he is alan abramowitz of emory. how do gauge the ground games of each of the candidates? turnout will be an important factor. guest: from what we are seeing so far, the clinton campaign and the democrats seem to be far ahead when it comes to organizing their campaigns. there are a lot of indications of that in terms of the money being spent in the swing states money on advertising, but also the money being invested in the field offices in these states, and barack obama has that advantage in that regard in 2008 and 2012. it looks like hillary clinton is going to have the big advantage when it comes to the ground game in the swing state in 2016, so in a close election, and these swing states, of course, tend to be close and that could make the difference. if you can increase your turnout by 1% or 2%, that can be the difference in a close race. so far, i would say that the democrats seem to have the advantage in terms of fundraising, spending on advertising in the swing states and in terms of field operations. judy,we will hear from independent line. good morning. caller: go

emory university's alan abramowitz will join us next. first, our "newsmakers" november out in ohio with the republican of oregon rig walden and committee chair of the national republican congressional committee. tax about the impact of nominee donald trump, tensions that surfaced and the status of house races. [video clip] >> house democrats are running against him, saying they could bring a way for them to take back the house, this cycle or next cycle, are you getting -- are you giving your members space to themselves from the nominee and how much is the drag of the nominee going to be on the house to get? >> first, i would say there are two candidates running for ifsident, and they seldom ever embrace their own and acknowledged the problems that hillary clinton brings to their ticket, their side in the house races. let me give you the data, which is a sickly and the competitive races, not every case but nearly, hillary clinton's numbers are worse than donald trump's numbers in the competitive seats. we run in individual districts, not

you're on line with alan abramowitz. go ahead.ce >> caller: i heard a lot of reference to poll showing unfavorable ratings on each candidate. i was wondering whether polls show unfavorability ratings fora trump among registered republicans and whether they are higher or lower than unfavorability ratings for clintons among registered democrats? >> guest: right. so fine when you look at views of the candidate among republicans and democrats is that republicans, generally have a favorable opinion of donald trump but there is a minority there, or at least there has been up until the convention who continue to have negative view of trump. so generally about 70% of the fact that republicans have positive view of donald trump. still 30% don't particularly care for him. keep in mind a majority of republicans in the primaries did not vote for donald trump. now that may change following the republican convention. we'll have to see what the a polling shows. trump's ratings have been going up among republicans but not among democrat

he is alan abramowitz of emory. how would you gauge the ground games of each of the candidates?important factor. guest: from what we are seeing so far, the clinton campaign and the democrats seem to be far ahead when it comes to organizing their campaigns. there are a lot of indications of that in terms of the money being spent in the swing states and also money on advertising, but also the money being invested in the field offices in these states, and barack obama had that advantage in that regard in 2008 and 2012. it looks like hillary clinton is going to have the big advantage when it comes to the ground game in the swing state in 2016, so in a close election, and these swing states, of course, tend to be close and that could make the difference. if you can increase your turnout by 1% or 2%, that can be the difference in a close race. so far, i would say that the democrats seem to have the advantage in terms of fundraising, spending on advertising in the swing states and in terms of field operations. host: we will hear from judy, independent line. good morning. caller: good m

to support the candidates of their choice with emory university's political science professor alan abramowitz argues that voters tend to vote against the opposing party rather than for the candidate of their own party. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> facebook's vice president of global policy gives c-span a tour of its pop-up location in cleveland adjacent to the site of the 2016 republican national convention. joel kaplan talks about the role facebook plays in this election and the evolution of the media and technology. >> adjacent to the quicken loans arena and media row is progressive field, but next to progressive field is this new pop-up location for facebook. and joining us is joel kaplan, vice president of global policy for facebook. what's going on here? >> well, first of all, welcome to facebook central, the rnc in cleveland. what we're doing is we've found over the last number of elections that facebook has really become the i new town hall. so people are coming to facebook to have conversations with voters, candidates

alan abramowitz argues that voters tend to vote against the opposing party rather than for the candidatetheir own party. be sure to watch c-span's western journal friday morning. join the discussion. >> hillary clinton start the weekend before the democratic national convention in florida. we'll have live coverage in tampa beginning at 4:30 p.m. on c-span. >> for the first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party nominee. -- [applause] >> hillary clinton becomes the first nominee -- the first female nominee -- live coverage begins monday on c-span. the c-span radio app and c-span.org. >> donald trump accepted the presidential nomination of the republican party. in an hour and 15 minute speech. he was introduced by his daughter, ivanka. >> ladies and gentlemen, please give a very warm welcome to ivanka trump. [cheering] >> good evening. [cheering] thank you. one year ago i entered is my father when he declared his candidacy. in his own way answer his own sheer force of will, he sacrificed greatly to enter the political arena as an outsider. and he prevailed against

host: alan abramowitz of emory university talking about voters and campaign 2016. thanks for your time this morning. hillary clinton will appear for a campaign rally today in tampa, florida, part of a two-day swing through florida, and she will continue in miami tomorrow. aswill have live coverage our road to the white house coverage continues on c-span ahead of the democratic convention, which kicks off in philadelphia on monday. news reports today that hillary clinton planned to reveal her vice presidential choice today in a text message to supporters and appear with her running mate for the first time at tomorrow's rally in miami, that according to the associated press. no word yet from the campaign on a vice presidential choice, although we do understand that hillary clinton is on route to this event here and tampa and it will begin shortly on c-span. while we wait, we will show you an event from the other side of the ticket, donald trump and mike pence, the republican ticket, they had their post convention news conference this morning. ♪ [captioning performed