37. steve, let s go back to ohio for a second. interesting split between the senate race where the republicans are up by 16 points and the presidential race where it s tied. how do you account for that divide? portman, a good campaign, and that s john kasich s state and kasich has been in the forefront of distancing himself, and the other one you put up earlier that jumps out at me, too, and we talked about republican senate candidates running ahead of donald trump in their states. look at nevada. the republican senate candidate there is running behind donald trump. and nevada and iowa, it was an obama state in 2012 and 2008, and it looks like there s a latent blue color vote in that state that trump has woken up and those voters do not like the idea of the republican senate candidate being uncomfortable with donald trump, and he s in a
and with ross, and in ohio, port man way ahead of strickland, 56 to 40%, despite that tough debate the other night. tom bevin, what do you make of these? this is where a lot of republicans are looking for some salvation in the presidential election season? it seems like voters have made a distinction between donald trump the candidate and republican incumbents in a lot of the states, and we have a map on our site that shows all of the senate races and if you click on it and according to the averages as they stand today, how those states will be allocated, it s 50/50, and it s that close in a lot of the states, and if the bottom continues to fall out for donald trump, and a guy like pat toomey, he was up four or five, and now he is trailing and trump is down in the state. those are the kinds of things that we have to keep an eye on
than once. so senator paul s team is working very hard blind the scenes to allow him to run in a presidential primary and also allow him to run for the senate. the first way of going about the plan failed in november when they failed to allow to get republicans excuse me to take over the state house and the democrats who controlly control the state house basically say no way no how are we going to pass a law to get rid of this. the the other idea is to have a caucus. because that would be different than the primary. and rob portman is out? sort of sooner than we might have expected. he says he s running for his seat in the senate. ohio is a key swing state. keeping that in republican hands will be a top priority for mitch mcconnell, but of course this sort of sends port man to the stop of the presidential vice presidential pick list.
may officially get behind him or will they? we have details meetings, planned ahead. and birds cause another scare in the sky. this is the second one this week. a flight with 54 people on board turns around after geese smack into the windshield. ew! and president obama slow jamming on student loans with jimmy fallon. now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. oh, yeah. the president going late night to grab some young voters. we ll have the highlights for you. he looks too serious in the background. mitt romney so close to the republican nomination now he can taste it. the former massachusetts goer sweeping to victory in the biggest day of the gop primary voting since super tuesday winning new york, connecticut, pennsylvania, rhode island and delaware. it seems inevitable he will clinch the nomination next month. last night he tore into president obama, promising a better america under his watch. because he has failed, he will run
long ball, but paul ryan would be much more controversial. i think port man is the overall best fit. the portman is clearly, he s the kinds of insider pick. he s very steady, served in the bush administration. he ran a terrific attest, a terrific senate campaign in 2010. he s steady. he wouldn t overshadow romney in a way that rubio or chris christie might. they re all right now practicing the art of misdirection which is tried and true in politics. when asked about it, defer and mention someone else. we all know at least history would suggest, if you re offered this job, you almost always take it. there are very few stories in which someone demurs and backs away. so i think the best way to show interest right now is to show no interest at all. these are conversations that happen in private, not in public. those who are talking about being interested are almost certainly people who will not be seriously considered. and to all those who say it s not important that geography