we saw it in the last cycle, todd aiken and other people.stuff, and despite what you put on twitter back pedaling, there's a reason you said it in the first place. >> but todd aiken came back and said he meant when he said. >> that's even worse. i'll give you that. >> and this whole thing underlines a point that came out, the white house put a big report on the status of woman in 2011, said women had met or exceeded the levels where men are in many ways, in academics, law, medicine, so much progress. but not in pay. the pay differential is very real. >> let me ask you about this voter suppression issue. i thought there was a touch of the party of lincoln in the republican party. but when i heard people from my home state of pennsylvania, the legislative leader, happily talking about how they were getting through voter suppression laws, they call them reform laws, that would cut down on the democratic vote, the minority vote. 14 states, we found out tonight, are still going to be hampered by, you can't vote on campus. you have to go back to y

he has donated to president obama and hillary clinton and todd aiken before he made his infamous rape comment. it could be working, but in the other cases we see it's not competitive and it's just changing the dynamics of the race. >> given where republicans are and given where democrats are, we've been told by pollsters we've never had party caucuses that are as polarizing as they are now. republicans bluer and democrats redder, where is the space for a third party. >> most of the third-party candidates we're looking at greg orman in kansas being the exception, are more to the fringes. berni sanders is an independent way to the left. you're seeing libertarian candidates who occupy more of the fringes on the right. you're not seeing a depolarization. it's further polarization. >> and the voter sentiment is that they one some of one and a little bit of other. >> voters want candidates who stand for something. and when they see a libertarian, they see a candidate who stands for somebody. they don't want somebody who is playing on the team because their jersey is blue or the jersey is re

he's not todd aiken either. >> it was easier four years ago for democrats to beat ken. because they had a weak republican. flash floored to kansas, south dakota and georgia. why are republicans having problems? they have candidate problems there. the challenge, again, is candidates. >> we did not mention the president while he was a huge boost to democrats in various states in '08 and 2012, he is a drag this year. he just is. he is the issue. these various crises to your point about ebola, that's what that relates to. >> republicans think they have better candidates this year. 16 days to go. it matters. you might not think it matters but it does matter. reporters show from their notebooks, hillary clinton working on what sounds like a 2016 stump speech. narrator: these are the skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it narrator: which created thousands of new customers for the tennis shoes that got torture tested by teenagers. t

the crowd and then embracing it, embracing -- you know, if this were a republican, if this were todd aiken, it would lead the news on every channel across the country to have a democrat use a nasty personal mysogenist insult, yet the mainstream yawns and ignores it. we need to get rid of these personal attacks, we need to focus on the substance. the reason the democrats are engaged in the attacks is they can't defend the substance, they can't defend the economy, they can't defend obamacare and they certainly can't offend the shambles that has left the whole world practically on fire. >> i guess if you don't have a record to run, they're not running on the economy, they're not running on obamacare, they're not running on policy and isis was running the border, so i guess this is what you're left with. there was a political article saying there was a civil war looming for the gop if, in fact, they win. in other words, they're a conservative, like myself, i'm a conservative that might want a strong, bold agenda that might be facing an established american leadership that might be too timid. y

insensitive comments by republican candidates, todd aiken with the legitimate rape remark, cost republicansenate races in 2012. this year udall's campaign has bet the farm on creating a similar backlash against gardner. half of all of the ads he has run have been on women's issues like this one. >> for colorado's women and families. >> congressman gardner doesn't get it. >> for some it's the history supporting harsh anti-abortion laws and making abortion a felony, including cases of rape and incest. >> i want my daughter to have the same choices i do. >> but there are some scary signs for democrats that it may not be working this time around. gardner is now ahead by 3 points in that race in the colorado. the polls have been trending in his direction lately. look at this, in the latest poll, udall is ahead by nine points among women. that's not bad but not quite the big margin the campaign is betting on. among men, gardner is up by 19. that is much worse than udall campaign was expecting there. this is a crucial race for democrats if they want to keep control of the senate. the question is w

there hasn't been a todd aiken a richard murdoch.ates, iowa, have run solid campaigns in these close states that's going to be up for grabs. we should note that all the polling in 2010 in colorado showed michael bennett was likely to lose an election day and he's now, of course, in the senate. so these races are very close. and we shouldn't assume anybody's going to win or lose based ed on what we know today. >> let's go quickly to georgia. there are these flyers out in georgia that are connecting ferguson to the whole georgia campaign. is race becoming a top of mind issue in that georgia race? >> race has to be top of mind issue in that race because of the fact that michelle nunn is polling in the near 90% among african-americans and near 30% among whites. so the key thing here is you're seeing a little bit of what you saw in mississippi. where rallied the black vote to win that primary. you're seeing, michelle nunn would probably not say out loud, remember ferguson, not something she would say. but the state democratic party wants

southern republicans, how do we keep them from going off and causing a schism and running away with todd aiken and pat robinson? >> i think there's a -- even in the south young republicans have your views on the social issues. i think this is a generational transition that's going on on both the right and the left that perhaps won't be as substantial in the future. that's the political element of it. i actually wish and hope that conservatives would have a coherent political philosophy around what they think culture and society should look like that would accept the post '60s reality. >> a couple questions from social media, well, i'm going to jump in. the republican party is a pro life party. it will never not be a pro life party. it would die without being a pro life party. i'm not a pro life person. >> but there's no generational shift on abortion. >> this is a question from one of our twitter followers who is watching via live stream. why not define debt ceiling to be the ratio of debt to gdp? >> the fundamental problem, this is just a general political thing. people believe if they can on

southern republicans, how do we keep them from going off and causing a schism and running away with todd aiken and pat robinson? >> i think there's a -- even in the south young republicans have your views on the social issues. i think this is a generational transition that's going on on both the right and the left that perhaps won't be as substantial in the future. that's the political element of it. i actually wish and hope that conservatives would have a coherent political philosophy around what they think culture and society should look like that would accept the post '60s reality. >> a couple questions from social media, well, i'm going to jump in. the republican party is a pro life party. it will never not be a pro life party. it would die without being a pro life party. i'm not a pro life person. >> but there's no generational shift on abortion. >> this is a question from one of our twitter followers who is watching via live stream. why not define debt ceiling to be the ratio of debt to gdp? >> the fundamental problem, this is just a general political thing. people believe if they can on

southern republicans, how do we keep them from going f off and causing a schism and running away with todd aikenni pat robinson?sm a >> i think there's a -- even in- the south young republicans have your views on the social issues. i think this is a generational transition that's going on on ai both the right and the left that perhaps won't be as substantial of a skiz mattic issue in the future. that's the political element of. it. an i actually wish and hope that conservatives would have a d haa coherent political philosophy hy around what they think culture and society should look like ike that would accept the post '60s reality. >> a couple questions from blicn social media -- well, i'm going to jump in. the republican party is a pro life party.li it will never not be a pro life party. it would die without being a pro life party. i just had to say that. i'm not a pro life person. i'm just pointing out reality. >> but there's no generational shift on abortion. ion >> this is a question from one of our twitter followers who is watching via live stream. i comes from marvin gardner and he would l

some might remember last cycle when missouri congressman todd aiken dropped his comments about rape and and bruce brayley referred to the senator as just a farmer which didn't play well and has made that more competitive for republicans than we thought. a few weeks left, a gaffe takes a few minutes, and this is the time that it will follow you through the election. >> and this may not just be a gaffe from someone but it could be the opposition dumping research as they found on you. suddenly it is leaked to the press and we have interesting tidbits about a candidate last minute, right? >> democrats and republicans have spent the last few years digging into the candidates' backgrounds. weapon we don't know what could come out in massachusetts. we heard plagiarism when it comes to writing a thesis paper, so we'll see what happens with that. and the billionaires are limitless pockets and can drop a million into a race in a week and completely change the race for a democrat or republican. so that could still be coming as well. >> and we have to watch out for the big scare, the biggest scare