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i want to bring in sha shaquille brewster, and also steve kornacki is ready at the big board. shaq, in writing about the poll results, there are two completely different campaigns that are going on right now. is that what you're finding when you speak and listen to voters there? >> reporter: that's absolutely the case. by the way, one of those national voter registration events is happening here in milwaukee behind me. they might be kicking off any minute now doing a car parade to encourage voters to come out to register to vote on this day. but in my conversations with folks across the state of wisconsin, you hear two issues that come up more than others. one, inflation and the economy, and two, abortion. but our nbc poll showed that different parties had the advantage with those issues. you see republicans have the advantage when you're talking about immigration. economy and crime. democrats the advantage with abortion, health care, and education. that advantage is trickling town to how voters are perceiving the candidates in this battleground state. listen to some of those

joining us from the big board is steve kornacki.lights from this new nbc news poll? >> i think we got real suspense 50 days out from the midterms. earlier this year, it didn't look that way. early they were reporting to a republican wave. numbers have started to change over the summer. here is joe biden's approval rating. we have talked how it tends to practical what a president's party does in midterm elections. his number isn't that great here. a majority disapprove of his job as president. but the trend line has been positive for biden this summer. a month ago our same poll here, nbc poll a month ago had him at 42%. now he's at 45%. late spring, biden was in the 30s. it's not that he moved into a strong position, but he was in a particularly weak position, say, six months or so ago. not quite as bad as now. there have been not insignificant movement in the president's direction when it comes to job performance. you mentioned the generic ballot. we got that all knotted up a month ago. we said democrats then were closing the gap, t

. >> reporter: nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki wrote the red and the blue.zero sum politicking. the only way to win is to make the other side lose. >> politics of contrast that gingrich really sort of pushed really is kind of the way it is in the house now. >> reporter: gingrich and clinton had such a divisive relationship they shut the government down in 1995. voters didn't blame the president, they blamed republicans. democrats learned the politics of division can work for them too. >> noah joins us now. we know that 94 of the high turnout back then was due to a record number of republicans turning out to vote, right? how are things different this time around? >> the "meet the press" team pointed this out this morning, enthusiasm indicators are through the roof on democratic and republican side. there is very good reason to believe that a very small number of votes in just a few key races could have an oversized impact on the future of america this time around. >> so interesting. thank you. >>> the fight to bring online ports betting to california is now o

i don't think any of us thought we'd have steve kornacki out here with a big board breaking this downrussian officials and proxy leaders at the kremlin are 15% of the vote in over 97% approval of a one-question ballot that basically said do you want to succeed from ukraine. there's two boxes like you pass to someone you were fancy on in elementary school. check yes, check no. and when you've got russian soldiers armed delivering these ballots, you've got to think this is the way it's going to go. we've heard from people inside these areas who say they were driven by fear. concern lists were being made for those who did vote no. the decision is likely made. it won't become official until friday and we know that as it stands right now, putin is scheduled to make an address to the nation on friday. there's also a huge rally scheduled as well. so that's likely when they'll put the stamp on what so many have called not a free and fair election. >> jay, thank you very much. and coming up next, why japan is so divided over shinzo abe's state funeral. r shinzo abe's state funeral. when modera

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now i think we can say and you can read this steve kornacki is great book the red in the blue talks about how the the newt gingrich and the one minute speeches in the house where no one is listening and they go down to the floor now. r.i.p., jim traficant. and and his one minute speeches. but you go down to give a a a thunder press denunciation of whatever and because of the rules that congress set for c-span. it looks like you don't you can't tell that alone, right? you can't tell that it's an empty chamber and they're not talking to anybody it looks like they're saying something must be important. they're there on the floor of the house. it must be important, but it's not. and there is social psychology. there is something that's like the social psychologic version of the heisenberg principle from the hard sciences, the observing something, we change it or that stuff in the social psychology we talk about the hawthorne effect, which came from a i think it was a mccormick electric. the hawthorne works. and they were doing a study for efficiency i think this is the twenties they're doing

. >> reporter: i don't think you or anyone else there had steve kornacki on the speed dial just in casewith 15% of the vote in. not a big spread. won't be official until friday. we know putin has scheduled a national address on friday so you would think those two coincide and that's when they'll put a stamp on this. there's also a rally scheduled in moscow. looks like friday will be the grand announcement of what most of the world seems to know here. you talk about the u.n. meeting. we believe that ambassador linda thomas greenfield will introduce a resolution to condemn this sham vote as the u.s. and so many western allies have called it. that's largely symbolic. they're sure to veto this condemnation. u.s. and other western allies have said repeatedly that they're not going to recognize the results of this vote if it's not going to have any effect on the way things are going as far as this war's concerned. and president zelenskyy said the same thing. he said we're going to continue to push forward. we are going to continue to try and take back some of that territory that's occupied an

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kornacki is here with us at the big board. so, steve, walk us through this.e this actually took place. you kind of saw this coming in the pipeline, i guess, watching the numbers play out. how did she pull out this win, and what does it mean big picture wise looking ahead? >> this was a different kind of election in alaska conducted here. ranked-choice voting. you're looking at a process play out over a couple of weeks. folks went to polls august 16th in alaska. got their, who's your first choice in the race? special election to congress? and also asked, fill out who your second choice was. fill out -- you know, if your first choice candidate didn't win. the way it works, took a couple weeks for all mail-in ballots to get counted. what the first choice voting looked like. you see three candidates. two of whom are republicans. sarah palin and another republican nick beckage and petula led on the first preference question. then the question became, suspense became last night, running the rank choice tabulations, sarah palin, finished second, would she pick up en