growing electorate. the economy was doing well at midterms. we saw republicans with a number of losses in the house in part because there were other factors the democrats could run on. the noise did matter. the specifics of the health care issue and the noise, tweeting all the time, attacking people, being callous, being rude. look at the elections from our new cnn poll in the battleground states. biden versus trump, 47-47. warren verse trump, 46-48. sanders versus trump, 45-49. buttigieg versus trump, 43-48. the incumbent president is competitive, if not leading, in all those states heading into what is going to be here it comes. if you look at the vote in the house on impeachment, all of the republicans hung with trump, one of the worrisome signs for democrats is that s a sign of what s to come in the general