Look, the fact she became a citizen and shes doing this, and i think its great. For intelligent elect shung coverage, keep it on the fox news channel. Bret baier, megyn kelly, well see you back here tomorrow. We are just an hour away now from the first results of 2014 midterm elections, after months of campaigning, polls are set to close in six states. Good evening, everyone, im megyn kelley. The magic number is 51, a simple majority. Heres the balance of power as it stands right now, 5545. Two independents caucus with the democrats to get to that 45
right now. Democrats need to win some of those tossups to hold on to power. It could all come down to just a handful of races, like iowa, where joni ernst has come in against bruce braley. New hampshire, a democratic stronghold, where scott brown is mounting a serious challenge to incumbent jeanne shaheen. And kansas, where independent greg orman is trying to knock off three term republican incumbent pat roberts. Joining us throughout the evening, our allstar panel, with brit hume and Charles Krauthammer. Chris wallace is here to break down the numbers with karl rove and joe trippi. And we start with martha. Today fox news has been asking voters around the country, nearly 20,000 of them how they voted today and why. So even before any of the polls close, we can get a sense of whats motivating voters out there today. First a stunning finding on how people are feeling as they go into the volting booth. About half think that life in the future will not be better for their children. A number of those voting today say that life will be better in america. That is a record low, at 22 today. That is a very gloomy number. First lets take the polls in North Carolina wrrks the republican tom tillis is trying to knock off the incumbent, democratic senator kay hagan. Shes perhaps the most entrenenched republican out the tonight. Hagan as argued that and in New Hampshire, big race tonight as well. Republican scott brown trying to get back to the senate, he is thought to win over independents there, look how tight this is, 49 of the independents going for shaheen at this moment. These are early numbers, keep in mind, people are still out there voting. Let me show you one more from the National Exit polls that we just got in moments ago as well. President obama has said that his policies are on the ballot tonight. Many candidates have tried to steer clear of the president while they have been campaigning. 44 voted to show that they are opposed to president obamas policies. That number was a little bit higher in the 2010 midterms. It was 37 . And a bigger number. Our Decision Team will be analyzing all the polling from around the country, and theres a look from inside that really amazing room. Thats a live look. They call it nerd tank. Crunching the numbers, nerd tank, the Decision Team, once the polls close, they have a projection based on the raw vote total, well bring it to you life. We begin in louisville, kentucky, with chief Political Correspondent carl cameron. Carl . Reporter an awful lot of history and records may be broken tonight. This Election Campaign already is the second most expensive in the nations history, second
only to the 2012 president ial election. The 2014 constitutional midterms will outpace every other midterm in the nations history. And here in kentucky, its going to be about 100 million. No republican incumbent has been targeted by democrats for ouster moore than Mitch Mcconnell. He voted for himself today, no big surprise here in louisville. We had a chance to catch up with him just after he submitted his own ballot, listen. Who did you vote for . I think were going to have a good day here in kentucky and hopefully around the country. Around the country meaning your first vote for senate will be what . I hope were going to have a new majority to take america in a different direction. And he would therefore be supporting himself to be the next majority leader in the next senate. Going after mcconnell as a denison of washington. Fairing snasht mcconnell, does that sway you in any way. The ground game we have is dynamic and its unlike anything kentucky has ever seen. Ground game is going to be tremendously important. Democrats across the country have been rallying the last couple of weeks trying to get the africanamerican and the female vote to the polls aggressively in order to fight off some of these republican challenges, that was the case here in kentucky and particularly in North Carolina. For republicans, an opportunity to for them to make history and they might have to be competitive. In 2012, the Romney Campaign had a big problem with that and president obama was elected and all the canning dats down the ballot on the republican side. Republicans have spent 70 million plus since the 2012
defeat. They have been testing it and testing it. Today we have seen no reports of glitches. This may mean the Republican Party has a better chance to get out their vote which has been in the last eight years. State senator jon ernst has been taking on bruce braley. Reporter you know that i was produced basically one of the most memorable ads of this cycle with the gop candidate joni ernst talking about growing up on a farm and says she knows how to cut pork and thats what shell do when she goes washington. The fact that shes commanded Iowa National guard troops overskaes. She says shes feeling confident going into the final night here,
but both sides know its going to take volunteers and turnout, that could make all the difference for democrats tonight. Congressman bruce braley, and hillary clinton, who always sparks 2016 chatter when she shows up in the hawkeye state. Braley says he will represent all iowans, regardless of race or income. This is a critical state for democrats. He said basically on a call over the he has called on democrats here in iowa to, quote, double down to make sure that brale yooerbraley is the one who comes out victorious tonight. Were going to use our technology and our graphic to try and set the table for folks at home. This is the starting number now for the United States senate. Democrats and two independents voting with him at 55 a 5 voting with him at 55 a7 and republicans at 55. What we think may happen at the moment, 5545. We do believe, talking to so many people, seeing a lot of polling over the last couple of months that West Virginia will go republican and so too will south dakota and so too will montana. Youve got three state there that go from blue to red. Among the remaining blue states on the map, where do you turn . Is it iowa possibly where joni ernst is running a good cam pain, is it colorado . That u puts you at 50 50. Maybe you get a call tonight in the state of arkansas. That would do it alone so long as republicans hold their lead in kentucky and in georgia. Come 7 00, we should know some things. Indeed, i really think within
the next hour to the next hour and 20 minutes are going to be interesting, bret. You come over to the east coast light now, at 7 00, youre 50 minutes away in kentucky, well find out whether Mitch Mcconnell can defend his seat. He might be the majority leader by the end of the night. I mentioned georgia down here, this is a rice where you need to get to 50 otherwise, you wait until january to do it again. Then at 7 30, which is an hour and 19 minutes from now, things get very interesting because this race in North Carolina is the most Expensive Senate race we have seen in american history. And so far as we can tell, kay hagan a democrat and tom tillis a republican are in a coin toss at the moment. If democrats are going to hold, in an hour and a half, we should have some indication whether theyre going to have a good night. I really think thats a good point, whether its New Hampshire or North Carolina, if democrats hold, theyll extend
the evening a lot later into the evening and will have a chance to maintain the majority. Thank you, bill. Come back often. We want to draw your attention to the bottom right of your screen, left of where were talking. Thats where youll find the balance of power throughout the night. Going into today, democrats controlled the senate, but tonight americans are voting on 36 of those seats, so before the polls close, democrats technically only hold 34 seats, while republicans hold 30. So each time a race is called tonight, youll see the number in the corner of the screen and it will tick up. Republicans are expected to pick up seats tonight so they need a net gain of six seats to take control. Thats what youll see on the screen. Right now the net gain is zero, but well somewhere a running tally with this graphic throughout the night. If they get to six, and if they hold what theyre defending, they take control of the United States senate. Its confusing because its 34 and 30, but its going to tick up as the night goes on and there will be a lot more drama
as we get to 9 00 or 10 00 tonight. Juan williams, Kirsten Powers and Charles Krauthammer, welcome to you all. And so tonight, everyones watching their Television Screens and theres a little bit of drama because this is not a foregone conclusion that republicans are going to take the senate tonight, brit. Its not a foregone conclusion, although clearly the odds favor that, enough races are close to that so if democrats would win a bunch of them they would retain control of the senate. So were looking at states which polls close early which may tell us which direction its going to go throughout the night. In the state of virginia, gillespie had him down nearly double digits, three of the four polls in the average had him down double digits coming into election day. The gillespie people were very
excited today about one of their internal polls which showed them up a point. That by no means tells you thats meaningful. If that race turns out to be really close, and we may know this early on when the polls close at 7 00, it could tell us something not only about virginia. If allison lundergrengrimes is have been a tough night, you could see a rally there. If that happened, we have georgia and kentucky who original lay two states that were not really a year ago considered to be in contention and now are in contention and could be potential democratic pickups so if we see that being even a tight race, thats something really to watch. Im burglar ly its going to
be a bad night for democrats eflt. We have talked about the senate races, how about the governors races, what are the most interesting ones in your view . Its really fascinating that suddenly the gubernatorial races are front and center. Because if you look at some of the seats that are now held by democratic incumbents, and you would think no big deal, but in this current environment, they are at ring. What im talking about here is states like massachusetts, who would guess that in a deeply blue state, you could have a republican right now locked into a tight contest for that governors seat. Similarly, illinois, another deep blue state where you can watch and youll see that the republican in some of those contests are in the lead. And you have what i think may be the featured race in terms of governors race tonight, kansas, where you have former senator brown beck where he said he was going to cut taxes and spur the
economy and hes lost support among republicans. I think a lot of people are going to be watching that also megyn, because of the impact it has on the senate race. Pull back to 30,000 feet. Obviously a lot of republicans ran really against president obama and this administration. Tonight, what do you think this picture is . Well, it certainly will be a verdict over the six years of the obama we have been hearing for years from the media about the raging civil war in the gop, between the tea party and 2 establishment, here we have a crucial mid term election where youve got the insurgenin, the outsiders if you like, rallying with the theres been some conservative contests, the gop within the primaries
that have been nasty and angry, but once those got settled, you got outsiders like rand paul, like ted cruz campaigning in states which are called establishment senators, unless the republicans have a bad night, in which case the civil war will start up tomorrow and it will be a bloody one, but if they have a reasonably good night, this bodes extremely well for 2016, they rallied together to try to do well in the midterm. And i think that means that when the bloody primaries for the president ial are over in two years, they will rally together to win the big prize, which is the white house. Something tells me well be back many times, make sure to follow us on twitter at bretbaier. And megynkelly. Fox news facebook, get in on the conversation nice and early. Were just Getting Started on
this very busy election night. In moments we head down to louisiana where democratic senator Mary Landrieu is fighting to keep her seat. And we find out still where there may be no winner. Were heading to New Hampshire, scott brown in a tough fight to unseat uncouple bent jeanne shaheen, all part of this battle to control this senate. Again, net gain of six is what the republicans need. And a live look at a polling location in denver where there is a senate race. Polls there close in less than three hours. From the World Headquarters of fox news in new york city, this is americas election headquarters. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Haeded a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. Just another day at norfolk southern. We asked people a question how much money do you think youll need when you retire . Then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. I was trying to like, pull it a little further got me to 70 years old im going to have to rethink this thing its hard to imagine how much well need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. So maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. Welcome back to americas headquarters, the clock is ticking towards the first poll closings of the night. Key battleground states could determine who takes control of the balance of power in the u. S. Senate. Polls said to close in South Carolina and virginia. We have an army of reporters
spread out all over the country. John roberts live from senator Mary Landrieus headquarters in new orleans, where we may not even have a winner tonight, john . Theres a good chance this is going to a rungoff, megyn. Mary landrieu has a good chance of winging her runoff. 2002, she did it again, that time by three points, but changing politics here in louisiana in a deeply unpopular president have altered the president ial landscape, it could be a real challenge for her to win another runoff tonight or at least in december. As landrieu reminds voters of a record in seniority in this state, her republican opponent bill cassidy is trying to tie her to policies that even landrieu says has hurt louisiana. Theres a good chance that no
one will hit 50 and we will be back here again saturday december 6 for that runoff. Jump three states east in the south, and the landscape is Michelle Nunn with the libertarian candidate, Amanda Swofford taking enough of the vote that no one there will take 50 of the vote. And then well do it all again in the new year. Now a couple of reasons the race down in the beach state is so close. Georgia first of all is changing demographics, also perdue very bad lly wounded when a 2005 deposition was made public when he talked about his career outsourcing, outcourse didnt have the resources to immediately respond to it. Also, hiss campaign was blind sided by that deposition because perdue, a political newcomer
hadnt told them that it existed. Megyn. John roberts, thank you. Just want to point out really quickly that right now, we have started on the bottom of your screen, you can see the graphics are coming up. There will be a check mark when we make a call when that happens. One of those things thats going to get more exciting later. We are officially in data mode. Up next, kansas where independent greg orman is trying to unseat longtime republican pat roberts and james rosen is live from ormans headquarters. Lets stay with data mode, the last time that kansas sent anything other than a republican to the United States senate was 1932, but that could well happen tonight with this Stunning Campaign waged by greg orman. The campaign of senator pat roberts, the inge coupcumbent f third term. By moat accounts, roberts waged double digit polling gap, pat trick miller of the United States of kansas, a political scientist, tweeted out a short while ago that hes hearing that republican turnout will be 52 , not the number that republicans need. Molly line is live from scott
browns headquarters in manchester. Its possible that we will see a record tongurnout as far midterm elections are concerned. Both theres been a tremendouss get out the vote effort here in these contests. Lets talk about from the beginning, we have senator scott brown, the former senator from massachusetts coming over the border from, of course, the south, to challenge democratic senator jeanne shaheen, brown first gained National Fame here in the 20 to fill the seat that was left vacant by senator ted kennedy. He went on to lose in 2012 against now senator Elizabeth Warr warren, and shaheen, also the former governor here in New Hampshire working to remind voters of just that fact, we are waiting for the polls to close, it will not happen until 8 00 tonight. Virginia, vermont and kentucky, six states ready to close their polls at the top of the hour. Youre looking at senator majority leader Mitch Mcconnells Campaign Headquarters in kentucky. Could he become the next majority leader by the end of the night . Plus president obamas name is not on the ballot, but is this election all about him . Make no mistake i these policies are on the ballot, every single one of them. I have the worst cold with this runny nose. I better take something. Dayquill cold and flu doesnt treat your runny nose. Seriously . Alkaseltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. Oh, what a relief it is. Wow [ narrator ] on a mission to get richard to his campbells chunky soup. Its new chunky beerncheese with beef and bacon soup. I love it. And mama loves you. Who would have thought masterthree cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche . The same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. Its a masterpiece. Thanks. Clearly you are type e. You made it phil. Welcome home. Now whats our strategy with the fondue . Diversifying your portfolio . E trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. Are you type e . receptionist Gunderman Group is growing. Getting in a groove. Growth is gratifying. Goal is to grow. Gotta get greater growth. I just talked to ups. They got expert advise, special discounts, new technologies. Like smart pick ups. Theyll only show up when you print a label and its automatic. We save time and money. Time . Money . Time and money. Awesome. Awesome awesome awesome awesome all awesome i love logistics. Its 6 30 p. M. Eastern time. The very first polls closing in about half an hour from now. Among them Key Senate Races in georgia and kentucky, with a seat held by the Current Senate majority leader is on the line. Also at stake, the balance of power in the senate, as it stands light now, 5545 as two independents are caucusing with the democrats. Republicans need to pick up six seats to regain control of the senate. Republicans have been excusing on the president s own words from earlier this month. Im not on the ballot this
fall, michelles pretty happy about that, but make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot, every single one of them. Bret, the bottom line is the president also caused a lot of heartburn for democrats when he said on the radio that the president s been so radioactive on the trail that today he kept a very low profile, no public events, bunch of get out the vote radio interviews, but most of them had to do with governors races, only a handful, the North Carolina races, now though, with democrats potentially about to lose control of the senate, his press secretary josh ernest tried to distance the president from that, saying this is up to individual candidates not the commander in chief. Republicans are saying not so fast. I think most voters are
deciding who to vote for based on the name thats on the ballot, not the name thats not. Theyre concerned about the direction that the Obama Administration is taking the country, is second is they want to see if they can get things done. I imagine the president tried to stay under the radar today, the only glimpse we got of him was a meeting with some advisors about the ebola problem. They only let still photographers in there. Hell be here in the white house getting traditionally theres a News Conference a day after these results from the midterms finally come in, theres a lot of rumor, speculation about potential shakeup, what he does with his staff, it will come down to how big are these numbers. Chris wallace along with karl rove and joe trippi. The Campaign Cowboys who are
ready to round up, rustle up some numbers, you look around this place, hightech, fancy graphics as youre going to see, these guys who are going to do a campaign or two, do it the other way, lets start with the state of North Carolina which is one of the first things well be looking at, the polls close at 8 00, kay hagan, the Republican Democratic senator holding on to a slim lead with tom tillis. Show us your fancy new galgt. Were going to be looking at the predictometer. Kay ha zbrgan has a 7 lead in polls. That will give us a sense, how do the last minute voters break, how did the undecideds go. Its somewhat of a flat tie anyway, that will give you a sense of whos going to win, because she doesnt have much
margin for error. Speaking of which, joe, what are you going to be looking at in North Carolina. Theres a county in western North Carolina, near the tennessee border and newhanover in southeast North Carolina. Boez of those counties voted with the winner regardless of party the last deck indicate or two in wade county where hagan is going to beat tillis in that county. If it gets up to 15 margin, shes on her way to winning. Okay, now another one of the early states, again, it closes at 8 00 is New Hampshire. Youve got a predictometer for New Hampshire. The key thing about this, if shaheen is expanding that margin, thats the indication that democrats can start looking across the other states and start thinking maybe, just maybe theyre pushing those margins
out. If its closer than this. Theres a couple of places that youre going to be looking at for early returns in New Hampshire hp. There are nine towns, two city wards and seven towns along the New Hampshiremassachusetts border, the four towns on the border of the state. Were going to be looking at manchester, these are predictive town villages that for some reason virginia, virginia is interesting and lets put up the board for there. That was thought to be an easy win, a hold for the democrats, republican mark warner over former rnc chairman gillespie. Labor day the real clear politics average of polls, warner won by 8. 7 . By monday, he was still warner leading by 9. 7, theres some talk tonight, and its just sort of scuttlebutt that warner, that gillespie might have a chance. This might be the canary in the coal mine, perhaps were going to see as we move further west, were going to see a wave election developing. Think about this, two months ago, almost a 20 point race, a month ago, double digits, but if its close tonight, it says the undecideds at the end, and it did have a large number of undecideds. Theyre breaking for the republicans out of power and out of the white house. Joe this would be a really a shock if mark warner were to lose. This thing closes to low single digits, just to see that early in the night, that tells you as we move west, oh, man, its a total insuddenly that race is closed, does that indicate to you that republicans are moving in other states too . Its not just the state, we have seen this happen in other states over the closing week here, whether its brown closing a little bit on shaheen in New Hampshire, all these incumbents in the east may hold on, but if it does sort of confirm that there was a closing going on in the last week, thats spells trouble. We have got about a minute left, you obviously are plugged in to republicans, youre plugged in to democrats. Just quickly, what are you hearing, are people saying gee, it looks better than they thought . Worse than they thought . You can find anybody here on election day. Thats why were interested in this early movement, because the nation tends to move together. Its not that everybody votes republican, but if it moves
2006, the country moved in a democratic direction, 2010, moved in a republican direction, if tonight, were seeing it in states like New Hampshire and North Carolina, which were expected to be democratic victories and virginia which was supposed to be a democrat blowout, if its close in these states, it may be an indication that the undecideds and the independents say were voting for the republicans. Democrats, its going to be rough, is there a path to get there . There are enough states that are close enough that maybe if kansas falls, maybe if alaska can hold, they can hold on to the majority, but its going to be, i have said it, and pulling an inside straight a minor miracle to do it. Thats the Campaign Cowboys who just cant wait for the polls to close, so they can actually start looking at real numbers, look at precincts, if someone is winning in this precinct, where the state might go. Dont try this at home. Dont do this without parental supervise. Unfortunately, theres flun none at this table. I hope we have enough sharpies for the predictometer. As millions of americans head to the polls, how the economy could influence their votes, neil cavuto will break it all down here. And were now less than 30 minutes to the very first poll closing, 22 minutes to be exact and the first real indication of how this night will go for democrats and republicans, you are watching fox news, americas election headquarters, stay with us. Id just gotten married. I was right out of school. My familys all military. You dont know what to expect. Then suddenly youre there. In another world. I did my job. You do your best. I remember the faces. How everything mattered. So much more. My buddies. My country. Everything. And everyone i loved. Back home. [ male announcer ] for all whove served and all who serve, we can never thank them enough. Its more than the car. Er. For lotus f1 team, the Competitive Edge is the cloud. Powered by microsoft dynamics, azure, and office 365, the team can gain Real Time Insights and instantly share information around the globe. When every millisecond counts,
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of the senate, what might change . Neil cavuto is here, Senior Vice President of fox news and fox business, so we are honored to have you here tonight. You guys have two more people. This is amazing. Thank you for the time you have given us. Please. The economy is front and center and its coming through in al of these exit polls and its coming through in one race after another. We have all gotten into this, the economy is technically by all measures improving, but whats hurting the president , i guess similar to george bush sr. In 1992, people are not feeling it. They appreciated it and the numbers showed it later. But whats really surprising is that this president , he and his party r not benefiting from that, that six years into a
recovery, the most tepid we have seen in american history, its just not following through. Why is that . When you look at someone whos lost a job and gained a job, you leaf out the fact that they got another job. Nothing like the benefits they had. And when you multiply that by millions there,s the real fatigue factor and the sentiment that expresses itself in a variety of ways. Individual participation is the lowest its ever been in history. In other words retail participation, outside of mutual funds, 401 k s and the like. What do you mean, going to the store and buying stuff . At the head of the last bull market when our taxi drivers would be buying and selling
stocks in their cars, but theres nothing like that kind of sentiment. We hear the Unemployment Rate of 5. 9, but the gdp seems like a number that should really stir some thought. There is a delayed followthrough on that, bret, if you think about it, we have gone from 2 growth, to the 3 growth, but it is nothing like you usually see coming out of a recession, 6 or 7 . Nothing like the gains in jobs that would average 350 to 400, 500,000 a month, were lucky if we have put that up in half a year. We talk about the real Unemployment Rate, with 8. 6 million americans, either unemployed or under employed. Under employed is the most, we all know people who have lost jobs, that technically counts as a job that i i. The markets been kind of on
a tear. If republicans do manage to pick up the senate tonight, what do you think the fallout is . I do think that the recent runup from what we were experiencing a couple of weeks ago, was this telegraphing of the possibility that the gop could do very, very well. There are a lot of people who like gridlock, you have heard this whole notion that when the house and the senate are under one partys control and then you have the white house under another partys control, particularly democratic control, this type of potential tonight, the markets do extremely well. But the reality is that a lot of people arent participating in that and what we have had in the rungup to these markets, you have the fed giving money away in these markets. Whether a republican or democrat, youre going to have to deal with that reality, that we might have just built this up on a false set of cars. My wife watch yourself. Bottom line. I think were getting a sense from retailers, that were getting ready for a good holiday season. Fedex has been doing that, all the Major Department stores have been doing that, were going to be getting into that on fox business, who really these are the people who really know, right . And theyre saying that they think the trechbtd is their friend, but it is so tentative, so stubborn that a lot of people arent seeing it. Atv up pilot say i see the improvement, but its not much to write home about. And bret, the two of you are like a wedding cake. Its really just me and doug. Trying to make the best of it. I cant provide all the sex appeal. But if you guys want to watch
me during the break to sort of catch up, well do it. We are counting down as the first polls are set to close in georgia, South Carolina, virginia and kentucky, all moments from now. And its a live look here at Mitch Mcconnells headquarters in louisville, kentucky. Kentuckys senate race has become one of the ugliest of 2014. And potentially lead a republican takeover of the u. S. Senate. Brit hume, george will, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthammer all here with analysis live from new york city, this is americas election headquarters. vo you are a business pro. Maestro of project baron of the buildout. You need a permit. To be this awesome. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. You can even take a fullsize or above, and still pay the
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you think that bodes well for the rest of the night . I think, yes. There are some states where republicans have no business being even close, like in virginia. Where the democratic senators, popular former governor was way ahead as we said earlier in the evening. And in New Hampshire, where scott brown isnt even local. He came across from massachusetts. If those are close, and i dont expect them to flip, they could. But if they are close, that is a real indication of a shift to the right and that would mean that all the states in the midwest, the ones we have talked about where the democrats are vulnerable could easily fall. I think that the margin here its not thatc republicans have to have virginia even North Carolina. If that is closer than they should be, and that appears to be the indication that will body extremely well for republicans in the midwest and, of course, in the rest of the country. President obama is the one who nationalized this election saying all of my policies are up for debate. Thats what voted on. Mistake . Well, there was no getting away from that, even if he hadnt said it. I think it probably made it easier for each of these candidates to then say, listen, president obama said this. But they were already doing it they were already nationalizing it. Thats almost can account for scott browns entire race of him catching up is that he has been able to nationalize this election and make it about barack obama and people are unhappy with barack obama. Got an unexpected assist from the president. Right. Thats what im saying. I think it did make it worse. I have said this before. I think that the bind the democrats are in is that they need to turn out the base. And so barack obama he is the one who can turn out the africanamerican voters they were in a bind of distancing but also trying to get those voters to come out. In fact, juan, he cut a robo call today for kay
hagan. He has called africanamerican radio stations to try to stir up the africanamerican community. Do you think that is key to which race . I think its very much key if you look across the south. Because there you have a large africanamerican population. So we are looking there at louisiana. Were looking at North Carolina. Were looking at georgia. Even arkansas. So, in all those cases, its not only barack obama but the clintons who are appealing to that base. And part of that, of course, is getting out young people. Part of the difficulty in a lot of these races is atmosphere. I mean, you can feel this as you have been traveling around, its an antiincumbent year. You have a number of democrats who are incumbents who are in this position where normally the incumbent would have the advantage. It looks like this feels like a year where people are saying you know, washington is not working for me. And i want something different. Im look for is somebody who can break out. I think thats why you get a situation where even republicans incumbents tonight, i think are at risk. Brit, if thats true, why are we seeing, for example, in kentucky where the days before today Mitch Mcconnell
seemed to be pulling ahead 7, will points as incumbent as they come and this young fresh face interesting candidate opposing him in kentucky at least it doesnt seem as antiincumbent. Kentucky is a fairly blue state. I might say about kentucky. We have got numbers on the screen now showing mcconnell up ahead, what, 8 points or whatever. Thats probably going to tighten. The in fact the mcconnell camp was saying megan that you expect grimes to do well in the early returns because of where they come from. Mcconnell, however, is doing better in the coal counties. He would be expected to do well in the coal counties. But he is doing better than did he in 2008. Which suggests to me, anyway that mcconnell is running ahead in places where he was expected to do well but expected to do better which i think bodes well for him. Also, young is good, inexperience is not so good. She made some mistakes. He ran a pretty caringful, cautious i wont say
flawless campaign but he ran a campaign. Campaigns matter in these things. Panel, thank you it is important to point out as we look at these numbers. Different states come in differently. Republicans, democrats different areas. So we want to look at those numbers in the raw and also the exit polls as they come in. You can show one candidate ahead of the other. That persons county came in first. Its difficult to tell much from those data. Moments away now from polls closing in six states. That will be key data including virginia and georgia. Perhaps the biggest battle of the night so far, the fight for senate mitch minority leader in kentucky. Back with the first poll closings of the night 2014 after this. Virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. Now its quicker and easier for you to start your business, protect your family, and launch your dreams. At legalzoom. Com we put the law on your side. There are more reasons than ever why now is the best time to be on verizon. One verizons the largest, most reliable 4g lte network in the country. Thats right america. With xlte in over 400 markets. Two and heres something for families to get excited about. Our best pricing ever get 2 lines with an incredible 10gb of data to share for the low price of 110
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geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Jesse . We are Just Moments Away from the first poll closings of the night and soon we could have a clearer picture of who will be in control of the u. S. Senate when all is said and done. Good evening. Im bret baier. Good evening, everyone. Im megyn kelly. The clock is ticking down now and just seconds for now voting will end in six states including georgia and kentucky. Those are two big ones. In kentucky, republican incumbent Mitch Mcconnell has been locked in a tight race with democratic challenger alisyn green grimes. If the party wins this and we regains the. Senate majority leader. We should point out that part of the state has already closed polls which is why you are getting some