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Major donors. so the jury is still out as to how american fund-raising will look. it is certainly a test of running big donors versus small donors. >> tharon, the differences here for the two candidates jump out. here's missouri, for instance. claire mccaskill running for re-election. she has raised $30 million. her republican challenger on only $8.5 million. this has been the closest thing to a tie we've seen. that's the numbers in texas, same thing. there's missouri. basically you average the polls together and mccaskill even down a tick there despite that fund-raising imbalance. texas the m...

And i'll tell you why. i just got something from the rnc communication staff and it said that trump super pac just raised $100 million and they have like 88 something million cash on hand and the dnc and some of the things that they have, that they are in debt. so there are -- there are a lot of -- you can go back and forth on a lot i guess is what i'm trying to say. you can look at individual races and you can point out small donors, big donors. on a national -- if you look at the national map, your bigger donors, that's where you're going to see more of the play on the bigger donors is natio...

Typical politician who plays games. we're not going to play these games that republicans and democrats have been playing all along and that's been their appeal. the national message has not been there to help them. we had elizabeth warren with her dna test, you know, just recently. that just -- it's not that voters are going to consider that when they vote for the house. it just muddies the waters because democrats don't have that national message. wee not going to play games, it's not about partisanship. this is why donald trump is trying to inject himself in the race. they're more concerned ...

Strategist, tharon johnson, and noelle nikpour. to you first, ken. it seems to me the scale of money here off the charts for a midterm but also the idea that this was raised online. i remember the novelty days of howard dean doing this online. obviously barack obama had great success. is this the new model for politics, it's not so much about these high-end fund-raisers, it's about going viral and collecting $20 a pop? >> well, yes, steve. we're seeing like a real sort of divergence here between these two fund-raising models. on the one hand you have democrats raising just a ton of money onlin...

All horse race polls a lot of fun to look at and talk about. they really don't mean anything. right now, we are in the season of first impressions, as voters starting to get their first tastes of these candidates in many cases. we are still over nine months nearly nine months away from the iowa caucuses. what will mean something, ana, we get down to it move from orchestrated to choreography of opening announcements to the realtime competition on debate stages on television across america. that's when it starts to really count and in the case of jeb bush i guess we led off with i think he is go...