again in 2012, of course, she was the top republican target, and she went up against congressman todd akin, who famously talked about legitimate rape and his campaign crashed and burned after that. but claire mccaskill looking to defy the odds once again. the closing message for mccaskill is she s not one of those crazy democrats. that s what we heard from her in a radio ad with her campaign. josh hawley saying she is one of those crazy democrats. here s some literature for the national republican senatorial campaign committee picturing claire mccaskill with hillary clinton. hali mentioned hillary clinton in his closing stump speech as well, saying that claire mccaskill is just like hillary, jim. rebecca berg in those republican races that can be radioactive. thanks very much. joining me to talk about these elections and what they mean for this president, for the congress, susan page, david gergen, symone sanders, and rob estarenose. we re going to start with you
very much. panel back with me now. let s start on the georgia race because you already have this strange dynamic here of the and it s not the first time it s happened to have a secretary of state run for state office, and typically the secretary of state oversees the races. here you have one, and where want to ask you, rob, as you look at this, it sounds like what happened here is that a whistleblower, not a whistleblower, a concerned citizen said hey, there may be vulnerabilities in the system. democrats got word of it, now they re accused of hacking the system. is that a fair representation? what you said at first is right. secretary of states have run in the past. they have stayed in office and run. this is not unique. the question is do you abuse that position? i hope he s not, but the fbi has been alerted and homeland security. so we ll find out in the days afterwards whether or not there s realism to this or not, but i think in these days of hacking and these machines are
think it was 68% of democratic voters view the race their vote enthusiastically. 64%. so pretty much tied there. does that make things look a little better for republicans as voters go to the polls tomorrow? really, as we say always, the depends on turnout. turnout depends on enthusiasm. that s a very good sign for republicans. two good signs for republicans. one is the economy. the economic numbers last week were excellent. unemployment at historic lows. wages starting to go up. you would think it would be an election fought on that ground. it has not been because of president s own desire to talk more about immigration. there are some signs that republicans could some some heart in it, but it s true this generic ballot is one thing we look at closely, and presidential approval, which is tied to how the party in power fares in a midterm election, those are just disquieting for the white house. rob, cnn political commentator, also member of the