idate needs can be found in california, new york, texas and florida and they also happen to be the states with the country's largest hispanic population. we see why this week's gop fight for the latino vote in the sunshine state has become critical. former florida governor jeb bush made clear wyoming voting block is so important to the future of his republican party. >> the growing populations in all of the swing states are hispanic volares. i don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party. >> statistics back him up. the population in florida alone grew by 57% in the last years. across the country nearly a quarter children are latino. the big worry got gop during the 2008 presidential election, nominee john mccain won just 31% of the hispanic vote. understood beginning attempted to court those voters to allow puerto rico decide the question on statehood. he made a special appeal to cuban americans in florida. >> i would like a cuban spring in 2013 to help the people of cuba liberate themselves. >> then about an hour later mitt romney took the stage

it's for more complex. >> in some key states and the ones we talked about, texas, california, floridarticularly, new york, is the latino vote, that 8% enough to swing an election. >> not in the the super blue states or super red states, but in and a half and a half it is and in new mexico and california. we saw that in 2010 with senator reed. he survived because of the latino vote. that percentage that put him over the top was because of latinos and he knew they were going to be his life raft and aggressively courted them. very important also in congressional elections. your senate elections congressional elections and even state elections. >> as we said in the intro this has become a particularly important focus for the republicans in florida, and we know why. the republicans blocked immigration reform, blocked the dream act, which president obama wanted, so can they really appeal to the latino vote when they're acting and voting against them? >> they can't. they can on the issue of immigration. president obama made a promise of immigration reform and he failed. >> he gets blamed for

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going on innovative ideas, best practices, because guess what, besides new york, besides florida, texas, california is next. 25% of the population of kids will be latino. we have to get an agenda forward. we have to make sure we're filling the gaps. that is what we've been doing here in san francisco. that is why i have loved working for carlos, in my education adviser is the school board president and works as have my office. county is that? the school board president right next to you, because any other programs that are rolling out every other month --. -- how neat is that? the most exciting days i have is when i can get to the classroom in see the kids in gauge with their teachers and know they are getting agitated. the00- they are getting educated. do you know about the million dollar club? that is the difference between the kids that graduate from high school looking for a job, and the child goes all the way to college. it is a million-dollar difference in their career at how much they can earn. do you want to join the million- dollar club? what is san francisco doing about it? we're supporti

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constitutional amendment, a regular bill we have a lot of work to do not only new hampshire, florida, tennessee, texas, californiatana, michigan, obviously our neighboring states, virginia, maryland we are going all over the country to talk about why state hoods are so important. >>> the lawmakers in new hampshire did they have a favorable response to your efforts? >> i think we did a good job on the education side, we are starting to dispel a lot of myths this is a learning process for us too this is an extremely aggressive strategy we will learn as we go a little bit and part of what new hampshire taught us we have to continue to frame our message we are not going to win them all. alaska and hawaii didn't win them all either we have to do what we have to do to move our agenda forward related to state hood. >> last question these are tight times, and you know i think some might wonder is this a good use of dc money to send five, six, seven people to all the different states to talk about state hood. >> frankly i wish our budget was larger the answer to the question is absolutely yes we need to be a state and unl

california go with reform. we watched bill samuels work to try to work against it in new york. how can all of florida, texasvery other state in the country start to raise the temperature from the ground up to get more of this? >> listen. until you let your elected leaders know there are repercussions for what they do? >> how do i let them know when they have gerry manderred the district. >> exactly the way they did in florida. florida constitution says you better not draw those districts for yourselves. you can't draw them for a political party. the courts can now have the authority to check on that. if necessary, draw the maps themselves. the house is suing in federal court to try to stop these things from being implemented. they lost in every court. they will lose all the way through. but the truth of the matter is until you give the courts the authority, the legislature will always act in its best interest or to protect themselves. democrat or republican. >> how dangerous is it for any democracy to allow the voice of the voter to become an illusion. i talk a lot about the pro-wrestling nature of the poli

when you look beyond florida, there are states like texas and california that have even larger latinoopulations so this is an issue that goes beyond florida and out west of course many of the latinos are mexican americans with different issues and different concerns. no one size fits all approach in this community. >> that's what's great about florida there. it is diverse issues, diverse hispanic backgrounds. ron allen, again, a great way of displaying it. thank you much. >>> the diverse hispanic population can make or break any candidate in this swing state. although republicans currently have the advantage with cuban americans, the fight is on to make inroads with other hispanic groups. joining me now is alfonso. the former head of the u.s. office of citizenship under president george h.w. bush. thank you for coming in and talking about how -- >> thank you for having me. >> i want to put up this statistic on florida hispanic. coming from miami, they assume all hispanic americans outside of florida are cuban. according to a u.s. census, 32% are cuban. 28% are puerto rican. mexicans,

how many times in your career have you seen this play out in parts of california, florida and texas.t could happen anytime, any place. it looks rough in nevada. the weather is going to help out considerably. >> devastating and dangerous. thank you. >>> the polls are now officially open in south carolina. let the rush begin. voters in the state are getting their chance to pick the republican presidential nominee. here is where they stood in the last cnn time orc poll earlier this week. romney on top. gingrich second. santorum third. that was before the cnn debate thursday night and rick perry's departure. gingrich has been surging since then. an adviser is predicting a six point win in the state. don lemon is joining us from south carolina. it's great seeing you. is anybody at the polls yet? it's 7:03 right now. >> reporter: are you kidding me? if you wouldn't have done that fire thing, you would have seen them running in here. are you ready to vote? this is a county that decided the election in 2008. they believe they are going to decide this election as well. they had a dozen people

primary or competed in a system that started with actually diverse states like california or new york or texas or floridat i think the argument for iowa starting or for new hampshire starting the system is set up so you have geographic diversity by having iowa new hampshire, south carolina and nevada go first and all those states being small enough that candidates who can't raise a lot of money can get a hearing. it would be better if we had moraysal and ethnic diversity but it's a better system than a system where you would have to raise $150 million to be competitive. that would prohibit a ton of candidates from forever getting a hearing. this system is -- has a lot of flaws but it's hard to design one that is better. >> just to throw a footnote in real quick, barack obama was actually trailing among african-american voters going foo iowa. there was no indication he was going to have that support till he proved himself in a state with the grassroots vote. >> and the legacy of america's first, quote unquote, first black president. when we come back, hoping for a miracle. does michele bachmann have a sho

varias leyes lo consideran como el idioma oficial, california, arizona, la florida, donde viven millones de hispanos, y nueva york, nuevo mÉxico, y texasueva propuesta. >>> el movimiento para denominar al inglÉs el idioma oficial de estados unidos, crece en en intensidad, a pesar que la poblaciÓn hispana aumenta a 50 millones, los hispanos tienen cada vez mÁs poder polÍtico, que se pondrÍa a prueba, si prosperan leyes con idioma oficial del inglÉs. en el congreso, smith, apoya a un proyecto que se presentarÍa en cualquier momento, se convertirÍa al inglÉs en idioma oficial para actividades federales. >>> serÍa un problema real que harÍa mÁs difÍcil la participaciÓn de la comunidad latina. >>> es una idea que apoyan hispanos. >>> el idioma oficial de la florida, y tambiÉn en estados unidos. >>> la organizaciÓn us enguris h lo logrÓ en 31 estados. >>> habla del idioma, no tiene que ver con los votos. >>> la Única preocupaciÓn, que sea un desafÍo para leyes de derechos civiles, y al voto que garantiza servicios en idiomas, a comunidad con extensas minorÍas linguisticas. >>> harÍan que la ley del derecho al voto, ya no exista. >>> se asegu

york which hasn't done the redistricting yet but just for the meetings are there new york, california, texas, florida, arizona i don't want to show my whole hand here today but we believe that the makings of the 25 to 35. estimates keefe predicted you are going to retake the house with that question. >> what i always say is right now today we see a path to that victory ten months from now. islamic that's not predicting you must be able to go further than that. >> what i said to my colleague is you are used to sports analogies, and i grew up with my brothers. i'm into sports all the time, but when we come to that we are back here in february it will be nine months until the e elections, nine months we have to have every one of those days very healthy days and nine months we give birth to this wonderful big victory. shall we say the experience we make very good use of that. with that raise the republicans, thought a redistricting of the republicans, without recruiting the republicans. this is the most important part. what if you have to have a candidate, the candidate usually will tell. >> you've done

is the his pan vote in florida the same as in texas and california and otherwise? >> no. s a very diverse community, and in florida it's very unique, miami, south florida, central florida has two very different hispanic communities but they all have one thing in common, especially. one thing in common in this election cycle, their focus on the economy. jenna: simon, how do you think the democrats have done reaching out to the voters in that community and talking about jobs, specifically, when it comes to hispanic voters? >> right dmiewrksding to four national polls taken with latinos in the last few weeks, barack obama is holding his 2008 numbers, mitt romney is far below the numbers that john mccain got in 20 08, and i think the conventional wisdom is the latino vote has been upset with republicans because of escalated rhetoric in recent years and the attacks they've seen in their community. i think the democrats feel pretty good they're going to do very well this cycle and i think mitt romney is going to have a tough time winning back the ground that they've lost in rece

illinois, new york, california, texas, florida, arizona -- well, i want to show my whole hand here today, that we believe that the makings of the 25, their 35. >> you predicted here you're going to retake the house maybe with that question. >> what i always say is right now today we see a path to that victory 10 months from now. >> you must be able to go further than that? >> no. what i said to my colleagues, you're used to sports analogy, and i grew up with five brothers and i'm into sports all the time, but when we, when we are fully back here in february, it will be nine months until the elections. thinking another way. nine months we have to have every one of those days very, very healthy days of that, in nine months we give birth to this wonderful victory. they go ahhh, don't want to talk about that. we're going to make very good use of that without raising republican come with that redistricting the republicans, without recruit the republicans. this is the most important part. you have to have a candidate. the candidate usually will tell. >> on the race for commute than 400, what i

florida has the third largest hispanic pop laying in the country behind only california and texas. >>right. enough of the real news, let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch the one joke and otherwise business-like speech from the president last night. judging by the reaction inside the chamber perhaps the speech should have been all business. >> i've orred every federal agency to eliminate rules that don't make sense. we've already announced over 500 reforms. we got rid of one rule from 40 years ago that could have forced some dairy farmers to spend $10,000 a year proving that they could contain a spill, because milk was somehow classify as an oil. with a rule like that i guess it was worth crying over spilled milk. >> not even the first lady. he couldn't even get his own wife to laugh at that one. that's not good news. >>> he's doing the rim shot to punctuate the joke. president obama is usually good at making jokes. kind of missed the mark on that one. mitch daniels, the governor delivered the republican rebuttal last night. with due respect, the government had nothing on m

illinois, new york, california, texas, florida, arizona -- well, i don't want to show my whole hand here today. but we believe that the makings of the 25 are there except i want 35. >> thank you, sue. you predicted here you'll retake the house. >> i said what i always say right now today we see a path to that victory 10 months from now. >> you must go further than that. >> no. what i've said to my colleagues -- i said, you are you a used to sports analogies. and i -- i grew up with five brothers. i'm into sports all the time. but when we come back, when we're fully back here in february it will be nine months until the election. if i'm thinking another way. nine months we have to have every one of those days very, very healthy days so that in nine months we give birth to this wonderful victory. they go -- ahhhh! we make every -- shall we say a development period, we are going to make very good use to that. we outraised the republicans, we've outredistricting -- redistricted the republicans and this is the most important part. you need a candidate. >> the outraised part. you've done 400 e

florida. and there are states like california and texas that have large latino populations, and many of thosecan americans, not cuban or puerto rican. they have a different take on the issues, that complicates it further. no one size fits all solution. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >>> question for you. how far would some people go to attend the super bowl of their favorite team? new survey shows 15% of americans would choose going to the super bowl over the birth of their child. we are assuming those folks are mostly men. 19% say they'd miss the funeral of a loved one. survey shows 92% of americans that bet on the super bowl lose money. >>> "the help" was the big winner at the screen actors guild awards, snagging best ensemble, less lead actress, best supporting actress. insiders expected the artist to take top honors, and are buzzing about "the help" and potential oscar upset. two. three. one. -two. -three. take top honors, and are buzzing about "the help" and potential oscar upset. cash rewa" to take top honors, and are buzzing about "the help" and potential oscar upset. me. 2% back on gr

illinois, new york, california, texas, florida, arizona -- i do not want to show my whole hand here today believe the makings of the 25 are there >> workers hard. we have a plan. we have the candidates and that is a big selling point. in order to win 25 seats you have to play in 50 seats. we have 75 that were reduced. we will see how they play. that comes down to 50. >> are you at 75 now? >> we're at 75 now. >> when does it nearer to 15? >> maybe they'll succeed and meet the standard. here's the thing. we have about 70. 35 women. over 30 are women. we have a large number of hispanic candidates. it is a very mixed group. with the woman that we have, a police chief, a young woman in the police department, rising to the level of police chief. i know how to protect people. you have emmy duckworth. >> we are interested in her. >> she will be here. >> how are you so confident? >> she has a good district and is a primary there. she and another wonderful person are running. i believe tammy, she has run before and she has a national constituency. her story is a compelling one. we believe that she

florida, arizona, california, texas, they are overrun by parasites.ces. speak a foreign language, i don't understand. i don't recognize my own country anymore all because these parasites take, take, and dignity back. of course, i'm talking of aarp liberals. and in the spirit of martin luther king, jr. where we judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, when somebody looks at me and says but aren't you proud of the fact that a black man became the most important man in the country who is going to leave this world a great us? i.c.e. agent, i love tim scott, what's your point? but as i told congressman scott come and i told herman cain, and i said this to herman cain, the world is not ready for you yet in the white house. i mean, between you and tim scott and armstrong williams and michael steele and ward connerly, the world is not ready. and herman cain said but i don't see myself as a black conservative. i do see myself as a conservative. i said black conservative? i was talking about the follicle he challenged.

and so, i think you have to get america back to work and in florida, you know, we are the fourth largest state behind california, texasork. so, 18 million people and we care about what everybody cares about. you have to put america back to work. >> thank you so much, ayou can find the list of top history makers at the grio.com. politico is arguing that there's five floridas. running right through the heart of the state, the politically crucial i-4 core toridcorridor. kate from "rock center" hit the interstate to see where it's so critical. >> at the classic car show you would be forgiven to think that this town is stuck in the past. don't be fooled. because come november, these folks may be the people with the keys to the future. and biggest issue they see? the economy. >> i do not think that president obama has given us any help. >> you are not giving him any slack? >> no. >> we met with chris and their wife jen and their neighbors. >> i'm probably going to vote for obama again. but he better get it in gear. >> deland is an exit and cuts through the center of familiar. this road may be the right to the white house. >

california. florida is second followed by new york and texas. for tweeting me the right answer. first, a lot of you guessed florida. makes sense, but it's actually california. time now to check in with our jim costa. he is in florida for the main event. hard to keep track, but he is our man on the ground there. what's going on? >> there are about 200 people here to hear mitt romney speak. it's a mad dash for votes in this last day before the florida primary. newt gingrich has five, and gri gingrich has some ground to make up. mitt romney has roughly a ten-point lead depending on which poll you're looking at. that's not good news for newt gingrich who was hoping for some big momentum after that florida primary. part of the reason why is the romney campaign has really gone after newt gingrich with a sort of scorched earth strategy, the ads have been tough, the rhetoric also has been tough. listen to what romney has had to say about gingrich's time as an adviser for freddie mac and all that money he made from the mortgage giant, and he has not let g

in the caribbean and then bigging parts of north america -- florida, what's now texas -- all of the southwestern part of the unite, california, all of this was spanish. mexico, of course. and be all of this wuss collapsing because napoleon had ensaided -- invaded spain, and that war went on for a number of years, and the colonies were breaking free. and england was interested in acquiring them or at least having an expanded trade there. so it wasn't, it was all the things that you mentioned that they were interested in, but all of this as well. so they, they were bound to come in conflict with the united states because we didn't want them to have control of these areas because we were next. we were not going to be able to withstand a power that had this much control all around us. so, yeah, absolutely, they were interested in that. yeah. >> would you say that the u.s. navy's success in the war of 1812 was due to an overall command strategy, or was it the individual actions and individual initiatives of captains acting more or less on their own? >> it was both. when the war started, madison didn't know what to do with the nav

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florida in november tonight and what happens in this republican primary. remember in november the democrats almost always win california and new york. the republicans almost always win texas. those are the three largest, the fourth largest being florida. so that's the most competitive and most important right now. >> and it's such a diverse state, it gives you a hint about romney's strengths and weaknesses if he becomes the nominee. >> thank you. >>> ron paul and rick santorum aren't expecting much. they have already 3406d west, looking for greener pastures. dana, why is santorum in nevada? what's his strategy to stay in this race? >> reporter: the answer is because he knew he was not going to do well at all in florida. as gloria was just saying, that state is winner take all. notice vr now he has opened up literally four days ago. he's already got some volunteers coming in, making calls, registered republican voters about rick santorum and about the caucuses where they can go to vote this is very different from what we thought would happen, but he decided to come west because of what also gloria was mentioning. this state as with others are proportional. even if he can g

that is florida which was spanish held, new spain which included texas and all the way up to california, unclaimed territory and of course down to mexico. these rowland said many americans thought really ought to be part of the united states and direct of conversations about trying to annex those. or canada or cuba. americans had a rather expansive view of what the united states might become so we were either going to become really big or maybe break up. it was a very confusing time. is important to keep in mind that how it was going to turn out was by no means predetermined. so into this fluid situation we find aaron burr. burr came from a very distinguished family, not a wealthy family but they distinguish one. his father was president of the college of new jersey which is now princeton university. his grandfather had been president of the same college and his grandfather was jonathan edwards, the great theologian who told us that we were all sinners in the hands of an angry god, rather unsettling. burr is a very young man, still a teenager, ran off to join the continental army when i

florida gets two more electoral votes than the in 2008 election. it used to be 27. the state now has 29 electoral votes. the same number as new york. only california and texasotes. now you know. >>> enough of the real news, let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch mitt romney getting it done yesterday down here. republican presidential candidate slicing into the slow-roasted pig during a campaign spot at casa myan restaurant. 72% of registered republicans in miami-dade are hispanic voters. and he's doing a pretty damn good job. slicing off the meat to the voters and even took a bite for himself. here's a look at romney digging in. next to him, republican of florida, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. she will join us later on "morning joe." >>> on to something other than politics for a moment. last night's screen actor's guild awards featured the ladies of "bridesmaids." they took to the stage to present the best film ensemble nominees. and they whipped out a little drinking game. >> all this, all this food. >> it's free. it's free. >> all this is free tonight. >> it's free. also we have these because we made up a drinking game when we

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but how could we have a situation where a vote in ohio or florida can be so much more important than a vote in texas or california? but that is the situation we have because of the winner-take-all rule. can you imagine trying to explain this to your children? now, how do we solve this problem? we are on our way. first of all, 65% of the voters in a recent gallup poll indicated that they want to go to the popular vote. the most, the candidate with the most votes in the entire country becomes the president of the united states. i think that number 65% would probably be higher if more people understood the winner-take-all rule and what it means. second, we have states representing 132 electoral votes that authority passed legislation to go to the national popular vote, a compact that is conditional upon is getting 270 electoral votes or states representing 270 electoral votes which means we're halfway there. we are halfway there. considering the level of public airing and publicity, and this activity has had, it's quite a remarkable event. and now, of course, it's become a national event. it's the goal of the suppor

florida, it is one of the country's top four electoral powerhouses. what makes it most important is the only one up for grabs. texas goes republican. new york and californialection it has failed just once to be with the winner n the year 2000, with the help of the supreme court, of course it memorably got to decide the winner st. a big state, a swing state, the biggest of the swing states. and come november, we will be watching how this nasty primary fight down here affects the result. would it turn on the hard right or begin to turn it off? either way, this state is nobody's baby. so as a prelude to tonight's results, let me suggest the thinking of the obama people t is from a republican, a french republican, if you will, never interfere, said napoleon upon part, when your enemy is in the process of destroying himself. this primary battle in florida has been a nasty, nasty fight there will be no hand holding when this is over no the best man won stuff. no, this fight has been a pooh storm and nobody is walking away clean. the republicans of florida may nominate romney after this but not the same romney who came here. they have been forced to choose now b

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