What happened to the Supreme Court is way too important not to Pay Attention to. And that is why this week we spent an incredible amount of time and an almost immoral amount of resources to produce an entire Supreme Court featuring real animals. Settle down. Settle down. Let me show you this puppy in action. One of the current cases in the court is halt versus hobbs about whether a prison can require an inmate to shave his beard. You may be thinking, i dont want to hear a discussion about that. Really . Dont you . Lets assume im in the religion that requires polygamy. I mean, could i say to the prison, okay, let me have two wives. If he wants his beard to be clipped to one inch, isnt it . Be honest. You now want to hear the entire hourlong oral argument, dont you . No. But i will give you just another taste. As far as searching the beard, why cant the prison just give the inmate a comb. He could develop whatever comb you want and say comb your beard. Those dry constitutional arguments are now mustsee television. And that is why dont as a Public Service we are releasing raw video at this address of closeups medium shots and wide shots from our real animals fake policy Supreme Court. We are inviting all News Networks to use this footage to make Supreme Court arguments more compelling to watch. We have all nine justices for you. Chief justice roberts, scalia, kennedy, thomas, ginsburg, breyer, alito, sotomayor and kagan who i will warn you would not sit still. We have almost everything you need for full coverage. You need Justice Alito taking notes . Done. You need ginsburg adjusting her classes . You got it. Samuel alito having a drink of water . No problem. You need roberts yawning . Hell yawn for you. Im thinking Justice Alito to drink out of the water glass. You put like a water glass in front of my dog, maybe maybe he would drink it. More likely god bless john oliver at hbo. In fact if you go to their youtube page, they have, in fact, published 10 minutes and 21 silent sections of the exact footage they promised. All the dogs sitting together. All the justices one by one. Totally silent. A chicken being the court stenographer, a duck taking notes. Dog sitting in as lawyers. They use this to cut together your own visuals to go along with the audiotape when they release the audio of Supreme Court arguments and that makes everyone to watch it. Im not allowed to speak for the News Division here but part of the reason why is because if i was in charge of the News Division here, i would totally do this. I would totally use dogs with fake paws to reenact Supreme Court oral arguments. Thats why they dont let me make decisions or speak for Anyone Around here. This now exists as an asset in our nations arsenal. And how to cover civics and understand important decisions made by one of the three branches of our government. The other big Supreme Court thing that happened this weekend actually happened at the court. And what happened at the court this weekend is that rooth Bader Ginsburg portrayed here by the tiny chihuahua and cute plastic glasses, the other thing that happened at the Supreme Court is that ruth Bader Ginsburg stayed up all night. The Supreme Court issued an order just before dawn on saturday morning. They sent is out to reporters at 5 00 a. M. An saturday morning. It was an unsigned order for the majority of the court. But it was accompanied by a blistering dissent written by and signed by justice ruth Bader Ginsburg. And that all went out before the sun came up saturday morning. And that is a weird time to get a Supreme Court order, right . But Nina Totenberg from npr had an interview already schedule forward later this weekend for sunday night, last night. And in that interview, ruth Bader Ginsburg explained that yes, in fact, the weird timing on that order meant one justice was up all night in order to get that order out. Specifically in order to get out her dissent on that case. So Justice Ginsburg, you were up until 5 00 a. M. On friday, saturday morning. Friday night, saturday morning. Writing a passionate dissent in the texas voter i. D. Case. Just to let people in the audience know, this was a procedural question in some measure, and you can note a dissent in those kinds of cases and not write and its fairly common for that to happen. But you wrote. You were joined by justices kagan and sotomayor. So, why did you write, and why did it take until 5 00 in the morning . Why until 5 00 in the morning . We didnt get the last filing from texas until friday morning, and then the circuit justice, as you know, has to write a memo. And that came around some time in the middle of the afternoon. So there wasnt much time to write the dissent. I had written a dissent in a North Carolina voting case, Voting Rights case. This one was, as you said, i would say it was very well reasoned. You called it passionate. I was up until 5 00 in the morning doing great work actually. Didnt you read it . Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking with Nina Totenberg last night. Talking about why she basically pulled an allnighter an friday night in order to put out her dissent in a Voting Rights ruling in which the court handed don its order at 5 00 on saturday. The majority order from the court means texas voter i. D. Law, the strict nest the country, will be in effect for voting in this election. Its interesting. The majority didnt rule an the merits of that voter i. D. Law and whether its constitutional. They just said the law shouldnt be blocked so close to the election under the principle it undermines Public Confidence in the election. If the rules about voting are changed too close to the time that voting happens. Well, in her dissent, her up all night dissent, ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the texas law is so outrageously discriminatory it ought to be blocked ahead of this election. The greatest threat to Public Confidence in elections is enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely impose an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters. In her dissent, she chastises the justices who ruled in the majority to let the voter i. D. Law go ahead. The potential magnitude of racial racially discriminatory voter disenfranchisement counseled hesitation. It may prevent more than 600,000 registered texas voters, about 4. 5 of all registered voters from voting in person for lack of compliant identification. She says a sharply disproportionate percentage of these voters are africanmileanhour or hispaf africanamerican or hispanic. She looked at the historical record in texas and this voter i. D. Law which was enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose and she says Racial Discrimination in elections in texas is no mere historical artifact. Wow. So ruth Bader Ginsburg did not have to write that blistering dissent. The majority order from the court was unsigned. They didnt explain themselves at all or write a word about why they decided the way they did. She didnt have to explain her dissent. Once she decided to she had to burn the midnight oil because it had to come out in a rush. As she explained, they got all their last filings an friday. They had to have the order out as early as possible this weekend because in person voting started in texas today. So they had to move on it. Thats why she had to stay up all night. And eventually the courts will rule on the merits of that texas voter umpt d. Law and whether its as racially repugnant as Justice Ginsburg this weekend said it was. But until they are able to rule on its merits, that voter i. D. Law will be in effect. The first big turnout in which that law is in effect despite ruth Bader Ginsburgs efforts to the contrary. Early voting as of today suris under way today in texas. One of the states in which early inperson voting is already going on is illinois. Illinois is the home address and voting location for a federal official who temporarily resides in washington, d. C. , because he has a job called president of the United States. In 2012, president obama became the first ever sitting president to early vote in a federal election. He did it again today in his home precinct in chicago. He got a rare night last night night of sleep last night at home in his own bed in his own house in chicago. And then the president woke up in chicago this morning and went to the Martin Luther king jr. Service center in chicago and there with a lot of excitement he cast his ballot. All right. Im here to vote. Vote democrat. I cant say nothing about that. The most Important Office in a democracy is the office of a citizen. Thats what im doing right now. Exercising my franchise. How are you . How are you doing . Im doing very well. Im so glad i can early vote. Mr. President , i have to announce your name. Please do. Barack obama. Thats me. Thank you. Im going to process you now. Okay. Go ahead. Thank you. Its so exciting. Love voting. Everybody in illinois. Early vote. Its a wonderful opportunity. Once the president got to the point where he started voting, a weird thing happened. He ended up voting alongside a young woman who was there to early vote. She turned up with her boyfriend. Did you see this today . The boyfriend said something to president obama while the president was standing there voting and you the boyfriend said something that you would not expect somebody to say to the president of the United States. At least his girlfriend really did not expect him to say this thing to the president of the United States, but the reaction from the president and from the girlfriend was amazing. Watch. Now theres an example of a brother just embarrassing you for no reason. I knew he was going to Say Something smart. Now youll be going back home and talking to your friends about that. Whats his name . Mike. I kant believe mike. He is such a fool. He really is. I was just mortified. Shes having a conversation with the president. Fortunately, the president was nice about it. I am freaking out right now. Mike seems like a decent guy. This is not happening. This is not happening. No, that really happened. After somebody told the president dont touch my girlfriend. The reason president obama was out there in illinois today meeting the folks and doing that sort of stunt about early voting is because of how important early voting is to the democratic strategy for this years elections. It was, of course, famously a key part of the obama reelection strategy in 2012 in key states to get democrats to the polls early to essentially bank early votes ahead of election day so democratic get out the vote volunteers could check people off their list and then move on to other persuadable voters to try to turn them out as the clock ticked down closer and closer to election day. In 2012 if you look at just the votes cast on election day in the state of iowa, on election day, mitt romney won the state of iowa. If you only counted the votes cast that day. Democrats had prebanked so many early votes in iowa that when you put the numbers together, altogether, the president had won the state. So extrapolating from those numbers in 2012, lots of people this year are very excited that iowa this year has banked a Record Number of early votes. And they have banked a Record Number of early votes in iowa this year. Its just this year its not at all clear which votes those are because, yeah, the democrats are keeping their traditional effort to maximize the early vote but the republicans are stepping it up, too. Particularly the Koch Brothers funded americans for prosperity group. They are focusing an trying to turn out the early vote as well. This year theres a big, hugely Important Senate race in iowa. Theres been huge early voting numbers in iowa. But nobody knows what that means in terms whof is going to win the iowa senate race. The overall Political Science common wisdom is higher voter turnout tends to help democrats and hurt republicans. How do you extrapolate that to individual elections or election years. The u. S. Elections project at the university of florida has been monitoring the weekly returns from all the states reporting early voting numbers so far this year. The director of the u. S. Elections project told the Washington Post today that looking at the numbers that are in coast to coast so far, quote, theres going to be high turnout, both in the early vote and on election day combined. Again, common wisdom would say thats good news for democrats. High turnout is jrnlly thought as being better for democrats. Theres nothing about the enemy bers themselves, the numbers in so far that would say this is good news for democrats for sure. Just for a sense of how hard it is to figure out and how fascinating to look at these numbers, just look at florida. Float florida has this big governors race. 2010 was the last time republican rick scott was running. Republicans were 49 of early voting that year. Democrats, 37 . On election day itself, the result of that was that rick scott won in a squeaker. He won by just over 1 . So now look at this year. Next midterm year, 2014. This year the early vote numbers in florida so far, overall the raw number huge. Huge voter turnout, more than 750,000 people have already banked their votes in florida. This year proportions are almost identical. Republicans make up 48 instead of 49 . Democrats of make up 35 instead of 37 . What does that mean about whats going to happen . Can you extrapolate about what we know about who has voted already to know who is going to win on election day . This is the home stretch. Two weeks left. President obama voting himself today. How much of this election has already happened . And what can it tell us about how its going for both sides . Joining us is emily, a political reporter for national journal. Thank you for having me. Early voting is now under way in all but 14 states. Is it reasonable to extrapolate from what we know about early voting returns so far in terms of democrat versus republican hopes . Well, it depends on the state. Some states you get information about Party Registration of who has requested ballots, who has come to the polls. Other states its not so clear. Its really different state by state. Generally when we think about early voting, this is something that democrats have an advantage in in a lot of these states. Democrats have well known and well documented ground game programs so we can expect that they are going to be turning voters out pretty strongly. When we look at some of these Record Numbers, a lot of those will be people that democrats have been reaching out to. That said, republicans have said theyll invest and already are investing really record amounts of money into their own voting programs and into their own ground game operations. So that kind of muddies the waters for us. In terms of early voting and the other logistics about voting. Weve paid so much attention in this show and in the country broadly in terms of prere strictions on access to the polls, whether its voter i. D. , which can determine who is allowed to vote and who is not to or whether its early voting hours, numbers of precincts. To those restrictions function in such a way state to state that they ought to essentially inflect the way we compare this year to other years. Do the rules change enough from election to election that is makes it hard to compare whether these numbers look good for democrats or good for republicans . It certainly is tough to tell. Thats one of those situations where we really wont know what the ultimate effect of some of these voting restrictions will be. We wont know until after election day and see those results in front of us. One thing that particularly not even just the restructions that have been put in place or struck down but the fact theres been so much churn late in the game here. States like North Carolina, texas that you mentioned, all of these states have seen extraordinary changes in the ways and times at which voters can go to the polls. So that certainly doesnt help when you are thinking about trying to make sure that people know when they can vote, how they can vote, what to do when they vote and confusion doesnt make things easier to get people to the polls. Obviously thats the concern thats driving the principled reaction of the court in terms of when theyre going to intervene. They are balancing that against whether or not these restrictions are so discriminatory they have to be stopped. At this point with two weeks left, its such a scramble in terms of figuring out whats happening in the elections. Emily schultheis, thank you for being here. I really appreciate it. Weve got lots more ahead, including an almost unheard of moment of genuine bravery in politics. Bravery and humility together in our politics . Seriously. It happened. Thats next. Can you start tomorrow . Tomorrow were booked solid. We close on the house tomorrow. Tomorrow we go live. Its a day full of promise. And often, that day arrives by train. 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Senator from maryland named mack m mathias. Hed warn the party was drifting too far to the right, alienatesing young people and minorities. In 1985, republicans got their chance to replace him. They got their chance to get a real conservative into that seat. Moderate republican senator Charles Mack Mathias said he has decided not to republican for reelection next year. Thats good news for the republicans. There are two prominent republicans being mentioned. George will and former u. N. Ambassador jean kirk patrick. George will in the senate. George will did not end up running for the senate. He opted to continue his career as a tv talking head where he remains today. Now though he has picked himself a fight that he is losing in a way that turns out to be great for the country. And that unexpectedly good news is coming up. Stay with us. [ ] great rates and safety working in harmony. Open an optimizer plus account from synchrony bank. Visit myoptimizerplus. Com to open an account. 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The reason he was getting all that praise in 1983 was because he blew up the Gubernatorial Campaign of this guy in 1982. John lakian, really rich guy, frontrunning republican candidate for governor in massachusetts in 1982 until walter rob beson at the boston globe turned up the fact that lakian was telling tales about a lot of things. The one that really stuck in the craw was him lying about his military service. Hed been saying on the campaign trail that hed received a battlefield promotion in vietnam which is the sort of thing you get for extraordinary behavior on the battle field in combat. Trns out he got no such thing. Androbinson at the boston globe nailed hum and lakian did not become governor. Then time for another governors race and Walter Robinson does it again. The Massachusetts Republican Party does it agone when they pick another guy with the same kind of problems as their candidate for governor. Again, this time four years after john lakian, this time republican state rep named royal switzler. When it came time for him to lie about his military service, he really rolled one out. He said he was a green beret. He said he had been an adviser to a south vietnamese battalion in the vietnam war. He was not an adviser to a south vietnamese battalion. He talked all the time about his service in the vietnam war. Trns out he did not serve in the vietnam war. The sum total of his vietnam experience was he visited the cannot once befo country once on a tour while on leave from noncombat duty somewhere else and walter rob robinson nailed him for it. Royal switzer did not become governor and reporter Walter Robinson is a vietnam veteran. And for a generation when massachusetts politicians have lied about their military service in order to advance their political careers, Walter Robinson has been there at the boston globe to tack them up to the wall and make them pay for it. Walter robinson is still around and just broke a story thats the antidote to all of that dishonorable muck hes had such a great career muckraking through. Get this. This is seth molton. Served as a u. S. Marine in iraq. Running for congress in one of the congressional districts thats a competitive district. He beat out Democrat John tearney to get the democratic line. He has not been shy about his military career. He talks about being a u. S. Marine. He talks about volunteering to go to iraq as a marine even though politically he opposed the war in iraq. But what seth moulton did in iraq during his tours there has been a little vague on the campaign trail. You know what . Theres a reporter at the boston globe who is really good at digging stuff up about politicians and their military records. So Walter Robinson took a look at seth moulton and decided hed dig in and find out. Hed dig into Seth Moultons military records. And what he found, it speaks for itself. This is an amazing story. Heres Walter Robinson in the globe. The american political graveyard has more than a few monuments to politicians who embellish details of their military service in some cases laying claim to medals for heroism or other military honors they never received. And then uniquely, there is seth moulton, the democratic nominee for congress in the sixth district, a former maurn who saw fierce combat for months and months in iraq but seth moulton chose not to publicly disclose he was twice decorated for heroism until pressed by the globe. So, yeah, he was lying about his service. Thats the story Walter Robinson has had to write over and over again about these politicians lying about their service. In this case its a lie only by omission because the guy didnt want to tell people about the rewards he received for combat heroism and bravery. Whats the opposite of scandal, right . Here it is. He received the bronze star medal for valor, the navy and marine corps Commendation Medal for valor with narratives about his heroic achievement, fearlessly exposing himself to enemy fire and exceptional dedication to duty. In an interview with the boston globe moulton said he considers it unseemly to discuss his own awards for valor. He told this to Walter Robinson. Theres a healthy disrespect among veterans who served an the front lines for people who walk around telling war stars. Seth moulton has been so closed mouthed that only his campaign manager, a former marine, knew of the awards before the globe asked for the citations on wednesday. Even Seth Moultons parents did not know. This doesnt happen, right . This is not dog bites man. This is man bites dog. Candidates keep something out of the public eye because of humility. Veteran, little veteran Investigative Reporter forces candidate to fess up to his medals for bravery that he otherwise told no one about, not even his parents. This is how Walter Robinson closes out the piece. In the interview seth moulton asked the globe not describe him as a hero. We served our country and served the guys next to us. Its not something to brag about. The greatest honor had nothing to do with the medals. The greatest honor was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that i and they disagreed with. So god bless the boston globe for having a reporter who all these years follows up what candidates say about their military service and keeps them honest about that of all things. And i dont know if seth moulton is going to win this race for congress in massachusetts. But this happening over the course of its candidacy is a defeat for cynicism. If hes the model for Public Service, theres hope for us all. Thank you Walter Robinson at the boston globe. We never would have known. Music. The getaway vehicle for all the confidence you need. Td ameritrade. You got this. Here we go, here we go, here we go. 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Ive come to understand that all that stuff i was taught about evolution and embryology and big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And its lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior. Lies straight from the pits of hell. Evolution, the big bang hell all lies from the pits of hell. They saw fit to put him an the House Science Committee because, ha, ha, the last time paul broun defend his seat, 4,000 people in he district wrote in this name as a writein candidate against him. Charles darwin got 4,000 votes. Now paul broun has taken up a new pastime. Ban travel from africa. Keep us free from ebola. Quote, ebola travels. This petition has to travel faster. And by travel faster, what paul broun means is that you should get up out of your seats and send him money. Please chip in 5 or 10 to help us distribute this petition to millions of american citizens. If you are concerned about ebola, send money to a Georgia Republican congressman who is leaving the house this year. Thats kind of how things are going on the right in congress. Heres how things are going on the right on tv. In fact, there are doctors who are saying that in a sneeze or cough, some of the airborne particles can be who are the doctors saying . This is what i think is really important that facts about this disease do not lead to panic. So far every expert that i have seen have said every expert that youve seen. Every expert that ive got experts who say ebola is airborne. Asked to clarify where he was getting his information, commentator george will said he was getting his information from specifically the university of minnesota. The university of minnesota in response released this statement saying, no, thats not us. Dont put that on us. George will is getting their work wrong and they have, quote, not made claims that ebola is airborne. We have that bit of good news about the worst thing in the world. Science says george will is wrong. Thank you, science. Paul broun still wants your 5 and ebola is still scary even without george will making it up as he goes along. We are getting around to some good news about this terrible story. The freelance cameraman ashoka mukpo is reportedly on the mend. Doctors at the hospital in nebraska say he may be able to go home in a few days. He tweeted tonight his long recovery has been humbling. He feels lucky and very happy to be alive. Also the special high level ward at emory hospital says the anonymous patient theyd been treating since september 9th is finally free of the virus and well enough to go home as well. That patient leaving, if nothing else, will open up another bed for an ebola patient if we need that bed in that high capacity ward. We still have dozens of Health Workers an the watch list in dallas in terms of potential ebola exposure. Amid them, dozens who have reached the 21 days of monitoring without getting success. Also thomas eric duncans fiance and the rest of that family also reached the 21day mark today. None of them got sick even though theyd been confined in difficult conditions, including some infectious waste from mr. Duncan getting so sick. Four of the kids went back to school today. The School Superintendent said they were obviously eager to get back into class. Thats good news, too. This crisis is a long way from over. Most acutely where its epidemic in west africa. Also the United States, part of this crisis, seems to have turned a more positive corner at least for today. With the good news starting to come in of patients recovering and Health Care Workers and loved ones not getting the disease is it right to look at this as a good day . Have we got the worst of it behind us at least here . Can we tell whether weve truly turned a corner . What do we need to do now . Joining s ining susdr. Zeke emm. Nice to see you again. Lovely to be here. Is it fair to think of this as a good day, as hard as it is to say in ebola news . Are we turning a corner . Its early to say whether were turning a corner, but we have a lot of good and positive news going in the right direction. Directionally correct is the way id put it. I think you summarized it exactly well. People who have ebola seem to be recovering and doing better. A lot of people taken off the watch list. Didnt get infected despite being very close to patients. Also two pieces of good news out of africa, which is nigeria over the weekend said that it was reported confirmed by the w. H. O. They had no more ebola there. It was caught and confined to just 19 patients in nigeria. And senegal a week ago was said to be ebolafree. We have a number of elements of progress, i think. And whether this is exactly what tom frieden said stops in its tracks we only have three or forpeople in the United States who have the disease and out of 300 million, thats pretty small number. And more people who dont know they have it might arrive in this country and be diagnosed here. Same way it happened with thomas eric duncan. No way to stop that. Right. Remember, he got off a plane. Didnt have a fever. He was feeling well. Didnt know whether he had the disease or not and shows up a few days later in an emergency room with a fever. Youd never have caught him at the airport. The idea that well seal the borders and keep ebola out is just not going to happen. Makes for a great petition if you want people to send you 5 bucks. Its a hysteria. We need to be more realistuc about the situation. In terms of what would happen in this country if we got another patient, either because one of the people being monitored turns out to be exposed and gets sick or someone else arrives from the disease from where its epidemic somewhere else, do you think weve learned enough over the course of the past few weeks in how a person should be handled right up front in terms of limiting their exposure to other people and maximizing their chances of recovery . I dont think its possible in an emergency room in the United States to have someone who comes from west africa with a fever and being put out on the street. Thats just not going to happen. Identifying people, definitely going to be better. Isolating them, i think definitely going to be better. And then having the Health Care Workers don the protective equipment better with a buddy system. I think we definitely have learned something very rapidly. Its too bad weve had to make mistakes and at least two nurses have had to get infected before we did a better job of it and mr. Duncan had to die. But i think its it is the case that were certainly more knowledgeable about that situation. I wish we just again put it in perspect and the panic level was down. Having students who were on a boat with a worker who may be possibly handled the specimen but didnt have any confirmed ebola and was quarantined besides being denied access to school seems like not an abundance of caution, just hysteria. Weve had three cases. Duncan, two nurses, that have contracted the disease or one brought it in here and two contracted here. Out of 300 million people. That is 0. 0000001 of people in the country. The more it gets use for political purposes, the more hysteria. Mr. Wills comments obviously citing not a research study, not even a credible they werent even talking about people who might they were talking about treating a patient who has confirmed ebola in a hospital and they werent saying dont do it or that it might be they said wear a respirator. We have some disagreement. And i think rather than listen to mr. Will we should listen to some Infectious Disease experts. Or the experts who say they are being misquoted by mr. Will. Zeke emmanuel, thank you. Account to his merrill edge retirement account. Before he opened his first hot chocolate stand calling winter an underserved season. And before he quit his friends leafraking business for not offering a 401k. Larry knew the importance of preparing for retirement. Thats why when the time came he counted on merrill edge to streamline his investing and help him plan for the road ahead. Thats the power of streamlined connections. Thats merrill edge and bank of america. 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And to capitalize an that, Florida Democrats have just turned the fan thing into what i think is a Great Campaign add. It sort of is a normalish campaign ad until the end and then has a perfect punch line at the end. Watch. Are we really going to debate about a fan or talk about education and the environment and the future of our state . I mean, really. Its going to be cool. Florida democrats trying to get people psyched for the next Charlie Crist rick scott debate after the last one was derailed by Charlie Crist having a fan under his podium and rick scott deciding that was a reason not to show up. Its been a weird year. The great state of massachusetts has been trying to provide the nation with the strangest debate of them all. The race for governor is between Martha Coakley and republican Charlie Baker. The two of them were expected to face off this thursday in a debate an a local news station out by where i live. I say expected to because lates last week, Martha Coakley decided to decline the invitation. Her campaign pulled out of the debate citing a scheduling conflict. Heres the thing. That didnt mean the debate wouldnt happen. Martha coakleys decision to decline that invitation meant her republican opponent Charlie Baker would get a full hour on tv himself. An hour of free air time by himself across a huge swath of the state a week and a half before the election because Martha Coakley decided she had Something Better to do. Hard to believe, right . Is it true or false . Republican Charlie Baker will be appearing in a debate on thursday with no opponent to debate. Is that true or false . Its now false. That story about Charlie Baker getting a whole hour of tv time to himself was correct when it ran. Martha coakley did pull out citing a scheduling conflict and that did mean Charlie Baker was going to be alone an tv in western mass for an hour. We reached out to the coakley campaign and Martha Coakleys schedule cleared up. Shell debate against Charlie Baker. Shell not cede an entire hour of air time to her opponent in one whole half of the state thats frankly the better half. The coakley Campaign Came to see that was against their best interests. Massachusetts, you wont have a oneperson debate called the Charlie Baker show this week. Amazing. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence one of the joys of my weekends have been seeing all the Charlie Baker ads and the martha cokely ads and of course the scott brown ads and all that stuff from New Hampshire because its all the same tv. Watching people Walking Around dazed, wondering if democrats are going to lose that governorship again. Well, Elizabeth Warren is now rushing to the rescue for the democrats in the senate, and we will count the votes in two weeks, but election day has already started for president obama and many others who cast his vote today. Im here to vote president obama cast his ballot first day of voting gets under way. Things could go either way