vote haugh. >> get high, vote haugh. >>> well, a master of impressions is taking his turn with the president's former "snl" cast member dayna carvey as barack obama. >> this is what we want took like that. stop crinkling the bank is a good one for him. that's what we don't need. we don't knee pineapples. we need strategic partners and coalition parters bop bee bop. >> that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> let's go to washington now. i'm joining by reporter for "the hill." happy friday. can you say that in your best obama impersonation? >> i am not a comedian, no. what about you? >> no, i can't do it very well. so let's move on to this. monica lewinsky has been back in the spotlight saying she was, quote, patient zero for viral scandals following her affair with president clinton. turns out a new government report may kind of support that because it shows that she was actually mistreated by authorities, right? >> this is an explosive government report that has just been released. pretty much it says that when the fbi confronted her in a shopping mall right before this scandal r

joining us is sean haugh, north carolina's libertarian senate candidate.you, sean. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> that's one of the things you're hearing. if the balance of power in the u.s. senate is hanging on north carolina, if you're able to, and if you look at the latest poll, according to maris, kay hey gan is at 46%. you've got 7%. you could be a spoiler. what do you say to people who say he shouldn't be doing that. >> i think it's very important to have an alternative voice in this race. both of my opponents are for perpetual war and unsustainable debt. my campaign is about stopping all war and stop spending more money than we have. i think this is a message that people all across the political spectrum want to hear and are responding to very well. i'm happy to give people an alternative to the candidates offered by the democrats and republicans in this race. >> you see both the republican and democrat as pretty much the same person? >> well, there are differences between democrats and republicans, and in this race as well. but they're u

. >> ifill: to add to the uncertainty third candidate, libertarian sean haugh could tip the balance even if he gets a small percentage of the vote. >> the dynamic, i don't want to vote for the incumbent so i'm looking around who i vote for to the extent you vote for a third party you don't vote for the challenger. >> ifill: thousand of north carolinians descended on lexington for the barbecue vest call. >> spending has gotten so out of control at least that i'm one that thinks that states should have more control of the money that they have instead of sending to washington having to do stuff to get it back. >> ifill: and william is one of the thousands of volunteers working the state for hagan. >> the wife and i we found that, thank the lord, showed up, we're here, glad to see you. >> ifill: but the money, the finger pointing, the positives tile television advertising leaves many voters perplexed. >> some view it as a sport, it's my team versus your team, whoever has the money has better ground game. you need money for print. >> the same thing, it's about mitigate and birth control and c

libertari libertarian sean haugh gets 4% of the vote. mike rounds has a lead over rick weiland and independent larry pressler. overall, the president's approval rating sits at 40% or lower in all six states being polled, even in iowa and colorado where he won by healthy margins two years ago in that presidential race. congressional incumbents are not much more popular. of the seven we polled, just two, republican congressman tom cotton, only been there about two years, of arkansas, and cory gardner had favorable ratings above water, and that was just barely. joining me, the director of the meris poll. thank you for being on the show. i was going through this over the weekend and something that jumped out at me is we're seeing races tighten within the gender gaps. what's the biggest shift you're seeing there within the polling within the gender gap? >> the democrats need to have a double digit lead among women. to offset their disadvantage among men. that in some cases has gotten narrower. the bottom line is, you know, what is the one fac

sean haugh.7% of the vote in a recent poll, enough to swing the election by siphoning votes. it's the same in florida. it's a libertarian adrian wyllie getting double digit support because people are fed up with the negativity. if that happens, look at what it does to the race if this guy stays in double digit. hurts the incumbent republican here. here is the bottom line, this is what we are learning. it's an angry electoral there. they are mad at both parties. in these races, the third-party candidates will make a bigger difference come november 4th than we thought. more talk with our panel on this and the politics of fear in less than one minute. don't go anywhere. [♪] great rates and safety working in harmony. open an optimizer +plus account from synchrony bank. visit myoptimizerplus.com to open an account. service. security. savings. synchrony bank engage with us. when we're having this much fun, why quit? and bounty has no quit in it either. it's 2x more absorbent than the leading ordinary b