District Polling News Today

I think we have a graphic for this. its interesting. >> were you up all night designing this in. >> i was counting on my fingers and toes. they lost five republicans on one of the articles that passed. they lost 12 republicans on one of the articles that passed. they lost 28 and 81 on a couple of the articles that did not pass. there were articles that failed. democrats lost five votes every time, basically. >> look. a couple of things to remember. the politics of impeachment and polling, public...

Abuse of seeking foreign intervention in politics in 2020 by ukraine and the president to now be so upset at the idea of a criminal investigation of what may have happened with the justice department and conceivably the clinton campaign in 2016? >> i mean, i think thats the presidents hope. i think the presidents hope is to try to muck all this up and confuse the conversation. democrats need to be very focused and disciplined here. they, right now, i mean, i take bens point about the battlegroun...

Abuse of seeking foreign intervention in politics in 2020 by ukraine and the president to now be so upset at the idea of a criminal investigation of what may have happened with the justice department and conceivably the clinton campaign in 2016? >> i mean, i think thats the presidents hope. i think the presidents hope is to try to muck all this up and confuse the conversation. democrats need to be very focused and disciplined here. they, right now, i mean, i take bens point about the battlegroun...

Abuse of seeking foreign intervention in politics in 2020 by ukraine and the president to now be so upset at the idea of a criminal investigation of what may have happened with the justice department and conceivably the clinton campaign in 2016? >> i mean, i think thats the presidents hope. i think the presidents hope is to try to muck all this up and confuse the conversation. democrats need to be very focused and disciplined here. they, right now, i mean, i take bens point about the battlegroun...

This time in the evening we might know who will be in control of the next congress. specifically to the polling, to the national generic ballot, i think what might be encouraging is that this is not a national election. you know, the states that are going to decide the fight for the senate are considerably more republican than nationally and even the states that will decide the house are a little bit more republican than what those numbers are showing nationally. what i spent most of my day focu...

The evening, we might know who is going to be in control of the next congress. specifically to the polling, to the national generic ballot, those are not good numbers for republicans. what i think might be encouraging to republicans is that this is not a national election. the states that are going to decide the fight for the senate are considerably more republican than nationally, and even the states that are going to decide the house are a little bit more republican than what those numbers are...

Following the pennsylvania 18th special election closely. why, do they have a bad candidate? why do you think there is the disparity? >> no. weve seen that even before -- we were in that district polling even before we picked a candidate, believe it or not. were seeing that intensity across the state. and so the key for us is to get voters out. were doing that with 1,000 veefr volunteers on the street, hitting the doors and phones, to let them know whats at stake. >> lamm took in $3.3 million wh...

Posts" dan balz. jeff, let me start with you. there seems to be a little bit of evidence in national polling, a lot more evidence in state by state and district by district polling that republicans dont have this healthy lead anymore in a lot of the swing districts or senate races, that the gaps closed. whats going on here? is it just sort of summer vacation, odd ball polling? or are democrats coming home, or is something else going on? >> i think quite frankly we dont know the answer to that qu...

Growth slowed in the second quarter, expanding at a lower than expected 2.4%. consumer sentiment fell to the lowest level in two months. but chevron saw earnings triple last quarter boosted by improving margins at the refineries and giant merck beating expectations and delivering a forecast in line with predictions. thats it from cnbc first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." are democrats really closing the gap in the midterm election? with us now "the n...