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A public policy poll of kentucky voters conducted in december shows judd polling within four points of senator mcconnell. joining me now, "the washington post" and sam stein. nia, four point gap against incumbent is basically you're winning. when it comes to normal political arithmetic, when they poll below 50, then the undecideds go to the challenger. she hasn't run an ad or done a thing and is within easy challenging distance of the republican leader of the u.s. senate. what is going on here? >> i mean, i think those low poll numbers you cited, 17% of folks in kentucky, those are the only on...

Advisers she will announce her candidacy in early may. a public policy poll of kentucky voters conducted in december shows judd polling within four points of senator mcconnell. joining me now, "the washington post" and sam stein. nia, four point gap against incumbent is basically you're winning. when it comes to normal political arithmetic, when they poll below 50, then the undecideds go to the challenger. she hasn't run an ad or done a thing and is within easy challenging distance of the republican leader of the u.s. senate. what is going on here? >> i mean, i think those low poll numbers you...

District is saying something. and then the index which looks at idealology is a 29 point gap. you have a lot of people in the house and you look at the fights and the republican party who are pulling the senate to the right even after they lose races i think it would be good for the senate to have a liberal in there. the guy he who i don't think anyone would beat is governor patrick. i think he would be the guy who could run away wit. but he said that back in november. i assume he is going to stick to that. but, you know, ed marquise

February and we'll be back at the table, negotiating this with the republicans right away. so it is just, should be seen as a little fiscal break or a fiscal, we'll come up with a better analogy but temporary stopgap measure what will then be, we're going to be starting this debate all over again in february. heather: mark, in terms of, you know, who the blame is placed upon and in terms of the public, poll after poll does show that they will blame republicans. is that a matter of messaging from republicans and what can they do, if anything, to change that? what have they done wrong? >> number...

Things. despite the fact that america has the huge challenges and that's why on november 6th i'm counting on ohio to count for big change. >> so what are ohio voters saying? what are they thinking? joining us is former ohio secretary of state ken blackwell. good morning, ken, how are you? >> good morning, peter. doing just fine, thank you. >> great. we know how important ohio is, 18 electoral votes. seven most in the country. back in october, early october, some folks at nbc said you know maybe the romney campaign should get out of ohio. but now things seem to be neck and neck in your state. w...