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Whether there are expected developments, say republicans were to hang on to the house and continue to run the table with all the government under control, what do you think? >> i'm of the opinion optimism wins, have you to be optimistic, david went through fantastic number every single time a year after the midterm the market went higher. put in perspective. we are on a very strong upward path. we've bounced 25% since the trump election, you can total up 311%, since that 2009 lull. i don't think this changes anything. corporations are going to do well in any political environment. >> you know,...

Have to, in a campaign or situation like this. and i thought it was a reasonable thing to do, but it's really -- isn't it silly, the question is, what kind of country we want, what kind of future do we want? let's knock off this insulting stuff. i can't stand it and i don't think the american people can stand it, one reason i think the results tonight will be pretty good. >> neil: we don't know and you could be right, are you surprised the economy is doing as well as it is? barack obama claims credit for that, it started with him and he might or might not be right, it certainly picked up momen...

Democratic presidential candidate, michael dukakis on why that is, after this. here we are, wherever "here" might be. election day. when you rise above the... the noise. the tweets. the talking heads. what you hear and what you see are two different things. you hear about how "we're a nation divided." yet, from where we sit, we see no such thing. we see half a million people - today alone - stitching together some supposedly very divided states. red states. blue states. and every shade of purple in between. we see people working across party lines.

Watcher. by the way, david, looking at this in cross-currents, the first thing you have to ask is that census for split government, markets like that, don't they? >> markets generally prefer split government. gridlock is a dirty word in the world of politics, it is enlightening, they can't get stuff done, can't spend more government money, that tends to leave wall street and private sector off the hook. no matter what happens tomorrow, there have been 18 mid-term elections since 1946, 18, and in every single one, 18 out of 18, the 12 months following that midterm election, the markets are gene...