dr. jason johnson today. >> mark: yes. we haven't spoken to him since just before the whirlwind election. >> romona: jason, hello. >> morning. good afternoon. >> mark: i'm sure it feels that way. you first about the electoral college process. it's actually the electors that cast the votes that legally elect the president. >> mark: there are petitions floating around. ignore the state vote. cast your ballot for clinton. this is sort of shades of 2000. it comes down to history, right? >> right, right. it would be a violation of the rules and you only have a certain number of states where that's even allowed. generally speaking an eor their state voted in general. now, this has brought attention back to the core issue of the electoral college and the popular vote. i have always believed and i've done studies of this, i think the electoral college to have real value. if you didn't have them have a point system, they would never travel to different states. they would stick around and i think when you have an electoral college v

dr. jason johnson communication professor at morgan state and politics editor to get his take where the candidates stand. let's start with ohio. the path to the white house has to come through ohio. that might not be the case this year. why is that? >> well, i got to tell you, romona to donald trump. i think it will be close. i actually wrote a piece last week talking about the fact had the indians won there was a political science to talk about how championships lead to higher turn out and we have seen low turnout in cuyahoga county. i think donald trump ends up winning ohio. looking across the rest of the nation looks like hillary clinton will still win the presidency. >> follow them on twitter and we have learned recently, a record number of early voting in florida, what do you make of that? >> it is really interesting. the broward county and dade county and miami county heavily democratic areas and voter turnout exceeded expectations. in particular, the voter turnout and eased expectations with women and halt nos and young people. these are all constituencies that hillary clinton would general