how is this all playing out in the lead up to tuesday? it s a huge early vote number, asthma. it shows that georgians are energized to vote in the runoff election, even those that there is no shiny prize like senate control. that s already been cleansed by democrats. yes, you are, right to the early voting numbers so far do look good for senator warnock, the electorate has been disproportionately female. it disproportionately diverse. democrats have that advantage in terms of party registration going into that early vote. in addition, among the 76,000 new voters who sat out the midterm out general election and i voted in the runoffs, the big jump s we ve seen, the biggest shows we ve, seen rather have been among voters under 30, hispanics and asian americans. these are all democratic-leaning cohorts. if there are numbers here, they reflect the norm or constituency in many ways. it s good news for raphael warnock. it s not necessarily all good news for warnock.
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tear. the dow up 138 points here as we speak, two hours away from the closing bell. this is a big deal because the dow jones has hit a record high, smashed through the old record. we talked so much about that over the last couple of days, that old high set in october of 07. cnn business anchor christine romans is with me now in new york. christine, we have been watching. i feel like we have been flirting. i don t want to cry wolf here, but today, finally, the big jump. why now? overnight china said that it was going to keep its economy moving forward at about 7.5% growth rate and that seems to be the fuel of the kindling that was the dow jones industrial average that was so close to the highs. remember the dow is 30 stocks. 30 stocks. so your 401(k) is probably more represented in the stocks portion by the s&p 500, still about 1% away from its high, but that s 500 stocks. i want to show you some of the dow stocks and how much they re up from the low. brooke, look at this, american