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For 2016. the "washington post" is calling it the year of the vote, in which almost every state has registered a record number of early voters, and some, like texas, have already passed the total vote for all of 2016. as of early this monday morning, the breakdown includes more than 34 million in-person votes with just shy of 60 million returned mail-in ballots, about 91.3 million mail-in ballots were requested across the country, which means almost 31.4 million have yet to be returned. a party breakdown shows more than 45% of the early vote has been cast by registered democrats. more than 30%...

Experts point to a voting base galvanized by recent protests over racial injustice. >> say her name! >> reporter: and inspiration. namely in 2018 a surge of house candidates and stacey abrams historic gubernatorial run in georgia. >> we talk to these candidates, they're inspired by what they've seen and if they can do it, why not now? >> what i would like to see in the future, where it's normalized where you don't have to say this say black woman candidate and she's the first. >> reporter: hoping to bring the nation's diversity to washington. blayne alexander, nbc news, chattanooga, tennessee....

>> this is really the genesis of a lot of the kind of campaign material we see now. >> reporter: over the years, the memorabilia spans soap, makeup compacts, colognes, and of course buttons. this room has cabinets filled with them, and their predecessor, campaign ribbons. >> notice, this is a picture of lincoln without his beard. >> reporter: a political history collection of about 130,000 items, only a fraction on display for the public to see, in this case, the eventual presidential nominees. >> bringing it back, we don't know yet what the end of this campaign story is going to be. >> report...

Somebody said, uh, you know, that he's taller than me. calls me little mike. and the answer is, donald, where i come from, we measure your height from your neck up. >> that's pretty much how it went between trump and bloomberg today. trump went at bloomberg's height, saying mini mike is 5'4" mass of dead energy. he's 5'7". saying he hates crazy bernie and will with enough money possibly stop him and he further predicted bernie's people will go nuts. now, bloomberg, for his part, said this. we know many of the same people in new york. behind your back they laugh at you and call you a carnival

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