Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Everybody has gone home. A few hours ago, this was a pretty bumping party. Democrats really felt like they had a shot here tonight. It the last 48 hours of this race, everything seemed to be breaking their way. The republican candidate stumbled into a gaffe about Franklin County The Night Before the election started. Their candidate had been all over the place in national and local media. They felt like they were fighting out the la
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. We expect those also break democratic enough to erase a 1754 lead . No, but could it be enough to cut into that 754 enough that baldersons advantage which is 0. 9 right now over oconnor if that ends up at 0. 5 or less, state law says guess what, we got to have a a recount here. You could potentially, i wouldnt say its the likeliest scenario but you could see that happening. There are also 5048 what they are calling uncounted absentee ballots, that were mailed out to voters in some cases weeks ago and they havent been mailed back. A lot of them probably arent going to be mailed back. Some of them a small number probably military ballots maybe still making their way. Some of them probably a small number are voters you had to have them postmarked yesterday. If they sent it out yesterday, it still comes in, that vote probably still going to be
district, the areas that currentlied to trump, the turnout wasnt as high but the vote, the margins that bal
for trump in the rural areas if they really are not winning the suburbs and not winning the more urban areas. if the democrats continue to mobilize, they mobilized in the middle of august, think what s going to happen in november. i think it s going to be already really bad news for republicans when it comes to playoff time. okay. so republican political consultant made the point that there is oner in lining for republicans which is to say that balderson defeat could have led to a stampede for the exits by not only by voters but by donors by people who have to pone up at the end, gin up enthusiasm. the idea if this had gone the other way, it probably won t, if this didn t look the way it did now, it would have been mass. the psychology of actually losing versus. the other way to look at it is like the first act of the walking dead and the zombies come and don t get in then but
playoffs are coming and you know that the teams will make a lot of adjustments leading into that. i think you re going to see that here, some of the things you were pointing out like not really growing the republican the suburbanen support for republicans having that slip a little bit. it s just, it may not be enough to overcome those to for even in those areas where you have that really inelastic support for trump in the rural areas if they really are not winning the suburbs and not winning the more urban areas. if the democrats continue to mobilize, they mobilized in the middle of august, think what s going to happen in november. i think it s going to be already really bad news for republicans when it comes to playoff time. okay. so republican political consultant made the point that there is oner in lining for republicans which is to say that balderson defeat could have led to a stampede for the exits by not only by voters but by donors by people who have to pony up at