mike tomasky, why is he doing this? the pollsters are getting you, but i'm for you. >> it's all about the enemie media.rts with the liberal and w itxtento pollsters. the pollsters are supposedly rigging these things. in fact, what the voter i.d. in those polls is showing, it's showing that the republin party, that fewer and fewer people who are being called by ese polls want to call themselves -- >> what happened there in six months to make them not do that? what's real? i think it's the republican house -- >> a bad candidate, the republican house, a party that goneay off into the right, into la la land, and a bad convention versus a good democratic convention and this video. >> middlof t roaand htonatpe i grew up with in the suburbs around philadelphia and chicago and new york, they have seen that party flipping over to the crazy side. thank you, michael, and i think the president has been good at positioninhimself much closer to theenter than they'd like, the other party. ron reagan, you're gat. i yseofor you're great

t to mike tomaski. you're nonpartisan. i don't know what your politics are.t seems to me they could say something else. they could say this week we're behind two or three, within the margin of error but these d bates are going to be imrtant. there's a lot different ways d them. nrsn >> but denial is what they do, and work up their base is what they do, chris. that's how -- they define their movement in large part by their enemies. >> so the couple on the cage here? >> they are but i'm not entirely suhatni doesn't believe some of this stuff himself. you know -- >> you have a low estimate of his iq. i have a higher estimate. your thoughts, but go ahea >> look, pollsters aren't going to stack the deck on who is -- what there complaining about is the sampli, many mos in tolnd how many republicans are in this poll and it is true, they have one little smidgeon of a point. it is true a lot of these polls have been showing more democrats than republicans, but this is the misunderstanding or the -- >> more democrats than republicans exist or what? >> pollsters askeoe