both important projections. we are also watching governor races around the country, and we ll have a big impact on 20/20 , 20, as well. martha: so, the first polls up close, 7:00, coming in right now, any first impressions? interestingly enough, i think it is not particularly controversial, but virginia and what i suspect will be a landslide reelection victory by tim kaine over corey stewart, the republican, he was pretty far out there. he even at one point in the campaign started re-arguing the birth or issue about barack obama. he was so far to the right that the national republican senatorial committee refused to endorse him. you say, so what is the big deal? the big deal is there are a lot of key swing house races there, and with a strong tim kaine at the top of the ticket, that might help some democrats in virginia 7 or regina 10 in very close races with republicans, flip some seats.
about an hour the 60th governor of ohio will enter his campaign as the 16th presidential candidate. good morning. reporter: good morning. so there are 475 days until the election but this is a pretty late entry, isn t it? reporter: that s right. governor kasich spent quite a bit of time kind of tip-toeing into this race. he started being interested in running for president after his last landslide reelection for governor in 2014. i m thinking he would have a good shot if he were to enter and taking his time to make his decision. what took him so long to make that decision? was it really about finances? that s what he kept saying is he wanted to see if he had enough money for a path to victory. i think that was part of it. part of it was he just really
including his landslide reelection. so john mccain is a very serious john kasich you mean. i m sorry, john kasich will be a very serious candidate when he announces in a couple of hours. i predict that it s going to be a bush/kasich ticket. here s something, though. you as an analyst know this as well as anyone else. he s got to survive a primary in the gop to get to a general election on some level. will he be able to survive that? yes, and for two reasons. one, the republican party is not the republican party of 2012 when mitt romney had to fight and scrape to the top. we have changed the rules in many, many ways. i think you ll see that this time next month. there was a lot of conversation about the top tier candidates and second tier candidates. number two, people often talk about the hard right of the republican party, and the presidential nominee. this is not what we re here to talk about, but take a look at
the year was 1984, the massive landslide reelection of ronald reagan thanks to a landmark study by a democrat strategist after that election, one place became the poster child for blue collar voters slipping away from the democrat majority. there was a term that stanley greenberg, that strategist and many others used, the term became reagan democrat, white working close people who became to feel alienated. while landscape has changed, here we are all these years later still talking about the democrat struggle with white working class voter ps and stan greenberg who has advised democrats joins us now. stan, thanks for joining us this
his office right now? yes. yes. in the sense that he just won a landslide reelection victory in november. there was no reason to think he was on a downward slope. there was every reason to think it was upward both in new jersey and nationally. what you re reading in the paper, just the allegations and if you read other polls, some people say give the guy the benefit of the doubt. when you re in the middle of a storm like this, you re going to see polls go up. he needs to talk about getting things done that help people and try to turn the panel here. that s a very, very difficult challenge. this is going to a lot of republicans are saying change the tone, governor, move on. it s going to be interesting to see if he touches on it at all today. giant challenge. yeah, and just as unfavorable