so that pattern is across the country. that s part of the place they have been focusing on. they have focused on younger voters and early voting sort of says that s been working for them. we ll see. maybe some women voters will vote for him and never tell their husbands. my mom voted for kennedy. you re a great guru, the oracle of dell identify. thank you f delphi. and jennifer. coming up, preexisting conditions is is a hot button topic for democrats, not only democrats, especially democrats. and montel williams, a long-time republican joins me to explain why he s voted to vote like a democrat this time. never done it before. and be sure to tune in tomorrow for live coverage all day, of course. i ll be back at 6:00 p.m. to join the crowd, our super team tomorrow night. you re watching hardball.
with donald trump. they are pushing a message and vision for america that is progressive. people are actually running you re losing me here. you re saying the only way democrats can win is if they re progressive? i m saying what s winning in georgia and florida you have a lot of moderate democrats out there you re not cheering on very strong. if you don t cheer them on you don t get a majority. you hear me? i hear you. thank you. that s my argument. washington post today about the republican campaigns of 2018, noting that the fierce battle for control of congress and the nation s governorships has turned toward blatant and overtly racial attacks rarely seen since the civil war actually the civil rights era of the 60s. for example, we saw iowa s republican congressman steve king, he s a real beauty out there, his right wing political party comparing the neo-nazi party in austria to the republican party. that s sweet. he saw a white supremacist group
democrats are tied or leading. and that is a testament to each one of those senators and how good they are and what they re talking about on the ground. those democrats are talking about health care. they re talking about job security. they re talking about opportunity they re really leaning into health care, though. that s why those races are so close and why so many of them are going to win. elise, two numbers. 68% of the country likes the economy, 68%. 38% like the direction of the country. that s a huge disconnect. so, even though we have an unemployment rate that s down, markets are okay. they still don t like the feeling of the country, what s the feeling they don t like? they don t like the attitude of rancor constantly. they don t like what they see as divisive rhetoric. you go around the country and you talk to voters who are really upset by the tone, even though they like the policy, then you have some voters who love the policies and they ve decided to completely ignor
the math has not added up in the past for democratic candidates in the state and i think the thinking is, try something else, right? the math has not been there. you ve seen democrats run a sort of centrist texas democrats time and time again and they haven t been able to cross that 43, 44 percent of the vote. try to do something else and try to find some voters that other people haven t found before. that s been the theory of the case from the beginning. shoot the moon. thank you so much, my buddy. let s go to john ralston. i hear you do have a pick in that nevada race for senate. yeah, i predicted yesterday, chris, jackie rosen was going to defeat dean heller by a couple of points. the reason i did that is basically two things. first of all, it looks like these races out in nevada from the polling i know about are breaking toward the democrats. but also, as you know, chris, early voting here is 60 to 70% of the vote. the democrats had a huge surge at the end of last week built up
pummel dean heller and talk about herself a lot in that. and i think that s really helped her in this race. thank you. hang in there, john. jennifer, tell me, is there any wind blowing from the left or the right or is it running these last couple hours, these last couple days, is there something moving toward either party right now nationwide? or is it still? i think it s in the senate. i think it s fairly still. i ve been saying all cycle that if democrats manage to hold onto their most vulnerable seats, then political environment was the most important thing driving senate races. but if they lose a handful, then it was geography is your destiny. i was looking at, this is a bad luck year for the democrats, isn t it? they have a terrible map, but they ve done a lot with it. what about is there two different waves? is there a blue wave riding the suburbs across the country and the rim of the country, you know, the coast where they tend