from tpm media.ant to give you an overview of our election coverage which we are actually going to kickoff at noon on monday. the first thing we want to tell you about in partnership with google we are going to be featuring an interactive election results map where you can follow all the election results life on election day through election evening. you can watch the presidential results as they come in state-by-state, the house races in the senate races. you can see what it looks like right there and we will be putting that up on monday afternoon so you can familiarize yourself with how it works and so forth so you're ready for election night and the results come in. starting monday we will have our tpm crew, david kurtz and bancroft in chicago to bring you live reports from obama headquarters and the results on election night so on election day and night we will be having both video, tpn tv shows but live video reports that will be featuring on the front page right here at talkingpointsmemo.com. c

>> guest: so, our headquarters tpm, they send new -- it's about one third of the organization chemist is roughly 10 or so. and in new york is just over 20. >> host: here in washington, where are you located? >> guest: where the located downtown, very close to 13 square. >> host: as people are looking, it's probably three, four masterman n. ride in the heart of downtown, business part of washington. is that correct? >> guest: that's right. >> host: you mention josh marshall. josh marshall was a guest on c-span at the q&a program for is discussion about himself and how he got interested in reporting. we have a clip of that just so you cannot meet demand who had the idea behind the talking points memo. let's listen. >> remember the first mummy is that i want to do this myself. create this website. yeah, you know, i think they're a couple moments when i had that, where i didn't do it yet, sort of false start. when i was in graduate school i was involved in web design basically to support myself. and i put together a newsletter that was about things having to do with the internet and stuff

a 90-year-old who gave up her driver's license three months ago told tpm, quote, i don't know why, for what reason the voter id was passed. i couldn't tell you. zachary roth, a senior writer and editor at msnbc.com went to pennsylvania and talked to 101-year-old pennsylvanian who doesn't have the proper id to vote in november. >> how would you feel if you weren't able to vote? >> i would feel very badly because i know we have come a long ways when we could not vote. see, i remember when we black folks didn't have a vote. >> this is a state that takes the civic duty of voting so seriously that it has a voting hall of fame. but this year the state of pennsylvania is going to disenfranchise many of its dedicated voters where they voted in 50 elections straight? congratulations. here's a spot in our hall of fame forever. now no more voting for you. that's pennsylvania. and the great state of iowa, while republicans tried for it, there is no new iowa voter id law for this year's election. that doesn't mean that nobody gets disenfranchised. the republican secretary of state in iowa has sudde

we're not a big staff at tpm. i do think we work hard to try to stay on top of the important aspects of legislation that does get past and we cover the closely. legislation that passed under the radar that had some controversial components was a couple of months ago. the house appropriations subcommittee passed legislation that revived a debate from earlier on this year about whether or not a health insurance plan should cover contraception for women. an amendment was tacked onto a bill that went unnoticed. we worked hard to point that out that this was out there. i would be interested to see what kinds of harmful bills are out there that the immediate does not give coverage to. host: next is a call from south dakota and north york our viewes tanner. caller: i was curious about what you thought of other media sites. host: thank you very much. guest: specifically, i don't have a strong opinion on them. a lot of what they do is a conspiracy oriented, from what i've seen from them. regard to online media sites in gen