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Numbers that we are looking at, it could be three, four points, just looking at the projections right now. the real vote total is roughly 9,000. we had 22,044 write-ins. you talked to chris stirewalt earlier about it. 22,000, that is double the difference. there you see the lead is increasing on the real vote total, 670 now. just looking at the map, looking where the votes are, it doesn't seem like it's going to get to that half percent, not even close. more like it's expanding and not contracting. i think eventually, you are going to see from the moore campaign, a concession. >> shannon: it's...

You can see here, it's basically the margin in this race. i think, look, in the presidential election in 2016, there were about 20,000 write-in votes. that was also very high. a lot of people didn't like the choice then. a lot of them obviously didn't like the choice last night. the question here was, i think, it probably was where these were typically republican voters. a good guess is they were. does that mean they otherwise would have voted for moore? who knows. maybe they were close to voting for jones and the write-ins saved them from doing that. there's a lot of commentary looking at the...

The two but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win? >> well, certainly, it looks that way, shannon. one of the things that needs to be accepted from that is that the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those write-in votes and they wanted to make sure that those votes were recorded and were documented for the candidate of their choice other than one of the two candidates that were listed on the ballot. >> shannon: it's always interesting to me to see that data when it gets broken down. we really actually see the other names in the effort that people need to go ...

The two but actually gave doug jones the huge advantage, the win? >> well, certainly, it looks that way, shannon. one of the things that needs to be accepted from that is that the people of alabama were trying to make a statement with those write-in votes and they wanted to make sure that those votes were recorded and were documented for the candidate of their choice other than one of the two candidates that were listed on the ballot. >> shannon: it's always interesting to me to see that data when it gets broken down. we really actually see thehe otr names in the effort that people made to go ...

Numbers that we are looking at, it could be three, four points, just looking at the projections right now. the real vote total is roughly 9,000. we had 22,044 write-ins. you talked to chris stirewalt earlier about it. 22,000, that is double the difference. there you see the lead is increasing on the real vote total, 670 now. just looking at the map, looking where the votes are, it doesn't seem like it's going to get to that half percent, not even close. more like it's expanding and not contracting. i think eventually, you are going to see from the moore campaign, a concession. >> shannon: it's...