I know that I am abysmally ignorant, not unlike Rick Perry, without Wikipedia.

Keystone XL How many jobs? How much of the oil will be exported? How many oil leases given out that has yet to be explored? Once the lease is given out does this tie the area up? Tell us how much of our oil that we produce is exported? Has any of the States objected to the route of Keystone XL.

Now we know that a freshman senator from Florida (Rubio) will sponsor a bill (PIPA) without understanding its implications.

Need a good video clip illustrating the number of jobs estimated by various groups re Keystone... juxtaposed to the number of jobs created by Obama (and lost over the last 10 years).

On another topic, did you see;"the book on Mitt Romney" - McCain's opposition research?

I would like to see follow up on the PA school systems that are being undercut and defunded by the state tax cuts. How many schools, types and kids served. Also, 46% of district money going to 2 charter schools-how many students served by Charter schools in Pa and in this district (Chester). Would like to know how Benton Harbor is doing. Is MI emergency Manager system: TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION?

Please cover the mass movement that demanded Obama reject the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline:

On the movement:

Thanks!!

Please look into Baltimore City building a $100 million dollar, 230-bed youth jail instead of schools. Occupy Baltimore and other occupy groups in MD, including B-Heard (Baltimore Higher Education Alliance for Real Democracy) are encamping all week at the proposed site 600 E. Monument St.

This a fight that has been going on in our county and community for years now, and I would like to shed some national light on it.. Titan would use massive clean water resources, create pollution, and bring very few jobs. If anything, maybe you can use this as a jumping off point of how the public is fighting back all over the country for their health and way of life.

How about Now We Know that a progressive MSNBC host isn't permitted to discuss SOPA/PIPA on-air without the presence on his panel of one very obnoxious NBC/Universal in-house lawyer?

This one's nicer: Now We Know that Chris Hayes put a provision in his contract with MSNBC that says they can't run those "ain't natural gas swell?" commercials during his show.

But seriously ...

What a different world it would have been! I now promise to stop griping about the shortsightedness of corporate America and thank my lucky stars for it instead.

Hmmm ... my link disappeared. I'll try e-mail instead.

I am saturated with the up and coming primaries and the republican candidates. I would like to know what Secretary Clinton is accomplishing around the world. I hear she was recently in Liberia; what was the purpose and result of that visit? What are the possibilities of her being president of the World Bank or a VP replacement for Joe Biden?

It's the energy stupid. (sneaky ways about talking about global warming without talking about global warming)

High speed rail. The biggest rail project is in California: ($100 billion) I know- rail is a slow burn Green story. Maybe bigger than the energy story is the Jobs story:CA Jobs: 150,000 employees for construction and create 450,000 permanent jobs (more on CO2 and oil imports impact from WikiP). Anyway, aomalies can be important, and the one here is that California Gov Brown did the unexpected and made big spending on public works- specifically rail- the centerpiece of his budget: (csmonitor) (bloomberg) (nytimes) Re: state of the union. Could Obama be thinking along same FDR think big lines? Obama could make the point that GOP governors turned down the jobs projects.

Koch Solyndra Ads Fact checked by Politifact

Energy independence: Obama campaign doing pre-emptive strike by pushing energy independence rather than Lo CO2 message. (Obama chart shows Oil Man Bush increased dependence on foreign oil, whereas he has been decreasing it.)

Steve Israel releases plan for taking back the house. Boring story, but nothing happens in for the next Obama term if the House and Senate can't pass bills.

According to Spencer Ackerman, US Navy has aided Iranian vessels in distress 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Youtube here

It ate my Youtube link, trying again

It's not just that somehow ballots from 8 districts were lost in Iowa despite the supposed GOP concern over electoral fraud. Other irregularities are as disturbing:

But GOP officials discovered double-digit errors in 51 of those certified precincts when they compared what was reported on caucus night with the official Form E documents signed by precinct volunteers. Eleven precincts had errors of 50 or more votes. (Des Moines Register story)

Ok, maybe you can see by some accident one count going off that much. But do the math. The average attendance at precincts was only 68. (121,503 votes counted and 1,774 precincts). (wiki article) That's a huge error even for the few precincts with several hundred participants, . Consider a large precinct with 500 voters, this means that those counting the ballots are missing one in 10 votes. Really? How does that happen? Multiple precinct volunteers have to sign off on the Form E for reporting that night? And this happened not just in once, not a handful, but in 11 precincts?

So what is the precinct procedure for Iowa caucus night results reporting?

On caucus night, precinct chairs and secretaries were responsible for keeping track of the final vote tallies, and relaying those unofficial results to the state GOP. After the Jan. 3 contest, those precinct officials were required to fill out the "Form E" with their vote tallies and deliver those to the Republican chairperson of their county. From there, the county chairperson would submit them to the state party for official certification. (CNN's Shannon Travis)

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"More than 100 of the Form Es didn’t comply with the party’s instructions.

The precinct chair and precinct secretary were both to sign the results verified by witnesses on caucus night. But results for some precincts came in on pieces of paper other than the official forms. Many more had only one signature, or the wrong signature (say, from a county chair). Another 18 documents had no signatures at all. (Des Moines Register- Jennifer Jacobs)

Knowing this information, after being questioned closely by media in the days following the caucus, GOP chairman Matt Strawn consistently expressed confidence that his official declaration of Romney as winner would not change. Wasn't the honest thing to say something quite different? What would have been so bad about saying what he knew to be true- that the vote was too close to call and that the certified count could go either way, recommending that the country should consider it a close tie until then?

Momentum is often obsessed over by campaign strategists. The perception of a tide of support surging early for your candidate can be crucial, so there is a great deal of motivation in the early states for supporters to do everything they can to move the vote in favor of their candidate. How much of everything is everything?

We could say look- this thing is run by volunteers and collected on slips of paper in a cardboard box- we can't be more confident than in the high school election. Really? Why is this such a casual affair if the momentum perception can be so important to the nominee? Santorum is stuck in a Schrodinger's cat experiment.

Republicans like winners, and early polling had the 2 for 2 "winner of the prior state races going to Romney. Before Thursday, Romney appeared unstoppable.

The whole thing is somewhat odorous. I see a lot of smoke here and I hope Iowa journalists stay on this. What were the affiliations of those responsible for the Form E's? Who if anyone is investigating these miscounts?

chris,

LOVE LOVE LOVE your show. it is a MUST SEE for me every week, Saturday AND Sunday.

can't wait for Melissa's new show, either.

Love Rachel's 'preview' to your show also on Saturday.

Please tell MSNBC to continue with the smart new programing, and fill up Saturday and Sunday, especially with the upcoming election. we need smart and informed conversation to balance what is said on fox.

Love Love Love Ezra also, VERY smart. he should have a show.

the tax expert you had on today is very, very good.

Love your show. Thank you for the thoughtful, informed discussions. Chris, since you are so concerned about climate change (as am I), I thought you would find this story from This American Life both interesting and terribly disturbing, because it reveals how closed even young minds can be about this issue. If high school freshman cannot be persuaded by scientific evidence, I find it hard to be hopeful. And I have children, too.

Also, a request for a show topic/guests: The failed war on drugs and its affect on incarceration rates...film director Eugene Jarecki. And The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander. Please have a discussion about why we have more people in prison than North Korea does, and how this is related to the war on drugs. I'd love to hear you have a panel discussion about this issue.

Love your show. Please do a show on the failed drug war and its affect on incarceration rates in this country. Why do we have more people in prison than North Korea does? I'd love to see a panel discussion on this topic.

Also, Chris, since you care so deeply about climate change, I thought that you might find the following story both interesting and disturbing:

I don't mind waking up early on Saturdays anymore--thanks so much!

RE: Lets Stick Together as rendered by the man who gives narcissim a bad name (Gingrich notwithstanding).

So typical of him to wimp out after the first relatively easy part.

I seriously doubt he could have sung "It's all right with me" without embarassing himself.

Looking forward to David Stockman and a hopefully substantive discussion of Obama's baloney "Jobs Council".

Go forth young man.