before 2018 with double digit gains. remember 2008 that was a horrible year, by 2013 we were really seeing a 32% gain. i like that one. 2017 that was a 22% gain. last year the first step backwards in a long time. investors are reevaluating where they need to be for 2019 if there is going to be a trade war that continues, higher interest rates this year, slowing global growth. i would encourage everyone to please take a look at your 401(k) and how you re allocating. if you ve been riding the stock market for ten years and haven t been adjusting your asset allocation, now is the time to do that. the stock market sometimes goes down. it does. it s not all green like this for ten years running usual will i. it does. i ve done all my financial planning over the last five years based on your advice which is why i m going to have to work until i m 130. besides that, talk about new year s resolutions. people always make financial resolutions. new year s is a good time to take a
in the special election but that was a move to the democrats of 20 points there from 27 to 7. you saw it in montana. entire state, that s the one where the republican candidate body slammed the reporter the night before the election. again, he did win that election. he might be in trouble this fall but that was a shift of 14 points for democrats. the one big exception on this list, it was georgia 6. it was the suburbs north of atlanta. that s the one thing when republicans, boy, if they want to be optimistic they can say hey, somehow that s going to be the rule here and everything else will be an outlier. but otherwise, look, double digit gains for democrats utah is a weird one. there was a third party candidate in the presidential race. trump s margin there. beak this, coming into tonight, the average gain for democrats versus 2016 was 10 1/2 points.
you saw it in montana. entire state, that s the one where the republican candidate body slammed the reporter the night before the election. again, he did win that election. he might be in trouble this fall but that was a shift of 14 points for democrats. the one big exception on this list, it was georgia 6. it was the suburbs north of atlanta. that s the one thing when republicans, boy, if they want to be optimistic they can say hey, somehow that s going to be the rule here and everything else will be an outlier. but otherwise, look, double digit gains for democrats utah is a weird one. there was a third party candidate in the presidential race. trump s margin there. beak this, coming into tonight, the average gain for democrats versus 2016 was 10 1/2 points. they beak gained 10 1/2 points tonight. if things hold, a little bit less than a point, we ll call it a point, republicans by a point there.
trump-romney margin, can they get it to the single digits. you put them up there, that s the broader context for what we re looking at here, a burge of double digit gains for house elections, they had one last year in kansas, they had one in montana. they cut 15 points off trump s margin, they obviously were able to win pennsylvania. can they get that 21-point trump margin down to single digits. they would take that tonight as a sign of, hey, there s movement even in red america, for republicans, they want double digits tonight at least. i hope movement in red america means a lot more movement in blue or purple america, maybe those who weren t so excited in 2016. steve, thank you. are you going to be holding a pen in your hand? i may not be able to eat so much tonight. here s what two voters told
whether these areas of inchoirry inquiry are becoming a key focus of the investigation. he might be casting a broad night. in opposed to a situation where he found something in on the trump organization and zeroing in on it. i don t know what we know what his thinking. tom dupree, thanks very much. we told you how democrats were making double digit gains and sentiment was building about getting ball control of congress, you know, it wasn t a universal love fest for the democratic party. two prominent e-mails, hillary clinton and nancy pelosi. let s just say they were not feeling the save love after this. it was my very first car accident.