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Help tonight in trying to figure out what is likely to happen next. joining us now is my friend michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. michael, it's great great to have you with us tonight on a really big night. >> thank you. it is a big night. thank you, rachel. >> in terms of the vote here, i want to mention one little historical piece of trivia here. i mentioned that it doesn't look like -- >> can't wait. >> technically 51-49. it looks like it will be -- if kavanaugh is confirmed with 50 votes, we think that means it will be the lowest total for a confirmed justice since the se...

By the time he was ready to run for a third term in 1992, he honestly didn't even expect anyone to run against him. at the time he cast that yes vote for clarence thomas, there was no challenger declared to run against him, either from his own party or from the republican party. he cast his vote for clarence thomas on october 15th, 1991. two days later, on october 17th, 1991, senator alan dixon went home to illinois to a democratic party fundraiser at the navy pier in chicago, and much to everyone's surprise, hundreds of women showed up to picket that democratic party fundraiser, and they were...

But the first dump dixon protest was two days after dixon's yes vote for the clarence thomas nomination. two days after that protest, it's clear that senator al dixon, al the pal, was starting to have a little bit of an uh-oh moment about what that vote might cost him. this is from "the daily dispatch," a newspaper from moline, illinois, from october 19th, 1991. so this is four days after dixon's yes vote on thomas. it's only two davis after he got picketed by women protesters holding the dump dixon signs at a democratic fundraiser. this is two days after that. and you see stevenson referenced...

Indicate kavanaugh's involvement personally in trying to quash one of the allegations from his yale classmate deborah ramirez before that allegation ever became public last month, as those machinations continue, among democrats and among those who have tried to sound the alarm that kavanaugh has lied to the committee and that the allegations against him are corroborated, as we head toward what we still expect to be tomorrow's final vote, tonight's glee from republicans is definitely the current news cycle. but history might be the best help tonight in trying to figure out what is likely to hap...

The midterms will be held on november 6th, exactly one month after tomorrow's vote. back in 1991, the thomas vote happened not in an election year, but at the time it happened, at a time that gave women plenty of time to decide that they might want to run for office themselves in response to what they had seen happen with that nomination. >> women who say they're new to political activism and planning to get involved in this year's elections for many reasons. >> this year just took on a whole new tone with the changes in the supreme court and the big elections this fall and the chances that we...