other than to suppressi the vot. we re watching historic spots of violence there in the 60s. let me ask you mayor morial. absentee balloting used to be to preserve the rich. people who had money to take vacations, move around the country. now how is it important to minority voting and poor people voting? i think early voting has caught on in african-american and urban communities. people that work. people that have family obligations are more prone to take advantage of the chance to vote early. and it s pretty coincidental because when you early vote or when you vote by mail, which is the way most absentee voting is conducted you don t have to show a voter i.d. so there s also a lack of consistency in many of these laws. but early voting anything, chris, that expands democracy and expands the ballot is what we ought to be doing in the united states. we ought to be encouraging people to vote, and we ought to remind people that this argument about fraud is a smoke screen.
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frankly i think newt gingrich will claim a moral victory if he keeps romney s victory to a single digit margin. bill: wow, that will be interesting. you re looking for romney more than double digits, 10 points or more obviously. the early voting right now is in. looks to me 20% more votes cast this year than the primary four years ago. florida likes to make early voting and absentee balloting easy for its voters. is this a reflection of the mood and anxiety of voters, the amount of intensity? can we say that? for a party when you have this level of participation, assuming the real vote cast today at the polls resembles at all the increase in absentee ballotting in early voting. you look for those sorts of increases and generally there has been an increase. it has been a marginal increase in iowa, new hampshire. there was more substantial increase in south carolina. this could be a very big increase in florida. that s what the republicans want. they want to see excitement
point. look at some of the numbers in florida based on the sis them thesystem they use. early voting began last saturday, 117,000 votes already cast. absentee balloting is a very big deal in this state, already 495,000 ballots have gone out. now the date for requests ended yesterday, no more can be requested. already 200 32,000 ballots have been returned. it s believed that a great deal of those are likely to be romney supporters since many of them came back before the south carolina given r-r blowout victory. newt gingrich victory. the expectation is approximately 2 million will vote in the republican primary. newt gingrich is trying to rally conservatives at a tea party rally hitting mitt romney pretty hard. there is a new video outdated back to 1985 including nancy
filed last april on tuesday as well as a summary of what my taxes are for trillion. hfor 2011. he is going to try to get over the issue and not allow his opponents to continue to hammer h him with it. shannon: and i m sure he is hoping to not have a repeat in florida where the polls show him very far ahead. chris: he has huge structural advantages in florida. he has the only real national campaign. he has already he and his super pac already spent $7 million on commercials and i have seen a bunch of them in florida. very negative. has been hammering newt gingrich the way he did in iowa and his super pac has. they have also been pushing because there is early voting and absentee balloting. 1.2 to 2 million people will vote. 200,000 already have. 10% already have and this is the romney people driving them. having said all of that 2003 saw what happens when you get momentum and if newt does