Serious and lifethreatening weather conditions are expected as early as tomorrow evening from outer banks to new england. New york, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia and North Carolina plus the district of column yeah have already declared states of emergency. A Tropical Storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. Well have more updates on sandy later in the program. Right now i want to turn to politics. This, my friends, is 26. 86. 26. 86, not a hunl amount of money. Certainly not enough for a spiffy new iphone 5. It will get you plenty of itunes downloads. Not enough to take the whole family to the movies, but you could probably treat yourself to lunch at applebees. Imagine that 26. 86 compounded every second. That is 1,611. 60 a minute. Thats 96,696 an hour or 2. 3 million a day. Suddenly 26. 86 doesnt seem so modest because 26. 86 is how much both candidates combined are spending every second of every day this election cycle which is why on thursday, we cross a milestone in ame
the american dream, but at which we realize that the american dream can never be fulfilled until every american has an equal chance to fulfill it in his own life. 36 years later in 2008, young men and women voted in record numbers and chose senator obama by a margin of 34 points. their efforts helped to make him president obama. now that president obama is running for a second term, will young voters show up? will they choose him again. will they become permanent voters with a sense of stake and purpose or will they stay at home and leave the governing to the grownups. still with me, once again ben & jerry s ben cohen and political comment state tore valerie kore and matt segal of ourtime.org and felicia wong, president and ceo of the roosevelt institute. obviously young voters are as diverse a group as older voters, in many ways more diverse.
to explain a simmer record across the county in a battleground state that could decide the election, we re a little less tolerant. mailers were sent out to more than 2,300 voters in three pre tingts in ohio s ottawa county that got not one, but two critical pieces of information wrong. one was the same error in arizona, telling voters election day was november 8th instead of november 6. additionally voters were also directed to the wrong polling place at a local high school. at the table, ben cohen, co-founder of ben & jerry s, auburn seminary s valerie kore and lesley sanchez and mir nah perez senior counsel for the democracy program at the brennan center for justice. mir nah, i m not a conspiracy theorist, but when not one, not two, but both in arizona and ohio we have spanish language
fast food. meanwhile you have a gridlocked congress where very little, if not anything is getting done. i think this was the least productive congress ever. on purpose. reconciling those two forces at odds is difficult for those people. we ll come right back to you, valerie and felicia. when we come back, young voters out there, if you re listening, president obama really does have a message specifically for you. that s next. [ male announcer ] why do more emergency workers everywhere trust duracell.?? duralock power preserve. locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. now.guaranteed. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere.
i see. i think in agreement it s criminal to try to suppress yet that is really quite different, myrna in terms of the state-by-state individual efforts. i want to press on the point you just made. even to the extent the courts have turned much of this back, the confusion itself can be suppressive. certainly. that s why it s really important that there be a lot of very good and very concentrated voter education efforts. it also would do us well to be thinking about election preparedness, and that is something that a number of organizations including the brennan center are working on. this is a very important time. it s the one time when we can all come together as americans and we all have an equal say. it s important that we get it right. we are the leading democracy and we need to make sure our elections are run accordingly. valerie and ben, i ll bring you in when we come back. there s another conspiracy out