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Understatement to say that the climate is trending toward the democrats. numbers quite overwhelming. midterm election, single biggest factor, the president's approval rating, latest poll at 36%. 36% approval with registered voters. he has hovered around 40% throughout the year. most smart republicans tell you that the president must be above 40, would prefer him at 45 to have any chance for the republicans to keep the house. 37 weeks to go. bad news. 36, this translates when voters are asked which party do you want to support for congress? it's right around the president's nim. democrats with ...

Those off. there are some republicans running for senate and governor. they are not really retiring and seeing opportunity this year. if you look at the core group who are retiring and walk ag in away. that number brings you down to 22. think of the last major wave election we had in the midterm. barack obama's first midterm, democrats got shalacked. half the number we got now. go back to 2006, bush's second midterm and how many did you have? you had eight. if you want to find a comparable number to the number of pure core requirement that we are seeing now. you got to go back to 1994, that wo...

Group who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22, but that 22, by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010, barack obama's first midterm, democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of pure retirements in 2010? it was 11. so, half the number we had now. go back to 2006, bush's second midterm. republicans got shellacked then, how many did you have? you had eight. so, if you want to find a comparable number to the number of pure core retirements that we're seeing right now...

Group, who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22. >> okay. >> but that 22 by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010. barack obama's first midterm. democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of few retirements in 2010? it was 11. so half the number we had now. go back to 2006, another one of those midterms, bush's second midterm, republicans got shellacked then. how many did you have? you had eight. so if you want to find a comparable number to the number pure retirem...

Joining us now is the great steve kornacki. steve, thank you for being here tonight. >> happy to be here. >> so looking at those numbers, obviously, there's some democrats who are leaving too, but it's about double the number of republicans. is it actually a lot? is this a lot of retirements on the republican side? >> it is, yeah. and here's how i kind of look at those numbers. that 39, you can take some of those off, because there are republicans who are running for the senate, running for governor. they're not really retiring. they actually see opportunity this year. so if you look at just t...