let's get started with a question from tim rogers of texarkana. a real texan again.ks, so are we doomed to this gridlock forever because the gerrymandering in the states? here's the problem sir. a lot of minorities and liberals live in big city. in places like philadelphia or san francisco. 90% votes. a lot of votes of liberals don't count as much as they should it's the way the geography works. tack on the gerrymandering. my state in pennsylvania where i grew up, 100,000 more votes were cast for democratic candidates for congress statewide than for republicans. how many republican congress people are there, 13. how many democrats, 5. even though the democrats got an overall total much higher than the republicans in terms of total votes as they were distributed cd a cd. the republicans come out ahead. that's gerrymandering. the next question from kenneth hopes. a veteran from she tech, wisconsin. he asks, "what political benefit is there for the gop to shut down the government and deny health care and stop feeding the poor?" i think they're playing to their base. abo

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so let's get started with a question from tim rogers of texarkana. to this gridlock forever because of gerrymandering in the states? it's so interesting. a lot of minorities and liberals live in big cities. they get 90% votes. a lot of votes of liberals don't count as much as they should. it's the way the geography works. add to that the gerrymandering that goes on. my state, in pennsylvania where i grew up, 100,000 more votes were cast for democratic candidates statewide than republicans. how many republican congressman? 13. how many democrats? five. even though the democrats got a number much higher than the republicans total votes, the rms come out ahead. that's what's gerrymandering. the next is from kenneth hobes from shitek, wisconsin. he asks what political benefit is there for the gop to shut down the government and deny health care and stop feeding the poor? i think they're playing to their base. i think there are people in this about 20% who are really angry at obama, they don't like him, maybe even hate him. and they hate big government. t