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As the art of it is wrong because its such a topsy turvy time we dont know or understand whos really going to show out and whos not going to turn out, right. if you told me two months ago that the democratic -- that the electorate in virginia would be 13 points, you know, plus 13 points democratic, i would say well thats an outlier. i dont think thats going to happen. >> yeah. >> but thats what you had. so it depends on who turns out. what youre hearing on alabama is you have a lot of energy on ...

Rumny commands a lot of respective among conservatives. steve bannon picked a fight tonight, and itll be interesting to see what it means for the future of the party. >> since your a number guys here, do you trust any of the polling you see coming out of alabama? >> well, here is the tough part, brian, is that its hard to judge or this is the art of it, right, what kind of electorate is going to turn out. the polling isnt wrong as much as the art of the is wrong. at such a topsy-turvy time, we d...

Plus 13. he has more than doubled his support in iowa in just the last month. he is right behind donald trump right now. you look at ben carson, ben carson had been surging a month ago. hes now down 10 points. so the race really has reshuffled a bit in iowa. what is exactly driving that? take a look. we can look inside the numbers here. first of all, evangelical christians make up more than half, they make up about 60% of the republican electorate in iowa. huge important group in iowa. well, loo...

Polls, but he still has considerable strength. again, if you look at the real clear politics average of the polls in iowa, carson has a nine-point lead in iowa, which votes first, in just 96 days, so thats good for carson, but iowas history is that it picks somebody, but then new hampshire and south carolina tend to actually pick the republican nomin nominee. in those states, trump is plus 16 in new hampshire right now, on average, plus 13 in south carolina on average. the question is, as he dro...

>> americans from coast to coast casting their ballots and rejecting president obamas policies. >> with me the buck stops right here at my desk. and so whenever the head of the party doesnt do well, i have got to take responsibility for it. >> it was a total republican landslide. the g.o.p. adding nine seats in the senate plus 13 more in the house. and republican governors rising to power across the country. even in blue states like maryland, illinois, even massachusetts. now that republicans ar...

Policies are on the ballot. >> americans from coast to coast casting their ballots and rejecting president obamas policies. >> with me the buck stops right here at my desk. and so whenever the head of the party doesnt do well, i have got to take responsibility for it. >> it was a total republican landslide. the g.o.p. adding nine seats in the senate plus 13 more in the house. and republican governors rising to power across the country. even in blue states like maryland, illinois, even massachuse...

That is evident in georgia and north carolina. >> i say look. i think charles makes a point. he thinks president obama is a man to talk if obama creates a shape for the electorate favoring democrats but doesnt repeat. tonight the white, 75% of turneded out in u.s. house places were white. only 12% black. that is different than what we saw in 2012. its mostly, plus 13 among men plus seven among women for democrats if you dig in, you know to a lot of the numbers strong turn out for republicans ton...

You know, this is a special election. this is not, you know, a big election in a regular year. this isnt even a midterm. this was a march special election in a midterm election. so the fact of the matter is we started out 13 points behind in an off-year election, where republican voters are the most animated, and we got it to within two. im a mets fan. i never want to lose by two, and im sorry that we lost. it was disappointing. but the fact of the matter is we got it from 13 points behind to tw...

Nationally? >> well, chuck, you know, every district has its own unique dynamics and terrain. this is a very tough terrain for us. heres why. in a typical election, a federal election, its a fairly competitive democratic district. and in special election, in an off-year, it is an r-plus 13 discorrect. 13 more republicans in turnout. its a tossup. >> sounds like youre nerve -- >> no, im realistic. im realistic. we always say, this is a tossup district, but the turnout is r-plus 13 district, so it...

This is 6,000 miles from the city of lights, luxury development, in the outskirts of shanghai that was constructed in 2007 to attract chinas new wealthy. but according to the developers, it is currently on the 20% to 30% occupied. location, location, location is part of the problem. the luxury development sprouted in an area surrounded by farmland and dead end roads. it is also a symptom of chinas property bubble. ghost towns, even entire ghost cities, are increasingly common sites in china. in ...