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Special in which i offered data about the divide in the country expressed between whole foods counties and cracker barrel counties, what had been a gap, but the 19 point gap has now grown to 54 points. if im -- i love crack ir barrel and i live more one. im going to now tweet out my commentary from last nights prime-time special about the partisan divide. dare i say youve just made my point which is to say people hear what they want to hear. what part of this is different dont you understand? i ...

Allegations. but the damage may be irreparable. in the just released nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 53% of women support hillary clinton while 38% donald trump. a 15 point gap. but among just white women voters, trump leads clinton 49% to 42%. meanwhile as news "washington post" poll finds clinton leading among white women with a college degree 58%-34%. mitt romney beat barack obama by six points mopping white college educated women in 2012. michelle bernard and jennifer rubin are back wit...

Even though the economy has been steadily improving, voters continue to feel like their personal lives are not necessarily improving. they dont feel economic security. that is the core of trumps message. in fact, i think if he had talked about that more over the last six months he would be doing better in the polls than he is now but hes closing on that argument and thats strong for him. >> you cant tell people how they feel. people feel how they feel. mark, lets talk about where we are in this ...

Lot of influence. >> against hillary clinton? >> against either. it feels like normally as you point out, peter, not an insignificant issue, but i have no faith theres anything that will come out that moves the number in any meaningful way. to ruths point, look at what weve seen. it is like a novel. >> i have to fire up my people and believe the movement can overwhelm, like a brexit vote. brexit was even going into the polls, we are at a ten point gap, so there are differences, but finish that t...

This has been something concerning his contributes and opponents and it appears at least right now trump and his surrogates are not on the same page about regarding what the definition of this rigged system actually is >> hallie jackson in our washington newsroom. thanks for that. i want to bring in our guests today. republican strategist and former george h.w. bush aide george watkins. betsy woodruff from the daily beast and karen rosencrantz, founder and ceo of new blue interactive. betsy, y...

Clintons favor whether youre looking at a four-way breakdown, two-way breakdown or any of the swing states. the trajectory is definitely in her favor. she is winning. and fascinating about these two polls, both taken at the same time, both same partisan breakdown, you know, and they are just super good polls, really reputable and you see the big distinction there. i think which speaks to how polarized the country is and how difficult it is for pollsters to get a clear sense of whats going on the...

The headlines, but were not seeing that getting to these poll numbers here. >> without a doubt, and its interesting how much of a gap there is between the nationwide polling numbers that pretty much consistently show hillary clinton with the exception of a new polls with a command and a comfortable lead. theres a gap between those polls and polls in the number of swing states, particularly ohio, where almost depending on what day of the week it is, you have a poll showing trump leading or a poll...

I find remarkable your analysis. tell everybody what you just did and with what result. >> we looked at a bunch of polls for various offices over the past several elections looking at polls during the several weeks before the election occurred. each poll has a margin of error. so you can look at that and also look at how close the poll is to what actually happens in the election. so you can calculate an empirical margin of error and how far are they in reality? the empirical margin of error twic...

Dana, is that the consensus from people who have not decided who theyre going to vote for in this election? >> i think people who are undecided are just flat out disgusted by this particular issue. it is really hard to imagine that bringing those four women into the debate hall, never mind having the political stunt, photo op, i mean, it was a stunt, doing what he did beforehand with them, right before a major presidential debate. hard to imagine that is going to make undecided voters say, oh, w...

>> i think people who are undecided are just flat out disgusted by this particular issue. it is really hard to imagine that bringing those four women into the debate hall, never mind having the political stunt, photo op, i mean, it was a stunt, doing what he did beforehand with them, right before a major presidential debate. hard to imagine that is going to make undecided voters say, oh, wow! im going to vote for donald trump. that makes sense to me. just as larry and frank were saying, that was...