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You're making in terms of the blanket statement, "well, they lost." but at the end of the day, we had this conversation during the special elections. and i've been listening to everybody tonight and their thoughts about defining victory. i'm more simple than that, axe. you've got to win at some point. and the problem in the special elections is that the democrats were competing in places better than they had in the past, but they didn't win. and we did see them win in a lot of house areas in this midterm election. not the special election period, there they kept losing. but in these midterms, ...

>> why? why do you -- why do you think that? because i've heard the argument that says, if it goes down, it's going to fire up republicans. >> not what their cross tabs are showing. that people believe that they will have been wimped out again. the big problem with the -- >> this is the obamacare repeal argument, which is -- >> yes. >> republicans are the ones that killed it, is -- >> okay. >> yeah. >> donna? >> well, you know, when i listen to the president, what i hear is a president who finally unleashed everything that he wanted to say last week, but had restrained himself. i mean, this is...

They also share their cross tabs so we can see how many republicans -- what do the independents say. and this tells me -- it also tells me about the persistent lead that the democratic gubernatorial candidate has in florida. the democrats in florida, something switched down there. something switched in florida. i don't know whether it has to do with cavanaugh or something else, whether it's state issues or -- >> martha: red tide. >> something happened in florida over the last couple weeks that change the climate there in a pretty dramatic way and it's pretty comic reflected in several polls. >...

Cross tabs and you're thinking about monday. it just -- i just can't see this being good for them. >> well, look, we don't know what's going to happen on monday. we don't know what the process is going to be like. we don't know who is going to be able the call what kind of witnesses, what's the questioning going to be like. but just knowing the way these hearings have gone before, some things have changed since the days of anita hill. but what hasn't changed is there is an all male panel, the majority on the republican side, on the senate judiciary committee is all white men, some of whom like...

Favoring democrats over republicans. i just got to imagine that if you're republicans, you're looking at these internals and cross tabs and you're thinking about monday. it just -- i just can't see this being good for them. >> well, look, we don't know what's going to happen on monday. we don't know what the process is going to be like. we don't know who is going to be able the call what kind of witnesses, what's the questioning going to be like. but just knowing the way these hearings have gone before, some things have changed since the days of anita hill. but what hasn't changed is there is ...