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0 with me today at the table one of the report s authors, steven spaulding, staff council for common cause, cornell belcher and democratic strategist, eleanor cliff, contributor for news week and the daily beast and mark steiner, radio host at morgan state university s mpr station and a founder for the center of emerging media. thank you all for putting up with my gumball narrative. i want to start with you, steven. i am appalled by this. who is true the vote? true the vote is an organization that started in texas. it grew out of the king street patriots, a tea party group that is organizing what it claims to be up to 1 million volunteers across the country to go to polling places and confront voters at their polling places on the basis of what they look like, because they don t think they are registered properly that they are not eligible to do what you said, to make voters feel like they are being followed by the police and driving a car. that is the image that i think i ha
nerdland, some talk about the big pink elephant in the room or how the big red elephant is getting stomped by the big blue donkey. it is looking good for president obama, real good. it is almost got us wondering about the possibility of a landslide. yeah, i said it. put an asterisk next to that almost, because i m going to be returning to it later. what has us feeling so confidence about the president s chances on november 6th. one word that sums up the theme of bill clinton s convention speech last week. arithmetic. i am not talking about the millions and billions in the candidate s plans to fix the economy. i am thinking of a much smaller number that plays a much bigger part in the outcome of the election. 270. now, i know you all know about how the electoral college works. let s do a quick refresher. your individual vote collectively known as the popular vote is just a director instructing your state s electors how you want them to vote. each state gets between 3 and 55 el