san francisco santas. is that crazy or what? bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services bill: hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. suppressing the presidential vote. that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. this year eight state have passed new laws that require voters to show photo identification at the polls. that makes 15 states which require a photo id to vote. some liberal americans object to id laws say they put the poor at a disadvantage because they might not have idi s. my question is why can t they get idi s? what is the duty of a citizen? it s to cooperate in the voting process, is it not? the id laws are obviously there to inhibit illegal aliens and other people not entitled to vote. isn t that a good thing? are we not a nation of laws? what is the beef? the justice department is responsible for making sure each state conducts a fair election.
san francisco santas. is that crazy or what? bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services bill: hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. suppressing the presidential vote. that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. this year eight states have passed new laws that require voters to show photo identification at the polls. that makes 15 states which require a photo id to vote. some liberal americans object to id laws say they put the poor at a disadvantage because they might not have idi s. my question is why can t they get idi s? what is the duty of a citizen? it s to cooperate in the voting process, is it not? the id laws are obviously there to inhibit illegal aliens and other people not entitled to vote. isn t that a good thing? are we not a nation of laws? what is the beef? the justice department is responsible for making sure each state conducts a fair election
is that crazy or what? bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services bill: hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. suppressing the presidential vote. that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. this year eight states have passed new laws that require voters to show photo identification at the polls. that makes 15 states which require a photo id to vote. some liberal americans object to id laws say they put the poor at a disadvantage because they might not have idi s. my question is why can t they get idi s? what is the duty of a citizen? it s to cooperate in the voting process, is it not? the id laws are obviously there to inhibit illegal aliens and other people not entitled to vote. isn t that a good thing? are we not a nation of laws? what is the beef? the justice department is responsible for making sure each state conducts a fair election. attorney general eri
and coleman had his own gaggle of lawyers, most of whom are minnesota-based except for the election mob and ginsberg who served as coleman s and he had been george bush s main spokesperson during the 2000 recount that was a victory for ginsberg was not. i think to properly attribute the franken victory to mere loitering negates some key other fact areas in his win. one was early in overall preparing for it. to his data collection and analysis he collected. three was fund-raising and four was rapid response to events that occurred. the new yorker i got lucky last week had a brief review of of my book and ebro, he wrote, she wrote, wanted it more one of that was a singularity between the minnesota recount of the florida recount. there were some other is out there. one was decided that had one last eight years earlier and was trying to get back at that. but most of the memory of paul wellstone was around this recount as well. senator coleman had been wellstone and they thoug
managers and the data collectors from any race that s too close to call this year can learn much from what did and did not happen here during what s the longest, largest and most expensive recount in american history, namely the al franken-norm 35 weeks, 2.9 million votes, $20 million spent on the recount alone. another $40 million on the campaign. so a total of $60 million to become the 60th senator. you know, it s often been casually said and as i ve been doing these book promotional tours, everyone always asks, wasn t franken outlawyered. that s the way the people talk about him and did have a band of barristers is what i call them. and coleman had his cone gaggle of lawyers, most of whom were minoso based, except for the well known election law, expert ben ginsburg, who served as coleman s spokesman during the contest and he of course had been george bush s main spokesperson during the 2002 of 2000 three recount during the 2000 recount. that was a victory forgives berg.