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In the stock market. that could totally change the results. gas prices jumping up really high or unemployment going up in key states and those are some of the three critical points. neil: and that change. >> and those could change. neil: i remember covering the obama and mccain election, they were running fairly even in the polls until we had the funnel meltdown and then a six or eight point gap and stayed at that way through the election of the short of that, is that the democrat's best hope? >> i don't think that anyone wants the economy to crash. neil: the democrats with-- >> i wouldn't go ...

Followed that up with the weakness of the suburbs. >> very inside baseball. both sides have something. mike murphy tells you where that district stands and where part of that district stands. so the reality is republicans have a profound weakness in the suburbs. the president's hold on his base is very strong and that 12 point gap that we had in 2016 was narrowed. they can win in north carolina. they nominate the wrong person the president's base will cause him to win that state again. >> dave wasserman, the question for 2020, will dems nominate someone -- >> what happened in 2018 in the mid-t...

What do you make of this? >> it's a sign of how far the democrats have turned. in the case of israel and sympathy toward israel and the palestinians, dana, this is further evidence of the growing anti-israel movement in the grass roots of the democratic party. in 2001, there was a poll by pew. it asked do you sympathize more with israelis or palestinians? 55% of republicans said they sympathized with israel. 38% of democrats said they sympathize with israel. 12 point gap. today that gap is 52 points. 79% of republicans sympathize with israel more than the palestinians. only 27% of democrats se...

She did go vote today. she said she's feeling good. dana? >> dana: peter doocy, thank you. for more on this i'm joined by josh krashaur. this is the last federal election of 2018. there's been hype that this race is close, but is it really that close? >> yeah, this is getting a lot of attention because it's the on game in town, but in reality there's not a lot of signs that this will be competitive. we saw in the first round about on election night republicans won 57% of the vote and espn only got 40% of the vote. there was a 17 point gap. mississippi is one of the most republican states in th...

Democrat for their state legislator than voted for a republican. democrats got a majority of the votes. clearly 53% of the votes cast for state legislators or cast for republicans. democrats beat them by an eight point gap in terms of the legislature. and now look at the results in terms of seats won in the legislature. even though democrats got a big majority of the votes, even though the republicans did not get half the votes that were cast for the legislature, republicans got 64% of the seats. why is that? because they tilted the playing field. they drew the district so it's almost like no ...