in midterms, republicans do well. why do they do well? low turnout. why do we do well in presidential? high turnout where base comes out. so there is a story here that s really interesting with these levels, these potential presidential levels that i think benefits democrats, and also, the reason why we have voter suppression, the reason why republicans make it so hard is because of things like early voting, right? that s what i want to talk about. you have counties like jefferson county. a good friend of mine from georgia who is an elected official down there, we ve been texting back and forth about that race. she has been making the point, look, don t be too lulled into a false sense of security by those numbers. you have huge numbers in the black belt, in some cases 200 plus percent increases which triggers the backlash on the other side. remember you, have you a black woman trying to run for governor of georgia you. be real. the race in terms of the voter suppression, but also in
numbers, they are big. yeah, yeah. they re close to presidential year big. yep. but does it tell you anything about whose up? so in those numbers in georgia, they said it s up in african american voters. you see an uptick for sure in early voting in african american voters. so i think that s a good sign for democrats, absolutely. and i think, joy, we have to there is a history here too. not too long ago in post 2016 after president trump won his election, we saw voting turnout increase in special elections, in new jersey and virginia elections. and it stayed steady. right. and so that is what i m looking at, right. we see the generic polling. we see the enthusiasm, we see the numbers of fundraising. so this is what it s doing is telling us a story. it s continuing that story of what we ve been seeing for the last two years. so i think it s promising. i think we still need to go out and early vote and not sit on our laurels. and also, let s not forget.
been contacted by a political party and asked to register only 45% of latinos reported they d been contacted. is this partly because in the democratic party the sort of focus on voter registration has not been as strong as the focus as you said getting out high frequency voters? that s exactly right. and we have to change the model. what you also see is that the majority of how people invest in the democratic party is it s often identifying where is there a union stronghold. the union stronghold is in the midwest. the opportunity, the marketplace, the new opportunity for voters is all of the south. not just because of the latino boom but you have jobs going to the south and you have a lot of young professionals moving into the south. and i m talking georgia, north carolina, florida, texas, arizona, and that is how you have to reimagine how you actually look at the political map. we are literally experiencing a huge shift in that map. and we haven t modernized fast enough. and i think
up on some of the threads that bernie sanders had out there with the enormous support that bernie sanders had, but he didn t have that. i have two tweets in a row here. oh, no. now what do we have? lol, i m watching your show from hawaii. it s 1:00 a.m. here. i think it s funny that you are getting attacked for the nerdist. he he, fun times. worst hour in the history of morning joe. bon ynie is watching us from athens, greece. we get a thumbs up from her. yea, bonnie. somebody said they hope the window behind me is real so i can jump out of it. and oh, twitter is so that s not nice. bleeding blue says, i love this one bleeding blue georgia, you re likable enough, joe. more mean tweets straight ahead. also ahead on morning joe oh, we have to show this one