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Greatest represented democracy in Human History and thats us and happy halloween. And thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in why in the world the fbi would decide to jump into an election with no evidence of any wrongdoing with just days to go. Fbi director james comey under fire. Ten days to go . I think its disgraceful. Criticism coming from across the political spectrum. I think this is probably not the right thing for comey to do. But is the fbi d...

Night tweeting some choice words for clinton. dnc data folks, todays accusations are blankenship and i hope you understand the good you did despite that nonsense. the tweet has since been deleted. im not willing to let my people be thrown under the bus without a fight. clinton went on during that speech yesterday to suggest that no one in the obama administration would listen to her campaigns concerns that the russians were interfering in the election. c.i.a. chief john brennan, however, said he...

What we had to do is get a considerable amount of data and model that in a way to see what the results would be. when ab/eb started coming, we could recognize pretty quickly, hey, we can analyze and change this and see how were going to win. >> reality what that looked like was donald trump heading to michigan when people thought that was insane. >> to get michigan and pennsylvania and to win those states, we had to recognize quickly that they were in play. we had to take voter content, tv, and ...

The moving up and down with donald trump has been it drifts away as he attacks a judge or has a feud with a gold-star family or boasts about sexual assault which is later confirmed by 12 women saying on the record he did similar things, but that that number -- its like a rubber band. they want to come back because they are partisan force a reason and hes the republican nominee. >> thats exactly right. before this friday, october surprise ever broke, we saw trump moving up slightly in the polls b...

Data folks who think about this a lot, they just think they have more votes. they think that the obama coalition is a bigger coalition and if they identify those voters, turn them out, that they have the bigger slice of the pie. >> so, im of multiple minds of this and this keeps me up at night. i do think hillary clinton, if we look at the electoral math, if we look at the states that she needs, i think my political science brain says she has them. if people turn out, not even at obama levels, i...

Demand that can happen locally and happen federally. >> okay. >> another key solution is tying funding to police departments to performance. we have data folks are collective bargaininging around the country and in places where theres patterns theres still a healthy amount of federal funding that they are receiving. so what we would be saying is you need to show us your decreasing your racial disparities in order to receive federal funding. >> thank you both very much co-founders o of #blacklive...

Even since we knew who the romneys were and it hasnt changed. there have been some flexes and movements in the numbers but we go into electoral advantage there and demographic advantage in some ways but the race is close. >> you know, its funny. were all -- theres sort of two schools of thoughts here. you have the data folks and you have the gut folks and you say, this feels like it could break and if it breaks it breaks in one direction. but we havent had a break since 1980. >> right. >> its so...