knowing when those absentee ballots would show up and collected them and filled them in for either their candidate or destroyed them? yeah. i mean is that what you think happened? i think there are a lot of missing absentee ballots from black and american indian voters. and i don t have an answer for where those are. but it s deeply troubling. if you look at the number of absentee ballots returned in bladen and robeson county, the last midterm compared to 2018, particularly in bladen, you have a dramatic reduction in the number of returned absentee ballots and you have a dramatic reduction in the number of returned absentee ballots from black voters. so where did they go? well, i know you re going to stay on this, alison riggs. please get back on the show as soon as you find out something new. this is very disturbing. we should have clean elections in this country. up next, after losing what looks like it will be 40 house seats in the midterms, you d think a little soul sea
federal level, right, but republicans head into 2017 with 33 out of 50 governors, republicans have control of state legislatures in 25 states, so, patricia, will we see a total reversal of democratic ideals? i don t think so. what i am astounlded by talking to democrats about what happened in the election, there is no consensus among democrats about why they lost, or even whether they really lost. so it s going to be very difficult for them to come up with a cohesive plan about how to move forward. i talked to democrats and some of them will go back to say hey, we won the popular vote, we really did win. you know it s just a technicality that we didn t win the white house. so when you have that kind of an attitude going forward there s very little soul searching, very little effort to look inside and say what do we need to say and do differently in order to get more people to win? they re writing off a large portion of the electorate as a group of people they don t even want.
it s one of the worst run campaigns in the history of american politics, but nobody in charge there are stopping to say, gee, maybe we should have visited wisconsin once. maybe we should have, like, understood we could lose michigan before the last week. remarkable little soul searching about that, but also about something i ve been asking a lot of democrats about, forget the loss of the presidency, what about the governorships and state legislator seats over the last six years. where s the soul searching on th that? that americans up the point, gee, we lost because vladimir putin hacked the e-mails. or hacked into the dnc. look at these numbers. democrats in the obama years, they ve lost 68 house seats since barack obama was elected president of the united states. no putin and comey on those. no putin and comey on that. they ve lost 12 in the senate. they ve lost ten, they ve lost ten governorships. any putin and comey on those?
acquired. you ll have options, try and raise money from angel investors or capital funds. do it differently? very different. in delaware you ll be a c corporation. employee stock option plan. you ll have all kinds of things that i wrote about in my book which are designed for the high growth path but not the other paths. fantastic. it s a little soul searching and looking at the kind of company you re starting. absolutely. thank you so much. thank you. this week s your biz selfie comes from bruce klein from steel city chess. they are the pieces are structured from the philadelphia architecture. why don t you pick up your smartphone, take a selfie of you and your business and send it to us at your business @msnbc.com so we can feature it here on the show or tweet it @msnbcyourbiz. name, location and use
and some people are saying that this might have sped him up in his process him he did a little soul searching. is that what you are hearing this might have been the impetus to make the decision and not wait a few more weeks or months? he said he wanted to avoid a protracted leadership battle in the house. but you can t disregard the impact that this epope had on the speaker of the house john boehner. -se a life long catholic. he prayed for the pope every single day. so if he told this story every day in his press conference how the pope asked him. they had a moment alone together t. pope asked him to pray for him. boehner was telling this story to this conference full of supporters. he teared up again, so boehner was very touched by there pope. he seems i m sure very at peace with his decision. in fact, jackie, i want to stick with you one more second.