especially as this is a nonpresidential election year. if you pull up a slide by comparison for 2016, but what we are finding in terms of congressional races, and outside spending towards the midterms, every cycle seems to outdo the previous one. i think we are on track to see more spending from these big-money groups aimed at influencing congressional elections. host: let's talk about the big-money groups. they have names that don't necessarily explain where they are spending the money. is the super pac so far congressional leadership fund, having spent $52 million so far this cycle. guest: and they have raised about $100 million. this final month before the election, they have plenty to spend. host: who are they? guest: they back republican candidates for the house primarily. that is what they do. host: are these set up by speaker ryan? the leadership? who controls them? guest: these are supposed to be independent of the candidates. that is why super pac is a great term, but i think it leads to misunderstanding. people think these are r

new record for turnout in that state in a nonpresidential election year.nterview is tallahassee mayor democratic candidate for governor andrew gillum. thank you for joining us. i know this is an incredibly busy time. >> indeed. thank you so much for having me here with you this evening. >> so mr. mayor, you are here at an exciting time electorally speaking. i'm sure you're not going to sleep much in the next eight days. >> not at all. >> this is also a very difficult time for the country. and you are in a contest to become the leader and the head of the state government in one of the most populous states in the country. i just want to ask you as you weigh the prospect of sending to that office, this massacre in pittsburgh this weekend was the worst attack ever on the jewish american community. the bombing campaign targeting prominent democrats only seems to have ended last week with the arrest of a man in your state. this seems like more than just divisive times. >> yeah. >> how do you want to try to make things better in the state of florida? do you have

it is tough to compare to a nonpresidential election year. what we are finding in terms of congressional races and outside spending toward the midterms, every cycle seems to outdo the previous one. are on track to see more spending from these big-money groups aimed at influencing congressional elections. host: let's talk about the big-money groups. they have names that don't necessarily explain where they are spending the money. the top is the congressional leadership fund having spent $52 million so far this cycle. caller: -- guest: and they have raised about $100 million. this final month before the election, they have 20 of money to spend. host: who are they? guest: they back republican candidates for the house primarily. that is what they do. host: are these set up by speaker ryan? who controls them? guest: these are supposed to be independent of the candidates. that is why super pac is a great term, but i think it leads to misunderstanding. people think these are regular political action committees, like corporate pacs. these are indepen

elections in nonpresidential years, turnout tends to be much less.y are saying that the turnout of women in arependence, they frustrated -- women and independence are frustrated by the process but we are seeing some early polling that in some states like tennessee and texas, where they thought the democrat might win, there is always a backlash there and you may see republicans turnout and be emboldened by the process. the senate again is going to be a hard get for the democrats. anna: great analysis. analystor editorial join us there. i'm torn about asking you to policy -- about policy are going straight into markets. i'm going to go into the jobs picture in the united states. i think this chart is great. wages lagging. we have small businesses with their quality of labor being the biggest issue. finding it difficult to find people. time, the wage growth tracker is not keeping pace. an ongoing story over recent years, when do we see the wage pressures build? there's a clear reason why you have the virgins in your graph. if you look at the surveys of

the best performing dinner, a nonpresidential, normally when it's presidential election like you remember when, you know, it was donald trump and hillary clinton, two yearso, that was really busy but this being a nonpresidential dinner was the most money raised, $4 million. >> looks like the midterms. biggest ever midterm election in the history of the country. people are fired up. it's not going away. maria: they really are. i personally think that the left is panicking. kevin: did she make any brett kavanaugh jokes? maria: no. dagen: i don't think we joke about that. kevin: due process or innocence -- dagen: speaking of money we could all get extremely rich if we could sell senses of humor to the left. [laughter] dagen: at least halloween mask to make it look -- make you look pleasant. kevin: are you saying amy schumer isn't funny? maria: no comment. [laughter] dagen: just think that there's a term used toward women with resting face that would apply to cuomo and de blasio. maria: more on that coming up. short break, a shift in gears for tesla, model 3 car that's coming up. concert seats with just a click, how youtube makes it easier to see artist perf

was at losing 36 seats and 42 percent four years later trump is probably sitting at 43 percent approval right now based on the last 13 nonpresidential elections the republican party should expect to lose an average of 40 seats but i think it will be the upper twenties. >> so that sets the stage so now we would go in chronological order. before the two-term governor of michigan was the beneficiary and of the four of you by far the largest percentage of the vote. >> i benefited from two and i survived one and in 1974 or 1972 elections for mcgovern were wiped out i knew the next timeout would be a good term because there would be six years and it started to plan the congressional campaign at 4:00 in the morning i wanted to serve in congress deal with government and worked on as a child. so in those days you did not declare right away because people would think it was a joke because i was too young so anyway i have it all figuredra out but there is one problem but things got so bad onee year later than everybody was talking about. because it was going to be a primary but then in the special election the first democrat would represent grand rapids