Turnout did not go down in those states. In fact, georgia, which has a large africanamerican also in 2010 when there was no when barack obama was not on the ballot. And in 2012, our last president ial election. Do a survey reau election. Their census shows that black voters actually voted at a higher rate in the state of georgia with its voter i. D. In place. Indiana which has a photo i. D. Law thats been in place since 2008, thats the law that the Supreme Court upheld. According to the Census Bureau in the 2012 election, black voters outvoted white voters by more than 10 percentage point. So this idea that this is suppressing peoples right no vote is simply not the case and the data shows that. In fact, i think president obama actually agrees with that. He gave an interview about a week ago in which he said, talk about voter i. D. And other laws that most of these laws are not preventing the overwhelming majority of folks who dont vote from voting. Most people do have an i. D. Most pe
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Eastern for analysis. Some of the most closely watched senate races throughout the country. Watched races across the country throughout the night and into the morning. We want to hear from you with calls, facebook comments, entry tweets. Now to alaska, where democratic senator mark begich it is running for reelection against dan sullivan is an. Tossup. Is considered a the recent debate was in anchorage, courtesy of Alaska Public Media. This is one hour. The debate for the state. Your moderator. Good evening. Welcome to debate for the state for u. S. Senate. I am the news director for the Alaska Public Media and public radio network. We coming to you live from anchorage. We have gathered to make our production a collaboration. Our guests are the candidates for u. S. Senate. Mark is seeking a second term. He was mayor of anchorage. His republican challenger is dan sullivan. The resources commissioner for the state of alaska. He was secretary of state in the bush administration. Ruskin, w
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At stake for republicans voting in favor of it. The bill is essentially a clean suspension of the debt ceiling for about 13 months. What they are basically voting is if you are someone who in a republican primary contest, there are already arguments being made that republicans essentially voted in favor of giving a blank check for more government borrowing for a little more than the next year. It is the kind of thing that wont play well in republican primaries. Something thes republicans generally didnt want to have to vote for. They ultimately voted against it on the final passage. Observers of the senate know very well that this is not the where the final vote is the one that is really important. The vote that matters is the one with the 60 vote threshold. Which was, in this case,emanded by senator ted cruz the relative newcomer from texas that really wanted that threshold. Among the pieces you are writing, the worlds greatest blog, back toody that vote, you said the Democratic Leade