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Department both on a county level and on a state level before that. and before we go to our correspondents on the ground in ridgecrest, i want to sum up what they've been saying. it looks like first of all the best piece of news all day in this earthquake situation is there are no reported fatalities. nobody has died from this earthquake. a reminder, 7.1 magnitude earthquake felt shortly after 8:00 p.m. local time in california. it is now -- that was about four hours ago as it is now shortly after midnight local time in california. so no fatalities. however, there were some injuries. we don't ...

Would win if the election were held today, not 18 months from now. there's a lot of economic script to be written between now and then, and things almost certainly will change. the models are only as good as of today. >> okay. so as not to repeat the mistake of pollsters in the last cycle, do you look at things nationally, ie popular vote or state by state? >> state by state. so state by state, and actually it's quite interesting, i mean if you look at it, it's intuitive, pennsylvania where i live, and i think you live in pennsylvania as well, philadelphia, that is the most swing state. it's r...

Polls. if you put all those together, is there a chance that would shift the margin? >> it still feels like it is too short. we don't have a comprehensive 67 county spreadsheet of all these numbers. florida, like most states, highly desensitized. everything is done at the county level and certified by the state later. i think that nelson has a glimmer of hope with this issue of the voter intent standard for disputed undervotes and overvotes, which will begin to become a bigger issue in the next couple of days. that is canvassing boards looking at these defective ballots, trying to divine what ...

Jump to the conclusion or at least to worry that some of what's happening here is that the republican party's candidate for governor is also the republican secretary of state in kansas, whose office is responsible for administering the election. kris kobach is competing at the top of the ticket candidate. they have refused to talk to us about anything related to their electoral processes and decisions they have been making here and they have been referring us to the secretary of state's office as if it's the secretary of state's office directly making these decisions. and the secretary of stat...

Electoral processes and decisions here, and they've been referring us to the secretary of state's office as if it's the secretary of state's office making these decisions. and the secretary of state office tells us this is happening at the county level, has nothing to do with us. do you have clarity in terms of who's making the decisions here? >> it should actually be the county clerk making these decisions. it has a whole lot of latitude and leeway to decide what happens. it would not be true the secretary of state should be directing this. we have no reason to believe he is. at the same time...