And that is like my favorite thing about a campaign, whether i was on a Campaign Staff or a candidate. So im really excited to talk about this today. Im going to give you a little bit of history here, so president ial and Vice President ial, general election debates have become really the highlight of the Campaign Season and something we just expect to happen. That has not always been the case. Its also common in other races, particularly highprofile races, so when was the first president ial debate . Heres a trivia question, historical trivia. Anyone know . Give you a hint . No one recognizes those people . This is a false hint. Thats lincoln and douglas. A lot of time people think, you hear the famous Lincoln Douglas debates and they ran against each other for president in 1860. Actually, their debates is when they were both running for the u. S. Senate in illinois in 1858 and had numerous debates around the state of illinois. And so quite an odd situation, they ran against each othe
See that. Age bracket having the most numbers now this information coming out over the weekend saying that the sevenday Positivity Rate is now 7 and over the weekend there. 390 new cases reported. Also the data showing that more women than men make up the cases in california and there is that comment from the governor saying that it is between the ages of 1849 that are catching up. Team. Here is the governor from earlier. People that are testing positive. The number of new cases in the state of california. The age cohort is something i wanted to highlight today, its younger than 80 and then 50 years old 18 to 49 age cohort thats now representing 60 of all of our new cases back to the mythology that somehow this disease has separates itself exclusively by age or vulnerabilities that are defined by preexisting conditions it transcends it impacts all populations of course not equally in terms of its ultimate impact. But nonetheless the case numbers impact age cohorts across the spectrum a
Case. Its also common in other races, particularly highprofile races, so when was the first president ial debate . Heres a trivia question, historical trivia. Anyone know . Ill give you a hint. No one recognizes those people . This is a false hint. Thats lincoln and douglas. A lot of times people think its the famous Lincoln Douglass debates and they ran against each other for president in 1860. Actually, their debates is when they were both running for the u. S. Senate in illinois in 1858 and had numerous debates around the state of illinois. And so quite an odd situation, they ran against each other for u. S. Senate. Douglas was elected by the legislature at that time, the legislatures appointed the senators and two years later on are on major party tickets. But their debates were published and circulated a lot in 1816. The issues have not really changed a whole lot. The real first president ial debate was between john kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. And now at this point Richard
A 2nd lockdown to try to try to drive down the coronavirus cases. Its getting colder for an awful lot of people in western and Northern Europe now this is the cold front cause it doesnt look much from behind it a bit of a clue from the shape of these clouds these a shower clouds over the water which indicates cold air above contd convection now most of the rain from it is going to be shot its been hitting denmark recently is on to the coast of norway and then look at spain and portugal in fact revolving just the west of portugal another building area of low pressure which means a circulation of persistent rain heading into was portugal remember the flooding for a month or so ago around lisbon that could happen again so thats an active area where everybody else is enjoying the sunshine for pretty cold mornings and even by afternoon were talking about the low teens if youre lucky for virtually everywhere except of course being around the mediterranean to clear the eastern med which again
Google all on tap. All that and much more is coming up this hour power lunch starts right now kelly, thanks im scott wapner welcome to power lunch our reporters are all over every ae angle that matters as you know, today the busiest day of earning season. Meg tirel is watching the race for a vaccine as coronavirus cases continue to climb. And Steve Liesman has the details of a muchexpected gdt report hey, bob before we get to earnings, were having a nicely midday rally here let me show you the s p. Some technical aspects we broke above the earlier highs in the day. People do trade on technical calls on in kind of market you see that nice, quick, steady move up here there may be seasonal aspects coming into play, art cashin noting were moving into november, a seasonably strong period of the year for earnings, the early reports have just been spectacular here, generally half of the s p reporting now, 85 beating expectations and the key story is the average beat about 19 , way above the h