Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Everybody has gone home. A few hours ago, this was a pretty bumping party. Democrats really felt like they had a shot here tonight. It the last 48 hours of this race, everything seemed to be breaking their way. The republican candidate stumbled into a gaffe about Franklin County The Night Before the election started. Their candidate had been all over the place in national and local media. They felt like they were fighting out the la
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. We expect those also break democratic enough to erase a 1754 lead . No, but could it be enough to cut into that 754 enough that baldersons advantage which is 0. 9 right now over oconnor if that ends up at 0. 5 or less, state law says guess what, we got to have a a recount here. You could potentially, i wouldnt say its the likeliest scenario but you could see that happening. There are also 5048 what they are calling uncounted absentee ballots, that were mailed out to voters in some cases weeks ago and they havent been mailed back. A lot of them probably arent going to be mailed back. Some of them a small number probably military ballots maybe still making their way. Some of them probably a small number are voters you had to have them postmarked yesterday. If they sent it out yesterday, it still comes in, that vote probably still going to be
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these races are fought in competitive districts in november. the trend we should say. trump by 11 points in this district tonight, one point if this holds. if i have this number right, so democrats need 23 seats to take control of the house. there were 24 districts. there are 24 hillary clinton districts. up to 25 with that pennsylvania. there are 25 districts republicans are sitting in that hillary won. okay. and then there s the question whether or not there are other districts like this one where trump wins by 11 where it gets close. if you look at this you say to yourself, the vast majority of those seats that hillary won those guys are in deep deep deep. you re saying a wave. if i mean, think about this number. so this guy o connor who is like a nobody out polls hillary in a hillary area.
if you look at this you say to yourself, the vast majority of those seats that hillary won those guys are in deep deep deep. you re saying a wave. if i mean, think about this number. so this guy o connor who is like a nobody out polls hillary in a hillary area. right? by ten points. so we could be seeing that district after district after district after district. in other words, the democrats could already have pretty close to having the house in their pocket. i think they do. i don t think there s a scenario tonight where we would say republicans can hold the house. steve, i have republican colleagues of mine friends who have been in the field. they re incumbents in the field