and there are questions raised in the future. >> alan abramowitz, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. i encourage people to read what you published at sabato's crystal ball. to everybody at home, i want to know what you think. go to my web website @smerconish.com. this is my survey question. which do you think is a greater threat to democracy, the way we cast our ballots or the way we count them? tweet my at my smerconish page. this comes from the world of twitter which says, why add fuel to the fire, michael? the wording implies there is a threat to our democracy. don't we have enough miss trust now? ck grammy waiting for spring, the president thinks it's threatened but not in a conventional way. to the point where here's someone who actually did the analysis and found that passion moves the needle. sure, it's important to keep an eye on laws that apply to ballot access, but in the event, people who want to come out and vote are coming out to vote. what you need to be more concerned about the way in which those ballots are going to be counted. and i think that's a si