thank you, robert costa, heidi przybyla and romesh.sh with this intriguing duet of numbers in a new poll. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> let me finish tonight with this intriguing set of numbers in the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll. question, do you want a republican or a democrat in the white house? answer, 44% republican, 43% democrat. so after all this sound and fury, it looks like come next november it will come down to an even split with us up on election night trying to see how states like florida, colorado and virginia end up. the same states you can count on every time as the final deciders. the fact is the country is divided. you see it in so many numbers. even if there's an advantage to a democrat in one match-up, a republican in another, the closer the question approaches which party you want controlling things, the more the pendulum tends to swing back toward the middle. country tends to balance out right and left. i'll stick with my prediction. even if it's hillary, it's going to be one close

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