kyle kopko?yes, i think you mix a good point. i think this is something our research bears out. not a great number of voters are significantly swayed by vice presidential candidate selections. even in the news media in recent days leading up to this election, the reports seem to characterize tim kaine as a safe selection for hillary clinton. someone who is characterized as boring. that is something tim kaine used to describe himself in recent interviews as well. it is someone who is going to be more low-key on the campaign trail. this is something that campaigns also like to emphasize. they don't want the vice president of candidates to overshadow the presidential candidates because they can take away from the message, the policy vision going forward. these are all very important things campaigns have to consider as a work of the next few months leading up to november 8. host: tom from pennsylvania is the next color. he is on the republican line. good morning. caller: my question is which one of

kyle kopko?st: yes, i think you mix a good point. i think this is something our research bears out. not a great number of voters are significantly swayed by vice presidential candidate selections. even in the news media in recent days leading up to this election, the reports seem to characterize tim kaine as a safe selection for hillary clinton. someone who is characterized as boring. that is something tim kaine used to describe himself in recent interviews as well. it is someone who is going to be more low-key on the campaign trail. this is something that campaigns also like to emphasize. they don't want the vice president of candidates to overshadow the presidential candidates because they can take away from the message, the policy vision going forward. these are all very important things campaigns have to consider as a work of the next few months leading up to november 8. host: tom from pennsylvania is the next color. he is on the republican line. good morning. caller: my question is which one

coming up this morning elizabethtown college associate profession, kyle kopko, to discuss the elections and the impact of election victories. and poll numbers as hillary clinton announced her running mate. they will also discuss the final nomination before the convention in philadelphia. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. >>> this sunday night on "q & a" jean edward smith on his biography of george w. bush. >> maybe bush's worst fault is the fact that he's a born-again christian who brings the ideology into the presidency. he believes that he was god's agent here on earth to fight evil. bush called the president of france on the telephone, trying to get france to join in the attack. during the course of the conversation he told the president that we're fighting gogenmegog. now creatures in the new testament, that's the center of the universe for many evangelicals and fundamentalist christians, and bush generally believed that. bush

coming up saturday morning, elizabethtown college associate professor kyle kopko joins us live from harrisburgiscuss e history of impact victories. peter hart will breakdown national poll numbers as hillary clinton announces her running mate. he was cut the final preparation she will make before taking center stage as the party's presidential nominee at the democratic national convention in philadelphia. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> saturday night at 8:00 eastern, we will take a look back at past democratic national convention starting with the 1960 convention in los angeles with the democratic party selecting john f. kennedy as their nominee. >> today our concern must be with our future for the world is changing. the old era is ending the old ways will not do. . >> you became the youngest person -- he became the youngest person elected president. we will also see noted female speakers including barbara jordan who spoke in the 1976 convention in new york city and became the first african-american woman t

kyle kopko?obviously and disappointment with some of the presidential candidates this year. about a month and a half ago the washington post produced a poll that showed both donald trump and hillary clinton had historically high disapproval ratings. both were in the mid to high 50's, which has never really happened before in the modern presidential era. because of that, folks are looking for alternative choices. obviously that is why we hear more about gary johnson this time around. when we dug into the data, my co-author and i, our analysis suggests vice presidential candidates could matter at the margin, particularly if the presidential candidates, as is the case this year, have very high disapproval ratings. if the vice presidential candidate is viewed more favorably in relation to their running mate that could move the , needle ever so slightly in favor of that ticket. it is still pretty unlikely. by our estimates the presidential candidate, their evaluations have three times the weight of vi