be the number on the left column there. so maybe democrats will win the overall congressional popular vote by two points or four points or 16 points or whatever. if the popular vote came in like that, well, then the middle column shows historically what you would expect that to translate to in terms of the number of seats in congress the democrats would be expected to gain. so if democrats win the popular vote for congress by two points historically you would expect that to translate into democrats picking up 19 new seats in the house. they win the national popular vote by four points, you expect them to win 23 seats in the house, and you go on down the line. but now look at the column on the right. that shows not the historic gain that you d expect, that shows the actual projected seat gain in the house for democrats based on how carved up the congressional maps are now to benefit republicans. so if you just start at the top there, if the democrats win the national popular vote by two
election, but if you add up all the votes people cast nationwide for a democratic member of congress versus all the votes people cast nationwide for a republican number of congress, you can get a national popular vote for congress. are the american people voting for a democrat to vote them in congress or a republican? if democrats nationwide come out on top on that number, and they almost certainly will, that will be the number on the left column there. so maybe democrats will win the overall congressional popular vote by two points or four points or 16 points or whatever. if the popular vote came in like that, well, then the middle column shows historically what you would expect that to translate to in terms of the number of seats in congress the democrats would be expected to gain. so if democrats win the popular vote for congress by two points historically you would expect that to translate into democrats picking up 19 new seats in the house. they win the national popular vote by fo
received in the 9:00 hour. according to two law enforcement sources, the package was addressed to 10 columbus circle. that s the address that comes up if you google cnn. it s not the address that s on our business cards, but that s the address that comes up if someone is searching on the internet for the location of cnn. we still don t know for sure to whom this package was addressed. we know it the address was 10 columbus circle. again, it was received midmorning in the 9:00 hour. one more thing i want to point out, kate, is you can see the officers standing behind me and to my left. the cars that are parked there, we ve seen bomb-sniffing dogs sniffing along all of those vehicles, including the u.p.s. truck you can see immediately behind me and on down the line. this as now we re seeing dozens and dozens of law enforcement officials on the scene. as we mentioned earlier, we were here in the last hour or so or last half hour or so when john miller arrived in a motorcade. he s the head
who believed they were going to reopen the clarence thomas hearings for anita hill. they believed they had this thing completely under control, even when anita hill went public. and so this is one of those stories where we don t know where this story is tomorrow and we don t know where it is the day after. this is a political mob ring enshrined in the constitution. mitch mcconnell, we re seeing it with merrick garland, we re seeing it with kavanagh. he has the votes and he s going make this happen and he s going to do it for nothing more than political power. we have seen this from mitch mcconnell on down the line. there is little conviction within the republican caucus today to own up to the responsibility that the american people ask of the united states senate, that we vet our nominees. we saw that before this allegation, we re seeing this since the allegation. the fix is in. we know that. and mitch mcconnell, for as quiet as he is, he is a quiet assassin. he is going to make sure
evidently have no money whatsoever. and yet they are spending as you noted $14,000 on a family trip to italy, sounds kind of lavish, $6,000 to hawaii, on down the line. you murdheard duncan hunter sayt he rushed down to the marine recruiting office, joined the marines, two deployments. and that is when his wife took over. and yitd they are blaming some of this on not blaming, attributing some of the expenses to wounded warriors for the golf balls for $200 shoes for margaret his wife. that on top of the fact that just a few days before, he went on fox and other outlets and bl blamed his wife. he was instead blaming democrat, blaming the democrats that he says were running the department of justice. he says you see it happening to president trump. now it is happening to me. this is nothing but a witch hunt. so that gambit efvidently faile