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These are the ballots that are flying in here realtime. 400,000 of them, almost 500,000 of them over the course of the last 29 dates. tomorrow, this process grinds to a halt. these things stop and then they count about 200,000 in person ballots that are tabulated. theyre actually brought back here by the sheriffs department, the orange county sheriffs department. theyre put into a pneumatic tube. theyre on a chip. theyre shot through a tube in the roof into the room back here where theyre counte...

Pollsters. >> we all love pollsters. lets talk about actual votes. early and absentee turnouts, actual votes, have been high, compared to this point of obamas first term as of this morning, more than 31 million votes have been cast for tomorrows election. 2014, obamas second midterm, 19.3 million. is president trump, do you think, scott, is he the biggest driver of this, both for and against? >> yeah. everybody is always worried about low voter turnout in america. who knew that all we needed was...

Rob: we have so many tight races, governors races, so much to talk about, we will start in the big swing state of florida, one of the most important states in the country in an election, you have democrat bill nelson versus rick scott and this is a very tight race we have here, lets pull up average polls here, 47.8 to bill nelson, 46.1 to rick scott. this is a very tight race, how do you see this one shaping up? >> its like dejavu all over together. trump won the race on election day, this is co...

Day, but this time we were able, with the absentee and early and i dont have the final data, but we are either ahead or investor close going to election day and today on monday, the panhandle still has early voting because of the storm. so you are going to have republicans rack up some more votes today and heres the thing. we have a lot of our super voters as republicans will not vote early or absentee. they want to vote on election day. and so i think the momentum is on our side i dont think we...

>> dana: since you are nice and warm inside, we are going to make you stick around and put you through your paces. we will start with questions around the table with martha maccallum. >> martha: hello, bill. good to see you. one of the questions i have is which races we might not know about. some of these could be prolonged over the course of the next few days. california and we know doesnt even count all their ballots until a week later on the absentee. mississippi could go into a runoff, right...

Also running. >> reporter: have you voted yet? >> yes. i voted absentee. >> reporter: can you tell us who you voted for? >> stacey abrams. >> reporter: i have not voter. bill, retired military. what do you think about the allegations that have come from the secretary of states office? >> i think theres something in the middle. there always is. what has to happen is not happening across america. we got to bring people together for compromise, and we dont do that very well, and to be blunt, i have...

About this age tax. that race looks pretty good for the democrats right now. >> karen tumulty -- well, let me get to karen in just a second. 85% of likely democratic voters expressing a high level of interest in the midterms and 82% for republicans. according to data from targetsmart, nearly 35 million americans have voted early or absentee nationwide. so that could bode well, you never know. karen, talk about the gubernatorial races and how important they are, and what theyre looking like. >> t...

I know florida has long been unpredictable but it has appeared to be a red state for a long time now, certainly small government, low taxes, no income tax for individuals and yet youre trailing gillum who is a self-stated progressive who wants to raise taxes. what happened to florida? >> were not trailing in actual people who have voted maria. we have more than half the vote has been cast. if you look at the early absentee votes republicans are leading for the first time ever at this stage. dona...

In a race with andrew gillum. i have a team of reporters and superstar guests with the latest in developments and analysis. first, i want to give you a quick look of where we stand right now. as of today, almost 33 million votes, i love this number, have been counted, as early and absentee nationwide, according to nbc news. that blows away the past number of early ballots cast during the 2014 midterms, which was a little more than 21 million. thats what every american should do, get out there an...

Muslim n word about president obama. hes decided to say, andrew said im not going to hide the fact im african-american nor the fact i feel these are racially motivated. how many of the fantastic portion of white voters we have in the state is that going to produce a backlash against or as some people like to call a white lash versus how many non-white voters say we see a non-white candidate taking the issue head on. i wish i could have an answer for you. im looking at the early and absentee retu...