we saw support outside the court in melbourne. a lot of support back home for novak djokovic, people pleased with this verdict? thei;r home for novak djokovic, people pleased with this verdict? they will be and ou pleased with this verdict? they will be and you will pleased with this verdict? they will be and you will not pleased with this verdict? they will be and you will not be pleased with this verdict? they will be and you will not be surprised i pleased with this verdict? they will be and you will not be surprised to| be and you will not be surprised to hear the initial reactions in the serbian media have been absolutely cock a hoop. i will give you a rundown of the headlines. novak beat australia. the state melt down before him. from a tabloid. a great victory, justice with the serbians, said another. and certain victory says another. all of them delighted with the verdict. they have issued a caveat saying the minister in australia could yet issue a decision to deport him f
or updated their status in 2018 versus about 40 million in 2016. so you re absolutely right, you re going to get less. but what we really care about is looking at the partisanship: it s all about the ground game, chris. so, you know, we really want to see the rate of democrats versus republicans actually registering. and they re you know, they re strikingly similar from 2016 to 18. you have been you guys have been polling in all these races, and you ve got this amazing thing where you re doing live polls and you can kind of watch them happen. there was a sort of narrative about the kind of kavanaugh effect, the catalyzing effect that it was charging the republican base. now that we re a week plus out from that, what trends are you seeing now? well, i wish i could answer this in a week, actually. i feel like the last two days, just watching the news, i feel like these are the first two days that feel truly post-kavanaugh. i agree. in our polling we saw several seemingly con
this in a week, actually. i feel like the last two days, just watching the news, i feel like these are the first two days that feel truly post-kavanaugh. i agree. in our polling we saw several seemingly contradictly things that happened at the same time. we saw support for kavanaugh plummet, the president s approval rating at the same time tick up. and we saw that the republicans started doing better in red and conservatively leaning areas that has helped cushion their advantage in the senate. while i wouldn t say that it, you know, materially undermined democratic chances of retaking the house, i do think it sort of protects the republicans a bit against some of the worst-case scenarios where they could lose 50 seats or something like that. to be clear it s quite possible after another week i ll come back and say, actually, we ve had a reversion back to what we saw before kavanaugh and much more characteristic of the special elections of the last year, where democrats routinely su
far. i think the problem with the first amendment is it s very contextual. is it something you care about? are they okay with christ in a jar of urine? not so much. it depends on how afraid you are. after 9/11 we saw support for the first amendment go right at the window. at a moment like this when a lot of terror is being drummed up by isis that really affects people s opinions as well. let s talk about twitter because that seems to be the next level of absurdity and terror. i guess some part of me thought