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No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.

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Mara Liasson
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 13
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[Donald] Trump has said he will accept the results of the election - if he wins. And he has said the only way he can lose the election is if it's stolen from him. Weeks before any votes were cast, he was predicting widespread voter fraud. So if he loses, what does he do?
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After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.
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African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
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The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.
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There was another Cleveland rally [of Hillary Clinton] - this one with LeBron James.
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Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
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I think that's why we see this mixed reaction - Republican congressional leaders like Paul Ryan speaking out very firmly, but Republican candidates not as much, with the exception of the candidates in the single digits like Jeb Bush or Lindsey Graham, who said how to make America great again tell - Donald Trump to go to hell.
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Yes, the presidential race is very close, and some public polls show it getting closer as we go into the final hours, but in one sense it's actually been stable for months.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.
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If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign in an unprecedented way.
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In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.
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Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.
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If Donald Trump wins, it will be a seismic event.
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The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.
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Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.
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Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].
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