it is horrible, so many innocent victims here. it s been a systemic failure of the entire state to get a hold of this. the board of elections, through three governor s administrations, have been investigating this and criminal prosecutors in some ways going back a decade and they haven t been able to get a handle on it. that s why our legislatures today called on a bipartisan commission to root out this corruption once and for all and we are in support of that. guys, thanks very much for the discussion. dallas good to see you again. professor michael bitser. let s go to texas. the casket of george h.w. bush is arriving at the train station in spring, texas. the train, the union pacific westfield train, which has been renumbered u.p. 4141 after the president, the 41st president of the united states, is going to carry the president to his final resting place near the museum in college station, texas. that s the train right there. he will be laid to rest later
hold on how many people can physically make it to a ballot box on sundays to cast their votes. democrats are fighting for sunday voting, republicans are fighting against it, and those fights happen in every county in the state. and the republicans have been pretty successful at choking it off. right now a total of 23 counties in north carolina offer voting on sunday, 23 counties out of 100. so they ve done pretty good at shutting it off. why have they wanted so badly to shut it off? want to see how that s working this year? we have some new clear data that gives very clear insight into why republicans have tried so hard to lockdown this particular kind of early voting in north carolina. look at this. this is for michael bitser, political science professor in north carolina. he runs a website called old north state politics. and you can see here the makeup of the in-person early vote in north carolina so far. red is republican, blue is democratic. gray is unaffiliated. our gray looks ki
we don t know. but a ton of them are voting early. one in every four early votes is from an unaffiliated voter. the foremost expert is michael bitser. he tells us these north carolina unaffiliated voters, one out of four early voters so far, they are the, quote, great wild card in this election season. so bottom line, ohio and iowa, republicans are psyched so far. nevada, democrats are really, really psyched. democrats is florida are sort of cautiously optimistic. democrats are excited about texas for next time around but north carolina, which has had so much attention this year and so much attention in the next few days, including from people like the president of the united states on campaign visits, north carolina right now, nobody knows a great wild card but nationwide 23 million votes already in the can. watch this space. to reach my goals.
reportedly have a very strong turnout weekend this past weekend. but that hasn t so far been enough to catch them up to democratic turnout in 2012 in ohio. last state to look at is north carolina. in north carolina, fascinating. there s a ton of mixed signals. a quarter of all of the ballots cast so far in forth carolina are from unaffiliated voters. now, that doesn t mean independent. voters who call themselves independent tend to skew republican. voters who call themselves unaffiliated, that s a different story. in north carolina, voters who call themselves unaffiliated, they tend to be younger and more likely to be nonwhite than your average voter and that might mean unaffiliated voters lean democratic. we don t know. but a ton of them are voting early. one in every four early votes is from an unaffiliated voter. the foremost expert is michael bitser. he tells us these north carolina unaffiliated voters, one out of
early. one in every four early votes is from an unaffiliated voter. the foremost expert is michael bitser. he tells us these north carolina unaffiliated voters, one out of four early voters so far, they are the, quote, great wild card in this election season. so bottom line, ohio and iowa, republicans are psyched so far. nevada, democrats are really, really psyched. democrats is florida are sort of cautiously optimistic. democrats are excited about texas for next time around but north carolina, which has had so much attention this year and so much attention in the next few days, including from people like the president of the united states on campaign visits, north carolina right now, nobody knows a great wild card but nationwide 23 million votes already in the can. watch this space.