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Contest this race given the partisan balance of the state. she has made it a contest herself in part with her own stumbles, but mike espy has also made it a race by running a pretty good campaign. so polls closed just over an hour ago. joining us now with the latest is steve kornacki, who tells us that things are looking interesting in the early returns. steve, mississippi senate races are not supposed to be interesting. >> yeah, i think interesting is the right word because the picture is still sort of starting to come into focus. if you look at the aggregate vote, what's been counted so far,...

Already in campaign mode, he's probably been in campaign mode since he's got nominated. the midterms four months from tonight. you know the stakes. democrats trying to win back the house, republicans trying to hang out. we thought we'd take a look at new numbers we've been getting. a lot of different ways we could look at this. we talk about trump's approval ratings, special elections. how long the generic bell, when you ask people do you want to work for democrats or do you want to vote for the republicans in november? how about that? so right now we got a bunch of new polls. this is the aver...

Remember in-house elections when you do the aggregate vote nationally, there's an advantage incumbents have, geographic advantage, so seven points for democrats that's probably right around what they need to win the house. that might get it there for them, that might not get it there for them. how about this, though? how does that compare? the last time we had wave elections and 2006 democrats won back the house. iraq was spiring out of control. at this point in '06 these are four polls around this point in the summer. democrats were up double digits. and if you go back and look at the polling...

Who here has some kind of critical mass and who does not." >> father, they don't understand necessarily know how the cardinal next to them voted but have a sense from the aggregate vote who is trending and now who are the actual numerical front-runners in this thing is that correct? >> that is exactly right. >> let me ask you this -- what is it like in between the votes? are there private conversations? are there factions that develop? practically speaking how does this play out in terms of getting to the ultimate decision? >> well there are certain ancient protocols in place here. it is all a...