korcorp corey, let's braden this, what does the republican party need to do. have an increasing latino population, now 34% of california. an increasing number of millennials registering with no party preference. 30% of them. >> 38% of the population, but only 18% of the electorate. that proportion is going to grow over the coming generation. republicans have a long-term structural problem in california. and this is exactly right. what carla said is perfectly right. republicans are looking at the long game here. so i think this is an opportunity to reposition the party to save some of the down ballot races. they're doing pretty well in local elections. they won the mayoral race in san diego. they really need to look at this as an 8 to 12 to 16-year plan to build the republican party. they have a candidate now who i think has the opportunity to have voters take a second look t republicans and say, yeah, this isn't the republican party you're familiar with. you may not vote for me in this coming election, but you might want to look at the republican party moving

republicans. who would have believed that when john f. kennedy was president? my question is not, parties are not supposed to win 100% of the vote. the question about ethnic politics, i understand why the recently arrived guatemalan gardner who is making $9 an hour is not a republican. i don't understand why the indian american who owns 15 hotels isn't a republican? i don't sndz why the retired african-american general is not a republican. you know, republicans are the party of some people and not of other people. the some and the other shouldn't be defined on ethnic ground. in canada, where i'm originally from the largest nonwhite group are chinese canadians. a majority of chinese canadians who speak chinese at home vote for the conservative party in canada. they found these voters have interest in common but being kept away because they felt a cultural distance. take away the cultural distance and those who have interest of voting for the center right will vote that way. those who havez] interest nor should they. but you don't gratuitously keep people away and that's one of the things i

the center of the republican party and the conservative wig of the republican party -- wing of the republican party. then nixon, his own idea, went out on his own in 1966 and campaigned in 35 states, 80 congressional districts. every single republican who asked for him, he went in all 11 southern states, all over the country working for the republican party. and it was a move that, i said it in my book, it was in nixon's interest to do this, but it was also consistent with what he believed. nixon was a fighter. his party was in trouble, and he loved his party, he was low corral to it -- loyal to it, so he went out. we're going to fight within every district we can. i traveled with him that whole time, and it was, i mean, he was a spartan. i mean, i've never seen anybody work harder than that. there was occasional incidents like let me tell you one. mr. nixon had some trouble with the rockefellers. let me tell you one story from the campaign of '66. we were in fort smith, arkansas, and nixon got up, and he had a press conference and did an event for john paul hammer schmidt who eventually was

but is there something for the national republican party to learn? that's sort of the fight inside your party. where is there room for a bigger tent? is kansas an incubater here? >> what i try to outline in the book is we need to be principled. sam was applying core principles. do it in an aspirational, inclusive way so that we can grow our majority. we can't go to the voters with a margin of error in the electoral college of one state. this is not going to work for us. we need to open up the field, bring people in our tent without diluting our principles. the argument i keep making is take those principles and apply them to the problems of the day. that's why i'm talking about poverty, better ideas for health care. we have to show people that we actually have more realistic solutions based upon our foundings principles which are far superior, in my opinion, that be the liberal progressive agenda that we are experiencing right now which isn't working. >> a lot of future presidential candidates do what you're doing. write a book. you've obviously been

] every square inch of the republican party knows what's at stake. we have to take the senate back as a first step to turning our country around, to kansas values as opposed to what's going on in washington. [applause] there is only one person on the ballot that will go to washington and kick harry reid out as opposed to giving him a stamp of approval and change the direction of the country with the united states sen knit in republican hands so we can come back to the constitution, come back to the foundation of our country that made our country great, celebrate hard work, celebrate kansas and what we're all about here in the greatest state of the nation, that's what we're going to do. that is why the governor is here, pardon me, mama grizzly is here. [applause] have you ever seen a mama grizzly dressed as a wildcat? [laughter] you wouldn't be able to kick a field goal. [laughter] sorry about that. we're all sorry about that. [laughter] i make a promise to you. i have fought for you before. i have fought in virtually every issue that you care about w

and the conservative wing of the republican party. nixon, his own idea went out on his own in 1966 and campaigned in 35 states, 8 congressional districts, every single republican who asked for him, all seven states, all over the country working for the republican party and it was a move that i said in my book, in nixon's interest to do this but it was also consistent with what he believed. nixon was a fighter. his party was in trouble and he loved his party, was loyal to it so he went out, we are going to fight in every district we can. i traveled with some that whole time and i have never seen anybody work harder than that. there were occasional incidents, we had some trouble, mr. nixon had some trouble with the rockefellers. let me tell you one story from the campaign of 66, we were in arkansas and nixon got up and had a press conference and did an event for john paul hammerschmidt, one guys that beat bill clinton for congress. was his first race? he beat bill clinton but anyway in fort smith nixon goes to the hotel and is a rectang

first time around it was the republican party, the second time around it was the democratic party. and there are those who argue that this is disadvantageous. i had a colleague, a black colleague at yale who once said as many have that black america would be better off today if there were more black republicans because then the two parties would compete for the black vote by speaking to black interests. he said we would be better off if there were more black republicans. the problem is that most of us don't want to be republicans, including me, he said. [ laughter ] i'm quoting him. there you have it. after both reconstructions, severe economic inequities remained. most of the black population after the first reconstruction remained poor, rural, agricultural laborers. today the picture is better, but it's still a case that one-third of the african-american population is mired in deep poverty. there was more of an attempt to address that in the 1960s but we haven't made a lot of headway. now, i made the argument at the beginning that the gains of the second reconstruction have prove

yet not one -- why isn't the republican party running ads about detroit? chicago which is a war zone. who is responsible for that? one out of 47 aldermen in chicago, one republican or two. i don't get it. i don't get it. the civil rights movement has become an alleged mob. i've wanted to mention this because i find this extremely telling. they took a woman named paula dean who has built a multimillion-dollar business on tv, three tv, and they took this woman and destroyed her business and her wealth and they made her into a poster child for racism. this was a woman who voted for barack obama, a woman who gave millions of dollars through charity to poor black children in the inner city, and her crime, her crime was that in a private conversation 25 years earlier she had used the n- word, which this used to be a free country. only black people can use the n-word. use to the in-word in a private conversation with her husband after she had been bugged during a plant -- bank robbery by a black criminal. that was her crime. why do republicans call these people le

>> it opportunity brother me, i would like to see a more vie brarcht republican party -- vie branlt republican party. i think it may be time for a latino mayor in philadelphia. i say that as the husband of a latina is the successor to ken trujillo. ken was there, he gave a great speech to 125 or a so donors out in california catch. he won't play identity politics, he'll be talking about the business community, just like ed rendell did and helping small businesses in the city and education. >> of course if nelson jumps in we'll have two latino candidates. having so many candidates in will make it unpredictable and politically active philadelphians, these people travel in the same circles. >> for the voters it's a great opportunity for them to push on the issues they care about. what are we going to do about education and how to make it work. how is the economy of the city work how do we attract people to the city. what are we going to do about 30% poverty in philadelphia. when you have a crowded field and there's no clear frontrunner, the voters have more power in the process and they can push

why wasn't the republican party running in detroit or chicago which is a war zone? who's responsible for that? is there one republican or to? i don't get it. i don't get it. the civil rights movement has become a lynch mob. i wanted to mention this because i find this extremely telling. they took a woman named paula deen who was built-in multi-million dollar business on tv, on food tv. they took this woman and they destroyed her business and her wealth and they made her into a poster child for racism. this was a woman who voted for barack obama, a woman who gave millions of dollars to charity to poor black children in the inner city and her crime, her crime was that in a private conversation 25 years earlier she had used the n word which it used to be a free country. only black people can use the n word. use the n word in a private conversation with her husband after they have been robbed by a bank criminal. that was her crime. why do republican call them liberals. they are bigots. they are not liberal at anything. [applause] the only thing there liberal about our se

in 1954 when nixon was leading the republican party, the republican party lost both houses of congressost 13 senate seats in 1958. 1960 he lost narrowly in a contested election. maybe a stolen election to jack kennedy. we know what happened. we all heard what happened in chicago and in texas. '62 he came out and ran for above and was defeated by governor pat brown. then he had that famous press conference where he just said this is it. he'd had it with the press. he said think of all the fun you're going to be missing. you won't have richard nixon to kick around anymore. because, folks, this is my last press conference. he was finished, down and out. but then in '64 even though he was out of it he not only introduced barry goldwater at that convention, richard nixon went and campaigned all across america for barry goldwater harder than barry campaigned for himself. but look at where he was and where the party was in 1965 when i arrived. the republicans had 140 seats in the house,32 in the senate. outnumbered more than two to one in both bodies. they had 17 governorships, outnumbered tw

the center of the republican party and conservative wing of the republican party. his own idea went out on his own in 1966 and campaigned in 35 states, 80 congressional districts, every single republican in all 11 southern states all over the country, working for the republican party and there was, i sat in my book, it was the nixon's interest to do this. but it is also consistent with what he believed. nick's was a fighter. he left his party and so he finiteness ever going to fight with every district we can. i traveled with him that whole time. he was a spartan. i've never seen anybody work harder than that. there was occasional incidents like when i tell you one. mr. nixon had some trouble with the rockefellers. let me sell you one story from the campaign of 66. we were in fort smith, arkansas. nick then got up and he had a press conference and did an event for john paul hammerschmidt who eventually was one guy that eats bill clinton for congress. i think she beat bill clinton. but anyhow, word for smith come as a nixon goes to the hotel and its direct angular n

that is not who the republican party is. we are the party that is a broad-based party that doesn't rely on any special interest group to fund us. that is who we are. there's a message that appeals to that broad group. >> great, thank you. are you ready for some questions? [applause] we will start off over year. >> my name is emily and i go to the university of dallas. >> my daughter graduated from there. >> any talk about the rising cost of college education? >> that is one of the toughest issues out there. i can say a lot of controversial things right now but i probably won't. better left for the private conversation only that doesn't exist in america anymore either. first you have to question the value of a college education with the cause. that's a fundamental question we see a lot of folks encouraging people not to go to college. you have to look at the nature of college. there are some great schools. most of them are liberal education. there's a study done by the university of texas that says 62% of kids are coming to co

i think theodore would recognize that the tension in the republican party was there.to get rid of these monumental hypocrisies in the founding the toleration of slavery when all men are created equal and they went about doing that with their second candidate abraham lincoln. the other was to level the playing field. they had interests that had begun to take over and there was big business and rich people who were work for government and they thought the farmers and independent shopkeepers in the republican party became a place for that. the progressive wing that theodore represented thought the republican party had lost a little bit by returning and the democrats were under the sway of the so-called interests of bosses. both the democrats, franklin roosevelt's father and republican theodore's father in theater himself were interested in leveling the playing field. i think he would wake up and say i'm dead. the republican party wants its way can you attain the need to bring back the main street guy, not the wall street guy, to bring back the family farm or not the agri

so in other words ronald reagan and the current republican party. >> that is a long way from there to here. richard nixon was probably the last republican president who believes that government can do good things. he was a liberal and he was a centrist kind of by circumstance and aimed at the conservative side but he had a democratic congress who is very strong on a number of issues and so he compromise. a lot got done domestically and he wasn't really interested. but no, i think the you can take watergate as you want to see a you can also see it as institutions work in the end and this man and this government, there were three articles of impeachment. the first was obstruction of justice which was a procedural thing in very serious. it was abuse of power. to me, that is where the story really was and it should be today in certain circumstances. not here, but maybe in certain states. but the administration of this person, these things went on and they were very careful with what they put in this abuse of power. and i think that we will be able to recognize it when we did. and so it do

bush in the republican parties. when you listen to the tea party folks, they are not only come playing about the obama stimulus package and obama care. they are also unhappy about the medicare prescription drug bill of president george w. bush. the no child left behind, the bill passed by congress in 2001 signed bipartisan. signed by president bush in 2002. of there were grievances going back to the last republicans party program. so that's one of the reasons for the anger of the tea party for the success that they have had in nominated and in some cases electing some candidates and helping the republican party win house jorts. interestingly we're seeing the beginnings of an analogous thing going on in the left wing of the party with the left wing of the democratic party now in the second term of president obama, discontent with some of the things he is doing. i think you saw this in the comments just recently on the president's speech wednesday night about isis and military action in the middle east. their disconten

the benefit nixon got was the republican party, which i described to you as twice the size of the -- ratic party, was splinters three ways, george corely, wallace, the governor of alabama, was leading in seven or eight states and at one point he was holding 21% of the boat. you had the bobby kennedy, george public govern, eugene mccarthy wing of the party, antiwar, and then you had the johnson-humphrey center of the party. in the battle inside the nixon camp we had to find out a way who was going to defense against wallace to take away votes from him while nixon held the center fought against hubert humphrey. that went on for a while until i wrote nixon a memo, in my book. said for two months we have been five points behind humphrey. in those days you didn't gain five points overnight. almost told you how it would come auto out. i said we have to be bold to win this thing. nothing i can thing that is bolder than if you put the bedtime for bon sew on the ticket, and that was the governor of california. ronald reagan, and the nixon campaign in '68, it was a tremendous drive and a move t

bush in the republican parties. when you listen to the tea party folks, they are not only come playing about the obama stimulus package and obama care. they are also unhappy about the medicare prescription drug bill of president george w. bush. the no child left behind, the bill passed by congress in 2001 signed bipartisan. signed by president bush in 2002. of there were grievances going back to the last republicans party program. so that's one of the reasons for the anger of the tea party for the success that they have had in nominated and in some cases electing some candidates and helping the republican party win house jorts. interestingly we're seeing the beginnings of an analogous thing going on in the left wing of the party with the left wing of the democratic party now in the second term of president obama, discontent with some of the things he is doing. i think you saw this in the comments just recently on the president's speech wednesday night about isis and military action in the middle east. their disconte

conservation had a political home in the republican party. this idea was strongest in the gop and teddy roosevelt. it is a republican movement. i will touch on that later. they also said we should preserve land just because it is beautiful and spiritual. we should have national parks. they were called preservationists. sometimes they would fight. there were pro-growth people and then there were wilderness preservation people. it was a civil war in a very angry at one another. by the time very goldwater is on the scene, this is the dominant ethic in the country. goldwater starts out and he is a conservationist. he believes in a, growth. he was an avid champion of economic growth. he was an advocate of reclamation. conservation believed that rivers that were not dammed up were wasted. they should be tamed. it they should be made to work for the good of the country. we put a. the government got involved in dam building. the new deal. the new dealers and roosevelt loved their dams. who already believed in an aggressive government. they gravitated

so i'm not joking, this is not your father's republican party or your mother's republican party.cheryl: you just heard it there. he mentioned bob packwood who was let go for sexual misconduct. >> i mean, okay, look. it's a double standard here. it's like uncle joe can say whatever he wants and he can say racist things against people and anti-somatic things like "shylock" and jews. many people get crucified in the mainstream media and it really is a double standard. cheryl: and so interesting. will people be going to the polls in november? >> we have another instance of joe being joe. look at who he was speaking to. talking about the good old days when they were able to pass legislation things to someone who would abuse women. i don't think it's going to have any long-lasting effect. still not a show you this. kerry, i want to talk about this. some say there are no women in the republican party, which is not true. 37% wanted a democratic-controlled party, but they had a 13-point advantage before and they lost that. >> they have the rise of the so-called wal-mart moms, women who ar

and i don't think the republican party has done enough in talking about that. i think that would be a good conversation. >> you know what republican party problem is? more than half of the voters are women. thank you. >> that's okay. >> you're not in a law firm. anyway, texas law firm looking for interns as long as they aren't, this is stockman, vapid granolas. this is "hardball," a place for politics. >>> it's rumored that next week the new iphone is going to come out. that's exciting. new iphone. yeah! you know, it's going to come with a larger screen, more memory and can leak celebrity photos twice as fast. >> time now for the side show. that's conan o'brien commenting on the celebrity hacking scandal. here is notable reactions those controversial photo leaks. >> chris christie said, i'd love vladimir putin said, don't judge size of my gun during hacked pic. it was during cold war. and finally, anthony weiner said, please no one look at my leaked photos, especially on unhack my phone at 616-555-0100. let me know if you need my pin. it's 1969. wide variety of

and that is now, by the way, but the leadership of the republican party believes in. for all of you who work in the postal service, hear this one -- "we propose the abolition of the governmental postal service." >> boo. >> right now, jeanne and i and members of the house are fighting to raise the minimum wage. what many have used should understand, that republicans in congress are not only opposing raising the minimum wage, they believe in abolishing the concept of the minimum wage. this is what the koch brothers said in 1980 -- "we support the repeal of all law which impedes the ability of all people to find employment, such as minimum wage laws." if you are in a high unemployment. and your employer says i will give you three bucks an hour, and you say, i have no choice, that is it, and no more job protection, no more safety relations on the workplace. needless to say, they support the abolition of the environmental protection agency, and this is the last point. listen to this one carefully. this is their vision of a new america -- "we oppose all government welfare r

in 2010, republicans rode a wave of tea party support to take back the house. licans with ties to washington believed the tea party cost them seats in the senate. with control of the senate up for grabs this year, they were determined not to let it happen again, and they spent millions to make sure of it. but staunch mcdaniel and tea party supporters aren't giving up the fight. mcdaniel's legal appeal to the >> this race split the republican party in half is basically what it did. i told a guy the other day, there's a mcdaniel sticker still on my car, pretend that's my name on there and everything that happened to chris happened to me. >> reporter: mississippi tea party chair laura van overshelde says they are unlikely to endorse or campaign for senator cochran in the general election against his democratic opponent. >> we endorsed chris mcdaniel because he holds those truths that we should have a limited government, we should have fiscal responsibility and we should have free markets in this country. and thad cochran has not shown us by his voting record that h

than a republican to the united states senate since 1932, it has been a who can to the national republican party and to a certain extent to the whole political system that an incumbent republican senator in the state of kansas has been in trouble this year. incumbent republican senator pat roberts it turns out is having the race of his life to try and keep his seat in the senate right now. pat roberts is not the most popular senate in the world. his numbers are not great at home. he had to fend off a pesky tea party challenge in his primary this year. but until a couple of weeks ago, it looked like those problems were behind him and he would hold on to his seat in the general election mostly because of this. this dynamic. he had the great fortune of running in a three-way race. so people who want to vote for pat roberts can vote for roberts but people who want to vote against him were splitting their vote between the democratic candidate and a well financed pretty popular independent candidate. that dynamic that, vote splitting among opponents is how pat roberts was going to limp to re-election

. >> the president is having trouble getting members of his own party on his side. republicans are more hawkish and reluctantly willing to support the president but you see democrats, anti-war wing of a party that is open about their criticism of the plan or what they see as a lack thereof and they want more details and you have white house officials worried about enough democrats defecting. they want to get a much more united democratic caucus. >> the fascinating part is on the left, see if they're loyal to the president. it's interesting to watch the washington players in the republican party who are likely or probable 2016 presidential candidates, mostly in the same camp. some of their language is a little bit but most of them, mr. president we told you, you had to consider syria a long time ago. we're glad you are not calling the jv team and now say isis is a serious threat to security. supporting the commander in chief with a key but. >> what if that doesn't work? does that mean isil gets to stay? does that mean isil gets to, you know, continue to expand? i think it was im

meeting with dick cheney yesterday behind closed doors, some reports said some of the newer republicans, tea partyrepublicans, came out of that and said why should we listen to former vice president dick cheney anymore. republicans -- republicanssenate and mitch mcconnell have said we need to approve this. that a vote should happen in the house. because he wants to take over the senate, he is in the pursuers position and boehner has the majority. . populists and a house who might be concerned leerythis vote and may be about spending a bunch of money on a protracted military campaign. that is one of the things that senators and the matter -- members of the house are looking forward to in speeches. about how long the speech could last. it might be quite protracted because isis is not easily destroyed. not vote forthey something that could last beyond this administration? gives the war powers act the president a 60-90 day window. they could weigh in on a later date, earring a lame-duck or more likely, at the beginning of next year. one of the things democratic and isublican leaders are saying we need

parties. we'll talk to a democratic strategist and a republican strategist. and james from american university will assess resident strategy to combat the terror group, isis. we will take your phone calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. at 7:00ton journal" a.m. on c-span. in his weekly address, president obama discussed the administration's efforts to degrade terrorist groups such as isis. u.s. house candidate andy tobin gave the republican response. he talked about government regulations and the impact on the economy. >> as commander in chief, my highest priority is the security of the american people. i made it clear that those who threaten the united states will find no safe haven. thanks to our military and counterterrorism professionals, we took out osama bin laden, much of al qaeda's leadership in afghanistan and pakistan, and leaders of al qaeda affiliates in yemen and somalia. we have prevented terrorist attacks, saved american lives, and made our homeland more secure. today the terrorist threat is more diffused from al qaed

wrings back the principles of the republican party as it founded. the history of the republican arty has been an alternating current, a progressive mode and more conservative mode. the progressive and more mode.rvative so i think both men would find it.mselves -- i get read it in two seconds and set getting promising and things done. they were about rolling up their sleeves. them all thee with time. we find great flaws but they say things done. get >> the book in the documentary, "the rose sveltses," the appearing all this week on pbs. thank you both for joining us this morning. guest: thank you. guest: thank you very much. host: eli lake, the senior national security correspondent beast, talking about the legal hurdles that the obama administration has to avigate when it comes to the efforts in iraq and syria. later in the weekly "your money" look at the portions of the defense department bucket that deals with counterterrorism operations. we'll be right back. >> eli lake, a correspondent for the daily beast. author of a new piste last week, obama's

republican senate wave. the combination of an unpopular president and a midterm election. disastrous results for the president's partyas long as his approval sits in the 40% range, the signs are ominous for democrats." stu rothenberg in "roll call." our republican line, mark in california. good morning. caller: good morning. host: h, mark. -- hi, mark. caller: we need to spend more time working on the medicare reform -- reforming medicare. time,ust, they spent more it would be more beneficial to everyone at large. host: do you think congress has lost focus with some of the health care issues in recent months and over the course of the summer as we have seen the issue of the border crisis and now what is happening with isis in iraq and syria? caller: yes. i think they are losing focus. people are homesick and they need to be taken care of. there are other problems around the world, i'm not saying we should forget about them. we really need to focus on our own. if we fixed medicare and we spend a few hundred million dollars fixing it and reforming the reimbursement rates, we will actually be able to help up the small c

conservation had a political home, a partisan home in the republican party. this was an idea strongest in the gop. as think of teddy roosevelt the greatest example. it's a republican movement. i will touch on that later. said,onservationists also we should preserve land not for economic reasons but just because it's beautiful and spiritual. we should have wilderness areas and national parks. they were called preservationists. sometimes, they would fight. inside the conservation movement, there were progress people and then wilderness reservationist people. it was a civil war, very angry at one another. by the time barry goldwater is on the scene, conservation is the dominant environmental ethic. informinge philosophy how everyone inside and outside the government, how they treat the natural world. when goldwater starts out, he is a conservationist. he believes very much in economic growth. he was an avid champion of economic growth. avid -- anfact, an intense advocate of what was called reclamation. forgive me if this is too simple. if you are far enough west

the fact is, you know, the tea party -- the frustrateed establishment republicans are frustrated with the tea party. the tea party talks back too. it says shut down the government, get our credit down graded because they don't seem to have any duty to come together and reach an agreement. and that's the mold that mr. demaaio has followed. you're right, he bought with everybody, and no one would say he's not a fighter. even people who like him. but the problem is we have too much of that in washington, d.c. today, and what we need is people who are willing to have the courage to go to the center of the room and to shake hands. and, you know, i was proud to be unanimously elected as the city council president. it was a sign that my colleagues trusted me, republican and democrat. you know, mr. demaio is the only member of the city council who wasn't -- the city council or the one before it, mine -- who wasn't trusted with even a committee chairmanship because they didn't see him as someone who could work with other people. and that's what we've got to avoid in congress. we can't cure the

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it will give great figure to the new york republican party. and in 1858 a rather important senators herrenvolk around what happened in kansas. and what happens with dread scott. and that is in illinois. the new york times said until the selection of illinois is settled will be the most interested dollars million in political speaking. abraham lincoln nominee, first and only trace of the republicans of illinois verses stephen douglas, an internationally famous u.s. senator. the two had known each other for a long time. lincoln considered douglases success compared to his relative failure to be as standing offense. douglas said had one series after another of successfully more important positions in politics. lincoln was born to run against douglas for the senate. of course in that time senators are chosen by state legislators. the thought was that if the parties named their senate nominees and campaigns throughout the state people could be persuaded to vote for one legislator or another based upon party. of course those a famous series of debat

let me tell you something about the republican party. nixon still have to worry about his major political problem within the party coming from the left. the last time a republican nominee for president has had to worry about satisfying the left, liberal element of his party. certainly not by 1968 and not in the 21st century. >> i would like to follow-up on a question about george wallace and throwing the election into the house. there was a major effort in congress to pass a national popular vote amendment in the nixon administration and my understanding was nixon and john mitchell said pull the plug on it because the wall is voters, why do you think it happened? and why do you think we have not seen an effort to do anything about it cents? >> to choose the president with a popular vote? there was a serious effort in 1968 to abolish the electoral college and replace it with a national vote by the people. if this happened because the country has just had a spare. what if wallace had gotten a few more votes? what if nixon and humphrey had b