Were very excited to get a visit from the five young people on bus 52 who have been on the bus for a year collecting Inspiring Stories. Their trip wraps up this afternoon. The chef who taught americans to cook tellian style. Shes here to reveal her own mamas favorite family dishes. She has this incredible life story. Her family escaped communism. Shes making a chocolate Bread Pudding and theres rum in it. But first our top story this morning. Jobs. The economy and the rocky negotiations to avoid that fiscal cliff. Lets start with the good news the slowly improving unemployment numbers. In november the nation added 146,000 jobs and the Unemployment Rate dipped to 7. 7 , the lowest in nearly four years. So whats behind this improvement and what impact could it have on the overall economy and the fiscal cliff talks . We have some answers with the chief Investment Analyst at charles swhaub. Were you surprised by these numbers . The Payroll Survey which is where we get the jobs created is g
You come back to it, if they had someone who is more of an alabama democrat, he would have been fine. But on issue set after issue set, hes a democrat and thats a problem in alabama. I hate to tell everyone that. I just dont see how how big of an issue is the abortion issue . I think its a big deal and hurt him right out of the gate and hes done very little to overcome that. He hasnt looked for issues to find Common Ground with conservatives. Now, i do think one of the things ill be watching on Election Night is Shelby County in birmingham and thats where roy moore won 63 of the vote in 2012 but lost in the primary. Thats an affluent the birmingham suburbs, thats where people thats the targetrich environment for doug jones. If hes going to win, hes got to do well there. Hes got to gin up the africanamerican vote and comments that he made about slavery and harkening back to the days of slavery when we really had family values. And then, also, hes got to get white voters and those white
Whats key here is that jones number is higher than barack obama was getting among democrats in the last two president ial elections he was in in alabama. Take a look at how republicans are splitting. You again see obviously moore wins the lion share of them, 91 , but that is slightly underperforming by a few points of what romney did, what mccain did in president ial elections. Moore underperforming the republicans. Which republicans seem to be peeling away we are no surprise but significant, these moderate Republican Voters that weve been talking about in the suburbs. Take a look about moderate republicans, 80 of them are going for moore, 19 of them are going for jones. In 2012, our last exit poll, romney was winning 99 of moderate republicans to Barack Obamas 1 . This is a significant moment for jones that hes digging into some of the republican coalition. And then, of course, weve been talking about all night, race as a factor. The latest exit polls that have just been redistributed
Next week and its not goings to be easy. And trump factor shakes up the alabama race. This race is not me against the president or the vice president. Its me against Luther Strange. The president is a man of principle who knows his mind and made it decision freely in picking me. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. Not the first, not the most popular but the Health Care Plan pushed by Lindsey Graham and bill cassidy is the last republican bill standing and dealt a staggering blow in the senate today. Arizonas john mccain says hed nos supporting the bill offered by his good friend Lindsey Graham because he says its rushed legislative schedule goes against regular odrecorder of t senate. Something he cant endorse. He said this i cannot in good conscience vote for this. Republicans and democrats have not yet really tried to work together. Nor support how much it will cost are and how many people will be helped or
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. President trump tried to erase history last night. The president deleting three tweets he had written in support of appointed alabama senator Luther Strange just hours after strange was resoundingly defeated in a special gop election for Jeff Sessions Old Senate Seat. The election result was a massive embarrassment. He had traveled in alabama to campaign for strange as had mike pence and reportedly spent more than 10 million to prop up strange. None of it worked. Instead roy moore won the race. Moore who was removed as alabama chief justice twice is an antigay birther who says muslims shouldnt allowed to serve in congress and that the september 11th attacks may have been americas punishment. Moores win is just the beginning. Youre going to say in state after state, the people that follow the model of judge moore that do not need to raise money from the elites, new york city, silicon valley. In the wake of moores in the wake of moores victory,