ms. bowman: michael? mr. barone: we have been through a period of very high persistent polarization, roughly equal size blocks on both sides and very persistent voting patterns. we had in 2012 only 26 congressional districts out of 435 that voted to split tickets, that is vote majority president in one one party, elected congressman of the other parties. it is the lowest number since 1920. i do think, however,, americans are capable of splitting tickets. it's not that hard if you want to do it. they just haven't been in the habit of doing lately because george w. bush for a long time defined the republican party, and barack obama defined the democratic party, and people voted accordingly. norm suggested the problems of difficulties -- does donald trump define in the republican party? many people do not want to be identified with their party leader. when richard nixon was reelected in 1972, he carried, i think, 389 congressional districts against george mcgovern. half of them voted for democratic congressman.

ms. bowman: michael? mr. barone: we have been through a period of very high persistent partisanship roughly equal size , blocks on both sides and very persistent voting patterns. we had in 2012 only 26 congressional districts out of 435 devoted to split tickets, that is vote majority president in one one party, elected congressman of the other parties. it is the lowest number since 1920. i do think, americans, however, are capable of splitting tickets. it's not that hard. if you want to do it. they just haven't been in the habit of doing lately because george w. bush for ameg defid e party,ned the republican and barack obama defined the democratic party, and people voted accordingly. does that all child defined the republican national does donald trump defined the republican trump-- does donald defined in the republican party? many people do not want to be identified with their party leader. when richard nixon was reelected in 1972, he carried, i think, 389 congressional districts against george mcgovern. hal

ms. bowman: split ticket. mr. barone: if you're running rob portman's campaign you talk about his campaign, his legiation against opioid abuse, which is a real problem in parts of ohio. you do what others have done for 40 years when they sense the party is not strong or might be unpopular with significant parts of their electorate. emphasize the specifics of those issues, the character of the candidate, and things of that nature. voters are capable of splitting tickets, they just haven't felt the need to do so lately. you know, given the choices before us, they may -- you know, it is quite possible they will need more, and i do not think they really need a mechanism of a third party, which is not going to be competitive anyway, to bring out voters for down-ballot people. mr. ornstein: one of the challenges for mitch mcconnell, the expectation was they would have a robust record to run on, and they could say keep us in power. look how we are le to act legislatively. this is a congress that left without dealing with

ms. bowman: michael? mr. barone: we have been through a period of very high persistent polarization, roughly equal size blocks on both sides and very persistent voting patterns. we had in 2012 only 26 congressional districts out of 435 that voted to split tickets, that is vote majority president in one one party, elected congressman of the other party. lowest number since 1920. i do think, however, that americans are capable of splitting tickets. it's not that hard if you want to do it. they just haven't been in the habit of doing it lately because george w. bush for a long time defined the republican party, and barack obama defined the democratic party, and people voted accordingly. norm suggested the problems with the difficulties -- does donald republican party or the republican party for every candidate? we may be back into the territory in the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, when some republicans did not want to be identified leader andparty lik many democrats did not want to be identified with their party leade

ms. bowman: thank you very much, john.n to henry to talk about the soul of both political parties what we learned from the polls at this point and whether or not you think trump can unite the party, whether will be a third party challenge? yn asked mewhen karl soul, i wast the imagining what a field day norm would have with that question. of course, the devil has already made his appearance in the toublican race, and i want describe the somewhat conservatives, the faction that prefer john boehner to the staunch conservative movement conservatives. and john boehner appears in the week before ted cruz's political test of his life and compares them to lucifer -- lucifer and the flesh, -- in the flesh, he lead toich i think will a defamation suit, because it wants to be compared to ted cruz? [laughter] mr. olsen: i think this shows the republican party is suffering not from soulless miss, or a bad soul, but a multiple personality disorder. person've got, as any who is disordered because the multiple personalities, they cannot

ms. bowman much appreciated (calling names) >> thank you directors go mark i'm speaking so far the technique workers alliance i want to establish this comments i didn't get to finish the mta has come to grips with the reality of the medallion transfer program medallion holder have to recover their investments in a timely fashion they're ready to leave the entry not held prisoner to the system there are hundreds and hundreds of medallion holders waiting to sell their medallions and leave the industry and now buyers you should mention of the taxi department recently sent out another letter to purposes of medallions and you know for 200 and $50,000 and i actually think this is irresponsible to try to reduce someone to put-down down 200 and $50,000 for a technique medallion at this point nobody you know - no guarantee in the future that that money will be recovered so something has to be done about i think the entire medallion structure in san francisco and know that from what kate said the internal discussions have begun there should be public discussions the public needs to weigh in for imagin

ms. bowman much appreciated (calling names) >> thank you directors go mark i'm speaking so far the technique workers alliance i want to establish this comments i didn't get to finish the mta has come to grips with the reality of the medallion transfer program medallion holder have to recover their investments in a timely fashion they're ready to leave the entry not held prisoner to the system there are hundreds and hundreds of medallion holders waiting to sell their medallions and leave the industry and now buyers you should mention of the taxi department recently sent out another letter to purposes of medallions and you know for 200 and $50,000 and i actually think this is irresponsible to try to reduce someone to put-down down 200 and $50,000 for a technique medallion at this point nobody you know - no guarantee in the future that that money will be recovered so something has to be done about i think the entire medallion structure in san francisco and know that from what kate said the internal discussions have begun there should be public discussions the public needs to weigh in for imagin

ms. bowman much appreciated (calling names) >> thank you directors go mark i'm speaking so far the techniquelliance i want to establish this comments i didn't get to finish the mta has come to grips with the reality of the medallion transfer program medallion holder have to recover their investments in a timely fashion they're ready to leave the entry not held prisoner to the system there are hundreds and hundreds of medallion holders waiting to sell their medallions and leave the industry and now buyers you should mention of the taxi department recently sent out another letter to purposes of medallions and you know for 200 and $50,000 and i actually think this is irresponsible to try to reduce someone to put-down down 200 and $50,000 for a technique medallion at this point nobody you know - no guarantee in the future that that money will be recovered so something has to be done about i think the entire medallion structure in san francisco and know that from what kate said the internal discussions have begun there should be public discussions the public needs to weigh in for imaginative thin

ms. bowman much appreciated (calling names) >> thank you directors go mark i'm speaking so far the techniqueorkers alliance i want to establish this comments i didn't get to finish the mta has come to grips with the reality of the medallion transfer program medallion holder have to recover their investments in a timely fashion they're ready to leave the entry not held prisoner to the system there are hundreds and hundreds of medallion holders waiting to sell their medallions and leave the industry and now buyers you should mention of the taxi department recently sent out another letter to purposes of medallions and you know for 200 and $50,000 and i actually think this is irresponsible to try to reduce someone to put-down down 200 and $50,000 for a technique medallion at this point nobody you know - no guarantee in the future that that money will be recovered so something has to be done about i think the entire medallion structure in san francisco and know that from what kate said the internal discussions have begun there should be public discussions the public needs to weigh in for imaginat