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That is equivalent to half of the voting population. there -- >> isn't that a red flag? how could that happen? >> it began more than 4,000 miles away in st. petersburg in this unt tterly nondiscrypt off building. >> they were placing ads to stoke arguments and to in some ways hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. almost all of it praises back to
Daca. this is an election year, and 2018 mid-term elections, when you have the senate so close, 51-49, and the house is in play for months now, and you can't risk losing a section of your voting population that you might if you don't -- look, there are republicans running in states with large hispanic populations and there are other voter groups that care about the daca issue, and it can't turn into a self-inflicted wound. ron made the point you can't make this cleanly if you leverage the opening of the government but daca does not expire until march so there are other rounds to go to if they ...
Be? we have our panel tonight. great to have you both with us tonight. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: i think it's interesting to look at this, you know, there is a piece in "the new york times" where he said, democrats may like their polling numbers because in a lot of cases though still look good, especially going into 2018 but they need to look at these other things and consider them, 3.3% last quarter's annual growth, growth rate, interest rates are not spiking anytime soon. 4.1% unemployment rate, the lowest in a long time, the rise in the dow jones industrial average and since john beca...
Be? we have our panel tonight. great to have you both with us tonight. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: i think it's interesting to look at this, you know, there is a piece in "the new york times" where he said, democrats may like their polling numbers because in a lot of cases though still look good, especially going into 2018 but they need to look at these other things and consider them, 3.3% last quarter's annual growth, growth rate, interest rates are not spiking anytime soon. 4.1% unemployment rate, the lowest in a long time, the rise in the dow jones industrial average and since john beca...
We have to attack this at all levels. when you make an investment in african-american communities, and a little write-in campaign on the side in terms of persuasion, that's how you see results. >> we have those numbers hopefully on the ra african-american vote, they made up 29% of the voting population yesterday and of that group voted 96% for doug jones, and they voted more for the democrat yesterday than even for barack obama in past elections, simone, so what drove the african-american vote yesterday? >> people on the ground in alabama are saying a couple things. one, it was the issues. two...