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Donald trump, you may want to stay home but come out and vote for the senate candidate. >> looking at some polling in ohio where portman seems to be safe. 20% of clinton voters in ohio plan to vote for portman. >> its amazing. weve been talking about this for several years about ticket splitters and we have strategists that say voters dont ticket split. it happens. voters are showing us how smart and tuned in they are in this election, this idea of republican senate as a check on clinton is prob...

Trump because theyre worry that theres not that many ticket splitters across the country those who will vote hillary clinton but still vote republicans in the house and senate. thats also the reason he is continuing to campaign in multiple spots like pennsylvania, this is a state donald trump is trailing hillary clinton by a hefty margin in the polls but also a place where its tight reelection for senate seat. so if you can bring up donald trumps margins that will keep pat to me competitive enou...

>> and the governor is a big supporter of trump, too. maricopa county, a very key county, you looked at that. whatd you find? >> most of the voters in the state are from maricopa county, about 65%. >> around phoenix. >> yeah, so its key to any sort of turnout in the state. but we found a huge percentage of these ticket splitters were there. and a lot of them, we found, were mormon, which is one group. we also found a lot of them follow the same sort of trends that trump has had problems with. wo...

So unpopular. i talked to a party chairman in arizona, who was for trump, totally supported him, but he said, were working in the same direction, but we have different goals. my goals are to turn out all republicans and at this point in the race, not all republicans are for donald trump. >> so how are campaigns, in terms of methodology or mechanics, how are they trying to find ticket splitters? >> we tried to recreate this with me and my colleague, sasha issenberg. we took two different sets of ...

If its really a changed election, and if trump loses by two or three points, that could make the difference between republicans being in control or losing the senate. >> absolutely. thats really the key. and republicans are, you know, they are looking for ticket splitters. they need folks to be able to vote for them even if they dont vote for trump at the top of the ticket. toomey is the classic case, the suburbs of philly, and those voters left donald trump over the past couple of weeks and too...

Baldwin. coming from the same tat that put ron johnson in the senate not long ago. will she be a political soldier for progressives or be more moderate in representing a swing state? >> that is an interesting question, she is a known progressive. but wisconsin is a state of ticket splitters as you know, many wisconsin voters will vote for a democrat and republican on the same day, re-electing paul ryan and voting for president obama for example, she will have to look at the change demographics i...

Word. the environmental protection agency blamed for killing many of the best paying jobs in the region. mining coal of course. steve brown is there live. steve, what has the epa done to deserve such a bad reputation in part of ohio? >> reporter: well the first thing we need to point out about eastern ohio it is a swinging type of area. it supported democrats and republican candidates. a lot of ticket splitters out there. it used to be home of a awful lot of manufacturing jobs. a lot of those ha...

President obama trying to get a little bit of love from independents and ticket-splitting democrats and republicans. bill clinton has achieved a certain stature, a certain statesmanship that barack obama is trying to piggyback on. i think, peter is right, they need to reconnect with the middle class. this is one day they will do it. i tell you, wednesday night speech in august aint going to get it done. rick: peter,ing a you suggested it gives democrats to show party unit. neither former preside...

2008 to change the nature of the electorate, register voters to get out the base because it is going to be very hard to control the main factors that are going to persuade the true independent he is. that is my argument. >> you said so many things there, chris. first thing this president has not given up on the notion that working with congress, despite all the obstruction, the tea party folks, we can pass a jobs bill and put 1 million teachers, police officers, firefighters, construction worker...

former penn state assistant football coach accused of sexually abusing ten boys for more than a decade. nine jurors have already been chosen. attorneys are asking them about their ties to penn state and the charity for underprivileged children that sandusky founded. republican scott walker keeping his job as governor of wisconsin. >> the only governor elected twice in one term! >> walker defeated milwaukee mayor tom barrett in a recall race that, of course, has implications for the p...