we take a deeper look with dan balz, chief correspondent for the "washington post;" and carroll dohertyrector for political research for the pew research center. and we welcome both of you back to the program. b dan, i'm going to start with you and your newspaper's 50-state0 poll out today. what do these numbers tell you about where the the race stands today? >> judy, they tell us severalse important things. first, that the race has tightened from where it was after the conventions.on hillary clinton got a bigger bounce out of the democratic convention than donald trump got from the republican convention,i and that moved the polls early in mid-august.in but what we've seen since then is a tightening. we've seen a different donald trump on the campaign trail. i-- i can't say what reason it is that it's tightened, but it has tightened. so that's the first point. the second point is that our 50-state poll underscores the degree to which hillary clinton still has an easier path to 270 electoral votes than donald trump does.p our numbers show that all she would need to do at this point is to