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Of temporary workers who regularly staff polling sites will return for any future votes. because they want to avoid harassment and threats. and potentially violence. one pulling manager telling a hear racing story from the night of the january senate runoff in georgia. this is amazing. after the polls close, she was quote driving to deliver ballots to an election's office in barr del county. a prominently white republican district in northwestern georgia. the polling manager, who was black, was traveling with her daughter, also a poll worker higher temporarily for the election. on a dark rural...

Harassment and threats. and potentially, violence. one polling manager, telling a hair-raising story from the night of the january senate runoff in georgia. this is amazing. after the polls closed, she was quote driving to deliver ballots to an elections office in bardo county. the polling manager, who is black, was traveling with her daughter. also, a poll worker hired temporarily for the election. on a dark, rural, two-lane road, they noticed they were being followed by an suv. the manager called 9-1-1, as her daughter sped toward town with the suv nearly running them off the road. they were...

We'll pan over to that corner, the spaces taken up by cars, that was taken up by people earlier this morning. the weather passed through here, raining a good ten minutes and it fizzled out the crowd. people did come back and we've seen that ebb and flow all day. we are still being told there's about a 40-minute wait. i took a look inside just a short time ago. i talked to the polling manager here. she's worked here for 20 years and said she's never seen this time of enthusiasm or turnout, not even during presidential elections. we had historic turnout for early voting, 2.1 early votes cast. i ...

Of the elections. it's one of the most contentious and has become one of the most dramatic elections dominated by abuse of power and allegations of hacking. nick valencia is joining me from atlanta with a look at this. what are you seeing on the ground today? >> we're seeing an incredible amount of enthusiasm from the voters. when we got here, just after 8:00 a.m., the line stretched around the corner. then the rain settled in. it poured on us for a good ten minutes and fizzled out the line, cutting the line in half. now it seems that voters, perhaps because it's lunch time or maybe some of th...

Congress is on track to be its least productive since 1947 and a new joint study by the "washington post" and the kaiser family foundation shows our country sz a whole is more polarized than ever. they identify five types of republicans, tea party republic appears, old school republicans, and religious values voter and window shoppers and they break down four types of democrats, urban liberals, god and government democrats and do-it-yourself democrats and the agnostic left and this will make governing even harder. both are coalitions of people that may converge on core issues but whose world v...