only chance the democrats have to wound the trump administration. the democratic minority can t stop nominees on their own, but if you look at the fact that the senate now is 52/48 in favor of republicans it wouldn t take too many republicans to make this a contentious and close fight. look at john mccain there as you mentioned, i would also look at senator lindsey graham, senator marco rubio, more hawkish members of the republican caucus who have raised clear concerns about russia and its role in the world and the stance that the trump administration will take towards russia and this, of course, is coming at the same time as we re hearing these reports that the cia has likely concluded that russia intervened in the election in favor of donald trump. so this is all coming at a very contentious time and i think that adds up to what is likely going to be quite a fiery confirmation hearing if donald trump goes ahead and names rex tillerson as secretary of state nominee. let s look beyon
but these end up being proxies for the big question. that s really what all of this debate has been about for, say, the last ten years. this is a proxy for are you going to make it easier or harder? and it s going to kind of be a yes/no thing. it s a divisive issue. hillary clinton is signaling that in this divided, the polls say 52/48, she s going to play these politics. that s basically her style. that s basically her path to victory next year if she s going to have a victory. brianna, let s talk about how that will play in new hampshire. that s the live free or die state. let s look at the polls about how she is doing in new hampshire. right now, she is behind bernie sanders. he s at 48%. she s at 39%. that s right. bernie sanders from neighboring vermont has been doing well here. certainly new hampshire has this libertarian streak, but i think the clinton campaign is comfortable in feeling that this is something that is going to
thinks it s any different. he s dead. no. like the scotts they ve lost a child, they ve lot a son, a cousin, a brother. the other thing to keep in mind about south carolina is that they have the state law enforcement division. so whenever there s a police officer-involved shooting of a civilian, they jump in and investigate, and ferguson if the feds had not jumped in we would have had to take the ferguson police department s word for it or the st. louis county police department s word for it and last night on the last word i askeded lawyer for the family if this video had not appeared would you trust that he would to the right thing? 52/48, he would trust sled i. do. i do think we re crossing a line here in new territory. the man who recorded the shocking video is breaking silence in a series of exclusive interviews with nbc and msnbc.
there s not clear evidence that jeanne shaheen has done anything specific to offend voters so most democrats don t think this is in play unless the climate changes. exactly. if scott brown wins this race, this is a wave election. then we re looking at a 53-47 republican/senate, 52/48, maybe they take colorado, michigan, too. if you look beyond the top line horse race numbers in that race and look on the fav on favs, scott brown is badly underwater, unfv is 15%. shaheen is above 50% so that s a real hurdle for scott brown to overcome. the harry reid does not do many things by accident, and this part of the strategy all along has been treating scott brown like a joke. this guy is a carpetbagger, not from the state, he switched states to run here. precisely. a quick observation from me, joins to you adding 2016 to 2014 conversation. correct leeif i m wrong, i don t
time magazine poll shows the president, 49% governor romney, 44%. the poll surveyed those who will vote on election day. also polled some early voters as well. could the absentee voting situation in the buckeye state, could it change the numbers as we get closer to election day? oh, absolutely. at this point we ve had close to a million actually cast so far. as i mentioned we have another 800,000 out. and in ohio you can still through next saturday, the saturday before the election ask for an absentee ballot application. so we ve got hundreds of thousands of these coming in. and to go back to the points i made at the outset, you add all the categories of uncounted votes together and it could easily flip a 51/49, 52/48 elect the other way. barry, you ve been covering ohio for some time. now you re more familiar with the situation than just about anyone in the country. give me odds here. give me likelihood. how do you think this thing plays out there? well, the polls are so close