keep those voters, this either option is viewed as a challenge. so this will be a story we ll be talking about in the days and weeks ahead, and it would have a big impact after the ection. it is so close to see who will be in charge, and there s a money game here. democrats are ahead, republicans say they re glad that the bottom hasn t fallen out yet and they re thinking to hold on. hallie? kelly o. up in new york, thank you so much. aisles joined by chris willston. hi, chris, thanks for joining us from oklahoma city, i believe? you bet, hallie, thanks for having me on. a new poll that s out kind of contradicts the conventional wisdom for gloom and doom. we asked whether people preferred a congress controlled by democrats or republicans, so the pick was democrats, but only by two points.
heard last week nothing but sexual harassment and cain. three numbers i haven t heard in awhile. 9-9-9. michael steel, explain why he hasn t fallen out of the polls. he has not gained anymore. this isn t right now hurting him among his supporters. joe and i got into this last week. i think it goes to the core of what you see with the base. they support him. they like him. they feel he s under attack. they are rallying around him. this is a 12-year-old allegation. no one is coming out visually so you don t have a face to put on the allegation. a lot of his supporters see this as something coming from the left and the media or coming from the democrats. so they want to support their guy. they like him because they connect to him. they connect to him because he sounds like them. he s talking their language. as long as he s doing that this other stuff is less important. hen he says i want to get back to my message and talk about
point, 47-46%. that, of course, would be a huge deal if hillary clinton were to win the peach state, as deep red, as it is. and there s a florida poll by a local fox affiliate there, that has the democratic nominee up by four percentage points in the sunshine state. that is, again, if true, a big deal. florida, of course, donald trump can t win the presidency without florida. so mark, although we are only citing two polls here as good news for hillary clton, do those polls, do you think, are they significant enough that they might offset the good news on the trump side, in terms of the clinton psyche? well, they don t fully offset it, but she is still ahead, and she still has, if you take if you did a stupid thing and took the latest single public polls never battleground state, she d still win. so the bottom hasn t fallen out, trump still hasn t broken through in enough places to say that he s had parody with her in terms of his chances to win. and look, i know people think we get