We Need a Government Bail-Out

The Gist

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Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:36.0	that the FCC would find me for if their long arm could ever reach.
0:44.0	It's Wednesday, March 18th, 2020.
0:47.0	From slate, it's the gist, I'm Mike Pasca.
0:50.0	I have never been less depressed to see voter turnout depressed.
0:55.0	Actually, overall, Florida and Arizona reported increased voting totals as compared to the 2016 Democratic primary.
1:03.0	And that is taking into account anemic voting at the actual polls.
1:07.0	And by the way, if you do have anemia, you are in a risk-categorization vote at the polls.
1:11.0	And thank goodness there wasn't a lot of voting at the polls.
1:15.0	In Illinois, voting in person was off by a half to about a third.
1:19.0	So the Chicago Board of Election commissioners took a snapshot at 1pm on election day.
1:24.0	Voting was about 125,000 and in 2016 same time, 300,000,
1:29.0	overall about half a million fewer voters in Illinois this time around than in 2016.
1:35.0	But in Florida and Arizona, they surpassed 2016 levels.
1:39.0	The Florida Department of State reported that more than 630,000 Democrats voted by mail.
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