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Have that script together. you ve got to be on the same page from the first interview with cbs and 60 minutes where he started distancing himself away saying i ve got my own plan fop what you just played last night where he says our plans are pretty much the same. you cannot start this argument, this discussion again i agree with bob this national debate on substance when you re showing that well, maybe we haven t worked out exactly what the substance is. well, let me get back to what the voters have to worry about in the stakes of this election. whatever your politics watching this show right now, you want to know what these guys will do if in there. we know what obama is going to do. the question is what is romney going to do. when you get married with somebody, the person with the strongest convictions like going to church or how to raise the kids tends to get the upper hand because the other person in the marriage says okay, you really care about this thing. i m going to let ....
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Postal service and others do their job so that envelope ebnd up in the counting room. isn t there also a black church tradition of going to vote after church? there really is. there was a meeting in cincinnati today, at the hamilton county board of elections even though it had little to discuss after the secretary s directive yesterday, but nearly 200 people jammed in to that meeting and there were a number of black ministers who said, you can cut back the hou s s but i guarantee you we re going to bring the buses down to the boards of election. you re going to see us no matter how compressed the timetable is. so they re going to stand at the closed doors and try to vote? well, the extended hours that the secretary announced yesterday during the first three weeks of october will keep boards of election open until 5:00 and final two weeks before the election until 7:00. the law is if you re in line at 6:59 p.m., you can have 1,000 people in line. those 1,000 will be counted. so ....
Broke the 2-2 tie and decided to keep polls open. the move caused such an uproar that yesterday, houston did away with all early in person voting across the state on weekends leading up to the election, but even that is not fair because history shows that blacks who vote before election day tend to vote in person. so in person opportunities to vote hurts democrats more. with me now is the former governor of ohio and investigative reporter of the cincinnati inquirer. the republicans are so flagrant here. to first of all try to shut down only democratic counties where people are going to vote for president obama and then to win so far in saying he can vote by absentee ballot. you re not going to vote the way blacks like to vote, show up at the opportunities they have before election day. once again, you have something 90,000 people voted last time in ....
Opportunities helps republicans. they re tougher voters. they go rain or shine. democrats aren t always going to vote because economic opportunities aren t there, they have education challenges or transportation challenges, economic challenges generally. if you want to win an election for the republicans, make it harder to vote. and here they go again. is there any motivation for the decision to shut down early voting in person? well, what the secretary has said is that under new program in ohio this year, every single registered voter, about 7 million people, will be getting in the fall an absentee ballot application. his argument which we d heard a lot over the last two weeks is that gives you 750 hours in which you can cast your ballot without even having to leave the easy chair in your living room. as far as that goes, the argument is valid. the problem is, as you pointed out in the intro, many african-americans actually prefer to vote in person for a variety of reasons, not leas ....