Watch book tv on cspan2 this weekend. Washington journal continues. Host next we are joined by john fortier, studies director at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Here to talk to us about what to expect heading into election day, you wrote a book in 2006 promises and perils, while that is the story so far with states like texas and hawaii already surpassing their total of 2016. What you think that massive number of votes means . 2006, it maybe was not as interesting but we are talking a lot about it today. We are seeing a huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. 2016 we saw 41 of the population voting for election day. 17 by early in person voting. We are seeing another explosion beyond that in this election. We have already seen 92 Million People vote early this as of last night. We are going to see more before election day. Deservescdonald really credit for keeping these numbers which keep expanding. We will see on most 50 of americans voting by mail. The average for t
With states like texas and hawaii already surpassing their total of 2016. What you think that massive number of votes means . 2006, it maybe was not as interesting but we are talking a lot about it today. We are seeing a huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. 2016 we saw 41 of the population voting for election day. 17 by early in person voting. We are seeing another explosion beyond that in this election. We have already seen 92 Million People vote early this as of last night. We are going to see more before election day. Deservescdonald really credit for keeping these numbers which keep expanding. We will see on most 50 of americans voting by mail. The average for the 4 voting early. Just a little bit voting on election day. 23 or 25 . It means changes in states doing very different things. Some of them casting ballots in a new way. One of the thing to note is in the past a lot of votes and in person votes were very close to election day. This started early. As e
Across Central America where storm letters left dozens dead and thousands more homeless. Welcome to the program another day has ended in the United States and still no answer on who will lead the country for the next 4 years the close of the counters to finishing the tighter the race becomes is the overall picture with just 4 battleground states left to count and any of them could get joe biden the when he wants the most likely is nevada here in the west there he has a very narrow lead its less than a percent donald trump is currently winning in the rest of the states but again the margins a razor thin over in georgia theres just a few 1000 votes that separates them and those states that are being counted are the ones that you see here in yellow now biden has 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 that still puts both of them in the range of the magic number of 270 thats needed for the presidency lets take a close look at georgia now remember that joe biden is now just fewer than 20
Donald and mike pence supporters 202 7488001. Undecided 202 7488002. For your texts 202 7488003. A tweet ato send us cspan w day and post your thoughts. Facebook. Com cspan. His religion a key factor in your vote. Mike pence and joe biden had Opinion Pieces in the christian post on the same day. Well start with mike pence. Is the bestump choice for americans of faith. The American People and particularly people of faith have a lot to be proud of. He further says we must vote to protect the very foundation of our country. The American People know the foundation of america is freedom but the foundation of freedom is faith. Our freedoms are a gift from our creator and when we defend the we make his work on a our own. On earth our own. People of faith have no greater champion than donald trump. Thats from Vice President mike pence in the christian post, the same day this piece was written by the president ial candidate joe biden. The greatest commandment has guided my politics is the headl
Even before the selection, we have seen a huge increase in voting by mail and voting in person. In 2016, we saw 40 of the day,ation voting on the 20 by mail. We have seen an explosion beyond that. We have seen 92 Million People already vote early as of last night. We will see some more coming in before election day. Michael mcdonald really deserves credit for keeping these numbers. We will see probably upwards of almost 50 of americans voting by mail, maybe another 20 voting in person, and a little bit voting on election day. It means big changes in states that are doing Different Things. One other thing to note is a lot of the mail in votes and in person votes were very close to election day, the last few days. This started very early. We saw lots of ballots coming in early, several weeks before. There will be problems with counting, perhaps issues and delays, but i think we will see record turnout and we have seen lots and lots of voting. Host what do you think the driving forces are