not a blow to his re-election chances in the is an indication that, number one, the limits of his transferability of popularity are still there and, number two, some southern suburbs are now open to voting for the right kind of democrat. particularly those catholic suburbs. obama took 26% of the vote there in 2018. john bel edwards got 50% on saturday night. you bring up a great point. this isn t bad news for donald trump in terms of 2020 in louisiana or kentucky, it will be tighter or closer than was before. but it s bad news for any person running under ticket. i can t believe we ve got to a point where we re talking about the suburbs of louisiana, of new orleans, of baton rouge, of
that is your voice. that s your voice on the tape. allf these women came out with their names and told their detailed accounts. so when he said this it infureuted me on the personal front. 20 women don t get together, and say hey, you know what would be really fun, let s take down a powerful guy together. no, they don t. ginger gibson, political correspondent for reuters and the national reporter for the new york times in that order. what do we make of this coupe? do we believe that quiet mike pence, quiet, patient, waiting his turn, stopped waiting his tourn and began to contemplate grabbing at all last october? do we believe that? we shouldn t be surprised at all mike pence was ready to become president. known him for almost 15 years, and he has always been ready to step in and become president. also this isn t bad news to have
of jobs for the last two months. so remember jack welch and the republicans saying, they were manipulating the numbers and attacking the professionalism of the people who do this work, well, they actually understated things a month ago. in addition, the number of people who voluntarily quit their jobs, that s an indication of how confident people are, they can find a new job, that number went up so that s a very good sign. and there is another number in the different report, the number of housing vacancies, both rental and owner occupied has declined which tells you the housing market is improving. all of the numbers are getting better. they re not as far as long as we need to be, but the direction is very clear and it is all upward. richard, how important is this jobs report politically? i mean, in the closing days to the election, certainly it must have a much more of an impact than, say, something maybe six or seven months ago. right, well, it certainly isn t bad news and to tha
political or p.r. ram fi indications that come from this potential about-face. fred, the fact that we re getting information from senior officials and other media outlets as well is already means that they re already in motion. they re already preparing the people, those in congress, the democratic base who are going to criticize this potential recommendation by putting it out there ahead of time. so if this happens, they re simply actually obviously preparing the american people for that real possibility. thanks so much. the nation s unemployment crisis, new numbers came out just minutes ago, and even though the rate is unchanged, some say that may actually be good news. cnn s christine romans is here to explain why. because, fred, in our upside-down world what isn t bad news is good news.
but 36,000 jobs were lost last month. allison kosik is live at the new york stock exchange. allison, good news, bad news, what do they consider this to be? for investors, this is really good news. this is what they ve wanted to see happen. they ve been waiting for the report for a week now. the news better than expected. however, if you re one of those 36,000 people who lost their job last month, obviously you re not celebrating right now, but think of it this way. that 36,000 number is better than expected. most were expected to see job losses of more than 60,000. that s because of the two blizzards that hit the east coast kept a lot of workers at home and kept them being paid and counted as employees. they say it s not possible to quantify the total impact of the numbers. even though the job losses aren t huge, most analysts say the storms have at least some effect. so we could be set for an even