what happened right after that, but the biggest buyer of stocks over the past five years has been corporations. and what s been happening is with interest rates being very low, corporations are taking that free money and buying their own shares back. and so that makes their profitability look better, which makes their stock price go up. so it s a little bit of an illusion and a game and you re going to continue to see more of that in 2018 driven by this tax but, but you are going to see stocks continue to go up for a little bit. so i ve been doing my research on this. the president likes to tout saying he has the best stock market, but actually in the first 11 months of the obama administration, the stock market performed better than this president. it went up 37.5%. and when this article was written it has gone up 17.5%. it also said it isn t the best indicator of the economy because people tend to look at this in a vacuum. this may be a good year, but not
i think no matter who wins tonight that we will see both parties probably make quite a big deal out of this. if you re an incumbent or somebody thinking about jumping in one these congressional races that are going to be critical to watch in 2018 were you re going to be looking to read the tea leaves here and see what your chances are given as david noted the electoral history. this not been considered a swing district but the numbers were so close in the election. let me put those up and david will discuss in the 2016 election donald trump got 48.3%, hillary clinton got 46.8%. four years earlier, that s 48, 47 you can see he barely squeaked out his win in that district. and 2012 mitt romney, the republican nominee got 60.8%, president obama s 37.5%. . so 23-point swin a lot bicker than a one-point win. it is. and therefore it s the kind of voters that have proven had the the kind of republican voters that have proven elusive for donald trump.
steve: pretty much they are alone. ainsley: for china to send back their coal and say we are not taking this from you because we do not approve what you are doing that sends a strong message. brian: first step for secretary mattis go to that region. vice president is there now. the president met with the japanese lished. talked about mostly north korea. then, of course, you have the south korea stop of the vice president. now you have a situation where china could do one more thing that would really slay the dragon. that would be to stop increasing your trade with north korea. it s up 37.5%. they re the ones buying all the minerals from north korea and somewhat standing up their economy and looks like they are pouring all their money into their nuclear arsenal. steve: let s see what happens. it does sound like behind the scenes away from the camera, a lot is getting done. in front of the cameras later on today the president of the united states is going to be traveling by air force one
it was a good one. i think the post debate the next 48 hours are going to be awesome for her. it will be terrible for him. we do all agree that he s at 40. he didn t convince a single person that wasn t with him to be for him. now, i m sure that people see that and he says yeah, i m going to put her in jail and 35, 37.5% of the country say that s great. the problem is, you can t win an election with 40%. you can t win this presidential election with 40%. you can t carry these nervous republicans in the senate and house races with 40%. honestly, and i mean i really examination of conscience, altar boy, i honestly don t think he did very well tonight. and i think that she engaged with people. and he needed to move the needle. he didn t move the needle at all. that is my honest opinion. cluck, i think james is responding to actually mostly to your analysis here in terms of saying sort of how well overall
it was a good one. i think the post debate the next 48 hours are going to be awesome for her. it will be terrible for him. we do all agree that he s at 40. he didn t convince a single person that wasn t with him to be for him. now, i m sure that people see that and he says yeah, i m going to put her in jail and 35, 37.5% of the country say that s great. the problem is, you can t win an election with 40%. you can t win this presidential election with 40%. you can t carry these nervous republicans in the senate and house races with 40%. honestly, and i mean i really examination of conscience, altar boy, i honestly don t think he did very well tonight. and i think that she engaged with people. and he needed to move the needle. he didn t move the needle at all. that is my honest opinion. cluck, i think james is responding to actually mostly to your analysis here in terms of saying sort of how well overall trump did both in relation to