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From the beginning of this general election, the senate candidates have been running from 2 points to 10 points to now, i think, rob portman is running 16 points ahead of donald trump in some of these polls. so voters are differentiating between their senate candidates and the presidential. i do think we'll see quite a bit of split ticket voting. that being said, of course, donald trump isn't running as a republican. that's why he felt more than willing to attack republicans up and down the ballot including paul ryan and marco rubio, including ted cruz, and so of course, i think, there's some ...

Campaign committee chairman, nice to see you. thanks for being with us from vegas now. hillary clinton as we have been reporting spent time trying to woo diseffected republican voters to vote for her by saying donald trump doesn't represent their party. essentially encouraged what people call split ticket voting. there's concerted effort to tie donald trump to republicans down ballot. is the shift too late the difference for down ballot democrats? >> peter, great to be with you as well. quite honestly, it is too little too late for the republicans trying to walk away from donald trump, especia...

Now to the where. it's michigan where straight party ticket voting is now officially gone. governor rick snyder signed a bill today meaning there's only nine states left that do it. when you can just pull the lever straight d, straight r, of course, straight d.c. party. now to the when. it's january 18th, when the british parliament will debate a petition to ban donald trump from the uk. more than half a million have signed a petition to ban him after his proposal to ban muslims from the united states. now to the why. twitter is considering a new feature that would allow 10,000-character tweet...

In state with red state america. pockets we don't think about and ignore when we label illinois a blue state and pencil it in for the democratic candidate every four years and never give it much thought beyond that. this is the other story of the great sorting out of america. over the last few generations, the two two political parties sorted themselves out ideologically and voters have slowly but surely figured it out. split ticket voting is increasingly a thing of the past. more and more voters are either part of blue america or red america. the lines separating these two americas are deep. ...

And dramatic reasons. it synced conservative voters with republicans and moderate and liberal voters with democrats. it helped -- excuse me, helped turn the split ticket voting into a thing of the past. for example in 1995, 79 house members were from districts that president clinton won in the previous presidential election. today, the number of republicans from obama districts is 17. it raises the question, 1995 is the obvious point of comparison for the shutdown today. but are there any lessons from it that still apply today? here to discuss that are congressman charlie rangel, democrat from...