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With less than two weeks until Election Day, voters are enthusiastically heading to the polls while keeping fears about the economy and the future of democracy top-of-mind.

Up being gun safety and health care. is abortion going to be enough there for democrats to defy history because its the first midterm under a democratic president or whatever president -- whatever party is ultimately in power, it tends to go the other way so, again, theyre really trying to defy history and dobbs gave them an opportunity to try to do that but all those things, whether its inflation, crime, immigration, republicans are trying to stack against them. >> on abortion, i feel like, you...

Issue. interesting looking at polling. we thought after kansas, after dobbs, this might be a voting issue that could propel democrats into the midterms. in the state of pennsylvania among catholic voters even, only 10% say abortion is their number one issue and 60% say its the economy, which seems to be true across cross sections of voters. >> a moment activated democratic base, activated women, and democrats found, you know, fueled, supercharged in some ways over the summer, but i think we have...

Pennsylvania, new york, michigan >> steve: today, we are doing essentially the postgame show. >> thats right. >> steve: who won, who lost because so many people tuned in to watch those six people at different electors across the country. and who will win? we could know two weeks from today. >> a lot of big debate but anxiety from americans because we may not know who has control of the senate on election day because of the big race in georgia could turn out to be -- >> neck and neck. lawrence jo...

And i anticipate well continue to see midterm records broken. >> just this last week, a student went down to the morehouse voting precinct, and when she got there, they said, your voting eligibility has been challenged. they did not give her a reason why. and they said, you can vote by provisional ballot. and she said im not comfortable voting by provisional ballot. and why am i being challenged? she said she felt disenfranchised because she was disenfranchised. >> reporter: now, a fake ballot w...

Shellacting, the other thing that has happened that politics are more nationalized where the sliver of the independent swing voters is smaller than it used to be but also you end up having people wanting to turn out every single election, so the kind of midterm cycles with what we saw in 2014 where a lot of republicans turned out but democrats didnt, i dont think it exists in this current dynamic. and so i think garrett is exactly right. a place like colorado is a lot safer for democrats today, ...

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The economy key factors and as we talked about what dasha laid out, talk to us what it fits in the next 13 days nationally and how it sets the table for the final stretch? >> i think it sets the final stretch and the report of the analysis i think was actually spot on for garrett, because the normal midterm dynamic that you end up see can is the opposition is normally the most powerful force that is out there, that the people who are upset, who are out of power, are the ones who are heading to t...

More than 40 percent of voters in the United States are worried about threats of violence or voter intimidation at polling stations during the midterm elections in early November, a survey says.