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Question mark in front of it. They are just talking about it as an idea. You cant fact check that claim because they are not making it as a claim, and they are asking, is the department of justice really the department of jihad . Its just a question. Our friends at fox excel at this particular kind of journalism. Who is the bigger threat . They are not suggesting, eric holder, is a bigger threat than the current leader of al qaeda. They are not saying it. Dont see the question mark . No such thing as a stupid question, right . Gas prices are really low right now. They are the lowest they have been in years. By tomorrow, by saturday they are expected to dip below 3 bucks a gallon. When gas was really expensive, fox could not stop talking about how terrible that was, and how president obama was to blame, and gas taxes high, terrible news, blame president obama. Now with the gas prices that are falling, a place like fox is incapable of saying president obama is the cause of the low prices, since he was the cause of the high prices, well, they just decided low gas prices are bad, bad maybe . Bad question mark . Cheap gas hurts economy . When fox did that this week, we laughed and laughed and laughed, and we put them on tv and laughed publicly about them. Rachel maddow took me on and got it wrong. She turned to the classic style of the left, demagoguery without facts, and this time i was a target, and this time they and she did an old trick. She took what we call a screen grab of the program and showed it on hers. Thats me on camera. And you see the graphic bottom, cheap gas hurts the economy, question mark. Did you not see the question mark you liberal demagogue . Look their little slogan thing for the segment they put my face and put it through a corkscrew. They went to say they were asking the question to debunk that question, and turns out, fox admits cheap gas does not hurt the economy, they debunked that claim. So this is fun. But the news is this. Gas prices are way down. Gas prices are the lowest they have been in years, and thanks to fox we know thats good news, good news for the economy over all. Hooray. The Unemployment Rate right now is below 6 , and thats the First Time Since the recession that it has been that low, in terms of people putting in claims for unemployment benefits, that number is at a 14year low right now, and the economy is growing at 3. 5 , which is a robust growth rate, robust enough that they stopped doing the monetary stimulus, and the chairman of the fed is going to be meeting with president obama about that, and they are able to stop the stimulus because they believe the economy is coming back on its own enough that it doesnt need that booster shot anymore. Gas prices, down. The Unemployment Rate, down. Jobless benefits, way down. Economic growth, way up. Its all going the right way right now, and the Dow Jones Industrial average and s p 500 today closed at record highs, and the dow closed at 17,390 points today. The Consumer Sentiment index, which is a measure of how consumers feel about the economy, and it feels like one of the touchy feely sociologies. Its how much confidence the consumers have in the economy. That number is the highest it has been in more than seven years right now. If that was not enough, happy halloween. The price of halloween candy is down. It has been stable for the last couple of years, and halloween candy is cheap. Add all that together, and people are in a pretty good mood. And in politics, usually, all of the Economic Indicators being up with an exclamation point, except for the ones that are good when they are down, usually that means good things for the party in power. Right . Things are going well. Dont change horses. That has been the easieiest progress indication. Remember, its the economy, stupid . Right, its the economy, stupid. So by the principles of how economics meets politics 101, that good Economic News should mean good news for the president and the president s party right now. At least three rhett klee. Instead, nobody expect that. In washington there is not a debate whether there is going to be a republican wave election, and the debate is how tall and enormous the republican tsunami wave will be. Look at some of the actual data that is out there. Four of the eight races that are going to determine which party determines the senate, four are tied in the recent polling, or all by tied. In colorado, they are each getting 48 of the vote, and in another state, both getting 45 , and North Carolina, democratic senator haguen is up over tillis up by one point. We have a bunch of tied races in a bunch of key states across the united states, and lots of tie races in important places. The economic fundamentals are good for the party in power, for the president s party right now, and the race by race are tied and the economic numbers are good, and now look at this, this is the one other slice of data we get head into an election is that a good cater of what is about to happen. In 2006, democrats had a really great Midterm Election year. They picked up five senate seats and picked up more than 30 seats in the house and got control of the house, and democrats had a bangup year in the Midterm Election in 2006, and one of the ways you could tell in advance is because of something called the generic ballot, and that doesnt ask people who they want to vote for specifically, it just asks people which party they want to win, which party they want to control congress. And this is the thing that sometimes gets ignored. It doesnt have an affect on anyone race. This is kind of a poll that tells you generally how voters are feeling head into an election year. Look at the generic ballot in 2006 when democrats did so well. It was easy to protkeubgt democrats were going to have a super year that year. They were up in every poll in two weeks before the election day, when voters got asked, which party do you want to win. That was 2006. And then in those elections, the democrats won over the republicans. The next Midterm Election, the democrats got beat in all of the generic ballots you could see it coming a while away. Republicans were up by 15 points, 13 points, and people didnt care who the candidate was, they just wanted republicans to win congress. Republicans, republicans, republicans, republicans, every poll. And then thats how people voted in 2010. Republicans won big time. Generic ballot polling tells you how things are going to go in the mid terms. Now, look at the generic polling for this year. In the last eight generic ballots before the election this year, its democrat, republic, democrat, republican republicans up in four of the last eight, and democrats up in four of the last eight. Half and half. This is not how this usually looks before a Midterm Election, at least not before a Midterm Election where you can predict clearly what the results are going to be. Usually the generic ballot lets us see from a mile away what is about to happen, and this year its clear as mud, question mark, which is kind of awesome to watch while its happening, even if it makes people certain out on thin ice. Joining us now, the senator is back with us again on halloween for a Third Straight year. She recently was out on the campaign trail, and senator, thank you for being here. Happy halloween . Thank you, rachel. Happy halloween to you. We dont have a witch running in delaware, but i am sure we will have a lot to talk about. Can you explain to me what those sorts of two sides of you how come all of this good Economic News hasnt meant more good political prognostication for your party, for the president and his party . Well, i think first of all, you are right, and i will defend your honor on fox, if you like. In fact, the gas prices are at their lowest level in four years. Unemployment is much better than the depths of the downturn. In fact in my state, unemployment is down to 4. 1 . Wow. We have a situation where we have had 55 straight months of job growth. And we still know that people are suffering out there, and a lot of work needs to be done, but the point is, there have been some pretty dramatic changes and a lot of these senators that are on the ballot from kay hagan in North Carolina to Jeanne Shaheen in new hampshire, to mark udall in colorado, they worked very hard to get policies in place, whether it was the recovery act or wall street reform or all kinds of things. And energy and a lot of work that was done to make this recovery happen. The recovery is about jobs and its about our businesses and our workers. But some policies were put in place and some tough votes taken. So i do hope, and i think one of the reasons you see despite all of the noise and the 44 million spent against kay hagan in North Carolina, you still see our candidates hanging in there and ahead in so many polls. And i just think part of this is in states where the candidates are very focused on talking about the economy, theyre tending to do well, and i predict that this election is not going to be the kind of landslide you have some pundits talking about. I think youre going to see some surprise wins. I cant wait to see what happens in georgia. I was there yesterday with michelle nunn, and i have to tell you, she is running a Grassroots Campaign that Paul Wellstone would be proud of in terms of how shes getting the volunteers out there, door to door, getting people out there that have never been involved in politics before. You can see that in those numbers. Early voting yeah. I was going to interrupt you, one thing you said about both tactics and also the message, as these candidates are trying to make the case, and a lot of these places, as you say, tens of millions of dollars spent against them. A lot of Democratic Candidates widely outspent not just by the republican party, but by outside groups. Is what youre saying when democrats are doing better than expected, its because they have been very disciplined about keeping the message on the economy. Democrats talking about the economy is working even though the rest of the pundit sphere talking about the election isnt focused on that . I think its true and i think you have in kays case, her opponent slashed education funding. And by a 24point margin, the voters in North Carolina dont agree with that. When youre able to make that kind of contrast on the economy, it makes a difference. I would also add for people who are questioning enthusism in both georgia and North Carolina, you have incredible numbers with 212,000 voters registered early in georgia, and North Carolina outpacing early voting that you saw in the president ial year. So i just think that theres a lot going on here, as coming from the state, which you know, where al franken is doing incredibly well this time, but back in 08, won by 312 votes, rachel. I think people who claim they can predict when these polls are so close, i just dont think anyone can. Ill never forget the picture of Heidi Heitkamp in her election in north dakota where the next day she held up the headline from the local paper that predicted her defeat and she won that election. Senator, i have to ask you, because we keep meeting on halloween. Obviously, you and i both are bad at celebrating halloween because we both keep going to work and being with one another on a satellite feed. Is there some other holiday you do like freaking awesome that counteracts how poorly we both do halloween . Like when im not working . Yes, thanksgiving. I tend to actually make some food and decorate. But i was thinking, rachel, with two of these states, as you know, could go into runoffs, and so while we have always had these election halloweens together, the voters in those states might just say boo, the election is not over, and you and i could well be spending thanksgiving, christmas, new years eve talking about these elections because it may not end. As you know, one runoff is december 6th and one is january 6th. Wow. To new years eve in new orleans if need be. Senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota, thank you for being here. Good to see you. Thank you. Trick or treat. Now i have to figure out what to do with all this candy which has been giving off this chocolate waft throughout this entire segment. This has been very distracting. Lots ahead tonight, including me cleaning up my desk before we move on. Well be right back. Okay, we have lots ahead tonight. Okay, we have lots ahead tonight. Including why a School District in arizona is ripping pages out of a biology textbook. We also have jenny jardin here to talk about the spaceship that crashed in the Mojave Desert this afternoon. We also have another installment of our friday night experiment that is still in the research and development phase. Still not sure about this one, but its coming up. Stay with us. Virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. Now its quicker and easier for you to start your business, protect your family, and launch your dreams. At legalzoom. Com we put the law on your side. Why do i cook for the to share with family to carry on traditions to come together, even when were apart in stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, and more, swanson® makes holiday dishes delicious how long has it been since we had School Districts cutting offensive pages out of textbooks . Its probably only been about five minutes, but the new one today is in arizona, gilbert, arizona, which is a suburb of phoenix out past tempe. A majority of the school board has decided to take offense with the textbook for honors biology. School board in gilbert voted this week to tear out part of campbell biology, concepts and connections. They object to a single paragraph in a section on the birds and the bees. Schools teach a lot of things and the biology book for a gilbert Public Schools High School Honors class has a section on contraception, and that section talks about abortion. You would expect a discussion of abortion maybe to show up in actual sex ed materials. Thats why i didnt like abortion in a biology book that all it discusses is natural processes. Theres nothing natural about abortion. Last night by a vote of 32, the Gilbert School board decided to nix the abortion section of the book, citing a recently signed state law that said schools must give preference to child birth and adoption over abortion. That law passed a couple years ago. April 2012, she signed it on the same day that a bonkers abortion bill was signed. It banned most abortions after 20 weeks. Arizona decided they would change the definition of when you become pregnant. Arizona in its grace moved the definition of your pregnancy back two weeks. In arizona, your conception clock gets backtimed to start ticking before you ever even clicked on the guys profile on tinder. Hey, handsome uhoh. Jan brewer just pronounced you pregnant. Arizona passed that redefining pregnancy, pregnant at hello law, and this other law about abortion in textbooks in sort of an antiabortion fit a couple years ago. The textbook law says all schools must present child birth and adoption as preferred options to elective abortion. So arizona passed both of those laws in 2012. Governor brewer signed them on the same day. The 20week ban got blocked by the courts, but the other one, the rip the pages out of the textbook one, that law remains in effect. And now theyre using it. This new decision appears to be the first time the law has been used to take back information that students had previously been given as part of their education. In gilbert, the offending page explains that, quote, complete abstinence, avoiding intercourse, is the only totally effective method of birth control. They object to this . Further down the page, it explains the morningafter pill followed by a discussion of a medication abortion. That procedure, and i quote, requires a doctors prescription and several visits to a medical facility. Sounds almost as fun as complete abstinence when you think about it. Despite that being the rather not too pushy text in this honors biology textbook, this summer a crusading religious group complained about that paragraph in the textbook. Arizona board of ed and its lawyer looked into it and said this paragraph is not a problem. This textbook is not advocating abortion. The textbook is merely acknowledging that abortion is a thing that exists. But the crusading religious group showed up at the Gilbert School Board Meeting on tuesday. So did three republican state senators who trouped over to this School Board Meeting to make sure something got done about that terrible honors biology textbook and sure enough, the gilbert board voted to get rid of that material. And it turns out that in their view, the fastest and most effective way to disappear those facts from honors biology is to rip them out of the textbook. These textbooks are written prior to the state law, so the easiest, simplest, cheapest way to bring them into compliance with state law was just excise that section. Its only a page. Excise it. Like with scissors. Hey, its only a page. In the honors biology textbook. The local press says parents are already volunteering to help with tearing out the pages or marking over the offending paragraph like with a sharpie. It will be sort of like an oldfashioned corn husking. Gather around. Party in gilbert, arizona. Dear honors biology students of gilbert, arizona, i now address your directly. You may soon find yourself holding a biology textbook with a hole where some true facts used to be. Dont despair. We here at the Rachel Maddow show have preserved the part of your book that the crusading religious group and the republican senators and the conservative majority on your school board no longer wants to allow you to see. Were going to keep it posted for you in perpetuity at arizonahonorsbiology. Com. Which we bought today so that we could post the page that theyre cutting out of your textbook. You can get it there. Arizonahonorsbiology. Com. Really. Its not worth it. No worries. I got this. A 2. 7 gigahertz turbo processor. Kevlar fiber durability. Turbo charge for up to 8 hours of battery in just 15 minutes. Introducing droid turbo by motorola. Twith available forwardd collision warningigned. And new blind spot monitor and a 2014 top safety pick plus rating. Cost of entry . A fortune. Until now. Hey sarah, new jetta . Yup. Can i check it out . Maybe at halftime . Introducing lots of new. The new volkswagen jetta. Isnt it time for german engineering . Faster than dcon. 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That rocket was built by a private company contracted by nasa to go to the space station because nasa, we as a country, dont have a Space Shuttle program anymore. In order to get stuff into space, we contract the work out to private companies. But this is how that latest mission from a private Company Ended on tuesday night. So that happened three days ago. We now know since then that the explosion there was not a spontaneous thing. Nasa apparently made the call to blow the rocket up on purpose just after launch because the rocket had apparently malfunctioned somehow shortly after takeoff. There were two safety officers tasked with overseeing the rocket launchers from a safety perspective. Apparently, it was those safety officers who sent a kill signal to destroy the rocket on purpose and caused that explosion. Its still unclear what they saw, but its reported now those safety officers sent a deliberate signal to the flight termination system to disable the rocket, kill it, explode it before it got too far. So that was tuesday. And then today, it happened again with significantly more tragic consequences in human terms. Heres what happened, about 9 20 a. M. Local time, californias Mojave Desert, about 100 miles northeast of downtown l. A. , a passenger spaceship developed for commercial space travel by Virgin Galactic took off for a test run. Plane is called spaceship two for Space Tourism to ferry paying customers for a 90minute ride into the edge of space. The aircraft is carried by a jetpowered mother ship, basically, a fancy plane called whiteknight two. They fly together until about 45,000, 50,000 feet, and then spaceship two is supposed to separate from the mother ship and use its rocket boosters to go its own way, to go up 62 miles off the skin of the earth to bring people to the edge of space. And you can see here what appears to be the two of them flying together on flight radar. Theyre flying together, toward mojave. And then at 10 10 a. M. Local time, less than an hour into the flight, spaceship two releases, they go their separate ways and mome wants later, spaceship two vanishes from the radar. Spaceship two crashed today in the Mojave Desert. Virgin galactic said the aircraft experienced a serious anomaly resulting in its loss. Two pilots were aboard the craft at the time of the crash. California Highway Patrol reported one of the pilots was killed. His body was recovered at the wreckage of the plane. The other pilot suffered serious injuries after parachuting away from the craft. When we have a mishap from the Test Community, we find the Test Community is very small. And were human. And it hurts. And our hearts, thoughts, prayers absolutely with the families of the victims. Space is hard. And today was a tough day. Were going to be supporting the investigation as we figure out what happened today, and were going to get through it. The ntsb and faa are both sending Investigation Teams to try to figure out what happened in this accident. The ntsb team is set to get there tomorrow morning. But this is now the second accident in the space of less than a week involving a commercial aircraft set to travel into space. Joining us now to try to understand the significance of this is xeni jardin who i turn to when i have questions at the intersection of tech and human. Thank you for being here. Great to be back, rachel. So commercial space travel is something that we have only been wrapping our heads around for five or six years already. Is this a bump in the road that we should see as not as important inflection in the trajectory of that that we do as humans or is this something really significant . Well, i mean, first, anytime were talking about a loss of human life, it is an important inflection point. Its an important its time to pause. Right . But i think we have to look back and remember that every major advancement in human space flight has been preceded by failure. You think about what the odds of these two events happening in one week are, but look add the odds of any of these launches coming across successfully. Think about all of the simultaneous pyrotechnic operations involved, the millions of lines of software code, all of the human hours involved in pulling Something Like this together, and even in the best Case Scenario when it goes off perfectly, the best you get at the end, as a friend at jpl said, is nominal. You had a nominal launch. I spoke to one of the reporters from space flight now who was right there when this happened. And he described the feeling as a gunshot going off in a crowded room. I have been to Space Shuttle launches before. When they go off well, its awesome. Its terrifying, and you can feel that force throughout your body. I can only imagine what that would be like to see the rocket crash to ground and feel that within your being. With all the fuel on that rocket set to get it so far out instead exploding in that huge crowd in front of all those people there to see it. Obviously, we as a country celebrate our Space Program in a way that is so nonpartisan, so uncynical that its almost like nothing else in american achievement. Like maybe we talk about our achievements in world war ii maybe. Thats at the heart of what we think we can do. Is there something fundamentally different with us doing it through companies as opposed to just through nasa. Nasa has always contracted with private firms. Theres lockheed martin, boeing. They have never made their own rockets. They were always contracting that out to private firms. Until recently, nasa was making its own spaceships. The difference is how much nasa is up in their business. So in eras past, they might have been right there on the manufacturing floor, overseeing this, and there might have been a tighter connection between nasa and the private space firms that it contracts to. I think that what the two accidents that happened this week may well, they really have to invite a tighter focus on the Safety Standards and practices. And you know, we have to also be sure that were clear about the fact when were talking about Virgin Galactic, this is not a craft thats going into space. Its going to the edge of space, but this is carrying paying passengers. And they were originally planning on launching that service in 2015. I dont see how thats possible now. Literally thinking about doing this next year. The idea of the democratization of space travel is mind bending, but it seems like were not there yet. So many things have to happen, right . The engineers, the pilots, everybody worked so hard to make that happen. But in the end, the outcome really is up to forces much greater than ourselves. Humbling. Xeni jardin, great to see you. Well be right back. Stay with us. The setting is perfect. You know what . Plenty of guys have this issue, not just getting an erection, but keeping it. Well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection. And you only take it when you need it. Good to know, right . If ed is stopping what you started. Ask you doctor about viagra. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach and abnormal vision. 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That happened this past weekend in the filthy, filthy skies over beijing, first reported a couple days ago. But this happened to about 60 commercial flights last week in beijing. The air quality level is at a level that they gently refer to as severely polluted. That led to a particulary disgusting marathon last week. They held it on a day where they named the air level as hazardous. They had 3400 micrograms, thats 14 times higher than what the World Health Organization says is safe to breathe. On the day of the marathon, the peoples daily newspaper said the air was not suitable for activities. But 30,000 people still ran that day in the filth, or they tried to. The kenyan runner who led the marathon for the first 12 miles quit halfway through the race. Ambulances sat at the finish line with water sprays and sponges for the competitors. Why sponges . Organizers advised athletes to wash off their skin after their skin was exposed to the air. Associated press shot these amazing photos of what it was like this past week to run in air conditions that toxic and disgusting. Lots of people ran wearing respirators which i thought, they have a cold. Theyre being so considerate. And then i realize, theyre just trying to breathe. Heres the thing, next week, its not just the marathon or the poor plane trying to land and running out of airline fuel while it looks for a place to land. Next week its not just those. Next week, the whole world is supposed to go to beijing. Its the apec summit next week. World leaders from all over are going. John kerry is going there next week, president obama is due to follow a few days later, and beijing has air quality so bad even the local government has had to call the air hazardous to breathe and severely polluted and airplanes cant land and runners have to get sponged off because their skin has touched the air. Beijing apparently has a plan. According to reporting in the l. A. Times, theyre mounting an allout effort to juice the air quality in time for all the worlds president s and prime ministers to get there next week. Theyre going to be shutting down 993 Construction Projects around beijing for the duration of the conference. In six cities and provinces surrounding beijing, theyre shutting down their most polluting industries. Some are having production cut. Some are getting shut down for the duration of the conference. Theyre forcing half the private vehicles in the city off the road. I think theyre doing it by license plate number. Half the cars in beijing will be taken off the road starting two days before the apec conference and during the height of the conference, theyre going to give all School Children and everybody who works for a Public Institution in beijing a sixday holiday. Stay home. Dont drive. Dont start the car. Dont plug anything in. Just hold your breath and maybe the rest of the world wont notice that there is a real problem here. So i started out this week in san francisco, and then i went to denver. Then i made a brief stop in the Rachel Maddow man cave, and now im back here in new york. At least i think i am. Its been sort of a confusing week. But hopefully youre not confused. Hopefully you have been paying very close attention because its that time again. This has become my favorite new thing. There goes my pen. Ill get it later. Kent jones is here to help with the logistics. Tonight our contestant is jack. Hes learning Mandarin Chinese and teaching it to his daughter. Also he sings in, wait for it, in pickup bands. Dude, yes. Thank you. Rachel, heres jack. Hi, jack, nice to meet you. Rachel, im honored. Whats a pickup band . Its kind of like pickup baseball but musicians. A bunch of musicians in a room youve never met before. You jam for a while. At the end of it you make a band. You play shows together after 30 days you disband and do it all over again. At 30 days, what if you love each other too much to let go. I love you already and i love your life. So what were going to do here is its not very complicated idea, but i understand you wanted the questions to be difficult, and so were taking no mercy here. If you get two or more of them right, you win a thing. What will jack win . Jack will win this lovely cocktail shaker, not available in stores. And also very tiny. No danger. Jack, we also need to bring in the disembodied voice of steve bennan, the guy who will determine whether or not you got a right answer. Jack meet steve, steve meet jack. Good evening, jack. Steve, thank you. Honored. Okay. Ready for your first question . Im more than ready. It comes from wednesday. On wednesday, an independent candidate for governor in the state of maine Elliott Cutler held a press conference to announce that he is not dropping out of that governors race, even though he now acknowledges that he cannot win that race. After that press conference on wednesday, who formally unendorsed Elliott Cutler and instead threw their support to the democrat in the race. Its multiple choice question. Was it a, former republican senator olympia snowe, independent senator angus king, c, former first lady laura bush, or d, the Portland Press herald newspaper . That was b, the senator angus king, independent of maine. Did jack get that right . Lets check the segment from wednesdays show. Then this afternoon, his most important endorser, maine independent senator angus king, he unendorsed Elliott Cutler and threw his support to the democrat. The correct answer is b and jack is 1 for 1. Excellent. Remember, you have to get two to get the prize. Lets go to question two. The candidates in the massachusetts governors race this week were asked at a debate, the question was, quote, when was the last time you cried . Terrible question, but fascinating answer. The republican candidate Charlie Baker wept all over again while describing an encounter he said that he had during this campaign. Afterwards, though, reporters tried to verify the story and report out the details of what he had described but nobody has been able to prove any of it, and now Charlie Baker has had to admit that maybe it didnt quite happen the way he said it did. So my question to you, jack, is what was the sad story that Charlie Baker told. A, was it story about a fisherman crying over the death of the fishing industry. B, was it a story about a funeral for a beloved Charlie Baker family member. C, was it a story about seeing his childhood hero, meeting a childhood hero who had fallen on hard times or d, was it a story about his campaign bus running over a deer. A, a fisherman crying over the death of the fishing industry. Lets check out last nights show. I said youre youre going to be fishermen. I was a fishermen, your grandfather was a fisherman. Youre going to be a fisherman. And it ruined their lives. The correct answer is a, and jack was correct again. And note just for the record as of this evening, the boston globe still cant verify the existence of this fisherman. Congratulations on that. Well done. It has been amazing to watch all the news an all the News Reporters in massachusetts comb through all the fishing towns around new bedford trying to find a man enormous enough to meet Charlie Bakers description of what it meant to hug a mountain. One last question, jack. You ready . This is from tuesdays show. On tuesday, of course, we took the show on the road to denver, colorado. I visited an office on bennick street in denver, which housed several successful statewide democratic campaigns in the back. Its now a natural effort to try to maintain the democratic majority in the senate. They discovered something interesting. What kind of establishment is now using that office . The Cory Gardner Campaign headquarters for his Republican Campaign for senate. B, is it a downtown Denver Election Office where voters can drop off early ballots. C is, it a child Modeling Agency . Or d, is it a gym . C, child Modeling Agency. Steve, do you have the answer for us . What they call their effort nationwide is the bennick Street Project because it was on bannock street here in denver, which is now home to a gym. Thats the correct answer, a gym. That was the back story that we got from lynn bartels about the Michael Bennett campaign, that his Campaign Headquarters had turned into a child Modeling Agency. Thats why they use their field headquarters, which is now a gym as the bannock street thing because of the creepy model agency. So you remember the detail, you just put it in the wrong place. But kent jones, are we going to be putting swag in jacks trick or treat bag . High degree of difficulty, i say oh, yes, we are. Here it is. You got two out of three right. 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