majority. democrats have a steeper hill to climb, they need 15 more wins to get to 218. the simple math says republicans are closer knocking at the door of a speaker ship. let s look at republicans clearly have the edge three. a three-seat majority. not what they wanted and expected but majority is still majority. what will happen from here? let s go back to this. we leave these numbers up. this is the cement. the cement dried on these races. 211 republicans. 203. republican haves a cleaner path. we need to emphasize that. republicans have an easier path to 218 and this but is getting more interesting. let s walk through. can democrats get there? well, let s look at this. number one two likely. republicans have actually conceded in the races but some of these happened before. concessions and votes come in and get clipped. we re being conservative here. you re at 203.
audience. and that s a very viable opportunity for chris cuomo. the idea you can take a star one place and put them somewhere else, they will still be a star. audiences are different. cultures are different in newsrooms. it s not a guarantee he can go somewhere else and pick up where he left off. in terms of how the audience is served, i think this is an important conversation to have, to peel back the layers a little bit and ask these questions about access to power, access to sources, regsships with sources, disclosures journalists need to make, excusing themselves, perhaps taking a leave of absence if he headfelt his fami was priority to him. and these are the conversations we need to have that reinforce trust in the public media to expose some of the fault line. i m glad you said that. looking back at the leave of absence, which we raised on the show months ago, that might have been the cleaner path forward. more importantly, you can t pick your family but you can choose how you
do they take the scarce resources and put it in television ads to answer this from karl rove and company or try to do it on the ground? the problem on a low-turnout midterm election, tv ads are easy to do if you have the money. geo tv is hard to do unless you have enthusiasm. the peace movement, you don t see the troops willing to get out there in the way they were in 2008. one of the things you know, great concern about foreign entities having now a cleaner path into putting money into american elections. is there evidence of that with the new report today? i think there might be. progress, out of research progressive blog, they think there s a lot more foreign money coming in through the chamber of commerce.
answer this from karl rove and company or try to do it on the ground. the problem on a low-turnout midterm election, tv ads are easy to do if you have the money. geo tv is hard to do unless you have enthusiasm. the peace movement, you don t see the troops willing to get out there in the way they were in 2008. one of the things you know, great concern about foreign entities having now a cleaner path into putting money into american elections. is there evidence of that with the new report today? think there might be. progress, out of research progressive brlog, they think there s a lot more foreign money coming in through the chamber of commerce. there have been foreign corporation that have employees here that do get involved in