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Rahm Emanuel

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2018-12-09

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1. “Well, first, the last point is really a significant point, the economy. It is a wave election. If you look at 1982, you look at, you can say 74, 82, 946-10 when you've had wave elections. Those are in sour-like economies. The fact is with 3.7%, 3.8% unemployment, Democrats had no business taking not only 40 seats, the second most since Watergate. And what's a wave election? It's a force bigger than every impediment. Economy, map, money, or playing the voter registration roles, as Republicans often do. And that counts. Now, when you kind of put 06 and 08 together, which is what happened, Democrats won back-to-back kind of midterms and presidential, it did better in 06 and 08 combined. But this is really significant. And what happened was...”

   2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source