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It feels to me very much like 2016. matt schlapp former white house political director for president bush. good morning to you. full disclosure, you are hosting events for republicans and you have skin in the game here. >> i do. i'm a partisan, no doubt about it. >> bill: does it feel like 2016 to you? >> no, this is a very different endless shrimp is back at with all the shrimp you want, cycle. each cycle is unique. any way you want them. i think the one thing that is there's new sesame-ginger grilled shrimp like 2016, bill, is if you look with savory soy-ginger sauce at a lot of the polls th...

Or updated their status in 2018 versus about 40 million in 2016. so you're absolutely right, you're going to get less. but what we really care about is looking at the partisanship: it's all about the ground game, chris. so, you know, we really want to see the rate of democrats versus republicans actually registering. and they're -- you know, they're strikingly similar from 2016 to '18. >> you have been -- you guys have been polling in all these races, and you've got this amazing thing where you're doing live polls and you can kind of watch them happen. there was a sort of narrative about the k...

Democrats registering. we said the same thing in 2016. >> it's not quite apples to apples, it's a midterm versus presidential. >> in raw numbers there's actually less, about 25 million new people who have registered or updated their status in 2018 versus about 40 million in 2016. so you're absolutely right, you're going to get less. but what we really care about is looking at the partisanship: it's all about the ground game, chris. so, you know, we really want to see the rate of democrats versus republicans actually registering. and they're -- you know, they're strikingly similar from 2016 to ...

Shot. the pig was still eating. there's a reason why the description pig fits as appropriately as it does. >> mika has her quirks. that's why we love her. >> we love you, willie. >> speak for yourself. gene, do the best you can to erase everything -- >> come on. >> -- that you just saw. let's try to talk about the previous segment for a second. it is striking how well democrats are doing in these house polls. the ones we showed this morning, especially the suburbs. there's a kavanaugh effect in tennessee, and texas for republican candidates but no doubt there's also a kavanaugh

2012 campaign. he's the democratic strategist. here in new york with me, noelle nikpour, author of "branding america" along with patrick murray. patrick, i'll start with you. we have all the polling numbers out there. i'm just curious what you're seeing in your own numbers. how big has the change and the energy balance been between the two parties, and how much staying party does that have with three weeks to go? >> we saw a summer where democrats were normally energized. a lot of what we've seen over the past four or five weeks have been i think republicans coming home naturally. we talk abou...