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Voting yes would restore voting rights to over 1.5 million people who were formerly incarcerated. theres a lot at stake here, we saw that in virginia a couple of years ago. theres a sense that people are losing their privilege and power, thats whats at the root of this. >> and leah, thats the ethics and the stakes of it. as a political scientist, i turn to you on the raw politics. could this have a backlash effect and actually increase turnout from some of the affected communities in multiple st...

Florida, for example, they have a ballot measure where voting yes would restore voting rights to over 1.5 million people, formerly incarcerated. theres a lot at stake here. we saw that with virginia a couple years ago. theres a sense that people are losing their privilege and power, thats really at the root of this. >> thats the ethics and the stakes of it, as a political scientist, i turn to you on the raw politics. is there a chance that this could actually have a backlash effect and actually ...

Yes, he got elected, but its also in virginia year ago, ed gillespie tried to do this, got his butt kicked. the polling about the president right now is not good. the polling for republicans in competitive districts is not good. and were at a near high point this the number of americans who say they feel immigrants are positive in america. if anything, there has been a backlash effect. and i know youve been doing a lot of reporting out in these swing districts, and i wonder what you see there. >...

The polling about the president right now is not good. the polling for republicans in competitive districts is not good. and were at a near high point this the number of americans who say they feel immigrants are positive in america. if anything, there has been a backlash effect. and i know youve been doing a lot of reporting out in these swing districts, and i wonder what you see there. >> you know, i think its really hard to say because things are so polarized. >> right. >> he is not trying to...

What he tweets that day. they dont really have the message down. >> oh, ohio, what a terrible place, i am your president, vote balders balderson. there is also the backlash effect. the idea that you see the republicans use nancy pelosi, the president is a polarizing figure. you see it on immigration, the immigration polling is fascinating. in 2010, it was split, by 2017, it is plus 40 in favor of immigrants strengthening the country >> trumps incredible unpopularity is often uncounted because he...

Of -- you cant be this behind the eight ball when dealing with russia at a moment like this. as ian was pointing out, this seems to be a shift. what a lot of people are looking for, at least from the democratic party as well, they want to see this followed up with more stringent sanctions measures. thats going to be in the realm of things that will hurt a lot of the russian power players, where they live, but start to get into questions of, can you do that without having any backlash effect in t...

Show up and vote at any election that he was in. he was going to get this small percentage of people out there to vote for him. and then slowly over time, after that "washington post" story hit, you kind of saw an erosion of the people who were going to hold their nose and vote for him. among the republicans here in this state. because thats what a whole lot of republicans were doing here, they were going to hold their nose, vote for the republican, toe the party line. i think you lost a lot of ...

The person who is alleging this happened to them. now, thats a deterrent. a lot of young women wouldnt want to come forward knowing theyll have to continue working perhaps in their office while undergoing mediation. the house offices are tiny. youre going to be working in very tight quarters with someone who you may be alleging assaulted you or harassed you. thats difficult. thats very tough. >> one question going forward, i should note before i move on, the detroit free president editorial toda...

When they are being threatened and people want to show that they care about voting and they are not going to let politicians manipulate the rules of the game, not to let them vote. >> obviously the benchmarks here, the important apple-to-apple comparison, it being looks on the whole like democrats are outperforming their 2012 benchmarks. >> right. >> which may be a sign about that sort of backlash effect you might get even if not in guilford county where that restriction had a significant effect...

Distressing is it seemed that these cutbacks were targeted. for example, cutting the sundays before election day where many african-american voters called us all to the polls and political scientists are clear the more barriers you put in front of the ballot box, it decreases and depresses turnout. unfortunately, were seeing some of that. i think theres a counterbailing trend which is people are mad when they are being threatened and people want to show that they care about voting and they are n...