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News on the polling front that democrats have to guard against overconfidence. it is not in the bag certainly. >> or in the jar. >> the voter suppression effort, the phrase driving while back, people are familiar with. we could have voting while black. it is not what this country should be about. if the president is going to win by any significant margin, these suppression efforts will only be on the sidelines and they wont change the outcome. if this is a close election, these kinds of things c...

On election day, if act 18 is not injoined then voters will be faced with the serious threat of losing their right to vote. >> that was david gersch, the lead attorney for the plaintiff in the pennsylvania voter i.d. law presenting oral arguments before the pennsylvania supreme court this week. the plaintiffs, including the advancement project and the american civil liberties union are seeking to overturn a lower courts judges to deny their injunction and stop the law from taking effect. the fin...

>> if, on the one hand, if we believe polls and we believe they are accurate representations of preferences, we have what looks like u.s. preferences for president obama and then we have suppression efforts and the big money, is that enough to take those preferences and turn them into a different outcome? >> democrats are so excited about this idea that barack obama could win but he could lose this election for all the reason we are talking about. voter suppression is very serious. the voting ri...

Presidents re-election. >> let me ask you one last question. does it make any difference that these judges are elected rather than appointed? or do you expect their ultimate judicial decision making will rest on the arguments made in the case? >> well, since i am a lawyer, i will say they are impartial. they will look at the evidence in front of them. they will look at the arguments. here we have arguments about the fundamental right to vote. the judges were concerned about the fact that this is...

Polls in november. they say they want you to make the experience of voting like driving and seeing the police follow you. in a country where we already have a dampened turnout, this could be the dramatic difference. >> voters need to know their rights. thats the tools in here. voters should know their rights when they go to the polls. the department of justice needs to enforce the law. we need to think about the overheated rhetoric that is firing up a base where people are taking the law into th...

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