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You can also send us an email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. First i want to see you from as tothe press yesterday pollsters were talking about who has the edge in republicans are trying to will something coming on. Jobresident obamas approval is. 3 in the south. Is too far of a stretch here to political gravity is too much. Thet made me feel like things we need to have happen on election day may be coming to fruition. Enthusiasmeen an gap. Democrats are catching up. With registered voters, which is democratsdemographic, have an edge. Meet the press yesterday. They were talking about who has the edge heading in to tomorrow. Who should control congress . The phone lines are open. The wall street journal has a new poll. This is on the front page. Voters favor the gop by a slim margin for control of congress. Voters favor a republican in congress while 45 favor a democratic congress. In first color is a democrat gainesville. Caller thank you. Host which party should control congress . I think the country should give another chance to finish president obama to finish his agenda. Since he lost the house, he has had nothing but objection and tough objection from the republicans. They dont want him to succeed. The polls are very close. 2006 and 2010 midterms, the margins are very small. Nobody can tell who has the edge. The wall street journal poll says it is a slight edge. They need to pick up six and that could be enough to get them there in some of these states. Beler the polls may not counting the black and minority votes correctly. The turnout might be different. I would to. 1 more thing it . In november of 2008 against 2014, the country was collapsing. Obama managed to bring the country to this point. We are a lot better today. , unlike thehing late 90s and the bush times, the prosperity we saw in the 1990s was a. Com bubble. There was a housing bubble under george bush. People should not forget that. Host take a look at this poll. Economy,ion of the they say that dealing with the 39 omy was republicans get to democrats 30 of doing a better job with the economy. Statelead on the islamic is by a big margin. 17 say that the democrats. Changing how things work in washington, that is tied between the two parties. Lets hear from a republican. Jim is in pennsylvania. Caller good morning. I am outside of philadelphia. I dont understand why people have any concern or indecision about the choice. If you look at where the democrats of rules for a long the, and look where republicans which is the suburbs, where does people want people have already voted with their feet for the republicans. Why in the world after seven years of barack obama and failed policies, why would anybody want to vote for anybody except the republican . Elect tomia should corbett. He has done a good job. If you want to look at the strongholds, do we pennsylvania into philadelphia . Do we want to turn maryland and virginia into baltimore . I dont think so. Do you want to make ohio look like cleveland . Host i think weve got your point. Caller who have done a better job or they have ruled . T how would you discover describe yourself . Caller i dont take theres anything wrong with the tea party. I think they are americans. They are not devils like the democrats have tried to portray them. Host lenny get your reaction to. E wall street journal who sat down with ted cruz has led the Tea Party Movement in congress. With him inn alaska. He is campaigning for dan sullivan who is challenging mark begich. This is what they report. Weekend spent the trying to help dan sullivan. This is a team player role. Is that in line with your priorities . Caller it is. Why do we want to mess around with the Health Care System and make it worse . You havent seen the worse. Its going to get worse and more expensive. If they want to give people free health care, then give them medicaid. Dont mess up the whole Health Care System. This is what they have done. Passed it in the dark of night. No republican fated for it. Host we are asking you which run congress. Ted cruz also went on to say if he would back Mitch Mcconnell for the leader. He would not pledge support. We will go to the democrat line in virginia. Youre on the air. Caller good morning. How are you doing . I think the democrats should control congress. They have done more for this country then the republicans ever have. That, these republicans that messed up the country because they voted against unemployment extension or health care, they dont care about the poor. The people are suffering. More people lost homes and cars. I hate it. I want the democrats to control everything. Rich is an independent in tampa. Have you decided who are you are going to vote for . Caller its not going to be rick scott. The republicans have turned the state upside down. Just as they have done around the country. The republican caller earlier see why it was not an easy choice to make it i was a republican who voted for bush junior the first time. What the republicans have done with obama, i will never vote republican again. Democrattallahassee talks about the campaign. The Vice President has been campaigning for charlie crist. The poll showed that race is now can that heading into tomorrow. We are talking about which party should control congress. The phone lines are open. Reporting that democrats are counting on their Field Operations to put them over the top in tomorrows elections. Is one aboutory the president wayne a bit part. The present has been busier raising money then campaigning with some of these incumbent senators. He has been on the campaign trail for governors and blue states. His appearances stumping for connecticut and pennsylvania were his last of the year. He was in wisconsin on tuesday and maine on thursday and michigan on saturday. Obama has been focused on fundraising this year. Resurrecting the get out the vote machine that propelled him to the election win in 2008 in 2012. The health and high turnout will preserve the democratic senate. This is what the president had to say. Republicans are patriots. They love their families and they want what is best for the country. I was in connecticut and i tried to explain, there are a lot of people in my family who i love, but i wouldnt put them in charge. Theyve got bad ideas. Im not saying that there is anything wrong with the Republican Leadership as sort of like americans. Im just saying they have bad ideas. [applause] thiskeep on offering theory of the economy that you get more tax breaks to folks at the top and you cut investments in education and you loosen up regulations on the big banks and polluters and Credit Card Companies and you cut the safety net for people who of fallen on hard times and somehow everybody is going to be better off. This is the thing. If we hadnt tried that for 10 ,ears resulting in disaster maybe they would have an argument. But we did try it and it did not work. We have got to go forward. The president in pennsylvania making the case on why democrats should be chosen in the election. Which party you think should control congress . There are tight races in a number of states. Republicans need to pick up six in the senate in order to control that chamber. The Washington Times reports are restingts hopes on and dependence. Ts. Next that story is this headline. Should Republicans Control Congress . Should democrats . Alonso is a republican. What you think . Caller i am a moderate republican. Im tired of both parties. They are working against the people. We elect these people to represent the people regardless of what state you are from or what is happening. People have gotten locked out of the process. A national level, people are watching the United States and what has happened is we are working against our president. We have got to consider this of the entire United States and the International Community is looking at us. I think president obama has done a good job of reaching out to underprivileged people. I dont care if your democrat or republican. For thad cochran. These people have worked together in the interest of the people of the state of mississippi. I am not going to vote for an individual because they are republican or democrat. We have to keep the people in mind. We are the tax tears and we are paying their salaries. Appear ando get stroke their egos. They forget about the people. Need to hold them in the contempt if they are not doing the job required by the constitution. John is in new york. Caller whenever you hear the republicans Say Something on taxes, the only thing the president is trying to do is trying to benefit everybody else. The republicans lock everything. Down emocrats cut shut down the government, the republicans would have every reason to say it is not working. This is ridiculous. Republicans cut everything and then lame the president for it. Its not even right. I have a funny feeling that if republicans get the senate, they will start impeachment. That is why i am voting democrat all the way. Host tony is in virginia. Which party should control congress . You are talking about taking over the congress. That is not a good thing. Everything, people are tuning people areace and going to make the right decision tomorrow at the polls. , weher point i need to make saw what happened in 2012 when romney assumed he was going to win. Election day, everything was different. Not even know who controls the senate on tuesday. We could be having runoffs in two states. Louisiana and georgia have runoffs. Louisiana would happen on december 6 and georgia would happen on january 6. On the front page of the new , control could be decided by these runoffs. They have booked hotel rooms and plane flights for out of state operatives. They will descend on louisiana to help her. That is what people are planning for. All the lawyers are getting ready to descend on these states as well. We are 24 hours out from campaign when he 14. The polls reports on on some of these Key Senate Races. Democrats are fighting to keep senate control. Candidate joni ernst has surged ahead. She is up seven points. This looks decided. In a reid had predicted Conference Call that if she won in iowa, republicans would control the senate. We will go to gail in new jersey. She is a republican caller. All of our viewers should know that our coverage of election p. M. Ongins at 8 00 cspan. We will take your phone calls and get your thoughts on the election. Go ahead. I wanted to tell you that i am going to be voting republican. We have a president that has some of the most crucial things in it ever faced a president. He is absent. He is out campaigning for all the democrats. I think he should be staying home trying to resolve the issues. I think it is time to see what the republicans can do. Theyve been talking so negative about them. I think they will put everything on a better course area. Tanisha is in seattle. Caller neither one of them are doing a good job. It is a bunch of propaganda. If you look at it for what its worth, its pumping fear into us. There are over 10,000 people in africa with ebola. There are so many people coming into United States from rfid appeared there have been no cases. You bring back these doctors and then you care them. How did you care them . Host monique is a democratic caller in windsor. Did you see the president . Caller i dont see him now. Host he was up there this past weekend. Caller no. I was engaged in something else. Think shouldyou control congress . Caller it should be the democrats. Poorhave fought for the and the republicans have not. The republicans, all theyve done is bring the country down. Anything to the president went for, they were against it they are only for the rich and mostly for the whites. Host randy is in wisconsin. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. Which party should control the senate. Harry reid does not pass anything. Not meet with them. Not work withll any republican. What is one thing that he has worked with republicans. They have not. Abouteople that they talk , president obama has done nothing but help them get richer. We need to get a republican senate. Rachel maddow writes today. N the Washington Post her whats wrong about getting the economy growing at 10 . Get these people back to work. President obama, they have stopped everything. Writes inel maddow her piece. For newsmakers this past weekend, we had on to longtime washington election prognosticators. We had amy walter and stu rothenberg. They were handicapping the campaigns in these Key Senate Races. Take a look at what they had to say about why so many of these races are still close. Well theless of how ground game ultimately turns out for democrats, they have been able to improve it from where it was. They have brought new people into the process. Thats why there is not a 10 point gap tween the republican candidate in the democratic is still tough to be an incumbent, even when people are frustrated. The alternative is not turning up. About are talking Republican Party that if they do when the senate, they will come in with lower Approval Ratings than the president area people in this case voters are saying i guess weve got to go for this. Host that was any walter. We also talked with stu rothenberg in that interview. Can go to the website and find the whole thing there. Theres tony four hours to go. We are turning to all of you. Which party should control congress . It is up for grabs in the senate. Should there be a Republican Controlled Congress . Tina is in georgia. Caller im a single mother. They both need to Work Together. I work overtime as much as i can to make ends meet. Kids byaised three myself. I have never taken assistance. With foodt of people stamps. I have never gotten any help. My parents got me to work and take care. I see it Illegal Immigrants getting assistance and using Social Security numbers and different names and they are able to walk in and get assistance and people who need it cant get it. Host it sounds like you agree with republicans. Caller i think it needs to be stricter about food stamps. That is my tax money. Host should Republicans Control Congress question mark caller i think the democrats can control it, but i think they need to get tougher. Host will is in ohio. Caller good morning. I used like to say that to be a republican for many years. I switched to independent. I think the democrats need to control congress. I found out over the years at the republicans just dont represent me. I am an average working person. I am not wealthy. The republicans are doing everything they can to hold me back. They dont won a raise the minimum wage. They dont want it done unemployment. I want to cut every program that helps the average working person. The republicans dont represent me. They dont represent the average american. They represent the wealthy. York. Chris is in new every pore area in this country is run by democrats. Detroit. Watts. Philadelphia. New york. It is a mess. The previous caller said republicans dont represent the working man. Democrats say they are for you and then they destroyed the economy and you cant get a job. Your only hope is food stamps. Republicans arent perfect. At least they are for making the economy go. At least they make the trains run on time. Working man who thinks that letting another 10 million aliens get green cards is going to help raise wages, you living in a dream world. Host abc news has this headline. By the way, the North Carolina senate race could become the most expensive in history. To become the first senate race to surpass 100 million. We are getting your thoughts on which party should control congress. The phone lines are open. We will keep talking to all of you. Keep dialing in. We want to show you some meet the press from yesterday. Take a look. Eightyou look at the last elections, the tossups have broken one way or the other. The dominoes never just split down the middle. They all go one way or the other. I think republicans are going to win the lions share of the close ones. These are home games for republicans. Six seats that romney won by 14 points, those are the first six to go over the side. Host that was turley cook on meet the press. In lake charles. Who should control congress . Think its time for a coalition of parties. I think we need to expand the house of representatives and partyoom for the green and the Prolife Party and the libertarian party. We need to go back to meaningful coalitions. The twoparty system seems to be failing the majority of voters. Our secretary of state was nonplussed last week when absentee votes were tallied and most people were choosing independent candidates or marking other. Host who are you voting for . Caller i am voting for the and dependent, the libertarian. Candidates are nine on the ballot. People are talking a lot about the top three. Cassidy and mary landrieu. You dont plan to vote for any of those . Caller i do not. It will go into a runoff anyhow. I want to make a statement with my vote, other than the two major parties. Host lets say it goes to a runoff have you vote then . Weve got a great investment in mary landrieu. To has the chairmanship on committees does a lot for our state. I think that puts her in a commanding position. Host you would go with the incumbent . Should democrats and troll congress . Control congress. Caller i think the mandate for obama should set the stage for getting at least two more years to have the capacity to make some impact and leave a legacy that was mandated by the population at large. Which party should control congress. That is our question for all of you this morning. We will keep getting your thoughts. Usa today has the story on the front page. The right to die advocate has ended her life. We talked about this on washington journal on friday. If youre interested in learning more, you can go to our website. Controlrty should congress . Jasper is in memphis. Caller i want people to remember, six years ago the way the country was going. Youve got people who dont care about which way the country goes. They have been fooled by what is said. I dont care if you vote republican or democrat, youd that are that vote in your best interest. Come up to tennessee and go to my area. Go up there. Prosperity, just vote republican and see where poor white people are going to be. If you want, then keep doing what youre doing to yourself. You will suffer for it. What the a look at Washington Times together on some of these repetitive senate races. You have the Iowa Senate Race 54 for obama. That is the latest poll out of iowa that shows the republican joni ernst is up by 7 . Kansas, youve got a competitive race. Has raised 3. 4 million. He is competing against an and dependent. That is another tight race. Some other key races to watch on Election Night, the Colorado Senate race between mark udall and cory gardner. That is very. The Georgia Senate race could go to a runoff. Those are some of the Key Senate Races to watch. There is North Carolina, alaska, louisiana. Those are key races to watch on Election Night. This is the opinion section of usa today. They say the number third thought is the midterm moody blues. Which party you think should control congress . Scott is in ohio. Go ahead. Caller how are you today . At legislative votes. It really is a partisan issue. Your self. Voting for you are voting for harry reid or Mitch Mcconnell. I would never vote for Somebody Just because of the party orause they were corrupt incapable for some reason. You take those factors that, you have to vote party lines. Youre not voting for that senator. You are voting for Mitch Mcconnell and the chairman or harry reid and all the chairman for the democrats. See is the to republicans not being married to Mitch Mcconnell. If they couldd change the leadership. See the front page of the Washington Post . Ted cruz would not say that he would get behind Mitch Mcconnell as leader of the republicans if they are in the majority. Caller i think that is a step in the right direction. I like ted cruz. Im not familiar with the article youre mentioning. That sounds like something i would aspire to. Host check it out. The front page of the New York Times had this headline. Let me go to scott in new york. He is an independent. Caller i am of the human party. I do lean toward the libertarian party. To quitthat people need the third parties. Oryou dont vote democrat republican youre throwing your vote away. If you dont vote independent or green party, youre not showing your vote. Vote your beliefs. The other parties will eventually catch on. I want to make a comment about the governor. Killed himself when medical marijuana was passed. He said we cant use it medically until a pharmaceutical companies can put it out the way the pharmaceutical companies can make money off of it. For pharmaceutical companies. Host speaking of governors races, the wall street journal weighs in. It goes on to talk about maryland. Barbara is jacksonville florida. Good morning. Who should control congress . Caller the democrats. Party that are concerned about the whole of america and not just the very rich. Has amnesia. They forget that the Republican Party is the reason that we are in the mess were in. It was not the democrats. The democrats of the net great job of keeping the country from going over a cliff. Much negative things said and done against the Democratic Party. People are brainwashed. People dont even know the truth. Negative saidch about the president and none of the things that he has a that has been good for the country, nobody backs that up. Nobody stands up for him. Media, they know that they will not work with the president on anything. Et they set they say he wont work with the republicans. They know they are lying. They are not standing up for the truth. I am disappointed. Host coleman isnt also, oklahoma. Caller i was glad youre able to smoke out the obama supporter in lake charles. That was a good discussion. Republicans should control the senate. Democrats are the party of big government. Any working person knows that their taxes are wasted to a great degree on gimmicks. Contribute to the government and continue the , Hillary Clinton came out and said that businesses do not produce jobs. That is the mentality. On the control of the senate, one of the races we will closely watch is i will. They reid said that if lose iowa, republicans are likely to get control of the senate. That is a matchup between joni ernst and bruce braley, the democrat. Washington post says the she is ahead. Times therengton is a headline from tom harkin who is retiring from that seat. Herharkin called attractive, but says that is no reason to vote for her. Montgomery, alabama. Caller i have three things to say. The democrats or the republicans, it doesnt matter who wins. They are going to do the same thing. If you look at it, the congress is closing. If you weret fired there half the time. It is not going to matter. They are not going to work with the present. They never have. Not care him, i would about campaigning. Their opinion is not everybodys opinion. Early voters, i dont see many people of having a conversation. That is the problem. They are fighting among each other to take money from the American People so they can be rich. Host we are going to continue this conversation. We will talk with Heidi Przybyla of bloomberg news. Later, a new Harvard University poll shows that millennials are up for grabs on this election day. The candidates for u. S. Senate in georgia held the final debate. They were asking each other questions. Michelle nunn asked david purdue a question on pay equity. Your tenure at dollar general, you made over 40 million. There were 2000 women that sued the company during your tenure. They said they were paid less and it was found by federal investigators that they were paid less. I wonder if you would join me they and supporting paycheck fairness act which would help ensure that all women are paid equally to their counterparts . We have a law. This new law would only serve lawyers. I have worked my entire life supporting equal pay. This is another false attack. It has been disproven. When you look at the reason why she is trying to distract us away from the real issues of job creation, you understand why. Is killing 2. 5aw million jobs. She supports that law. She would expand that law. Georgians have gone food stamps that have gotten jobs, that is not the kind of law that we need. Killing jobs in our energy and utility industries. Baracko wonder that obama once Michelle Nunn in the senate. I think they do want somebody that will fight for them. I think women and families deserve someone who is going to fight to make sure that they are paid equally. Paid . 81men paid are on the dollar to men. I dont think that is satisfactory. Actions speak louder than words you would be in the position to say that we do need to do better and we must. We talked about a substantive issue, you move it to a conversation in which you decide you are running against the president. I think that women and families deserve pay equity. I am disappointed that you wont join me in advancing that goal. I agree. There is always improvement. I havent gotten yet to talk about obama care. You bragged about it is a great will. Killing 2. 5 million jobs right now. Go further. Lets talk about amnesty. 15 million new lowwage workers will be in our country. That thisems to me president is adamant about getting you in the senate because he needs you to be his rubberstamp. His policies are on the ballot. Closing arguments from yesterdays senate race. We brought you that and it more than 100 debates on cspan. That was part of our coverage. That all comes to a head tomorrow night. Our Election Night coverage will begin at 8 00 eastern. We will take your phone calls and your comments on facebook and twitter as well. Tune in at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time. Continuesrsation here. Is a przybyla congressional reporter with bloomberg news. What is it looking like with. 4 hours to go . What do we know about the races that people are concerned about the most . If we take a step back and look at where most of the money is being spent, there are 10 battleground states. While of these are red states. There are some key purplish loose states that we are calling the firewall. These the states that democrats cannot afford to lose and still keep the senate. States of North Carolina,. Olorado, iowa this is where the majority of the money has been raining down. Point, the ad time has collapsed and bought out almost all the states. Pickups. Been the prime as you have been citing over the weekend, iowa looks like it is falling out of the democrats grass. Analystshy you have talking about not who is going to control the senate but what will the republican majority look like. How big will it be . How big or how small . At one point we were looking at a wave. Jeannewould look like shaheen losing her seat in new hampshire. She looks to be secure. Nobody can prejudge anything. There is always the possibility that she is looking more secure. More than likely we will come down to the wire. I think the republicans have three of the six seats that they need in the bag. Things startend, to crystallize in three more states. I think Mitch Mcconnell is increasingly looking like he is safe. Republicans look like they are going to lose seats that they are already holding, they are well positioned. There is a possibility in georgia. We wont know if that goes to a runoff. There is a possibility that this could go on. Host that was once held by a republican. Saxby chambliss is retiring. Now it is up for grabs and Michelle Nunn is make it competitive. That one might argue david purdue is making it a little less competitive. Statements that will not play well in downstate georgia with the manufacturing jobs down there. Perdue testament to a campaign that is not as tough as it could have been. Host republicans looking likely. That means they still have to get three more seats if they pick up the ones that look likely. Where else are the big pickups . That aree main pickups going the way of the republicans are arkansas and louisiana. These are red states. In a nonpresident ial election year, democrats have a competitive disadvantage because their voters are not as motivated to come out. , wherere ruby red states it is easier for republicans to organize their base. Very unpopular president ial Approval Ratings that they are battling. , at one point the democrats were even pulling out of kentucky the couple of weeks ago. That is one that gets you 26. To six. Unless the republicans lose one of their states, they are in a pretty good position. One other state i will mention is kansas. That is one seat that they could lose. If you look at the full spectrum of all of the seats where republicans are playing well right now, potential pickups in , ia, that was a big blow still think republicans are looking like they are going to succeed on election day. Are saying that the polls dont take into consideration or cannot calculate the get out the vote mechanism, the process for that. They claimed they are good at it. Off,are thinking, hold hold off, weve got to see what we can do. Guest that is something we are watching very closely. In North Carolina and the southern states, the key for democrats is going to be africanamerican turnout and they have a major mobilization in effect to try to get these voters registered, get them out. It is really hard in a Midterm Election year. However, we are seeing numbers out of North Carolina that are encouraging for them. They are hitting the mark they want to hit. It is the same for states like colorado and even in alaska, with native American Voters up there. They have a massive mobilization in alaska. Something like 200 native american villages, mobilizing these people. That is another big question mark. Alaska is really a mess with paper ballots and pulling is very unreliable. That could go well into november, especially if things are close in the other races. That is another big question mark. Chairshe dnc and the rnc , listen to what they had to say about the ground game. [video clip] i think we are going to hold the senate because we have a ground game. Weve got early vote numbers that are up in the most competitive states, the most competitive districts across the country. Weve focused on making sure we bring our numbers up for voters who did not cast ballots in 2010. I will to you what is going on in florida. I have seen the most enthusiasm and best organized ground game i have seen in a midterm in florida and that is why rick scott is going to go down to defeat on tuesday. You worry the democrats are going to be you on the ground . [laughter] the problem they have is that their message is not working and our ground game is whipping their ground game. If you look at colorado, we are up by 105,000 votes right now. We are winning hispanic voters in colorado. We are whipping them in arkansas. We are at a dead even early vote in iowa, we were down by 21,000 votes in early voting in 2010. Oni ernst is up we are winning in montana, west virginia, south dakota. I havent even talked about alaska, louisiana. We will see about North Carolina and new hampshire. Host what do you make of what they had to say . Guest of course they will be playing up their respective ground games. The republicans truly have upped their game and some of the states. Iowa, for example. Colorado. The big question in this ,lection is simply going to be can the democratic ground game overcome this pervasive antiobama sentiment that is playing even in blue states . My hunch is that they cant. A lot of the states are conservative states. If the map looks differently in 2016, which it will come of that is a whole different ballgame. Democrats are battling this antiobama sentiment and a game stacked against them in stearns in terms of the states that are competitive. Hanging onhas been the line in key west, florida. Caller good morning. This whole election is really about giving us the illusion that we have some sort of choice. Nobody actually believes that anything will change in this or any election. Elect no longer afford to the lesser of two evils. We need to add to the ballot and i have made the overture to my representative here none of the above, which would make the candidates be more responsible. I honestly do not know what the candidates stand for in florida. I only know that their opponent is a criminal of some sort with a past history of everything up to and including child abuse. Host which race are you talking about . Caller the governors race in florida, the senate race in florida, the National Race in florida. I dont see any change being done at all. The power behind the throne that has always held the power and it is still the same thing. Host got your point. If republicans take control of the senate, you have a republicancontrolled house, what changes . Guest you still have a divided government. Obama still has the veto. You still made 60 votes in the senate to get anything done. Republicans have to make a fundamental decision whether theyre going to take Campaign Promises and try to ram those or the have to decide if they are going to work with the president and adopt a more andtructive conservatism work with the president on the things that he has indicated he might be willing to work with them on. Infrastructure, trade promotion, potentially the keystone pipeline, which has been delayed. This is going to be very difficult to forecast because when you look at who is coming into the senate, senator ted cruz, who has been a huge story on the side of his party, is going to have a lot of allies in joni ernst, dan sullivan, these senators could potentially be has allies in terms of pushing more controversial legislation like trying to defund obamacare, drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge, defunding planned parenthood, things that they say they have gotten a mandate to do. It is going to be a question by the leadership. Up to Mitch Mcconnell, Republican Leaders understand that their majority could be very shortlived between now and 2016 if they dont show that they can govern, that they can work with democrats and reach across the aisle. In 2016, they will not have this advantage in terms of the map and the Republican Party has already suffered in terms of the shutdown under the obstructionist label. They will be very dependent on trying to get things done, but ted cruz and the more conservative republicans have shown in the past that they are capable of mobilizing the Republican Party as a whole to push some of this more controversial legislation. Host ted cruz saying just that to the Washington Post. He wants the party to take on obama. He would not say if he would back Mitch Mcconnell as majority leader. He said the senate needs to become more like the house and push for repealing and getting rid of president obamaS Health Care law. Cameron in illinois. Caller im so disgusted in healing hearing about repealing obamacare. The amount of money that has been spent on this election, the passion you see these candidates trying to get elected, where is that passion once they get into their seats . It is gone. It stops. They screwed everything up to begin with. They are going to end up taking over the senate. Unless they do exactly what you are talking about and work with the president , then it will absolutely seal the presidency for Hillary Clinton in 2016 because they are not going to get anything done. They are going to prove once again that they cannot do anything. Guest you did mention obamacare and the interesting thing about obamacare this cycle is that there are in number of republicans who will push to repeal obamacare, but you had Mitch Mcconnell a couple of days ago say that he did not think that necessarily they could take a huge fight out of that. There are some individual portions. He took some heat for it, by the way. In terms of repealing it, i dont think that is going to happen. The president has the veto power. The only thing that could happen is that they could take some smaller bites out of it, like repealing the medical device tax , which some conservative democrats would be willing to work with republicans to get that done. In terms of repealing obamacare, that is more of a messaging strategy by republicans. They know that it really fires up their base. It has been the target in the past couple of election cycles. This election cycle, they mixed and a lot more messages with obamacare because they saw that now that the law is in effect, it has become less stigmatized. Any kind of successful attack on obamacare, it is going to be very small slivers taken out of the lot. Host we dont know who controls the senate because of a runoff, what happens to the schedule between tomorrow and when the new congress is supposed to adjourn convene, excuse me . I think the democrats know that whatever happens, the outcome is not good. Eitherof the seats they lose a lot of seats is our. You fowler for funding the government there will be a and over running funding the government. The calculus is on the republican side. Do we want to do something shortterm so that we can have the battle when we are in control of the senate . Planning toare attach some policies, policy to the fundingrs , a lot go after the epa of the regulatory burdens they say have been weighing down businesses on the environment. They have to make a decision in this lameduck period. Up. donna is caller good morning. Senatorsove to see 100 like my hero Bernie Sanders of vermont. Instead we have too many like Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. The Republican Dominated Supreme Court allows billion to spend unlimited amounts of money on people who do not put their way. Who vote their way. Theyre shipping more and more jobs to china, they want to allow more illegal aliens to work below the minimum wage, kill all the programs like medicare and Social Security. The plan continues to bring down not only the working middle class and line their own pockets with money, but destroy this country as we know it. Host im going to take those two points. Billion is the amount of money that has been spent by outside groups in these elections. It is unbelievable, mindboggling compared to previous elections. The color is right. It is hard to cut through the noise. It is our to understand what your candidate represents when you have billions of dollars of attack ads raining down. In my review of a lot of these ads i talked with the ad makers behind these ads and they say they hire lawyers so that they can come right up to the brink of untruth, but not be untrue. Their word is defensible. They have to make the ads defensible so that they can make assertions that are not false, but may be misleading. One of the Biggest Campaign assertions that has been used has been on medicare cuts, that has run in republican ads, the democrats cut medicare due to obamacare. This is not the case if you are talking about benefit cuts. There have been no benefit cuts under obamacare. There have been some cuts to help pay for the law in terms of reimbursements that have gone to companies, hospital companies, hospital groups. I would call that misleading. It has been one of the major themes that we have seen in the past few cycles. The same goes for some of the democratic attack ads as well. It makes it very hard for americans to really understand what their representatives represent. The same goes for the media. Online andable to go only read the news that they want to read and so they are not necessarily getting all the information they need to make an informed decision. Host david in washington state. Caller i just called up this to say that the republicans like to run down obamacare, but if it were not for obamacare there would be a whole lot of dead people because there would not be any Preventive Care at all. I think the republicans should feel ashamed of themselves for running down the programs. It is not perfect, but it is a lot better than being sick and dead. Care law. Health how has it fared . People thought it would be the issue of campaign 2014. The wall street journal poll that shows the edge giving to republicans, but not on health care. 39 said democrats would do a better job. 32 said republicans. How is the law faring . Guest it may be the one refuge. I think the law itself remains unpopular. Obamacare,k about the law itself remains unpopular. When you talk about the attack ads, it has been such a focus of negative attention. When you ask voters about the specifics of the law like coverage for your children up until a certain age, like no discrimination for preexisting conditions, there is a lot of support for did individual components for the law. Now that numbers are going that coming back, people are seeing that they are not going coverage, we are talking about a very small elser of people, everybody has either see no change or actually gotten coverage, that in effect, a lot of people are benefiting. That does not mean that the law itself is not unpopular because it is hard to change perception once people have gotten a prebaked notion of what the law is about. But now that theyre experiencing it, their opposition is a little us he did. Host jeff is in kentucky. Have you decided who to vote for in the senate race . Caller if you look at the great speeches of Ronald Reagan and the compromise ability of bill clinton, the ones that will work with the president and the president back with them when you talk about the open market system and sending jobs out of the country, you have to talk about the balance of trade. You have to talk about nafta. You have to talk about these programs that are hurting american workers. We need work. I dont care what anyone says. Work, things will correct themselves in the country. ,hen you talk about obamacare we see people on Social Security. The Medicaid Program works. Hospitals still see people that are indigent. I know that was not perfect. The worst thing that you can do is to promise somebody and then not deliver. Kentuckyple that are that are in kentucky to sign up for obamacare. I dont know anything about the president S Health Care plan or i tried to get it but it was just too expensive. Youve got to be telling truths whenever you get to these programs and how they work. Democratsow that the have pulled out on kentucky. I dont care if it is mitch ,cconnell or Allison Lundgren it is somebody that is going to talk truths, work with the president , and the president vice versa with them. Host neither of those candidates sound like they are all that eager to work with the president , even the democrats. She says she has disagreed and she will continue to disagree with the Democratic Party and the president. Caller when you have the policies coming down from washington that are not calling for balance of trade or balance of budget, i was the mayor of a town and we had a balanced budget. You had to have a balanced budget. You had to work within your means. If you are spending too much, you cut up the credit cards. Host have you decided who you are going to vote for . In the senate race . Caller no. I have not. Im still mulling it over. I want to hear something more than an attack ad from these people running for office and that is all they have to offer because it is not about policies, they are attacking each other, they are attacking the president. Host all right. What is the number one issue across all polls that people care most about . It is the economy. You are right. They dont talk about it. Some of the research we have done suggests that even though the economy, some of the indicators show that employment is better, gdp is growing, the reason why you have this pervasive uneasiness in america is because of the wage issue. People are having a hard time making ends meet. We hear about single Mothers Holding down two or three jobs to stay afloat. Something is wrong and yet they are not talking about this. We looked at the top issues running in the ads. Just antiobama, generally. So in so voted with obama 99 of the time. The republicans are starting to pick up more on the terrorism angle, border security. Not that these issues are not real. But they are not the top issue. Neither side really has a very specific vision for addressing that issue on wages. The democrats are being very aggressive about pushing the minimum wage. That is one thing. It does not address overall the issue of what is happening with declining wages. Host on this issue of stopping jobs from going overseas, back to the poll. 28 said democrats would do a better job of dealing with that issue in stopping jobs from overseas. 24 for republicans. Pretty close there. Those polls are sort of tie between which party would do better. The president has some trade deals that are ripe. If the republicans are in control of the house and senate, what is the likelihood that he can get a trade deal approved by the congress . Guest this is one of the areas that they are reasonably optimistic because this is something that the president wants, this is something that republicans want to give him. Not all democrats supported. He definitely has ideas for asia, specific trade agreements. If the republicans take over, i think the leadership, at least, will be very eager to try to deliver. Host lets go to joe in alabama. Caller hello. I think the republicans do better in congress. I think the president will work with them. Heidi, medicare has been good whether you believe it or not. It has definitely been good. Host lets go on to susie in el paso, texas. Caller good morning. I already voted. I took advantage of the early voting in the state of texas. I have a problem with these media polls this time around. I dont trust them. Theyot heard anyone are always talking about obama. What are the numbers, the Approval Ratings of john boehner and every House Republican and Mitch Mcconnell . Politics are local. There are a lot of local issues in the states where republican governors are going to lose their seats to the democrats. Nobody talks about that. Host we will talk about it. Guest that is the interesting paradox of this election. Even though republicans in the senate look poised to take the senate, there are very interesting governor races, for example in florida. Crist, a former republican now running as a. Emocrat, is in a tight race we all know the importance of controlling the state of florida. There are states like ohio. Caisic has a strong margin. Scott walker has a strong margin. Strong republican candidate for president. There are a number of very close republican gubernatorial contests. This is also to the colors point. How could it be that the republicans are doing so well on the senate level, but the governors are in danger . It speaks to potentially and antiincumbent sentiment, and antiincumbent wave. There are very interesting gubernatorial races. Host Approval Ratings for congress . Guest congresses ratings are even lower and that is why the republicans are looking to the thisn cautiously election cautiously as we go to 2016 because they know their support is not necessarily because they are kicking any key Democratic Group set of obamas coalition, but rather that they have a strategic advantage that we are in an off year. It could be very shortlived. Wants tok on twitter know what is the fate of democratic leadership in the wake of the senate loss and losing more seats in the house . How can they hold their jobs . Guest they will be in the minority. [laughter] is there a possibility that they lose leadership posts . Guest i have not seen indication that there is any. Idespread dissatisfaction i think democrats are savvy enough to understand that this was not a referendum necessarily on their leadership. The republicans of been a very good job of bringing up harry reid, nancy pelosi. Those can be very polarizing words when used in these elections. I dont think the democrats necessarily view that is something that would cause them to change leadership. The senator Mitch Mcconnell cost leadership post secure either way . I think he is definitely secure if they win the majority. We are not looking like theyre going to be in the minority, but there have been rumblings of this from the right. Up until now, there has not been a coalition that would be capable of that in the senate. Even if there are these conservative pickups, i do think there would be a coalition capable of that. Host anthony in new york. Caller good morning. All right. Republican. Reagan im sort of like an independent now. I wouldnt mind seeing the republicans get in. When youve got 380 bills sitting on the corpse, harry desk, let the republicans get in and forced the president to have to veto these bills. So they at least help themselves coming up in 2016, with all of these bills sitting in the is gettingnothing done. Everybody is blaming the republicans. Lets see where the blame is when the president starts vetoing all of the different bills that come before him. Then the truth will come out. Guest that is the position of some of the more conservative members in the senate, that they should just take the issues that they think they were elected on and try to push them through the senate and forced the president to veto them. I think they have to be careful about it because at the same is apolls show that there strong craving for governing and getting things done. The kind of have to balance that out. Do they want to take a paul ryan type budget that has cuts to medicare and try to ram that through the senate and force it to the president s death . The president will veto it the president s desk . The president will veto it. They need to be strategic about these things. They have to offset it with things the president would be willing to sign. Host susan in virginia. Guest good morning caller good morning. I would like to see the republicans take control of the think there isi one portion of obamacare that needs to be revised and that is the Small Business regulations. To hearry surprised that people thought that would handle the sending of our jobs offshore better than republicans because i called the office of mark warner six or seven months ago because my job industry is being sent over to india, a lot of it is. I asked if the regulations applied to the Small Businesses in america applied to the companies in india and i said he said, absolutely not. The man said, i understand that that is why the jobs are going over there. He said it is great for globalization. So i think it would be a good thing to change. Back to that poll that you cited. Democrats have the edge, but not by much. Four percentage points. Which party do you trust to do a better job in stopping american jobs from going overseas . There is a democratic constituency in the senate that would be opening to changing some of these rules for small argue that they have to cut back on the number of fulltime employees that they have due to the insurance mandate and that it disproportionately hurts them. I dont hear this being a priority going into the new congress. Muchght be part of a broader package potentially focusing get on the road on Small Business. Right now, i dont think it is one of their priority items. Stay races are much more important to the welfare of the people regardless of who takes the senate. There will be gridlock for two more years. Guest at the state race level . Host with regard to the senate. Guest that is the thing going back to the divided government issue. The president has the veto pen. They are not going to have 60 votes to advance major legislation. One of the key questions is to what extent republicans want to which isciliation, just using any kind of legislation, and he of funding measure they can push through on just 51 votes. That is a strategic decision they will have to make because this will really upset the democrats and make it harder to Work Together on other issues. Talking about issues that have a budgetary impact. They would not necessarily the capable of taking out the entirety of obamacare. , i dont thinkr i have witnessed a less consequential election in my lifetime. Interesting that he would tweet that out given how much attention is being paid to the senate races, in that republicans could take control of the senate. Washington, is there an understanding of what is at stake . Guest i think people are just tired of politics. I dont think either side has presented a positive vision such that they understand that there would be much of a difference when it comes to whether democrats control the senate or republicans do. All they have seen has been negativity focused on the other guy and not a vision for what they would do. There has been a lot of grumbling within the Republican Party that they do not have anything akin to a contract with america. Republicans are not all on the same page as to what their agenda would be. I think you will see that come november 5, if we know who is going to control the senate, that those fissures will start to wrapped and it will make it hard for republicans because there is so much at stake to get everyone on the same page. You will have folks in the senate like ted cruz running for president. There are a few other republicans running for president who will be under intense pressure to run to the right in order to appeal to their primary voters and that is going to further cause polarization within their own party. Host what about the role of the independent senator . Bernie sanders, angus king, you potentially have greg orman. What role could they play in tipping the balance of power . Guest some of these independents have been very important. They have been a very important voice. We are working on continuing resolutions. This is the one thing that is a constant. Some of these independent senators have been very collinstive, like susan , well must consider her independent because she works with the democrats so much. They have been instrumental in trying to bring the two sides together on issues. Host tony in illinois. Caller how are you doing . Ok. I want to duck about honesty in the media. These political ads, there is no honesty at all. I sit there and i watch these things and i know that these people are lying, they are just not telling the truth. Host heidi was explaining earlier that you talk to people who make these ads and they have lawyers to tell them when they are bumping up against statements. Guest they can go right up to the edge of credibility. The word that was used when i talk to them was defensible. They just have to make the ads defensible. They cannot be false, but they can certainly be misleading. That speaks for the bulk of ads that are out there. They are either just overly negative or misleading or both. Host who is policing that . Guest you have these internetbased groups called fact check. Org that do quite a good job and really break them as to theeat detail veracity of these claims. But how Many Americans even know about them . How Many Americans have the time after watching the Television Ads go online and look them up . It is the job of reporters like myself when we write about these ads to not just mention what the claims are, but to then include. His information these groups have been very helpful. We all rely on them quite a bit. Host emily in wisconsin. An independent. Meler thank you for letting get on this morning. I have three quick issues. I democrat called and was talking to the lady about all the money being funneled into the Republican Party. Also that to direct the democrats got more money for this election than the republicans did. Number two, another democrat called and was kind of saying that the republicans were allowing all of these immigrants into the country. Well, barack obama is trying to get a company to make 34 million cars to issue to all of the Illegal Immigrants. The republicans have nothing to do with this. Those twoill take issues. Lets begin with democrat outside spending. You had the Senate Majority pac,r pac, harry reids spend big money. Guest they are doing quite well and you have outsiders who have also spent quite a bit. The democrats are trying to even it up. Hard ares that make it these executives of the Dark Money Group that dont have to report their donors and makes it hard to know how much is being spent. That thei think democrats, when you include the dark money and outside groups, are still being outspent. But these super pacs are definitely competing quite well. Host front page of the New York Times. Hidden donors are spending heavily on attack ads. Some of these groups are popping up in the closing days of campaign 2014. With these innocuous sounding names. The front page of the New York Times. You can follow heidis reporting on bloomberg. Com. Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. Coming up next, we will talk about a new Harvard University poll that shows that Millennials Vote is up for grabs this election day. We will talk about that next. 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Host joining us from new york is john della volpe, the polling director from Harvard University institute of politics. What is the take away from this poll . Guest thanks for having me. I appreciate the opportunity. ,or the first time in a decade young voters are up for grabs in tomorrows Midterm Election. , we we conducted a poll conduct a poll every semester twice a year since 2000, this is the 26th edition of the survey. It was completed on october 9. We talked to 2000 millennials around the country. 51found that by a margin of to 47 , the most likely millennial tend to lean republican. When we talk to all millennials , those who will be voting and those who probably wont be voting, they prefer democrats. , it is a question of which way they will lean heading into the election tomorrow. Host is this a different trend you are seeing. If so, why . Guest as i can what i would consider the form. It is actually what i would consider the fonorm. To when ourk back survey began in 2000, we fanned that found that among millennial voters they prefer democrats in the 2000 election by two points. In the 2002, by only two points. We saw john kerry when a significant number of the votes in 2004. We all know what obama did after that. Wars,a combination of two , a Bush Administration that did not have a lot of approval among young people that led to a hardening of the democratic vote for obama in those years. It is now reporting back to the norm. It has been about plus or minus five points. It is very much a swing constituency in american politics. Host is it that this is just what all voters do . They sort of swing back . Or is this about president obama . 43 approve of president obamas job performance. 53 disapprove. The first point is that Young Americans are also americans. There is no longer the outlier that they were before. About two thirds, 66 of all young people under the age of 30 voted for obama. You go all the way back to the iowa caucuses, etc. Young people were outliers in 2008. Now, they look like the rest of americans generally. While Approval Ratings for obama s near one of our historic lows , he still has twice the number of people who approve of his job then the Republican Congress at 23 . They are disappointed with obama and democrats, but they are even more disappointed with and mostly Everything Associated with washington these days. Host is that what makes them up for grabs . Guest here is the lesson we have seen time and time again. They may be apathetic about voting, but they are not apathetic about the country. They feel it washington, d. C. Is not listening. When we asked, whose fault is it in terms of gridlock . 56 of young people say it is everybodys fault. They are trying to send a message that survey after survey after survey show patterns of trust in washington and , they go down a couple of points every single year. Young people to not believe washington is working for them. Will have more People Volunteer in significant ways and Community Service than actually vote on election day. Host let me give you the phone numbers. We are talking about this new Harvard Institute of politics polls. We have divided the lines like this. 29, 202 rough 5853880. All others, 202 5853881. Lets talk about how motivated millennial czar to get out and vote. 42 of republicans are likely to participate. 30 of democrats. What is behind these numbers . What we have seen is that , approximately0 the same number of young people said they would vote. About one in four young people, 27 said they would definitely vote. 26 of ouron, we see young people say they will definitely vote. We are looking at turnout numbers about the same levels as they were in 2010. When we look at those who say they will definitely vote, you see republicans are significantly more likely to say that they will participate than democrats. Mitt romney voters are more enthusiastic election about voting in this election. Republicans are more enthusiastic and more likely to participate. This is a national survey, including millennials 1829, 2000 of them. We are looking at a largescale National Mood and point of view and not necessarily posted on individual races. Host of those who say they are ofng to turn out, 42 republicans and 30 of democrats, how does that compare to 2008 . What has been happening with millennial since 2008 . 2008 was certainly the High Water Mark in recent history where young people felt real ownership or empowerment through that campaign and election. What i think you saw is that you had extraordinarily high turnout with regard to an election. That was a combination of several years. Started the survey in 2000 youfrom 2002 through 2008, saw four consecutive elections with turnout increasing a couple of points or so compared to the previous election before that. Beginning ofas the the political awakening of this generation post9 11. I think 9 11 had a lot to do with it and making politics tangible and the way in which the obama campaign, they really kind of empowered young people. They give them a stake in the process, a stake in the campaign. That worked terrifically for them. It was an important part of the constituency. Since then, a couple of things have happened. Some young people voted just to vote. They voted to felix a were a part of making history. They did not necessarily follow politics. Those people have not participated since then. Then you have other people who frankly wanted to vote because they wanted to change the country. Arguably, they are very disappointed right now. Not necessarily in obama per se, but obama as democrats in congress and republicans in congress. Thatessage we have seen is young people care deeply about this country. Every single day, there are hundreds of thousands of people engaging in ask of Community Service and Public Affairs and using social media to raise their hand and say they want to participate. Too many of them feel ignored and they are sitting out of politics and are instead volunteering. Host let me go to bob in duluth, minnesota. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Think one of the biggest reasons why the democrats are losing ground in the polls is that republicans did make it an agenda to do as much damage to the credibility of the president as they could. That was their main deal. That is whether congress has been so partisan. Nothing has gotten done. Remembereople need to what we came out of. When we had george w. Bush for president. The economy has come a long way in a positive direction. Without any help from the republicans, thank you. Host did you dig a little bit deeper with these millennials about what is going on with them . Specifically the economy . That three we found out of four young people say that the economy is key to figuring out who they are voting for. On that measure, 77 indicated it was very important in terms of deciding who they would support on the election tomorrow. We have continued an openended question of asking young people what their Biggest Issue was. Nearly a third of all those issueses indicated associated with the economy. That is the lesson here. People, partf of of the youth vote, were not of age in 2008 when obama was elected. 5456 were not of age. They came of age politically not feeling of empowerment around obama in 20072008, but came of age during the Great Recession and this impacted them greatly in terms of difficulty to find a job, difficulty to think about ways to pay for college or education. They have seen the impact around america for the recession has brought in terms of parents, friends, neighbors, etc. Changing their lifestyle or potentially losing opportunities , vacations, homes, and other kinds of opportunities. We have to put that into the Overall Historical context. It is not about 2008. 2008 was a long time ago. Host dave in florida. Caller yes, i agree with bob. He hit the nail on the head. We have to adjust the facts. A lot of these people are distorting the truth. We need to get to the truth. Obama is not responsible for many things that he has been accused of. Here in the state of florida, we have a governor that has been distorting the truth and we need somebody to step up and get the truth out to the people. One thing i want to talk about his marijuana. Im very supportive of marijuana. We need to get it is a national issue. We need to have it pushed. Our country was founded on marijuana. Rating ofhe approval president obama. That is a great question. Most of the polling that i have has his Approval Rating around 41 40 3 . That is where young people are as well. We had overall Approval Ratings at 43 . The message here is that they are not the outlier they once were. One of the factors associated with Approval Rating its we break it down and the republican reprove a rating Approval Rating is extremely below low. Democrats are hanging tough. It is a problem for democrats and an opportunity for republicans. This vote is up for grabs. Winblicans dont need to go the vote out right in the youth, they just need to kind of lose it less, lose it by fewer points. Election,e 2004 george bush lost to the youthful by 10 points. E mitigated the loss it was one of the largest am a graphic groups in the electorate. More people under 30 will participate in the 2016 election than those above 55. Is is it is a significant part of the electorate. Host will millennials have an impact in 2014 . Guest roughly one in 10 votes will be cast by a millennial. I think there is absolutely not the time to go out and motivate young people to participate, especially hispanics. Are very close. We found that young hispanic latinos were among the least motivated segment of the electorate to participate. Hispanic latinos indicated that they will vote tomorrow. This is something that is still not too late. , imy way over here today received my first message via twitter. There is still plenty of time left in the calendar to engage on things like social media and other ways to motivate young people to participate, but to do that, they need to make it clear why this vote matters. They need to talk about the tangible differences in the outcomes of democrats vote versus republican vote and vice versa. People need to know that the vote will make a difference. Host and how they may vote according to the Harvard Institute of politics report carried 53 say they would take all and replace all 500 and the congress. Outhim democrats were voted there will never. 43 of republicans would. Will vote upndents our own members. What do these numbers mean . Are not happy with anything associated with washington, d. C. Period. They want to be connected. They want to be empowered. They believe in government. They believe that government can make a difference. The reason so many of them want to reset washington and start over again is because they care. They know the role the government can and should play and they are disappointed in everybody that there is so much gridlock and that they dont feel like their voice is heard. This generation is highly engaged, highly entrepreneurial. They see a problem, they want to fix it themselves. They want to be a part of fixing the problem rather than being targeted during the last part of the campaign. Host 0 phil d morning to you, thank you so much for the washington journal which is he most honest show we could possibly watch. Id like to reiterate what the last gentleman said. Congress has been really a mess. We could d we be if have passed some of the things that were trying to get through through . Didnt get i feel sorry for obama because his hands ke he had tied behind him on so many of the projects. Ne thing that i would like to reiterate look how many people have lost their lives and their limbs, their health that have fought our wars and fought for have and our we thetitution starts with we people and if we the people ould get out and vote we could change this country. All right. Your caller is right on. Verybody has an opportunity to participate and to change the country. We talk ll you when about kind of the role of young incredibly re patriotic as well especially we talk to the people about what this country means to them. People, whether theyre white, black, hispanic, in college or with a high school education. They believe there is opportunity for everybody. Some people may have to work a harder than others. But these are the common values nd principals that this Generation Cares about. Theyre sitting there and these both tes available to democrats and republicans if it hey work for them and target and empower them. Well go to alejandro, 18 years old. Morning. Good morning. On uld just like to comment the trends in the young vote. I believe that as bob said, a millennials came of age during the recession. The financial risis and a lot of the other problems that have been perpetuated in the media with of state and the current administration. Thats why we might see a shift the republicans. Adopted , have conservative principals stemming from that. Right ink your caller is on of the we can see the effects f this and several state elections weve tracked over the last couple of years especially segment of the electorate, alejandro and his 18, 20, 22 years old they look like a little more than the 28 and 29 year olds or a little less participate. Those who do little bit more measures ve on both not significantly but a couple points. Independent y nd not connected to one party more than another one in which other generations have been in the past. Nicki is 21 in tulsa, oklahoma. Hi. I wanted to comment on a theres a i feel like limit. I feel like they dont represent them. To vote andn trying have a hard time trying to convince people if they dont eel represented by their government thats more reason for them to vote. Needs more of re of the reason to vote because its really important. Thanks for. Turbo vote at the the tute of politics harvard. Weve been using it several point. At that look at college and University Students as one example. A third of those votes will vote absentee so tool turbo vote and anything we can do to breakdown the echanical barriers are important, part one. Then we ask people we asked a of who they erms think their representative most represents. We offer several different 11 ns and i believe only of millennials or 1829 year that their representative most represents their constitue constituent. So 90 said they dont represent their constituent but somebody whether its their party, hemselves, fundraisers, only 110 indicated that they were truly out for the concerns of constituent. This is a significant problem with t going to be solved a 30 second tv commercial or one campaign. Cares about Civic Engagement needs to look through this data in a significant way at themselves in the mirror and say what are we doing and rn up this generation what can we turn them back on to politics and government in 2015 and beyond. Good morning, toni. Morning, greta. Remember dont trust anybody of 30. E age one nation under god indivisible. Weve never been more divided. During the occupied wall street wore a tshirt that envious, greedy, i am the 99 . Dont believe one party as a monopoly of these character its addressedil this country will continue to be in decline. Should it be addressed . Toni. St what are your thoughts . I want to know what toni this. To do to address we need everybodys ideas. But hes right now. Young people blame everybody. Republicans of congress get more than the democrats, the essage of this poll is that politically we hope we can get the attention of both democrats this maylicans because be the year for both parties to work in this group. Tossup. 51 of the mote likely voters say they prefer republicans. 47 democrats. But when you kind of widen the preferred democrats more than republicans and just not as likely to participate. There ever was opportunity for both parties to make this case, this would be the election to do that. Hopefully its not too late. At october of 2010 when you did this same poll. Poll with d the illennials then 55 favored a democrat kali controlled congress and 43 republican. When republicans took control of the house. Here . Happened well, what happened was that youth was the only demographic that democrats want thousa 2010. That we took in october ight have been a couple points higher as i recall in the exit polls. 5842. Ht have been its an important segment. That last otes in midterm ehrebgz. What weve seen, weve seen a shift away from a clear democratic preference to kind of a tossup. Couple of factors for that. Its not to say that republicans are doing so well. Ive indicated earlier, Approval Ratings have one in ans is less than 4, 23 . One of the underlying factors of our numbers are what they are in terms of a push to slight republican preference is because of turnout. Voters more y voters stic than obama and hispanic only less one in five. Hen they do vote clearly preferred democrats. When i look at the 2012 exit obama, romney democrats preferred obama by 51 , 7423 . There is a lot of work in here breakdown the cross tabs. All the information we talked is on our website to be iop. Harvard. Edu. Were talking about john who is the polling director for the politics. Nstitute of their new poll on millennial for that their vote is up grabs tomorrow on election day 2014. Mpaign on healthcare, how do feel about the Health Care Law . Disapprove overall of it. What weve seen is less than 40 approve around the time of the rollout i believe overall of the healthcare law is 38thraeupb . Fifties. Al in the high hats a twoway approve disapprove of that. And like so many other issues in other issueso many within this generation, approval r disapproval is really viewed very much through a partisan lens. Democrats support. Oppose. Ans strongly independents some were in the middle. Is nt think the message they want this repealed. Anything associated with get a high ont Approval Rating. Elements of it clearly worked could stand some reform. But generally its in the same pot as it was a year ago despite the fact that we see its difficult to see things 2,000 is in surveys with or 3,000 respondents but we see young people ndicate that they are insured relative than when we asked in the past. One of those to medical kwreupb i live near the yale downtown new haven. My father is a democrat in connecticut and he is a in bristol ysician as ecticut and i registered a democrat in bristol when i was 18. I have reregistered in new at age an independent 29 and i watch cspan for about or 2 months. Probably vote for moloy a decent think hes governor. Im trying to learn more about still a young man. Who else . Chris murphy and i was you, whats the best way i for candidates to reach out to you . They on social media enough . Is that how you get your information . For s the best way candidates to reach a millennial like you . Is through the television and some candidates, election is tomorrow and i will vote in my local neighborhood. Ill just walk there. Me, they way to reach mail on ome political. Y doorknob loo martin a off the ing to jump line with you. Saying millennials about the best way to reach them . Caller indicated Television Still works without question. But i think that one of the campaign at the obama as as successful as it was in 2008. I think about what happened ten years before. The advent of web. 2. 0 was expensive. Up the they dont pick traditional participate in polls and they dont want television in the same way that other generations do. Expensive. When they didnt participate to egrees through which other generations did you could understand why campaigns why not se their limited resources to target them. Social media has changed that. You can use facebook and you can use twitter. We asked a significant number of in all of our polls about the use of social media. We need to provide campaigns the opportunity to understand what elements of their demographic in media. I of social received my first message this on ing as a direct message twitter. Didnt cost anything and for me t was different than the traditional robo calls or emails that i typically receive. The other interesting point that aron raiseed from connecticut is that a significant number of still undecided. Polls are typically just a in time. The snapshot we took was late september to early october when republicans had a plus four. Advantage. Mean thats set in minds nd change their with millennials. Its not too late especially in swing f these house districts and Senate District bz if you try to make a personal to young millennial voters. Rapids go off to coon minnesota. Caller good morning. For being there. Thanks for what you do. Talk, the question it seems to me if i had to of words to define millennials, smart would be one them. He fact they live in a world where they want things quickly and engaged with things they with. Nd feel connected and then also i think they like o feel good or like to feel empowered like theyre actually involved in something. What dawns on me as you talk, major f both current parties probably are favored by he millennials, but what they would want or need would be something they could really take ownership of. And speaking their language to ake it clear, theres a monicker i thought might work nd that would be Less Government more fun. Ts a way in which you reach out to them because i think what are rd you say, john, they in favor of Less Government right . Necessarily. What we did find earl irthey but the n government; lesson is they want to be part of it. There are certainly that we see treak growing. So i guess what i can say its not necessarily. I wouldnt say there are antigovernment. What i would say is that theyre antiwashington at this moment in time. Hard, think they work but they want to feel a positive and theyll engage in things where it is fun. Ut they understand that its serious work and whether folks are mowing the lawns for their eighbors or working in church or participating in a more formal Service Activity young third of all young eople posted two thirds of volunteers in a significant way cross the country every single week to make this world a better place. Government and i wish that they would have more government. W of its important that we engage them. The issues that were facing are and requires the best and brightest from every them. Ion to solve chris, go ahead. Hi, greta, thank you for taking my call. Bit in eak a little regards to the libertarian issue. Libertarian leaning. Think the main disconnect and resentment with some of the millennials that are libertarian see a whole bunch f corruption in Party Politics and the whole paradigm democratic just seems so disingenuous. Want honesty. Hen were under 30 years of age, we have a long life ahead of us. Fundamentals of government to be sound and we want our dont country to go to hell in a hand basket. Okay, chris. This issue of corruption and trust. Absolutely. Whether its politics or anything else, young people want something that they like. They need to create kind of a trust well of before an election in order to people. For a millennial to want to buy something whether its a product a political om campaign they need to like you this is work to do by democrats as well as republicans to prepare it. I think hes ight on and i hope that chris and other people like chris across the country kind of vote omorrow and participate in the future as well. What will you be watching for tomorrow night with the vote . Nial well, im going to be watching some of the specific as i said, in colorado, georgia, et cetera and some of districts up here. York, young republicans are focused on the youth vote. At looking at nationally and specific races to see what the youth vote will have. Will you have that analysis on your website . We can and soon as well be posting those insights to other d also turn attitudes e focus on through our polls and well work with other people within the try to analyze what tomorrow brings. Iop. Harvard. Edu. Thank you for your time. Me. Hank you for having coming up next, dispatch poll observers across the ensure that to voters have equal access and opportunity to participate in process. G well talk about the role they play on election day coming up after the news update from cspan radio. Its 9 22 eastern time. A terminally ill woman ended her swallowing lethal drugs made available under an oregon law. She made brain cancer and died in thelly in her bedroom ones. 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On 2015 cspan competition is underway. Branches and they policy, actionw a or law has affected you or your community. Theres 200 cash prizes for students and teachers willing to 100,000. Rules and how to get started go to studentcam. Org. Washington journal continues. We continue today with your your money series looking at how your tax dollars are being spent. The topic is monitoring of elections. Intice department has a role that and joining us from madison, wisconsin is steven who served in the Justice Department in 2007 to 2010 and a instructor at the university of wisconsin. Mr. Wright lets begin with why department ce elections. Watching sure. So part of the mission of the is to ent of justice ensure that citizens have equal access to the polls. Has passed a series of act and the Voting Rights and the help america vote act all designed to ensure that individuals have a full to participate in our elections. Enforcing part of that, the department monitors elections in order to ensure state and local jurisdictions are complying with constitution. N the how does the Justice Department do that . Sure. The department has two different programs that helps election day. S on the first is the federal program. It was created in 1965 as a part of the Voting Rights act. Congress wanted to give the general special tools o confront the widespread discrimination particularly in the south. A select s identified number of jurisdictions where send torney general could in poll observers. Most importantly without the jurisdiction. The and o, sections three sections eight empower the ttorney general to send in federal observers without the permission of the local election those election observers watch the polls, watch vote count and the canvas and just to ensure the integrity Voting System on election day. Who are these observers and cops on the beat at the centers . Sure. So, like i mentioned there are two programs. Observers are traditionally federal employees across the country, rawn from across different government departments. They are individuals who decide o volunteer for a couple of days to take a break from their egular duties to watch the polls. They are trained and recruited by the office of Personnel Management. I can also tell you as a these al matter, some of federal observers have plenty of experience some of them have doing it since 1965, individuals who now appear a age who have the passion of ensuring equal access polls. How do they qualify to be a volunteer . They go of checks do through . Sure. Office of Personnel Management does some very basic background checks. Hey also make sure that the individuals duties do not on lict with the missions election day and theyre also well trained and go through hours of training even before foot into a polling place. The observers y are individuals who have sort of volunteered. The department has a second monitors. He federal i know the names are similar. Exclusively large d. O. J. Attorneys and d. O. J. Analysts. Monitors watch polls in the rest of the union. The polls outside of south. The important thing about the Monitoring Program though is that the attorney general needs permission of the jurisdiction in order to watch the polls. Normally just are. Officers who monitoring the polls as a part of their regular official duties. Volunteers, these not official folks from the Justice Department but the primarily inat are these southern states, do they have any authority when they see somebodys access being denied problems . The observers are there praoeuplt marly there to listen, document. The department and the overnment place as very high premium on having these individuals not interfere with the actual voting process. By in large theyre this to bserve or monitor. On having they interview them in the polls. Appears to be any single polling place, some type of problem or some type of consistent discrimination, normally what happens is that poll observer can contact their team leader and oftentimes leader can address the situation there at that time ither with the local election authorities or state election authorities to get those type of immediately. Ed before we get to calls, what in these xperience programs . Sure. Leader is one team the ground in the jurisdiction. 0 uponm leader depending ae size of the team may be of central location. Oftentimes the department of justice will rent out a couple of a hotel room. So the team leader is often in a place in the actual jurisdiction capable of going if into the Community Something is necessary and capable of talking to people. Lead metimes also the attorney is in the field in the for ng place watching irregularities themselves. Is that what you did when you were at the Justice Department . Exactly. And thats what i did during my time at the d. O. J. Were talking with Steven Wright. Of now at the university wisconsin. Stories of ear your to the polls. Lets get to our first phone call. Greeley, kansas, an independent. Go ahead. Program. Interesting id like to discuss the Program Registration in the state of georgia where 80,000 people followed the states for registration was approved. When you go back and check the people of 40,000 these 80,000 arent listed right now and i didnt know whether the Justice Department would be nterested in Something Like that or not and secondly i live here in kansas. We have one who has made a voter fraud. I wondered if you think this oter fraud that has been originated here actually is Voter Suppression and tries to keep people away from the polls. My answers off the line. You. K first question about individuals being on the polls is one of the things that the federal federal monitors are well positioned to recognize. ve been in communities where there have been registration and you to some degree see individuals come in, a large number of individuals come in as many as one in four will be turned away. Under those circumstances thats indicative of some type of larger failure in the registration program. Unfortunately its not something that can always be remedied on day. Tion surely the team leader and the teams will try their best. Is one of the things that being on the ground and help that experience can us actually address if not for election ion for any afterwards. Juan, good caller, morning. Caller good morning. Call. You for taking my can be ion to you, it remedied how can those votes counted how you can contest those votes that have away . Urned wright . 2,000, they passed a law vote acte help america it provides with whats called a provisional ballot. Trouble at the polls and they feel theyre being turned away for a reason or some of mix up or the person doesnt necessarily appear on voter roles, the voter can ballot. S provisional it is special and set aside in a sealed envelope allows the Election Administration or to doublecheck and allow that ballot to be cast like any other type of ballot if thewas a problem. Good morning, allen. Caller good morning. If you like to know have a person that comes to vote people in the polling question whether or not they should be eligible to for instance, in the case of probably an illegal alien, that . You handle what do do you to deal with that . Sure. Question. Reat we get that question a lot. Of the disadvantages of the election observer or monitoring is that the election limited are by in large to observing, to watching to on. Of seeing whats going the observers dont necessarily have a voter role in front of them. Always able to ineligible ther an voter is being wrongly turned away or being turned away for that are valid under the law. Tell. Ifficult it your caller suggests citizens but on there are other reasons why someone might be turned away theyre in the wrong precinct and not registered in that state and thats not something that the observers necessarily be able to catch. The are other tools that department uses. Theres National Voter gives theon act which Justice Department some limited authority to check the voter roles. But in terms of election day and the specific issue that the referenced federal observers rpt in the best position to address that issue at that time. Were talking about the monitoring of federal elections. The role of the justice going back to 1965 ith the Voting Rights act, teven wright is our guest and fo trial attorney. The court recently ruled. Remind viewers of that case and impact could it play tomorrow on election day . Sure. So, as im sure your viewers remember, a little over a year the Supreme Court in a case county versus attorney the Supreme Court ruled that they failed to justify the scrutiny on select jurisdiction thats congress determined were sort of the more notorious states in determines of discrimination. These states of course were in the south and largely states that we asews with what the court ruled is because congress failed scrutiny, the actual ongress then the attorney couldnt use the clearance requirement and couldnt impose that upon the states. The attorney general according reports has also determined that the federal might too be at a risk. For the First Time Since the Voting Rights act, the number of federal significantly be curved. In past elections the department of justice has dispatched as federal observers and monitors across 25 states to to the qual access polls. I fear that significant would be significantly less. Me if it t surprise was cut in half. The department of justice will be releasing a press release and will have better numbers then. Okay. Lets hear from lee next. Louisville, kentucky. Democratic caller. My question is and we got all these people if you do something wrong, the theyll care of it it then. Theres not that many i dont eel that many people at the poll that gets turned down. We should have someone at the oll to take care of it where the voter will get hassled. I feel like what is the problem government is not taking care of themselves. They should make sure that each poll to goes to the vote does not get hassled. Regulations for this not to be enforced. I think our biggest problem you so you can run and then you get greed involved in it. It an the role of the election observers who does play making sure a roblem at the Polling Center gets resolved . Sure. A larger if theres problem at the polls 70threed in withrvers will check headquarters and headquarters that issue with the election authorities. Part of the challenge that the they l observers face, have to watch in order to write the ts and to allow department of justice the opportunity to address issues future elections. Hassles er refers to and part of what the observers there to document any type of burdens or barriers voters. Efore individual as a general rule, the observers single ways solve every solution at the polls. But the department does try to work with local election uthorities before and afterwards to ensure that on election days things are going right. About voter i. D. Laws. Your concerns with that and voting. O sure. You know i think the primary many people have regardless of the actual that the y itself is voter i. D. Laws in several tates, my home state of wisconsin, texas, north laws have been in flux. N wisconsin, for example, a federal court determined that i. D. Law sins voter violated federal law. That decision in turn was overturned by the seventh Circuit Court of appeals. A full panel of the circuit let that decision stand. Have few days later to the u. S. Supreme court come in voter i. D. Law. Re the original part of what i am concerned confusions among voters as well as confusion workers. Ll a lot of the poll workers are rained much earlier in the year. In some states poll workers are only every other year. Creates the potential for Serious Problems at the polls. I can tell you part of the way ts being addressed in wisconsin is if anyone in wes we is listening to the radio in in ads were political seeing a number of ads just letting people know what the in terms of voter i. Tkeufplt was here lastdent week, campaigning, at several oints he also wanted to remind was. Le what the actual rule hear from david next. Go ahead. Real quick question. Im going to assume that youre obamacare insurance . Why does that matter for this conversation . A im just trying to make point. Im confused as to why vote rder i. D. Is such a controversy. It would seem like it would problems of having people watching us at the polls. On but the argument is always there that its just beyond their capability to get have no because they ehicle, maybe not very technically savvy. Ut there are oh we are forced or obligated to become part of obamacare. Theyre able to register and to get gh all the hoops health insurance, whats the same m with having the requirements for voters . Polls show that voter i. D. Is popular. It is. In many different places. Its very sly controversial. But it is worth noting at least federal courts in the case f texas have determined that the burden placed upon voters to a photo i. D. Is so burden some that it dissuade some voters from voting. Couple of court years ago ruled that the voter i. D. In texas forced many Blue Collar Workers to choose between the livelihood franchise. Ts also worth noting just to address what the caller made, voters 08 of the rights act gives the individuals choice in of having a the polls. Particularly for voters who may have reading issues or voters may have vision issues, hose voters can bring in basically whoever they want. They can bring in their boss, cant bring in their union rep but if they want to bring in are a friend or spouse or any loved one to help creates a the law federal right for those that help to get that they may need. Lancaster, to glenn, california, independent. Hi, glenn. Caller good morning, greta. A way to get through all that. You have to sign right there signature. R put your thumb print. Easy as that. New technology, Steven Wright . Sure. Florida ally after the there was a 000 large discussion about the way we can go about making things easier and more efficient. Part of the challenge i can tell ou is that the constitution primarily has many aspects of with states. So therefore states get the decide what new reg race requirements will be and what voters have to show at polls. And so this isnt always National Legislation or National Something that generally is reserved for the states. Our viewers some of the eegregious things youve polls. En you observed there are pockets in this country where discrimination is prevalent i can tell you in some states hispanic voters a more difficult time voting. Workers might assume that those voters arent basis for d have no such an assumption. Polls ell you we monitor not long after Hurricane Katrina new orleans. There still sort of this widespread confusion and people but the ng back, polling people people were the g back after the storm polling places had changed so lot of people were going to the and turned away. There are pockets in this auntry where elections remain challenge and part of the addressof the d. O. J. Is those issues. How much do you know does the Justice Department spend on election Monitoring Programs . Sure. A know, a hard number is little difficult to give because it varies from year to year. Obviously in big elections, better elections, the elections and for senate are the department spends significantly more than offyear elections. It is worth noting that the department monitors local elections, so e even in odd number years its ot unusual for the department to monitor say a School Board Election or a Mayoral Election sheriff election. Odd those costs in those years are significant lighter years. Federal i can also tell you, this year program is observer probably going to be significantly reduced. Year may ber for this not be consistent in past, elections 2010 or 2006 department has as many as 1,000 monitors out in the community. Who can request the d. O. J. To to their state . Thats one of the great things about the program. Any person can request. If you call the department of they have a toll free number as well as an email address. So if you feel that youre from ity might benefit having observers or monitors, you can call the department of talk directly to a lawyer, analyst or parallel and your l take down information and do the basic research. The department regularly sends we get places where phone calls from individuals concerned about the integrity of elections. Silvia, oklahoma city, on our line or democrats. Hi, silvia. Caller hello. English peak so good but im an american citizen. It is on my o say mind always. A ust want to say, im democrat and im proud of it. I along, okay . T europe and i w in how do you say english i was raised in that so much. I remember and they suppressed the vote and everything else. Scary over here with the republicans. I cannot vote for them. Are nasty people im sorry to say. Hope they dont win because if especially are lost, the poor. All right. Going to bruce. Hi, bruce. Caller. Can caller yes, maam. I was just wondering, i hear all this talk about making sure vote, which i certainly agree with if theyre registered voters. Wondered if the Justice Department ever goes back and stintsgates like the pre n philadelphia where you get 117 vote for president obama and when you have the black panthers guarding the polls. I wonder if you go back ever and do any work on that stuff or any indictments . Steven wright . Sure. Obviously the department cant be everywhere on election day. But the department does follow up on allegations of wrong doing polls. So even if federal observers arent in your community, if you feel that something is going rong on election day in terms of the administration of your elections you can call the hotline and if theyre not able to address it immediately at time, the department regularly does followup on allegations of misconduct at the polls. And so, the department will investigate. Local officials poll y talk to voters and workers all with the goal of ensuring future elections are discrimination. Do they prosecute . So, the department as a whole prosecute. They do a civil litigation which means the department can bring either suits against a if sdiction or in the case there are individuals doing wrong doing, the department does the option of joining that limited and in some circumstances the department has he authority to bring criminal charges. John, good morning to you an independent caller. Ahead. Caller good morning, greta and steve. Was e watching this show i atching the andy goodman show, democracy this morning. This very topic was on. 6 Million People were identified in 27 states who are who will voting. Y commit fraud by not one Single Person has been charged about anything. Tomorrow . Ng to happen most likely these 6 million states will se 27 be harassed in some way. The viewers toge go online and watch that program own conclusions. With going on in america voting is abominable. Wrong. Ust go watch that program and, steve, youre doing a great job. Really wrong in this country. All right, mr. Wright. You. Ank you know, i think i referred to always easy for poll watchers who are sitting polls to watching the see voter fraud when it happens but something that definitely i many states take seriously. Many state Law Enforcement take im sure the Department Takes seriously too. Of conduct t type may not necessarily be able to day, the on Election Department does launch post election day free and o ensure equal access to the polls. Mary, a republican. Good morning. Caller good morning, greta and steve. What gives us the confidence that our Voting Machines are votes correctly . Nd that the machines are calibrated correctly . Wright . Steven sure. So one of the things that poll watchers do is they arrive about half an hour before the polls actually open. And part of what they do they the machines. They make sure the count is at count mightever the need to be in case of a place early voting and they keep track of how many people show in and how many people cast ballot and then they check towards the end of the day against the actual machine. N the obviously because voters vote nd they cast a secret ballot, there is really no way for the whether the know vote reflected on is the ballot. That tends to be not too much of not issue. Majority of ballots cast on election day in a federal cast on will be electronic machines that being ly are free from tampered. Massachusetts, on the line for democrats. Youre on the air. Ahead. Caller my question is, in as uch as we have all the disparity among the different i. D. Andwe forgot voter who is an american citizen, why cant they use the database of security and by doing that they give everyone who is a citizen and you wont have the problem of knowing who is and who is not an american. Steven wright . Sure. As your caller eluded to, different states have different rules. Different criteria or Different Levels of proof that submit in order o verify that they are indeed eligible to vote. In the caller refers to terms of perhaps ineligible something ng its that many states take very seriously and they wrestle with ow best to do it. In terms of coordinating with a Larger National database, i know thats often gets kicked around and possible one day it will happen. Generally its not happening right now. Its also worth noting that as a general rule a lot of state and local officials just simply large enough budgets or large enough staff always to of scrutiny that i think your caller is suggesting can be a problem. Couple minutes left. Next in r from tom green town, pennsylvania, independent caller. Hello. Would it be legal or possible if in on election day if a photograph were taken of in case any subsequent identity . Ose of you. Cameras in the polls is about. Ng that people ask jurisdictions need to balance that transparency to make sure individuals arent intimidated or discouraged by the presence of cameras in the polls. We want to thank stephen right for your time this morning and talking about the role that observers play in monitoring our elections. That does it for today costs will for todays washington journal. We will be taking your comments, your thoughts via