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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. Maybe a question about the status of the voter. They tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. They tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. Oftentimes, you find that sometimes in...

Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Will not be counted. If it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. So some are going to be counted terms of Absentee Ballots favored oconnor. You would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. And there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. It may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all...

Field is level and watch out. democrats could probably pick up every single one of those. >> kimberly, do you expect this to have a slow motion concussion wave like the old black and white flips of nuclear tests as it -- as the realization of what congressman jolly is talking about continues to roll over all the republican members up on the hill? >> i think so. i think you definitely see this. theyre going to be a lot of people looking at the playbook and trying to figure out exactly how they ca...

Democrats could probably pick up every single one of those. >> kimberly, do you expect this to have a slow motion concussion wave like the old black and white flips of nuclear tests as it -- as the realization of what congressman jolly is talking about continues to roll over all the republican members up on the hill? >> i think so. i think you definitely see this. theyre going to be a lot of people looking at the playbook and trying to figure out exactly how they can change it to sort of staunch...

What happens when somebody resigns is the staff stays in place likely till last night under the direction of the clerk of the house. constituent services can continue. but all those constituent services now get picked up tomorrow. they have to be staffed up. i think politically tonight what were seeing is this. its very hard to see a scenario where republicans keep the house in november. the trend is simply getting away from republicans. if you look at the conor lamb race, tonight, republicans a...