With the campaign entering its final day, and despite Barack Obama's comfortable lead, the fear factor still looms large. Last week the New York Times ran an article about Black voters in North Carolina who assumed that their votes would not be counted. In addition, the climate of fear stoked by the McCain campaign and its surrogates has added a raw edge to the campaign's final moment. A recent ad titled CRISIS released by a Republican 527 blends fears of another 9/11, the financial crisis, and images of Barack Obama and a van of terrorists. Obama has stayed closer to the reality-based world, releasing an ad that highlights Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain. Scary enough for some.

So will voters vote out of fear or hope? 

Sally Kohn, director of the Movement Vision Lab at the Center for Community Change, Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, the author of the forthcoming Gods, Gays, and Guns: Religion and the Future of Democracy, Chris Kromm, the Executive Director of the Institute for Southern Studies, and Air America’s Lionel discuss how the politics of fear have been played in this campaign and whether it has worked. Our guests also discuss the day after and the post-election game.

GRITtv’s tech guru Deanna Zandt on new media strategies for getting out the vote and the technology to make sure those votes are counted. The new online info hubs to know on Nov 4: TwitterVoteReport.com, Go Vote, VideoTheVote.org, The Uptake, VoterSuppression.net.

Finally, voter suppression and the death of democracy. Fear and doubt are greater this year than they have been in recent memory. There is real fear that the election will be stolen and that votes won’t be counted. Ludovic Blain, Project Director of Stop Dog Whistle Racism and Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of Media Studies at New York University and the author of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy talk about what’s changed this year. There’s a greater awareness of electoral fraud and people are prepared to take action. At the same time the Republican Party, what Miller calls the Party of election fraud, is setting the stage for the post-election nullification of votes.

In this edition of GRITtv, commentaries from Kate Clinton and David Sirota. Thanks to the American News Project and Howard Thomas for video used in tonight's show.  

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