but, of course, as we were reminded in 2016 the electoral college does exist. and the spatial distribution of votes in a diversifying america make it possible to eke out an electoral college victory while losing the popular vote substantially as trump did by more than 2.8 million votes. in that vein "the new york times" working with sienna college has a big new poll of six key battleground states. michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, arizona, north carolina, which finds basically a razor-thin race within the margin of error. among registered voters, trump trails joe biden by an average of two points. tied with bernie sanders and leads elizabeth warren by two points. the same structures that got trump elected in 2016 are still very much present. what's that mean for democratic strategy? to help answer that question i'm joined by democratic pollster, as well as jelani cobb, a professor at the columbia university school of journalism. let me start with you. i should note on things like some of these poll numbers from "the new york times," a bit of