paul krugman at the new york times had something to say after the election. he made the argument that middle americans, that real america america, is he arguing that rural americans don t deserve two senate seats because there are more people now living on the coast. what is your response to that? i think it s a really stupid argument for a couple of reasons. first, if you look at the data, democrats actually won a majority of the contested senate seats, so the idea that rural america has overweight position that makes it impossible for democrats to win in the senate is just ridiculous. they just didn t win enough seats this time around and i think they should stop complaining about that fact. more importantly, on the substance, there is this weird impulse on the left that i have never understood that aims to basically insult all the people who aren t voting for you. so, imagine if somebody comes to you, wants you to vote for a democrat. they can either persuade you on the one hand
officials there, election officials. they are supposed to be able to tell them not just where the votes are but how many ballots do you have? how many ballots do you have? pete: give us a total. katie: they won t do it. ed: supposed to give that you transparency and they won t. that s raising questions about what s happened. katie: election supervisor in broward county brenda snipes has a long, long history of corruption in that county when it comes to these elections in 2016. she was convicted of illegally destroying ballots. she also has admitted during other lawsuits that illegal aliens are voting. that felons were illegally voting and even though she knew these things she did not refer them to law enforcement. pete: that s why there is so much concern amongst republicans. certainly the rick scott campaign. we have seen the margin in that race drop 50.1 for scott to 49.9 for nelson. ed: u.s. senate seat up for grabs as well as potentially the governor s seat. that s why there is so
the midterms. this year the republicans have to stay fired up right through tuesday. all i m saying is we will win. we will win. who says you can t go home only one place to call home boy born a rolling stone. steve: october 31st. you know what that is. it s halloween. six days before the midterm elections and everybody seems to be talking about it. ainsley: very important. next six days. got to go out and vote next tuesday. brian: i can count on one hand the people who aren t voting. steve: who are they? brian brian do you want me to mention their names. roll the five people that don t vote because you will have no excuse. i m encouraged. best news about all of this. the best thing democrats and republicans can agree to this is supposed to be the best midterm turnout since 1914 if early voting is any indication. ainsley: so close. people on both sides realize
you don t want to read too much into it. we ve now had enough of these special elections and primaries you start to see a trend. republicans are worried. they know that trump has 80%, let s say, approval rating among gop voters, but there is this soft 20%. they tend to be college educated younger voters. if that 20% starts to fall apart, it s a really difficult midterm landscape for the gop. special if all the democrats are coming out of the woodwork. if democrats come out and republicans maybe aren t voting. look at the money, look at the resources. this tells you all you need to know. this is a safe republican district. look at all the money republican parties and groups are pouring into this district. you just look at that and say, they know they got a problem. in addition to everything else folks have said here, i think there s implications for trump s mood. you know, when he loses these if he loses, right, if they lose here, despite him going in there i was with him for th
and elise, great points by john in that the numbers are looking better right now. at the same time, democrats have had a great run of it over the past year and a half and if you can look at the intensity and that s what matters most in these midterm elections. these recent polls may not be good news for republicans running in the fall, they just may be good news for donald trump two years from now. joe, i would point to what john was just talking about with millennial voters and how their voting patterns are being set and they certainly aren t voting for republicans and if you look at what happened in the uk over the past couple of years with brexit then theresa may last june with her snap election and the youth turnout is always discounted but because of brexit the youth vote was so energized that they did turn out and i think that we re going to see more youth turnout than ever