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The NPR Politics Podcast

Listener Mail: Friday, October 7

The NPR Politics Podcast

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Your questions ahead of Sunday night's debate, and whether Hurricane Matthew could affect the race. This episode: host/campaign reporter Sam Sanders, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and congressional correspondent Susan Davis. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

0:05.8

Back at it again with another episode of Listener Mail.

0:08.1

We're going to answer your questions about the issues, what we're seeing on the campaign

0:11.8

trail, and anything else you're curious about.

0:14.5

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

0:15.9

I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, political reporter, and I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

0:20.2

So these are usually Monday Mail, but this coming Monday morning we're going to have a special

0:24.0

episode about the second presidential debate in your feed, so look out for that.

0:28.6

All right, we've already gotten some questions from you guys about Hurricane Matthew.

0:33.0

If you're outside of the US hearing us and don't know, this is a pretty big hurricane that

0:36.9

is moving up the coast of Florida today.

0:39.7

The storm has already killed hundreds of people in Haiti and the US millions have been

0:44.3

urged to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people have lost power.

0:48.9

So we are not here to speculate on political implications while lives are at risk, but

0:53.4

the storm could affect the election, so we should talk about that, right?

0:56.6

I mean, one of the big things that people are worrying about right now is voter registration.

1:00.6

The voter registration deadlines are coming up quick in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida.

1:06.4

So one of the big debates is what to do about that.

1:08.2

Would they extend them?

1:09.2

Well, South Carolina extended it a couple of days, a few days for some methods of voter registration.

1:15.8

Florida, however, has not, and Governor Rick Scott has come under fire for that from some

1:19.3

corners, including the Clinton campaign.

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