months spending a lot of money and they ve moved this race from a ten point lead to a six-point lead now. they have made some in runs but they ve had to spend a lot of money to get that. when you look at the underlying fundamentals of this district, donald trump is unpopular. health care is the number one issue. they want to see democrats control congress. all those things work against whatever positive feelings they have about the incumbent comstock. this book that you somehow found time to right, it s interesting, i just started for full disclosure, i haven t finished it, but essentially it seems to be a look at how the tribalism of the 90s really helped create what we have today? i think that the 90s created politically the world we live in today. the title of this the red and the blue speaks to how those colors through the course of events in the 1990s, all the political wars, bill and hillary and newt gingrich and media like rush limbaugh, the political war
just came out with this one today. this is one of those top opportunities for democrats in the country right outside of washington, d.c., northern virginia. this is that quintessential traditionally republican area that has swung away from the republicans in the age of trump, a 10 point hillary win in 2016, and now this poll has constock down six points in their likely voter model. the interesting dilemma for republicans, there was some thoughts it might be worse for comstock. it is expensive to try to keep barbara comstock afloat. if she s down six points in a very expensive market in a district clinton won by ten points, do you keep pumping money in there or start spreading the money out. there s some point where you give up on comstock or is it close enough where she can tell them i ve got it keep fighting. i m not out of this yet. they ve been hammering away with negative attacks against the democrat for the past few
didn t go after white working class voters enough. take a listen. if i was in charge of the clinton campaign i would have sent hillary in those white areas in michigan and pence. you have to relate to people and ask people for their votes. a couple of thoughts. there are any number of things that you could point to the say it was a mistake that we made that probably has some merit to it because as a perfect storm of a lot of different things. one thing that s important as we think about going forward i don t think this is an issue of where there s a magic bullet. we should do this one thing and that will fix all of our problems particularly when you look at the fact in those rust belt states at this point hillary essentially that gap is about 70,000 votes that we re talking about the. a majority of people agree with her on the economy, thought she would be better on the economy and won 1.28 million more in the popular vote. challenge and problem is deeper
two-point hillary lead and a seven-point hillary lead the entire time. between those things. that s actually a significant lead in a country that s very polarized. i have seen journalists who actually say the race is too close to call, it s too tight, in order to feed a narrative that could cover a close race. i think the problem with that in this environment, why i think i want to speak out and say yes, it s not over but it s a definite hillary advantage and she s most likely going to win it is there s a number of voters out there if you tell them it s too close to call and all of a sudden they show up on election day and it s a six or seven or eight-point race they re going to trust the system less. they re going to believe trump s claim about a rigged election. and when donald trump points to one or two outlier polls that say it s too close to call or his campaign management tries to convince his voters that he s really competitor in the course of this race it actually feeds the
situation for cable news and for journalists to be in. some journalists feel trump squanders opportunity and reverted back to the first place, a joke but our reporters, our commentators getting ahead of themselves? let s ask former bush cheney advisor matthew dowel joining me here in new york. we heard dan rather saying this race is not over. people should be careful. your message is clinton had a steady lead all long and a political meteor, clinton is going to win a similar victory to obama in 2008. what s the right tone for journalists to keep both these in their mind? tell the truth and say what is going on instead of invent a scenario that creates a media point of focus. do you see that happen, journalists trying to make up a horse race that doesn t exist? i said a couple weeks ago, i watched this race since june and it s traded between a two-point hillary lead and seven-point