advantage? certainly this is an issue. look at before midterms and closing weeks of midterms how eager the president was to talk about the car vaavan, to stoke fears in that area. he had an opportunity earlier this year to get as much as 25 billion for the wall in exchange for resolving fate of the dreamers. that might have been the best chance for a serious amount of money for the wall, and he did not go for that in the end. the other issue is the wall as a practical matter was a campaign slogan. when you talk to experts and lawmakers, the idea of a concrete wall sea to shining sea doesn t make sense in that way anyway, so it works more as a political issue than something practical in this sense. whatever it is, it is going to have a long lasting impact, depending how the outcome is. david swerdlick, thomas kaplan,