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Election day may be more than a month away, but early voting has already begun. Voters in South Dakota and Idaho began casting their ballots on September 21, while voters in Iowa lined up outside polling stations late last week. Jerry Bloomer was one of the first voters in the country. Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway's Washington correspondent, offers a primer on early voting.
Have you voted already? Do you think you might have been one of the country's first voters? Tell us about it here.
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Carol Rosenberg, a reporter with the Miami Herald, explains why Guantanamo is missing this campaign season, and what Americans still need to know about the detention facility.
Political junkies are constantly trying to predict the future. And yet with the overwhelming amount of data that came with the information age, forecasters are often wrong. Why is that?
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