stay with us for a few minutes of analysis of the senate debate with zachariah hughes, and andrew kitchemen. good night. ♪ >> the senate races that will determine which party controls the chamber and the 115th congress. joining us is jennifer duffy, senior editor for the cook political report. thank you as always for being with us. steve: what is the broad overview? jennifer: as you know, democrats are fighting for the majority. and to do that they need for seats that would tie the chamber. five for an outright majority if trump are to be elected. where does the stand today? we have been on a little bit of a roller coaster in senate races. republicans were holding their own. they are probably going to lose the majority but not by much. before the access hollywood take came out on october 7. then they took a dip. races that were close, they started the trail democrats. last friday's news of more e-mail and possibly an fbi investigation into the clinton foundation has changed things again. whatever republicans lost they seem to have picked back up. on election day we think the democrats are p

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with us for a few minutes of analysis of the senate debate with alaska public media reporters zachariah hughes, and andrew kitchemen. early voting is underway and election day is tuesday, november 8. good night. ♪ at time.com,online how the media got smarter about calling elections. haley is following this story and is joining us on the phone. let me begin with that question. how so? guest: in the early 2000, you might remember the media, they messed up, a lot. election fore 2000 gore, then for bush, then for neither and categorizing the electoral process. in the wake of that put their heads together and changed a few things. was, the formed the national election pool. they changed their name, hired a new pollster, they hired edison research. very highly respected. they pledge before congress that they would not call an election based on exit poll results before they had the -- before the polls had closed. that was a major difference, 1980's networks would call before the polls had the last thing they did, that was really interesting, instead of allowing exit poll data to to becomewsrooms, ava

with us for a few minutes of analysis of the senate debate with alaska public media reporters zachariah hughesd andrew kitchemen. early voting is underway and election day is tuesday, november 8. good night. ♪ >> how the media got smarter about calling elections. let me begin with that question. how so? 2000's, therly media messed up a lot. 2000 election for gore and then for bush, so in the wake of that they put their heads together and changed a few things. a form national election pool. they hired a new pollster. they hired edison research. they pledged before congress they would not call an election based on exit poll results before they had the final polls had closed. that was a major difference. networks would call it elections before the polls had closed. the last thing they did that was really interesting is instead of to leak exit poll data to newsrooms, to become available to anchors sitting at , they actually chose to put it into quarantine. outlets allbag news have data analysts in a room with no phones, no computers, no tablets. they look at this election date all day long and ana

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