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In florida there hasnt been a democratic governor in over two decades if im not mistaken. georgia its been a while. in texas its been 20 years. theyre all trying to come up with math that works. theyre taking approaches, not doing what democrats have traditionally done to win stayed weight in those places. >> absolutely. if you look at the history of the way democrats have nominated a gubernatorial kabd datd, theyve gone with alex sync, the safe centrist candidate they think they can sell in the...

Montgomery nationally and small dollar donors. heres why tonight is going to be interesting. in 2014. votes cast in the year in 2016. the cruz people came in thinking it was going to be a six million vote night. right now, all the politicos and most sophisticated data say its an 8 million vote night. thats a 2 million miss for the cruz campaign. the question is where are the voters and who are they. where did they come from. theres a sense of uncertainty about this. and its because orourke chose...

People under the age of 30 has increased by over 500% from 2014. very low baseline. there wasnt a competitive election there as you said for a very long time. its not just that the younger voters are increasing in a percent sense. theyre increasing their share of the electorate. in 2014 they were 5% of the electorate. right now theyre 8.5% of the electorate. thats going to impact the polls as cornell said. >> really for beto particularly, even more than stacey abrams or andrew gillum or statewid...

Right now theyre 8.5% of the electorate. thats going to impact the polls as cornell said. >> really for beto particularly, even more than stacey abrams or andrew gillum or statewide races. he has to change the math and he needs a lot to fall his way to get over the threshold. thank you both. >> thank you. >> there is so much more to get to this election eve. coming up, congresswoman maxine waters will be here, so do not go away. [ phone rings ] what?!

The math has not added up in the past for democratic candidates in the state and i think the thinking is, try something else, right? the math has not been there. youve seen democrats run a sort of centrist texas democrats time and time again and they havent been able to cross that 43, 44 percent of the vote. try to do something else and try to find some voters that other people havent found before. thats been the theory of the case from the beginning. >> shoot the moon. thank you so much, my bud...

Their rallies and at their events, and there really does seem to be something around the orourke campaign with younger, more diverse folks coming out, being extremely fired up, sort of old school texas democrats telling me theyve never felt anything like this in their lifetime. the orourke campaign has to prove a concept that they really cant prove until election day, which is that they have been able to put together a new coalition of texas voters, because all the old ways of trying it have not...

I know that, you know, during the obama campaign in 2008, that line was moving. it was another long ballot and people didnt necessarily vote down after they voted for obama. what democrats are hoping is that people dont do that. but we have seen -- i have to tell you, the excitement is real i. there is an excitement that is on par with what i saw for stacey abrams in georgia and for what youre seeing for beto orourke. if that holds, bill nelson has first call that night, election night tomorrow ...

Cant prove until election day, which is that they have been able to put together a new coalition of texas voters, because all the old ways of trying it have not worked. the early vote has been enthusiastic. its been a huge number. i know youre going to talk about that later. the orourke campaign sees a lot of signs of hope in that. they could run the most competitive election in texas in the last 2r5 years, and still lose by half a million votes. the math here is incredibly difficult. but the en...

And now at 7:14 in the morning here on the east coast. 26 states have polls open right now. viewers guide for people waking up. where should we look 12 hours from now? >> lets do the math. democrats need in to win only 8 of the 30 races we rate as toss ups to win control of the house. the magic number is 23. there are 16 seats that are leaning or likely to go democratic. a lot of them are open seats because we have a red exodus in the house. we have 41 seats without an incumbent on the ballot. t...

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