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For donald trump, it's a must win. he has said how crucial florida is for his presidential hopes. for hillary, she is depending on florida as one of the key battleground states to keep her in the win column and keep her over 270 electoral votes. we're getting some idea of how things are going, trends here in early voting. right now some troubling news for the clinton campaign when it comes to african-american voters. they're simply not coming out in the numbers they did back in 2008 for president obama. there's a dip of about 3% so far in early voting. the good news for the clinton camp is amo...

Organized around voting drives. going back to the 1930s people like lafayette and others had been committed to voter clinics where they were educating sharecroppers about the importance of voting just like clark was doing at the high lander school in tennessee. there was an entire generational infrastructure in place before we got to 1964-1965 when the selma campaign started to kick off. what's relevant in the weeks leading to bloody sunday was the everyday repeated courthouse encounters. hundreds of people going every single day. that's not captured in the images that we see. every single day...

African-american president swept into office by the most racially diverse electorate in american history. african-americans and hispanics went to the polls in record numbers. sometimes waiting hours to exercise their right to vote. today that right is under attack. a new report on voting drives, the point home including disturbing details about what happened to voting rights since that 2008 election. here are the 11 states where african-american turnout was highest in the will lex. since then, 7 have put new voting restrictions in place. it's part of an onslaught that brought new restrictions ...