Were looking at what has become a typical scene, long lines at polling places. Youve studied elections and polling at the bipartisan policy center. Do we have any real baseline to understand what is going on with the electorate going into this election . Matthew this election is unlike any in the past so it is hard to know if theres a good corollary. Already we have seen far more early and absentee voting than we saw in 2016 so it is really off the charts this time around. Host i have a chart that looks at early and in person voting and how it is trended the last couple of years. As folks can see from watching it, the trend has been for more prior voting, either by absentee or mailin ballot, then in person on election day. What is happening in thinking about the conduct of elections, that has led to this . And then accelerating this trend this year . Matt sure. It has been a trend 20 years in the making. Ever since colorado, Washington State and oregon state made it easy for their vote
Are from turkey as tensions rise between the 2 nations over religious rights. And the government protests so resuming across iraq after a long suspension gitta the coronavirus restrictions. The protests against corruption and unemployments began a year ago in the months since hundreds of people have been killed and injured someone a full team is there in baghdad she tells us whats bringing protesters to the streets this time. Their demands have life the more over the past year when they 1st went out a year ago they were asking for a homeland which means to live in dignity to have access to good service to have access to jobs and to be governed by. A Good Government that is not corrupt now of course they have achieved that to some extent they are demanding the resignation of former Prime Minister which was the 1st time that a Prime Minister was forced to resign since 2003 but the Political Parties that brought him to power that are blamed for much of the corruption and mismanagement of
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Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou