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Still, it seems that the vote no messaging resonated. they weren't just speaking to democrats. they were speaking to republicans talking about how this infringes on constitutional freedoms, making that government overreach argument, and from the numbers that we're looking at, it does seem like at least some republicans were convinced by that. this is a really landmark moment and message to the rest of the country, the first big ballot test on abortion and the result was clear and it was decisive. take a listen to some of what we heard last night. >> so grateful and just overjoyed in this momen...

First ballot test for abortion rights. and they had some hurdles to overcome, too. not only was it on a primary day instead of on a general election day, but there was a lot of misinformation, misleading text messages sent to kansasan the day before the election, and still the message from the vote-no side which was saying, listen, it's government overreach. they were talking to moderate and republican voters here. by the way, chris, about every democrat, of course, i met in kansas, unsurprisingly, was planning to vote no. not every republican was planning to vote yes. there were people, relig...

Generic ballot test. this is a little tighter than some of the ones i've seen, but there's some others that show democrats surging as much as 10 points. >> if you think about what's happened in that time, as we look down, we should be clear that this does not include the last week when the roe decision officially came down, but as you said, we heard the leaked memo and saw the details of it and assumed this is going to happen, maybe you can factor that in. democrats increase enthusiasm with the january 6th trials that come within this poll, then as you said the gun debate as well. gene robinso...

Maybe just rank and file rain street republicans, uncomfortable with that, as well. so it's fascinating that, here, we had 2000, famously talking about florida, florida, florida. not many would have guessed we're talking about georgia now so much. it is georgia, georgia, georgia. for people who think the south is solidly republican, will be solidly republican, this sort of extremism we've been talking about, that have the democrats picking up basically 10, 15 points over the past several months in the generic ballot test. it's not hard to explain. you go back to 2018. you had donald trump's ex...

Acknowledging the ran radicalism, the extremism of the republican party, and they may not be super sold on how things are going, but they don't necessarily want to give power and control of the government back to a ratified party. so i think that is something to keep watching over the next five months. because that is the greatest indicator. not so much the presidents -- but on those generic ballot test for senate, for governor, and four -- . if the democrats remaining competitive, there that is a very -- for. democrats in november. >> aaron, you mentioned a few minutes ago that a record turno...