want to get your thoughts on the democratic race, post last democratic debate hillary surged forward in her numbers nationally. quintin 51.3, martin o malley all the way down, i was specific, national spread is even larger for mrs. clinton. are we at the point and now where there s not much that can be real hillary clinton? you are an expert in this and i want your thoughts. is she worried about the fbi investigation, e-mails coming back in those kinds of things? the fbi investigation is a big unknown. you don t know what is going to happen, no one knows what will happen. leave that aside. it is hard to consider what you don t know. we do know hillary clinton seems to have nomination very close to wrapped up. she has to win the state, a big factor but bernie sanders, his star has faded.
the number one thing they say, generally, is we want somebody who can win. they can win. and the fox news poll, the best gop candidate to debate hillary, trump at 37%, carson 18, cruz at 7%, bush and fiorina at 3%. the other issue we re seeing is there appears to be if you believe these polls, based on these big wins by a whole bunch of republicans against hillary clinton, a shift of democrats and certainly independents from the democratic party at this point to these republican candidates. because based on self-identification, 42% of americans are democrats. 38% are republicans and 18% are independents. and when you look at that number and know that in presidential elections based on party affiliation, democrats vote for democrats 90% of the time.