supporting him. he obviously just pitched a huge profile of himself in a major magazine yesterday. and i think the five stories we read about the trump white house in meltdown over the midterms is a clear indicator that this has not been solved yet. dana: one of the things that the democrats are looking at is this huge booth of enthusiasm and turnout in alabama and virginia. but if the economics turned out to be in president trump s favor and it works out for the republicans, will that diminish the democratic turnout advantage? i don t think it will diminish our advantage. you have a base of democrats were obviously upset with the giveaways and the tax bill, but they are upset about the continued assault on health care, they see a supreme court seat in neil gorsuch that was stolen. i think the democratic energy is going to remain. dana: i appreciate you being here, timeout you have a wonderful holiday. we have a live look at
a lot of activity for you and others. thanks. why tonight i m obsessed with other people s obsessions. you re seeing a turnout advantage, enthusiasm advantage in the heavily black areas of the state. so that is a key thing that s happening for jones. th served i. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she s the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i ve had usaa for a while, why don t we call and check the rates? it was an instant savings and i should ve changed a long time ago. there s no point in looking elsewhere really. we re the tenneys and we re usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early. or too late. or make me feel like i m not really there. talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424.
getting, but you re getting 58, 57% of the turnout you had in 2016. it s something we re also seeing up here. again, in these rural, heavily republican counties, you re seeing a turnout advantage, an enthusiasm advantage in the heavily black areas of the state. so that is a key thing that is happening for jones. and you mention it, look. in terms of jones strategy, that s good news for him. this is where you got the most vote. you have mobile county. barely anything has come in and half of jefferson county. look, he is already ahead by 60,000 votes. the margin, the 85% should come down a little bit. but again, there are some big areas out where jones is expected to do very well. and that will be absolutely key to him being able to pull this off where. he is expected to win the most populous counties in the state. we don t have a big proportion over many yet. all right. steve kornacki, we ll be right back with more of the results from alabama.
president trump is much higher than the strong approval historically that has met a turnout advantage for the other side. in fact, you saw a shift towards the democrats in the composition of the electorate. then as i said to you many times before, the most conspicuous difference between trump and typical republican president is how low his approval is among white educated voters. you saw that translate not only into incredible margins but incredible turnout. yesterday in an off year election, ralph northam won fair fax county, the biggest suburban county in virginia than more than barack obama did in 2012 in a presidential year. he wop it by twice as much in 2014 and twice as much as terry in 2013. all of these things that should have happened based on the polling did happen. and i think that kind of sets a marker for republicans, particularly voting for this tax bill by the way that were hurt
you can just sense it just by a lot of newspapers have interviewed people. both nationally and here. and they are not, they re not going out to vote for hillary clinton. so much as they re going out to vote against donald trump. there s a clear lack of enthusiasm in the democratic base for hillary clinton. visa vie what it was here in 2012. but trauurp has taken fircare o that for them. let s talk about early voting. does that tell you about energy and attitude? the fact you get out and vote early? yeah, listen. the green machine, the krupg political machine that trump referred to by the way, those polls places were not all kept open late. what he said is false, but forget about that. for a second. the read machine does two things incredibly well. did it in 2008 and 2012. they find those voters and turn them out early to bank those votes because they assume the republicans will have a turnout