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>> how about the all important state of ohio. right now with the numbers trump is leading clinton by just 1 point. that being a tie. so why is ohio and these numbers, why are they both so significant? is it still significant? i have read places that ohio doesn't play a role as a bellwether state any longer. >> well, so ohio is very important in the campaign, both trump and clinton are putting a lot of resources to the state. ohio is just a little bit more republican than national average and for some demographic reasons, particularly because the state is whiter and has a slightly smaller perce...

You did as a kid? >> i know that i have. they have said that they've thought of me as their friends, their mother, their girlfriend. >> reporter: and what does that mean to you? >> it's wonderful. >> reporter: sonia says when she started on sesame street she wanted to end racism and close the education gap. and while that may have been a little ambitious, she says she had a lot of fun and made a contribution. >> i made people laugh, fool around with the muppets. >> geronimo! >> learning how to do a take for the camera. i had a producer who always used to say, so it's our drop in the bucket to ...

You did watching television. >> i know i did. they have said they thought i was their friend, their mother, their girlfriend. >> and what does that mean to you? >> it's just -- it's wonderful. >> sonya says when she started on "sesame street" she wanted to end racism and close the education gap. and while that may have been a little ambitious, she says she had a lot of fun and made a contribution. >> i made people laugh, fool around with the muppets. >> jeronimo! >> learning how to do a take to the camera. i had a producer who used to always say, so it's our drop in the bucket for an equal soc...

You did as a kid? >> i know that i have. they have said that they've thought of me as their friends, their mother, their girlfriend. >> reporter: and what does that mean to you? >> it's wonderful. >> reporter: sonia says when she started on sesame street she wanted to end racism and close the education gap. and while that may have been a little ambitious, she says she had a lot of fun and made a contribution. >> i made people laugh, fool around with the muppets. >> geronimo! >> learning how to do a take for the camera. i had a producer who always used to say, so it's our drop in the bucket to ...

Addition to educating underprivileged children, was to end racism. how big of an impact do you think it had? >> not as much as we had hoped, obviously. we thought we were going to close the education gap, end racism. it reflected the times. it was 1969. it was an idealistic time. even president johnson was going to create the great society. >> right. war on poverty. >> war on poverty, all that kind of stuff. so we thought we were going to kind of eradicate everything. when you're young, you think you can fix everything. >> i want to play you a clip from one of your favorite moments from the sh...