turnout keep steady well it's we have we have quite a ways and we've got another almost what our well i think that's you know be a little different than it was two years ago when barry also covered the democratic party and it was a i guess that it was the year that phil select board and was very close to years ago too upsetting one of those two hundred vote yes four hundred votes and there's a fourth candidate this for two seats district her name is kathleen orion who she describes that she's keeping the seat warm and is fairly conservative trump supporter who wanted to make sure that that view was represented so that'll be an interesting and interesting race to watch and then call chester the i think pam winders very eager to take one of those open seats are the open seat there and then in milton there is a three way race for one seat and there's an incumbent there i'm not as familiar with those names but that's a race or watching and then hopefully the results we we're not collecting these results in grand isle county but i think we will be able to share what's happening with the mitzi johnson race summit see johnson and been joseph represent the islands mitzi johnson is  leader so that's another this in terms of state why races there are you know there are a number of interesting races one of them is governor phil scott he's being challenged by christine how queston several independent christian how crist is running a democrat and then the lieutenant governor's race which people are feel might be closer than might be expected is we have our lieutenant governor currently tena governor david zuckerman who's being challenged by don turner who's a republican and there because i did the forum that went for three hours with all thirteen candidates and i know you did the governor won with many candidates as well that was a lot of fun and i really enjoyed that it was a good one is the that was the debate where chris erickson posed her the first thing that she would do if she was governor would be to have some folks who were from the penal system come and appeal for their candidates steven marks who thinks there should be a constitutional amendment in the state constitution to protect the earth to say that the earth should be protected so it's interesting because people run very often with the to come to the debates well it was a real opportunity for those folks to be her absolute which is sort of the whole point of democracy in my life well and just tell us a little bit about the state senate races i mean those states senate engine in county tends to favor  incumbents but there are thirteen people running right and i think that the interesting candidate is alex feral he's a young republican from the north end of burlington and you know he could he could that seventh that six seat i think chris pearson took that last seat last time in sixteen by only you know he was further he was further than the other candidates and that's kind of the one that could could change potentially but even if alex comes in seventh so it just misses it you know i think we're going to hear a lot more from him in the future he's not done by any means and we know that often well he may not be done i mean we'll see what happens tonight yeah yeah and certainly there is precedent for a republican in the delegation from county in kind of senate because diane selling was there for a long time so it's here on channel seventeen or you can somebody call me up and they said i've cut cable i've cut the cord where do i watch the results were of course and seventeen got to me you can tune right end and i think what we're going to do if you don't specific issues that brought you out today i mean we cast a vote for the governor we care about just having good balance in our and our government we want to stick it to ballot initiatives for the city for the sewage and for the burlington high school were hard ones to think about but i'm glad they're on the ballot so i want to make sure i voted do you feel that national politics have motivated you today  like to say no but it's it yes it has national politics is that got me motivated to come out today are there any specific questions on the about today that brought you out oh no not not particularly this is just  whenever whenever you know there's an election i'm always outs of all just to exercise my right just because a lot of people fought and died for it so might as well take advantage of it right i feel very fortunate to live vermont but i thought it was a good idea if i'm on has a really strong showing to support the rest of the country saying we need to get up and we need to vote and i told all my friends i don't care how you vote just vote thank you so much have a good day all right so if you could just introduce the bonfire beach as we have high school students on the building needs upgrades i need some change and if not now then it's going to get more expensive and more complicated so i think we have to do it  the school and the water you know kids and water what the future is that so yeah i feel it's important to get our voice out there and i liked pretty much alike democrats to  keep the current terrible administration from being able to do all the things they want to do and i didn't get an absentee ballot in massachusetts so that's pretty well i came here i know that and i know we were isolated from the national like national politics have put more pressure on this year's election first sure nationally i'm not sure i feel the difference in burlington i feel like we're in a little bit of a bubble in burlington and i think people generally feel  engaged in the political process in burlington but certainly the tenor of the country is present yeah i agree i think that unfortunately the national politics is primarily about arguing and i hope that we can get to a place where we're more looking for solutions and discussing i think we do that here well but nationally we're having a hard time with it yeah i mean i'm really alarmed by a lot of stuff going on and i'm more likely to come out and vote in the midterms just in general because the news cycle is really scary but nothing impacting my like day to day life thank  you yeah i definitely think there has been there's been i feel a big push for young voters to come out and participate in democracy that hasn't been present in the past years i know from my years  definitely been encouraged to come out and vote today but i think is really something you so much