already started in no fewer than 30 states. also on the rise is the use of absentee ballot. one example is florida where polling stations open two week fs before election day and 75,000 absentee ballots were sent out in broward county alone with some already being returned. john harwood joins us live. parking light obama used early voting really effectively in 08. it s bigger than president obama. he took advantage of the trend. but this trend has been preceding for a couple of decades as the voting process has caught up with american socie society, how busy people are. we have an election day that s really an election couple of weeks. and many people, maybe one-third
the cabinet. he s very young but clearly has his sights on much bigger political fish. and it s coming at an important time where we talk about hispanic in american socie society. yesterday, the democrats in congress threw down the gauntlet. saying house republicans have until the end of the summer to do any substantive on immigration reform or the president will be forced to act. do you expect speaker boehner will be able to do anything with that senate bill in the coming weeks? i think it s been interesting to watch this. i think we. spoke about this some months ago. there s little doubt in my mind that the president will act in some measure in the early months of the summer if nothing comes out of the house. vis-a-vis, immigration reform and that could be, for example, freezing or removing the secure community s federal program that was started by president bushnd increased by president obama, which has been very