> you know, i'll never forget this. back before the 2008 election on the saturday before i was in north carolina at a, at a mall in raleigh, north carolina, and i remember driving up, and there were hundreds and hundreds of people in line. and i asked my driver, who are all those people? what are they doing there? when i got to the front of the store that i was going into, it was almost all african-americans. and i asked these folks, what are you doing standing in line? they said, we're all here for Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
> you know, i'll never forget this. back before the 2008 election on the saturday before i was in north carolina at a, at a mall in raleigh, north carolina, and i remember driving up, and there were hundreds and hundreds of people in line. and i asked my driver, who are all those people? what are they doing there? when i got to the front of the store that i was going into, it was almost all african-americans. and i asked these folks, what are you doing standing in line? they said, we're all here for Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies." property="og:description">
> you know, i'll never forget this. back before the 2008 election on the saturday before i was in north carolina at a, at a mall in raleigh, north carolina, and i remember driving up, and there were hundreds and hundreds of people in line. and i asked my driver, who are all those people? what are they doing there? when i got to the front of the store that i was going into, it was almost all african-americans. and i asked these folks, what are you doing standing in line? they said, we're all here for Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
hairn hand ready is a former communications directer for the national republican committee, simon rosenberg is the president of a left-leaning think tank, an adviser to bill clinton's presidential campaign. and steven moore is senior economic writer for "the wall street journal". thanks for joining us for this panel. steven, patty wants to know about early voting. when you say which party is ahead, how do they know if voting ballots are not opened early? is there a code on the envelope? is. [laughter] >> you know, i'll never forget this. back before the 2008 election on the saturday before i was in north carolina at a, at a mall in raleigh, north carolina, and i remember driving up, and there were hundreds and hundreds of people in line. and i asked my driver, who are all those people? what are they doing there? when i got to the front of the store that i was going into, it was almost all african-americans. and i asked these folks, what are you doing standing in line? they said, we're all here for