places like pasadena, texas, clara, alabama, shelby county, they're going to be doing things to manipulate late the system, define who the electorate is, that has a significant minority impact and we're just not going to know about it because we don't have section five. >> they range from alabama, alaska, georgia, mississippi, south carolina, texas and virginia. talk to me about the case of beaumont because that was a case in which you had basically a very similar set of facts. justice department said no way. >> right. >> in december of 2012 is the perfect analogy. made a change from seven single member districts to two at large. >> sounds familiar. >> sounds similar. and doj determined that was going to have an impact. there's a concern about there being a discriminatory purpose. we see a similar thing in dallas, texas. i think -- this is not an unusual technique. the situation where the minority population is growing, you have districts and there's an attempt to say how do you stop that growth from impacting the outcome of the election. it's classic. >> so, what is the recourse now that

we also have some results from alabama's first congressional district in a proxy battle between the chamber of commerce and the tea party wing. it appears the chamber of commerce republican candidate is going to emerge victorious there. defeat for a tea party candidate who said the president was born in kenya. it also appears in colorado the counties that were voting on seceding from colorado are not going to secede, although that is yet to be finally determined. that big ballot initiative we talked to you about the taxes in colorado, voters in colorado have rejected that, it appears. although they will be taxing marijuana. we're back with with our panel. big takeaways from tonight. steve, i'll start with you. >> i'll start in boston. i hope you enjoyed that mayors race. it's probably going to be the last one you get in 30 years. it is like mayor for life up there. the last one before this was 20 years ago. the big national take is virginia was, still is the premiere swing state in the country. because there is a warning shot here for the overreach of tea party republicanism. certainly that

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trap laws, they are currently in tennessee, utah, and texas, being blocked by courts in mississippi, alabama, north dakota and wisconsin. and there are some being considered in arizona. there has been a really intense judicial battle over whether these are even constitutional. and i think it emphasizes just how important the federal courts are at this moment. because these challenges are now working their way through the federal courts and appear poised at some point to make their way to the supreme court. >> and they may well make their way to the supreme court. but we're saying the state legislature is here, whatever the supreme court decides there will be a federal law that bars these very, very false and unfortunate inference with women's rights. with the pretext of protecting them and instead interfering with these rights. and the federal law is important because it sends a message to the state legislators, why incur the cost of litigating? why not just follow the constitutional law and the conscience of the nation? >> is there any way to get 60 votes for a piece of legislation like thi

. >> that was the tea partier running for congress in alabama, he did about as well as the rest of the tea party did last night. i'll explain ahead. >>> last night was the first election night since the tea party waterloo we know as the government shutdown. they got their way with that shutdown, they brought substantive government functions to a halt, costing the u.s. economy $24 billion, and drove the gop to historically low approval ratings. there was an open question going through last night about how the tea party would fare in the first election since that debacle. we now know the answer was not well. the big one, was ken cuccinelli, who lost the winnable state. and there was the tea party warning about what is going to happen to them with elections. there was a runoff in the republican nomination and a special election to replace a congressman who resigned to take another job. that race, with bradley burn, and nearly nominated in 2010, against this guy, who comes across as a drunk liberal stand as a tea party caricature, he was asked which country do you admire? he said i'm not a

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compromise moderate message -- >> but i've got to tell you, if he runs this message to oklahoma, to alabama, to mississippi, to georgia, that jalopy will not get out of the dealership before it breaks down, because then they're looking, go you know, what are you saying to us? and so, that's the kind of language they're looking for. so, yeah, he's had to govern places, but the grassroots activists across the country who drive the gop today, even driving the gop financially today, driving the tea party and the evangelical wings of the party today, those are the people who will decide that gop primary. so, not only does he have the need to come out to the right on some of these issues, but he moved further to the right on some others. so, we don't know the chris christie that we're going to know in 2016 just yet. >> here's why i think he's actually a very strong candidate in 2016. what he intends to do out of this election is win big, maybe by 20, 25 points. cuccinelli will have a solid loss in virginia. the narrative is going to be -- >> exactly. >> -- i am the one who knows how to win. and h