About the vote, and he felt the vote was the ability to get somebody to change their circumstances. Martin hraouter king comes to the white house and says to johnson, we need a Voting Rights act, and he said, martin, i agree with you, but i cant do it this year i have all this other Great Society legislation to push, and then many people are beaten and nearly die marching for Voting Rights and johnson is shrewd enough to understand that the country was outraged and he needed to start pushing this, so basically the Justice Department started to draw up a Voting Rights bill before selma, but johnson and his administration moved quickly, and he talked about the Voting Rights act, and six months after the atrocities in selma, we had a Voting Rights bill. It was quick and effective and i think it was an example of government at its best. And didnt johnson with congressman lewis encourage john lewis and dr. King and others to make the demonstrations public and force the countrys hand . He di
And bret. And depending on which average you look at, Hillary Clinton has got a pretty solid lead. If you look at the real clear politics average there is one poll that has the race a tie and all the rest of the polls and that average has hillary ahead by various margins. So he has ground to make up. Its late in the campaign. Debate, particularly third debates dont have a lot of history of changing the trajectory of races. He has a very tall and i would say unenviable task before him. Who knows . He is the most unusual, unconventional candidate any of us has really ever seen and he may be able to do it. You know, if somebody asked me to tell you how he should do it, i dont think i could. You know, brit, he has a lot of material to work with. He has got the wikileaks emails. He has got the fbi documents. He has got this project veritas tape. Not to mention all of the contrast that republicans wish he was making on the trail on substantive policy issues. Yes. I think he has a case on tho
And bret. And depending on which average you look at, Hillary Clinton has got a pretty solid lead. If you look at the real clear politics average there is one poll that has the race a tie and all the rest of the polls and that average has hillary ahead by various margins. So he has ground to make up. Its late in the campaign. Debate, particularly third debates dont have a lot of history of changing the trajectory of races. He has a very tall and i would say unenviable task before him. Who knows . He is the most unusual, unconventional candidate any of us has really ever seen and he may be able to do it. You know, if somebody asked me to tell you how he should do it, i dont think i could. You know, brit, he has a lot of material to work with. He has got the wikileaks emails. He has got the fbi documents. He has got this project veritas tape. Not to mention all of the contrast that republicans wish he was making on the trail on substantive policy issues. Yes. I think he has a case on tho
Nevada it moves up from tossup to leaning democrat. The four other shifts we see tonight all work in favor of donald trump. Will they be enough . Well get to that three key states are moving from tossup status into the leaning republican column. Arizona, iowa, and utah. In addition, North Carolina, you see it there, shifts from leaning democrat to statusup status. So now lets look at the totals. The dark red solidly g. O. P. States through the middle there they count for 116 votes. The leaning g. O. P. Stated a another 99 they combine for a total of 215 in Donald Trumps column. The tossups in yellow including florida, that huge prize with 29 votes, they only count for 49. The dark blue, solidly democrat states bring in 182 votes. The leaning democrat states account for 92. Combine those for a total of 274 in clintons column. So, while this map shows the numbers tighter than they have ever been, trump is left with the same assignment he has had if he hopes to win on election day. All th
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