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You sate was mistake. oh, terribly sorry. we didnt mean that at all. and then two years later, you pull the exact same trick. its almost honble in its stick to ittiveness, right? but the one thing you cant do is once again say oops, its a mistake, the exact same mistake we made last time. but that is how republican congressman lee zeldin is trying to hold on the his seat in new york state in congress. tis the season for this kind of thing. honestly, though, if you live in that district, man, thi...

Out of spots pour female to park their cars. this was the line at texas state university. to get to the end, you had to snake through the hallways and then into the cafeteria and down a flight of stairs. today was the first day of early voting on that campus today in texas, as well as the rest of texas. and in florida and a handful of other states across the country. in harris county, texas, they set a record today. these folks in harris county waited upwards of 40 minutes to vote today. harris ...

Particularly wisconsin that. >> seemed to be up all over milwaukee. eventually there was enough of an outcry over these things in minority communities that made it seem like you might get arrested if you turned up to vote, there was enough of a public outcry over these things what the company that controlled the billboards themselves pulled them down. in cleveland, the city council put up billboards in their place that said it is not a crime to vote. it is:00 of course illegal to threaten or int...

This year were not necessarily seeing it on billboards, were seeing it online. this year its not some anonymous donor making the threats, this year the threat is from the president of the united states who this weekend posted this on twitter, quote, all levels of government and law enforcement are watching carefully for voter fraud. including during -- all caps -- early voting. cheat at your own peril. violatelers be subject to maximum penalties, both civil and criminal. really? the president is...

Interest in voting this year. please tell ounce a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest. how interested are you in voting in this years election? i know it seems like sort of an esoteric question, but this is one of the questions theyve been asking in this poller for years and years and years, and they ask it the same year. so we can compare election results to the response to that question. it turns out to be a fairly predictive question, and you can see it in past elections. this was jus...

Real progressives should instead write in another name. and each districts mailer has picked another fail farerly well-known local democrat who has run for office in the last few years as opposed to the write-in candidate that real progressives should pick instead of voting for actual democrat thats on the ballot. its clever, right? this is apparently a fairly expensive campaign. these are professional looking flyers and ads. theyre the product of actual local research where they had to pick see...

Over oklahoma city and dropped leaflets out of planes over black neighborhoods right around election time. those leaflets carried a message that was essentially the 1922 version of the presidents tweet. the leaflet said, quote, do not attempt to vote unless you are legally registered. those cards dropped over black neighborhoods in oklahoma in 1922. they also had a little illustration next to the text, a guy in a hood with the initials kkk written on the hood. the "washington post" a few years a...

Should bring out the best in everybody in terms of the campaigns ability to just hustle and be efficient and make the most of their resources. the competition for undecided voters, to race to knock on every door, the race to get people to the polls. the effort to win the argument based on the issues, right? and im sure there are close races around the country this year where that is in fact what is happening and democracy is working the way it ought to. but what we are also seeing in these close...

Hoping for democrats to do well in the elections this year, or if it just makes your day to see lots of people voting, these kinds of visuals will be good news. from a democratic party perspective, they know they need to supercharge turnout and enthusiasm in key battleground states and in key battleground parts and democratic leaning parts of those states if they want a shot at flipping enough seats to take back control of congress. besides those anecdotal reports that you saw from early voting,...

Theyre not actually progressives. its conservatives who made this pac. but under this progressive name, theyve been sending out mailers to democratic voters in key districts all over washington state, telling those democratic voters that their local democratic candidate isnt really progressive enough, isnt really liberal enough. so real democrats shouldnt vote for that democratic candidate. real democrats, real progressives should instead write in another name. and each districts mailer has pick...