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hosted by the american enterprise institute. good morning. i would like to welcome all of you to our final pre-election panel. we will be back on november 5 midday to look at the results thus far. today, i am joined by my colleagues. we have a lot of ground to cover and i m going to start by asking each of the panelists a few questions. we are going to start today with of a guide to the electoral college. his volume is all you need to understand the complexities of the electoral college. he is also an expert in absentee voting. what percent of the population do you think will vote early or absentee and can you tell us what we are learning from states such as texas? the technical answer is a lot. many people are going to vote. many more than ever. a huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. we have been seeing a lot more voting in this realm before. we saw 41% of the american people vote i mail or early in person in 2016. the early results are stu ....
hosted by the american enterprise institute, this is an hour, 20 minutes. good morning everyone. i m a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute at would like to welcome you to our final pre-election election live panel. we will be back november 5 midday to look at the results thus far. today, i am joined by my yearagues and by john 14 and henry olson of the ethics and public all the see center. we have a lot of ground to cover, and i am going to start by asking each of the panelists a few questions. they promised concise answers so we can move through a lot of material. let me summarize the polls. yesterday, president trump says he wasn t scared auntie criticized the polls once again. let s look at the poll numbers. polls seven major conducted since september 15, bided has been at or above 50% in 133. trump has been at or above 35% in only 41. his reading has barely moved. ofn for tier is editor after the people vote, a guide to the electoral college, a sl ....
each of the panelists a few questions. we are going to start today with of a guide to the electoral college. his volume is all you need to understand the complexities of the electoral college. he is also an expert in absentee voting. what percent of the population do you think will vote early or absentee and can you tell us what we are learning from states such as texas? the technical answer is a lot. many people are going to vote. many more than ever. a huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. we have been seeing a lot more voting in this realm before. we saw 41% of the american people vote i mail or early in person in 2016. the early results are stunning. as states start to open up, you see enthusiasm go toward early methods of voting. i give credit to a university of florida professor who spent time counting these things. as of today, over 31 million votes have been cast that we know of. there were roughly 56 million of them in 2016. see certai ....
thephilippines still have best performance in the market in the last five days or so. but we snapped those gains. moree seeing manella down than 1%. we have been talking about how we are treading water when it comes to equities here in the region. board and seethe what we are seeing across the board when it comes to the bond market. it was that slide in yields that people are saying is relentless and crazy. we are back up and some of these yields. we actually did hit the lowest level since december of 2017. .e saw the 10 year yield lower .e are back up to about 2.09 price int starting to these fed cuts. the question is when and how soon and how much. version ll in an inversion. this brings us back to the most inverted it has been since the global financial crisis. we are not even close to those lows yet. australia also in focus here. we are seeing that slide in yields. to note that almost all the yield curve in australia is now below the cash rate. perhaps not one and ....
a guy that literally wrote the book on dividends, what a clever that could be for apple and an investor if you want to hedge the bull markets that are moving into their 10th year. so more on that in just a bit. meantime hillary vaughn with latest on capitol hill on the barr hearings. predictably they re playing to party, i guess, right? reporter: democrats complained that barr s summary came out before the mueller report was misleading but barr said today he personally called special counsel robert mueller after his summary was released. he asked mueller if he thought that his summary was misleading and mueller told barr no. i asked him if he was suggesting that the march 24th letter was inaccurate? he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate. and that the press was reading too much into it and i asked him, you know specifically what his concern was. and he said that his concern focused on his explanation why he did not reach a conclusion on obstructio ....