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Months was all wrong? >> i don't know that it was all wrong. really hillary clinton has helped up. you can look at, florida, ohio, and pennsylvania in which they're shows 15 seconds of -- it shows that donald trump is not who the republican party is. it has the effect of helping, like in pennsylvania, patrick toomey in florida, marco rubio, so the conventional wisdom thafb that trump will struggle, but not having the impact on the downballot side. that's good news for republicans ivlgts does this mean a lot of split-ticket voting? >> i think there's no question. >> more than usual in the bob d...

That's where the al gore race was decide bid a third party vote. his message is don't be ralph nader, don't go for the third party, this is too important. >> >> here's the bigger problem for the republican party right now. even a week ago you could foresee a scenario where hillary clinton wins the white house but most of the senators that are in jeopardized states, those 2010 states that are now up for reelection could survive. even pat toomey theoretically could survive because of split-ticket voting but the bigger hillary clinton's margin is, the higher margin she runs up in a state like pen...

>> in most race, the campaigns don't matter very much. although no one has done the experiment of i'm not going to run any campaign at do that. let's just put names on the ballot and see what happens. >> the campaigns matter less than we like to think they do, but in some cases they make all of the difference in the world. in heidi's case there's at least 12% of the people in the state of north dakota that voted for heidi on the same day at the same time and that's persuasion and split-ticket voting. we used to have more in this country, and we have a lot less, but the right candidate and the ...

There used to be -- i think the problem i have, the reason i'm not so optimistic about this is that split-ticket voting has steadily been declining now for more than a generation. we're at sort of the lowest level ever in terms of people who vote for a democrat for president or libertitarian. that's not happening. a real sorting out of the parties, culturally, eat logically. you can have these conversations divorced, the republicans from this, the democrats divorced from that. and you'll get these funky mix of positions from people. but as soon as it returns to the political realm, i'm on team...

Florida, north carolina, these are the states i talk about them in the swing vote. these are the states, these independent swing voters in those swing states will be deciding the election. >> right. >> yeah, i mean -- and i would just respectfully make a point. i think what linda is saying makes a lot of sense in terms of people being turned off by the two major parties. the distinction is you don't really see a difference between the behavior of 75%, at least, in the people who describe themselves as independents and people who just are functionally and will tell you they are partisans. and o...