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Candidates. >> yeah. so one of the big differences, why we're seeing the differences between the house odds and the senate odds, the republican voters in their primaries decided to nominate candidates who the voters, at least in the polls, suggest are not very well liked. look at arizona, nevada, georgia, pennsylvania. in all of these states, the net is underwater. more people have an unfavorable view than favorable view in all these states. and it is not particularly close. minus 9 points for blake masters in air air. minus 15 for herschel walker in georgia. adam laxalt, minus 5 points. so do...

If a politician is popular. favorable view or unfavorable view of a politician. if we look right here, the net favorability, favorable versus unfavorable. approval minus disapproval. you look at donald trump, his net approval rating in an nbc news poll was minus 5 points. you look at net favorability, it was actually worse. he was less likable from the people who thought he was doing a good job at minus 10. look at joe biden. it's opposite. latest in an nbc news poll, 13 points, his net favorability is minus 8. there's a likable with biden that wasn't there with trump. the electorate may not l...

Pennsylvania, wisconsin, all basically determined by a point or less. and look at these senate races, look at these recent polls, democrats plus 6 in wisconsin, pennsylvania plus 11, georgia plus 4, arizona plus 8. you see democrats in all of these swing states actually outperforming joe biden's numbers which, john, if you would have asked me this two months ago, this is quite the shocker. >> right. the polls are outperforming, we will get to why democrats shouldn't spike the football. one thing i want to point out and we will talk about this with dana bash, but mitch mcconnell the senate mino...

Lean, and make it about fundamental rights and control of your body and highlight the sad, unfortunate things that happened when you don't have that power. >> right. so, linda, i would love your viewpoint. one of the things i've heard is that, oh, abortion is not going to be that big of a deal because, you know, you're either for it or your against it and there are very few people who could be persuaded by this issue who wasn't already going to vote. what do you make of that? >> well, i make of it that conventional wisdom is wrong about 95% of the time, plus or minus 5%. rachel is usually righ...

They have now postponed nine more games yesterday. so what's their reasoning? >> the nhl's initial decision to pause the season was because of the spread of the virus around the league. these latest postponements about economics and a lack of fans in the stands. eight of the nine games postponed yesterday and a vast majority of those caught up since play restarted this week have involved canadian teams where fan attendance has been capped after stricter guidelines were put in place a few weeks ago. as it stands 91 games have been postponed so far this season. the plan is to play those games la...