new york times interviews, other pieces of the interview, hillary clinton and uranium one. this has gone a lot of directions. you ve got folks on both sides that think this is a topic that plays to their strengths. it gets them agitated, and you ve seen that reflected on the online discussion. conservatives and liberals evenly matched in twitter conversations leading up to 2016. now liberals twice as active as conservatives are on twitter. absolutely. one of the things i think is really interesting coming from a polling perspective. i do a lot of traditional polling where you call people and ask their opinions. but i think looking at digital signals like what we re seeing people talk about online, it s not a perfect representative sample, but it can tell you where the enthusiasm is. and one thing we ve seen in the elections over 2017, these special elections, is increased enthusiasm and engagement on the left that has not been matched on the right. if we look at what s happening
and with hillary clinton in a lot of ways, less is more. so the less democrats see of her and the less independents see of her, the more they like her. and so in some ways that s been a strategy, to sort of keep her although, i would disagree in this way. the less coverage they see of her, they like her. the more they see her, the more they like her. she s great one on one and with crowds. it s the coverage of her. that s the point. we have scandal, drama. we have sort of this throwback to 1992 and it s all of the baggage that the clintons bring. the two biggest things that have happened from a polling perspective, the conventions, hillary clinton talking to you and the first debate, here s hillary clinton. so the best things for her have been her actually out there with sustained attention of her as a person and her candidacy and then it ebbs and it moves back in the direction. the e-mails are a proxy for distrust. right.
this way. the less coverage they see of her, they like her. the more they see her, the more they like her. she s great one on one and with crowds. it s the coverage of her. that s the point. we have scandal, drama. we have sort of this throwback to 1992 and it s all of the baggage that the clintons bring. the two biggest things that have happened from a polling perspective, the conventions, hillary clinton talking to you and the first debate, here s hillary clinton. so the best things for her have been her actually out there with sustained attention of her as a person and her candidacy and then it ebbs and it moves back in the direction. the e-mails are a proxy for distrust. right. the more information we get about these e-mails, independents are struck with the fact that but the question about that is one of the things we re seeing is how strong the partisan fundamentals are even
campaign director a little earlier. we hope the rnc will speak out about this, say they also find this unfair. we hope cnn will see the light. it s pretty obvious to us that cnn s rules are preventing voters from hearing who they want to hear from. joining me now, betsy woodruff, political reporter at the daily beast, and is it a strategic mistake to leave off the only woman in the gop field? i think they should push her cause, without a doubt. first off, just because it benefits republicans to have such an articulate and interesting female candidate on stage. but second, just from a polling perspective, it makes sense. carly fiorina, besides donald trump, probably had the best debate night of the fox news debate. other republican candidates numbers have gone down. it s curious cnn wouldn t find a way to get her on stage, and
these programs in the face of the democratic challenges and pressures they re under. i understand you are sympathetic to cutting entitlements. i am not. i am very sympathetic to these guys demands and leaving social security alone ch just as a matter of political tactic, what is the most effective form of pressure that you have seen base activists use against their own side. republicans have been dealing with these kinds of fights on the right for a long time. democrats don t much have to deal with this. if you look at the bush administration and president obama from a polling perspective is roughly where president bush was in any one of a number of polls at this point in his second term. president bush took on his base and really two big fights. the first was an immigration fight, the base prevailed and then there was tremendous over the race of harriet miers in 2005. the president was not able to amass a coalition, the center of the center left of the center right that was able