of the 90s created two tribes, red for republicans, blue for democrats, almost evenly divided right down the middle. at the start of the decade if you said red america or blue america to somebody, or red states and blue states they didn t even agree on what colors were which party, and by the end of the decade, the start of this century, election night 2000, that perfect tie between bush and gore in red and blue said everything after that election. that s really been the world we ve lived in ever since. donald trump came along and was a character just perfectly made for that world. to exploit the divisions? exactly. steve, thank you. it is by all accounts from what i m hearing out there on the streets, it s fantastic book. it s called the red and the blue written by our guy, steve kornacki. good to have you. we usually use the monmouth polls, but we don t usually get the guys to come and talk about the polls. this is a treat. one of the women who will now be interviewed by
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