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
won t be the same when there s 435 house races happening instead of one on a random tuesdayner i august. a superb election in the dead of the summer. my kind of night here i guess you could say. garrett, great reporting. thank you for joining us outside what was the o connor headquarters outside columbus. former republican congressman david jolly from you florida, john pod or ritz and kimberly atkins, columnist for the boston herald. david, let me start with you. i m looking at the story from this district. i m seeing three different stories looking at we showed there franklin county. clinton won it and tonight you saw the energy was there for democrats. the support level for o connor was higher than it was for clinton by will ten points. turnout level was higher. i m thinking that story is trouble for republican members of congress, barbara cop stock
i think he wanted to bid the wall. this was an entrenched establishment republican candidate. this was not a make america great again candidate. trump would say he should have been more trump. i m a product of special elections. my first race was a special election. to john s point, one of the things the party apparatus has to do is convince the high dollar institutional donors they can win these races. i saw it in my election and conversely, i was running during the implementation of obamacare and it provides an opportunity in my case for democrats to message test. at the time it was unpopular. the rollout was a disaster. republicans were trying to find their footing on obamacare and frankly they couldn t. republicans rights now are doing exactly the same thing trying to find their footing with donald trump. where is it? they haven t figured it out but they can go back to their donor base and say we at least know how to win. that s about all they can say tonight. kimberly, maybe thi
have to juice turnout in their as a areas with donald trump or adds with nancy pelosi, and hold on and hope this democratic enthusiasm wave doesn t knock them off their perches. i do think we saw a little bit of a blueprint how it will work. the resources and money and time won t be the same when there s 435 house races happening instead of one on a random tuesdayner i august. a superb election in the dead of the summer. my kind of night here i guess you could say. garrett, great reporting. thank you for joining us outside what was the o connor headquarters outside columbus. former republican congressman david jolly from you florida, john pod or ritz and kimberly atkins, columnist for the boston herald. david, let me start with you. i m looking at the story from this district.