. when we had the cnn tea party debate you were brazen and said, we'll pick the republican nominee. the tea party won't let the republican party hand you somebody. i assume you mean the establishment. in the poll we found, just among republicans, are you very angry about the way things are going in the country today? 50% of tea party republicans are very angry. only 29% of other republicans are angry. does that convince you you have the energy, the intensity, to deliver on your promise? a lot of the establishment says -- no way. >> absolutely, john. when you introduced that i was happy to hear you call them "establishment republicans" because when i read the poll they called them "moderate" republicans. this is tea party versus establishment republicans and i say the establishment republicans ant as engaged as we are and when you look at what happened in 2010, there were candidates outspent 6-7-1.

mark, he's largely handled this pretty well in a very difficult situation for him inside the republican party. the party's heart is never going to be with him. he's trying to get this nomination by appealing to the party's head, convincing that maybe he can win this election. by the way, mark will recall, you don't even need to look at his book. he sad in a debate with john mccain and said romney-care should be a model for the nation. the perry people obviously don't do their research, they don't prepare their candidate, and he's not prepared for the second-level response. >>> all right. before you go too far there, i've got to keep going with my awards next, we come to the award for best makeup. wait a second. we don't mean makeup. we mean literally making it up. tonight we present michele bachmann with the makeup award. she was living in a land of make-believe when it came to the facts. >> president obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times. >> michelle, that's true if you leave out truman, johnson, nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush 41, clinton, and bush

republican party. >> okay. for on the republican side. they haven't settled. the voters month after month after month there is somebody new that's hot or whatever else it is. >> this 38 is a big number. romney has yet to hit that number when he was the front runner. >> exactly right, but in the bottom line, they're all still being tested. none of them have proved that they're ready, because we looked at them not only in terms of feeling thermometers and not in terms of how interesting they are as president. every element, they have to prove themselves. as you say, for the president, it's tough times. the republicans, they're going to go through tough times this fall and in the spring. >> bill, both republicans, the two front runners, rick perry and mitt romney start with a net negative feeling thermometer rating, the rez is still at 44-44. one to one, not good at all, but romney and perry start with a net negative. that's tough to start a general election with. >> it is, but part of it is because the way we do

when i was a young man. >> when you were a young man, you remember the republican party was the party that sided with lyndon johnson to get the civil rights passed. >> you can certainly clean this up. i don't think that we should be defending what herman cain is saying here. he's out of his mind. the bottom line is black folk vote with the issues unless a lot of those issues happen to reside been the democratic party. >> black people ought to take a second look at herman cain. he has no special advantage other than his intersect and his drive and determination. >> joe, is he pandering to white republicans? >> i don't think so. i think he's saying -- he's a very blunt guy. he says what he believes. sometimes it's popular, sometimes it's not. >> if he says what he believes, he believes black americans are brainwashed. >> he believes they're loyal as voters. >> he said brainwash. you're saying loyal. this is the politics of distraction. the republican party has become much more homogenous and the racial politics of the tea party have been on display for well over two years now. black fol

there's still a lot of people who both conservatives and nonconservatives in the republican party who want some exciting candidates. it's -- partly it's just that. christie has charisma and that makes him attractive. >> thanks to howard feinman and thank you very much, ron kerry, former chief of staff for congressman bachmann for sharing your insights on republican voters' thinking. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> president obama got a glimmer of hope in the latest unemployment numbers out today. coming up next, van jones on what washington should be doing about jobs. >>> and later we'll have an exclusive witness of the police brutality that broke out during a peaceful occupy wall street demonstration. >>> coming up, some are calling it the progressive answer to the tea party. called take back the american dream happening next week in washington. vaughn jones, one of the leaders of that movement will join me next. and bill o'reilly is back in the rewrite tonight after last night confirming a prediction that i made about him. and this time, we have video of john stewart just

protestant working men in the cities who could care less about the slavery issue but the new the republican party as the evangelical christian party stood for the rights of protestants over the rights of capitalists and wanted to restrict the rights of the catholics. the problem was of course by injecting their religion into the political process it placed the political process. our system of government governs best from the center. our system of government governs best from moderation. if you look at all of the great legislation that we have had in our history, the legislation, civil rights legislation, they have been the result of the compromise. they have been the result of modernization. moderation was much less possible in an environment where the opponent was the devil and you were the st. religion act was brought into politics before the civil war. in fact it was booming and climaxed with the civil war as early as the 1830's evangelical movement known as the second great awakening started to intrude in the political process. i don't think my book was a disappearance of the non. viewers may

than the republican party. re committed to getting obama out of there. they have a very, very specific philosophy and ideology. they're sticking to it. they're very well organized and a very, very loud minority. they know what they want to do and how they're going to do it. the question remains is whether or not president obama can rise to the challenge. >> he has to stay on the offensive. thanks for being with us tonight. >>> coming up in my "playbook" mitt romney is taking on unions. communications workers of america president larry cowen will join me on that subject next. my doctor told me calcium is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. woohoo! yes! ♪ it was the best day ♪ it was the best day yeah! ♪ it was the best day ♪ because of you [echoing] we make a great pair. huh? progressive and the great outdoors. we make a great pair. rig

there's still a lot of people who both conservatives and nonconservatives in the republican party who want some exciting candidates. it's -- partly it's just that. christie has charisma and that makes him attractive. >> thanks to howard feinman and thank you very much, ron kerry, former chief of staff for congressman bachmann for sharing your insights on republican voters' thinking. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> president obama got a glimmer of hope in the latest unemployment numbers out today. coming up next, van jones on what washington should be doing about jobs. >>> and later we'll have an exclusive witness of the police brutality that broke out during a peaceful occupy wall street demonstration. so i took my heartburn pill and some antacids. we're having mexican tonight, so another pill then? unless we eat later, then pill later? if i get a snack now, pill now? skip the snack, pill later... late dinner, pill now? aghh i've got heartburn in my head. [ male announcer ] stop the madness of treating frequent heartburn. it's simple with prilosec otc. one pill a day. twenty

polling for the republican party was extremely low. ing for republican leadership in congress was extremely low at the end of 2010 when republicans took the house. the american public right now is in the habit of turning the bums out of office, whoever they are, because they have been angry now for three cycles. and there's a real risk that could happen again next year. >> michael, your last paragraph is the perfect antidote to anyone who thinks it's going to be easy. you write in 1980, with the economy sagging, jimmy carter imagined nearly to the end that ronald reagan was too extreme, and reagan won in a landslide. you say it's dangerous to underestimate your enemy in difficult times. i'll never forget how in 1980, i mean, i was a kid who had nothing to do with politics. but it was unimaginable that this actor, this extremist, could win the presidency. he won 49 states in my unimaginable that he could win the presidency scenario. so that is the other lesson they have to think about, isn't it? >> yeah. and what's going to happen in thi