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Sixteen percent of the overall state population yet they make up forty six percent of the prison population where is the white community is fifty eight percent of floridians and they have only forty one percent of the prison population so you could see some huge disparities that inversely affect black the black community and often lower income communities right now that were seeing more than one million floridians retaining the right. well what is that going to mean for future elections well flo...

Do they have enough to pull it off? lets look at the map. again, focus first, not just on the red and blue, but on the gray. that is where we have no votes. that is where we have no votes and most of that area, yes, its small, yes, its rural, most, not over here, this is democratic over here, but this up in h here are republican votes we have yet to count. if you tre the democrats, 53%-46%. youre feeling good about that as you go through. come in here, look at austin, texas. travis county. we kn...

Out. so where are you looking? you want to come down here. milwaukee county. 17% state population. democrat has to do well here. heres the question. scott walker has survived tough close races before. tony evers getting 65% to 33%. lets go back in time. mary burke the democrat won here with 63%. so tony evers outperforming a little bit there. lets come back down here. move to the college town of madison. tony evers 75%. 93% of the vote in. big democratic base. college town. college suburb. go ba...

Antonio, running it up. pretty good vote totals. you can try to go back in time and look. how does this match up historically? ted cruz didnt have a race last time. you see all this up here. remember, just look at the map. see all of the red. now you come here. theres more blue. theres more blue. theres still gray. we have votes to come in. theres more blue. this is beto oroarkes home. el paso, only 3% of the state population. in a close race, its nice to run it up 75-25. well watch. i talked ab...

Beto oroarke became a national fund raisiing sensation for the party. people saying you cant win. send some of this money to other states. beto oroarke said i think i can and im going to keep my money. well watch this play out. 11,762. look at the map. a long way to go. most of these smaller counties are not much of the state population. theyre going to come in for cruz. when you at them all up, it matters. we dont have that many close statewide races in texas. it wasnt the last time. the govern...

Race in florida, what you need is the rest of the vote here. were up to 87% now. the question is as this kicks up, is bill nelson picking up 5,000 votes or what he needs which is 30,000 votes. theres still enough there in miami dade and then more opportunity here. not as big. look at the size. look at the state population. miami dade 13 plus percent. broward county, a little over 9. here and here possible yes, but its nail biting time right now in the nelson campaign. youre trying to figure out ...

52.3%. these races are running, very different races, very different candidates but in a nationalized political environment, florida is voting that way tonight. so you see andrew gillum ahead, again, this is his base of support, hes the tallahassee mayor. running it up here. only 4%. its only 1.4% of the state population, this county, but andrew gillum needs to win it big because it is his home base. the question then is does he perform as well as the much more familiar. bill nelson is a known f...

He wasnt paying attention, he wasnt going home, wasnt doing the math, wasnt doing the work, thats the conversation about republican incumbent steve russell tonight. as you look for democrat pickups and you look all across the country, yes, the democrats are picking up seats from coast to coast. one place we did not expect to see one is right there in the middle of oklahoma. but there it is. and guess what? if youre nancy pelosi youre seeing how high you can go youre happy. can you hold that seat...

State population, 28% of that population is latino. traditionally when they come out to vote and register, they register and vote democrat. but like everybody else, like every subgroup in the country, they need a little encouragement. there are democratic strategists here that are still scarred on that delta from 2012 to 2014, the presidential election in 2012 and midterms in 2014, there was a 50% drop from the latino vote. fell off a cliff basically. one of the organizations truly focused on ge...

Executive power, federalism, church and state et cetera that the five-person majority will flex its muscles. and with each time, the scab will kind of be torn off again and the feeling of unfairness of the process will be renewed. >> you know, douglas, this is i guess the question is, does the process matter once hes on the supreme court? because when kavanaugh joins the supreme court, hes going to be a majority minority justice. in other words, hell be in the majority on the supreme court but w...