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Will win. we own the ground. we re not yielding one grand of sand. do not pay any attention to this. do not listen to nancy pelosi when she goes on stephen colbert and says we have victory here. no, we don t. you have to take trump seriously. if you don t think they don t have something up their sleeve or they re not out there working their tails off, they are. we begin with chris hayes, who has been out on the ground in texas. and mia wylie, a friend of the show here in new york. chris, let s do both. what do you see as the national picture tonight? and i know you ve been traveling, what do you see in your reporting out of texas? the national picture i think that there s some evidence i think particularly in house races that there s been a little bit of late movement towards the democrats. the upshot polling, they ve been polling in swing district after swing district, shows a little improvement there. some seats today put four more ....
Hanging. so there it is. this is interesting because republicans felt over the summer they had polls shows fitzpatrick their incumbent leading, they thought democrats had made a big mistake nominating this candidate, didn t even live in the district until recently, but it may be that that suburban energy to go after trump is so strong it overrides everything here. the one thing i ve been in thing in the upshot polling, during kavanaugh and post kavanaugh every race was breaking republican. i think we are getting we ve all said that that post kavanaugh high that republicans felt, that will subside. how much? who knows? but in the suburbs of philadelphia this is a great test case, a seven-point lead for the democrat in the philadelphia suburbs where trump did very well, that s significant. and i could say that also suggests to me another possibility, just a possibility that this is also a kavanaugh effect but it s a kavanaugh effect going the other way. that this is the energy ag ....
count the yard signs. listen to the voters. knock on doors. the new york times public editor writes this. want to know what america is thinking? try asking. on tuesday afternoon the new york times told readers upshot polling featured that hillary clinton had an 84% chance of winning. sometime tuesday night that 84% clinton win upshot figure flipped. suddenly it was 95%, for donald trump. and when readers woke up on wednesday they learned that the second forecast at least was on target. readers are sending letters of complaint at a rapid rate. certainly the times isn t the only news organization bewildered and perhaps a bit sheepish about its coverage. the rest of the media missed it as did pollsters, analysts, democratic party and clinton campaign itself. as the times begins a period of self-reflection, i hope editors will think hard about the half of america the paper ....