gas prices. which caused voters to shift their allegiance between political parties. but elections are about turnout, voter turnout. the real macro environment is that this country is engaged in a ferocious battle between those who want america to be a multi racial multi cultural democracy,, and those who want to make america whites again. it can be decided by which side does a better job of getting people to turn out and vote. so i introduce the majority index to properly the time that we, are in and specifically corporate racial demographic data in determining which face races are most competitive and what the landscape looks like. steve, that was fantastic. your briefing there. political report for day 26 of the toss-up seats are held by democrats. which is a new majority index say? we think that there are 11 seats that are democratic
inefficiencies and internal processes. will: i hear you say both. there is not enough pilots. you mentioned you re in the process of hiring. i don t know it is unique to southwest. i saw it on american yesterday. what is the inefficiency, what does that mean, inefficiencies connecting pilots to flights? well, you know, we are seeing shortages on manpower, across the macro environment for the u.s. and southwest is definitely feeling but for us pilots we ve always been the most productive in the world at southwest. we still are but the problem is, is that inefficiently using the pilots, spending our time dead heading around the country. going to where we re not planning on going. it is causing fatigue. it is causing many other issues. it is causing those delays. it is causing those cancellations. will: captain, why is that unique right now? why did it happen? that sounds like if there is inefficiency in the system of assigning pilots that could have shown up a year ago.
in real time. within 48 hours, if not you re stuck with the ticket. i find myself hopping between flights finding one that isn t canceled. seats are dropping. seats are coming. then that flight cancels. it s a mess. the airlines are trying to determine which pilots need to be where. there are restrictions how long they fly versus how long they can rest. when you talked to captain casey murphy, a pilot himself, president of southwest airlines, you did a great talk but unclear in his description how the airlines are falling short. here is what he said. it is going to be a challenging summer across the industry. we re having problems connecting pilots to airplanes, southwest. so we are hiring and that is going to go alleviate the issue to some degree but a lot is internal inefficiencies and internal processes. we re seeing shortages on manpower across the macro environment of the u.s. and
we re going to right size our inventory, and we re going to respond to this rapidly changing environment, the ceo saying in this statement that target s business continues to generate healthy increases in traffic and sales, despite sustained volatility in the macro environment, including shifting consumer buying patterns. so what is shifting? well, for some who are still spending, where they re spending is changing. they re spending less on goods and things and spending more on experiences, we hear this so much from the airlines, right, how travel demand is really strong, but for the others, perhaps people who are more paycheck to paycheck, they re spending less on wants and spending more on needs. this statement from target reflecting that, saying they re seeing spending increase in areas like grocery and things that people need for their homes, less on electronics, less on home decor. and it is not just target, by the way. we re seeing this from some of the other retailers, walmart s
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