'BradCast' 3/9/2020: ('The Very Core of Election Day: Voting Itself')
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The U.S. stock market cratered (again) on Monday, over fears about the quickly spreading coronavirus and plummeting oil prices, with the Dow dropping more than 2,000 points. But the President of the United States spent the weekend playing golf and throwing parties. Six states hold 2020 Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday\xa0 -- Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she would vote for Joe Biden if he becomes the nominee, and recommends that you do, too. Montana's popular Democratic Governor Steve Bullock announces he will run for U.S. Senate, after all, increasing Democrats' odds of retaking the Senate majority.\xa0 Meanwhile, voting nightmares and failures from last week's Super Tuesday in 14 states continue. California's Sec. of State Alex Padilla directs L.A. to utilize an all vote-by-mail system for the November election, but L.A. County's Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan is resistant.\xa0 Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan excoriates the corporate media for obsessing over "the horse-race" coverage and failing to cover the many predictable voting disasters in California and Texas until "after the fact," ignoring "the very core of Election Day: voting itself."\xa0 We open the lines to callers who offer more tales of extremely long lines, voter confusion and other debacles while attempting to cast a ballot last week on Los Angeles County's failed new touchscreen voting systems and electronic pollbooks...