back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour as japan slowly tries to recover from the fukushima disaster a new report is suggesting that yet another japanese nuclear plant could be facing a disaster if japan really willing to continue its nuclear power program knowing all of the potential risks also republicans in washington think that ending the bush tax cuts will hurt small business the facts say otherwise what happened during the clinton years and why the republicans refuse to acknowledge it and in tonight's daily take you on forty acres a land of slightly use of a snowmobile and freedom from liberal america and it's time to pack your bags and head up north but make sure you file your sis such an papers first. and a yellow bird like mascot the japanese officials are hoping will keep children safe from radiation poisoning in the disaster zones around the fukushima daiichi plant leaflets are being passed around japan featuring keep it on who warns children about the dangers of radiation and tells them to stay away from pools and ditches of radioactive waste c

well back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour while republicans may still control the house democrats did pick up a number of seats in the in the in that in that chamber but what happened across the united states in twenty three and the prevented even more democrats i mean elected on tuesday and i remember sitting around for hours as a child playing monopoly trying to take away money and property from everyone else well look around you because the global economy has become one big game of monopoly and it's a game is dragging us into economic collapse all explain why and how it's an ideology. in the best of the rest of the news president obama won on tuesday but that doesn't mean voter suppression efforts by republicans were not affected a heart research study found that democratic voters and minorities in particular face much much longer lines in waiting times to vote than white republican voters only nine percent of romney supporters said they waited thirty minutes or more to vote on election day but sixteen percent of obama supporters nearly double were f

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well go back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour at the polls yesterday voters at one hundred communities across america overwhelmingly said no to corporate money influencing our democracy or the constitutional amendment overturning so this is united now on the horizon and democrats are still in control of the senate republicans still in control the house does that mean more partisan gridlock for the next four years or can something be done a light a way to bring on the change america desperately needs. me your take my take a lie the phone lines are now open so if you want to tell me your opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call at two o two nine zero four twenty one thirty four now it's time for the first color of the night. that is jeff and nasa's jeff you're on the air. first time caller. just wanted to. i said thank you go ahead i just want to. touch on the drug work and i think a large part of it is so beyond our control now with the economics that come out of long. haul rashid and making drugs illegal. i'm sorry jeff i missed pa

well back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour we all know mitt romney hates government regulations but is romney's hate regulations the cause of america's latest meningitis outbreak also tonight all across america little kids are going door to door filling their pillow cases with sugary treats for this border hollowing than just chocolate bars scary costumes and jackal letters and our nation's electoral college may be responsible for putting a president in the white house but it's also helping to protect cheap labor i'll explain in tonight's daily take. in screwed news across eighteen states twenty nine americans are dead another three hundred forty four sickened by a growing meningitis outbreak and mitt romney might be responsible as craig unger at salon reports this week the pharmaceutical company there is a responsible for the outbreak massachusetts based new england company company was cited for numerous violations in two thousand and four while mitt romney was governor however his administration did nothing to punish the company or place more regulations

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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour in a moment we'll be taking your calls in our new york take by take a live segment so you have something to say or ask give us a call at one plus one that's the united states two zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four also all across america c.e.o.'s are telling their employees to vote for mitt romney or else it's not the only way corporate execs and try to influence the vote of their workers and over the past several years it's become easier and easier to steal an election in america is there any way to stop the theft of our democracy or are we doomed to have more stolen elections i'll explain in tonight's. welcome to your take my take it live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call at two zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four so for a first call or the night paul in santa cruz a paul welcome to the program thanks for calling it. paul you are on the air. maybe paul is not on the year ok let's let's move along l

welcome back to our tease coverage of the twenty twelve presidential election i'm christine and i'm tom arbonne at this our polling stations of the following states are scheduled to close arizona colorado kansas louisiana michigan is minnesota nebraska new mexico new york south dakota texas wisconsin and wyoming now there's a few things to keep in mind about this first of all some of these states actually have some new polling places that stay open later but in a whole lot of other states virginia being one of them the polling stations were scheduled to close at seven pm we're told there are still people in the line there so the turnout today immense you know some people are saying larger than they could have possibly expected some of these places these are the times that they were scheduled to close as they didn't they weren't quite able to but folks we're getting closer and closer to that time of night when we could start to see a shift or see which way some of these races are shifting so where does the race for the white house stand at nine pm eastern time let's bring back our election night

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