so you can find pockets like this on this map, where it looks like murphy has opportunities to get ahead. you can see a path there for murphy. you can t find, comparably, pockets on the map now for ciattarrelli. the one thing i d say, this is the one thing democrats and the republicans i talked to last night agreed on. in new jersey, they were both baffled with and frustrated by the vote reporting coming out of the counties. very, very unclear, even to these parties last night in new jersey, exactly where the remaining vote was. new jersey is too close to call. again, a state joe biden won by 16 points. steve, hop back to virginia and look at the issues out of the exit polling, what people voted on. glenn youngkin, who won the race, made it all about education. his rallies were called parents matter. he was speaking to the curriculum in the schools, the schools being closed over a year and the frustrations parents had. what did people vote on in virginia, steve? i m seeing if i can
trump together. he tried to create this national synergy of, you know, people not crazy about trump. youngkin said, look, you can talk about trump, but i m going to talk about something closer to home, the economy and education. it s really that ebb and flow you re talking about, that dialectic nature of this process, really speaks to when the nation focuses on the big picture, president, and when citizens focus on things that are a little closer to home. 2009, the jobs. same thing. here, you have people saying and we need to talk about this around the table a bit, because democrats have to come to terms with wokism. people are saying, oh, he won based on something that s not real, that doesn t exist, crt or wokism, whatever you want to call it. i can tell you, i mean, that s
were you a congressman once? yes. i was. guys, i had some dim memory of that. vaguely familiar. i could bring up my time as a football coach if you d like me to do. he was a great coach. this might be more appropriate. you talk about politics being local. when i ran, i couldn t breakthrough. i ran a tax revolt against city hall when they raised taxes like 75%. it just so happened at that time in 94, all across animy my district, everybody is raising taxes. all the local governments. so it took with a little bit of money i had, full page ad, just had my picture at the podium. that s it. it said, tax killer. that s it. everybody would come up to me and go, you know those are local tax increases. i do, i don t care. i ll do the same thing in washington. it broke through. the local issues. education, you say you haven t heard education.
loading. we asked, what do you consider to be the most important issue in the exit poll, what is the most important issue? economy topped the list. but not far behind it, about a quarter of all voters, 24%, identified education as their top issue in this race. folks who picked education went for youngkin by a pretty solid margin. so, again, focal point of youngkin s campaign. that actually the county, you mentioned the rally, what he called the parents matter rally that youngkin closed his campaign with. his campaign thought loudoun county would be the epicenter of that, in particular. d.c. metro area. here you do, mcauliffe is winning this by 10 1/2 points. the youngkin campaign thought the education issue would have resonance in loudoun county and the suburbs. check this out. this was a 25-point massacre for joe biden and for the democrats a year ago. 25-point win. youngkin doesn t win it, but he brings it all the way down to basically ten points in loudoun
i talked about education all the time. that s where people live. and they don t speak to that. i know virginians who are stockpiling frozen turkeys because they re worried the price is going to go up between now and thanksgiving. how long has it been since inflation was a real fact of life in america? 40 years. that s how long it s been since inflation was a major political factor. everybody is going to have a history lesson, when inflation becomes a driving factor. look up the name paul volker. steve rattner, thank you very much. always fun. great to see you in person. coming up on morning joe we tape this show around 5:30 in the afternoon, which is before the polls close. so we don t know who won. congratulations, eric adams. it was a pretty safe prediction. eric adams joins us live in just a few minutes.