emanuel might have been doing some lobbying? it s in the middle of the country, both coasts, equal flights. close to soldier field. 2018, put it on your calendar. done. a lot of politics last night. what does this all mean? one man can tell us. he runs inside politics on new day. his name john king and his face to the left of the screen. mr. cuomo, hope you had a nice trip south to the world cup. kate, michaela, very good day to go inside politics. wow, let s just start in a word, wow. in a runoff election, traditionally the base turns out and overall turnout drops. instead in mississippi last night thad cochran, the establishment candidate wins, turnout overall goes up. he wins, peter, by 6,300 votes, no question, we don t have a debate this morning. thad cochran is the republican nominee for senate in mississippi beating a tea party
republicans, as you know, republicans vote more than democrats. andrea, i won for six points, which for me isn t a squeaker. f me that s a landslide. but you re right. virginia has a particular electoral history where we will put 70% turnout out there in a presidential race. one year later in a governor s race, it might be 48% or 45%. in 2009, the turnout was only 40%. when the turnout drops, that affects us maybe a little more than the other guys. the good thing about the mcauliffe campaign is from the very beginning they realized this was their challenge. there s no complacency about it. i don t think the mcauliffe camp is worried at all, but i think they re focused on this problem which they identified early as their chief challenge and they re trying to make sure that we have folks in state explaining to virginia voters why this race is so important so that we don t lose that kind of dropoff, which is traditional in