0 take a la ma onto the subway you should bring a disguise. >> matt. >> listen, the obama administration, the change it if you like it, you can keep it if it hasn't changed, i'll be interested to see how the message changes. >> what did you learn, mika? >> i think chris christie will make history tonight. >> okay. fair enough. that virginia race, i'll tell you what, i'm going to be watching the virginia race. ron paul went to virginia yesterday and said you'd be crazy to vote for the libertarian candidate. i don't know. that race in virginia may be closer than we think, but all eyes i think in the republican party, at least, on alabama to see whether the chamber and joe ricketts and others make a difference. what time is it? >> "morning joe." stay tuned for a very special election day issue of chuck todd's "the daily rundown." >> it's llama time. come on. that music. doesn't it give you tingles? about the political landscape as we look ahead to the next year and beyond. 312 cities choose mayors today. new york city will elect a new mayor for the first time in 12 years. boston, detroit, houston, and miami are a few of the other cities that will be electing new mayors. 236 state legislative seats are up including 220 in virginia and new jersey alone. can the statewide winners there win with big enough margins that they provide long coattails for legislative candidates? there are 31 ballot measures up for a vote in six states including in houston. the old astrodome and what to do with it. of course two states, virginia and new jersey, will elect or re-elect new governors today. it could be the first time since 1973 when the party that controls the white house wins the virginia gubernatorial race. it could be the first time since 1985 when the winner of the virginia and new jersey gubernatorial contests come from different parties. and a statewide republican candidate in new jersey could get more than 50% of the vote for the first time since '88. could be the first time that a democrat wins new york's mayoral contest since 1989. and it could be the first time since the early '90s that boston has a new mayor. detroit may get its first white mayor since 1974. but of course the two big contests we'll be watching tonight are the governors races in new jersey and virginia. no state has better reflected the center of american politics or the kun ti's changing demographics than the old dominion. perhaps we should be calling it the new dominion. democrat terry mcauliffe cast his ballot in northern virginia this morning, one of those transforming parts of the state. >> whooo! >> thank you. >> terry, terry, terry! >> in the last two presidential elections, virginia's popular vote exactly matched the national popular vote. if democrats are able to sweep today's races and gain control over the governor's mansion, which terry mcauliffe is trying to take back and republican ken cuccinelli is trying to hold on to, if they win the lieutenant governor governor's race and if they complete the hat trick with the attorney general contest where democrat mark herring is battling mark oeb cheng, that would be a major feat in a swing state. cuccinelli cast his vote in oakesville, virginia, a few minutes ago. sur galts for both campaigns have crowded into the state, arguing the race offers a stark choice and also believe that it's a bellwether for next year and for 2016. >> i'm here because this race matters well beyond the state of virginia. it's the first major race between the forces and faces of the new republican tea party, a tea party whose social recidivism is outdone only by its hostility to science and technology, innovation, and scholarship. >> this is the first election in america since the full impact of obama care has been felt. this is first chance of people in this country to speak clearly at the ballot box about the impact that this law is having on their lives and on our economy. and this race is a very clear choice between a strong supporter of it and the first attorney general in america who stood up against it. >> well, the 2009 governor's race in virginia did give us a hint that a 2010 republican wave was coming. the biggest take-away we get tonight might not be about which party is up but about the future of the tea party. the contrast between ken cuccinelli in virginia who is running as a strong conservative tea party-backed candidate and the new jersey governor, republican chris christie, whose calling card is collectability, is clear. >> i absolutely that what you're going to see tomorrow is something that hasn't happened in this state in a generation. i had all kinds of folks whispering in my ear today, "i'm he's on the trail. >> you know, it feels like good new jersey november weather. >> christie has criticized washington, distanced himself from the tea party, but the republican party in new jersey is not exactly the republican party in iowa. does that hurt him down the road? >> governor, any concerns about tea party conservatives not being as supportive of you the more you reach out to democrats? >> no. i think what you're going to find is that with tomorrow night's result, you don't have to worry about that. you appeal to everybody. we'll get huge republican support, 94%, 95% tomorrow night, at least so, it hasn't affected us here at all and i don't think it will affect me or this kind of politics anywhere in the country because people want things to get done. >> some interviews with some new jersey republicanings, though, who are aware that their version of republican party politics is a lot different than in iowa. of course presidential olympics is also lurking in the background in virginia, which is turning into a test of the clintons' clout. they have done ten public vents for mcauliffe. >> i love terry mcauliffe and his wife and his five kids, and i'd be here if he were 50 points behind instead of about to be your next governor. >> he's always been there for me, and i'm pleased to be here for him. >> one more race to keepn eye on tonight is down in alabama. it's a special election. it's a runoff, actually. republican congressional runoff between bradley byrne and dean young in the first district there. byrne, the electability establishment candidate, young the tea party evangelical candidate. dean young winning in alabama on a vow to be one of the most conservative members of congress is one thing. it could tell us more about the gop stands. if byrne wins, it could be quite a fetter in the cap and it would make the southern republican establishment guys think that cochran, mitch mcconnell, lamar alexander might all be breathing easier after tonight. in an off-year election, one of the biggest hurdles for both campaigns is making sure voters don't stay home. in the last gubernatorial election in 2009, less than 2 million virginians cast ballots. that was only 40% of registered voters. this time around both campaigns are expecting turnout to go up, perhaps exceeding 2 million votes for the first time in a governor's race. mcauliffe's campaign believes turnout will not be that low and says matching what turned out four years apg, that's the floor. nbc's luke russert is live across the potomac. he's in mclean. well, luke, what have you seen this morning? mclean, obviously, this is terry mcauliffe territory, used to be a swing area, not so much anymore in northern virginia these days. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, good morning, chuck. we're here live at langley high school in mclean, virginia, and so far election officials tell us turnout is light. around 6:00 in the morning there were about 30 or so people lined up. they went through, sort of the early bird, but it's been slow and steady to say the least, but we haven't seen anywhere near what we would normally see in a presidential year. what's interesting today is both kand damts are try and turn out their bases. the whole thing with this governor's race is about, chuck, turnout, turnout, turnout. terry mcauliffe crisscrossing the state, going to those high density urban areas. the areas of richmond, here in northern virginia, down around norfolk, that whole area. ken cuccinelli, he's going in around the roanoke, lynchburg, shenandoah, the republican strongholds to get out the vote. this has been very much been a nationalized race as you have reported. the last few days we've seen a real movement from democrats to try and bring back the government shutdown and put it in the forefront of virginia voters' minds. that's very important for a lot of p federal workers in northern virginia and the federal contractors around the norfolk area depend so much on the military industry. republicans trying to tie mcauliffe directly to the luke russert, enjoy. langley high school, not too far away from the district line. take care, sir. terry mcauliffe hasn't trailed in a single public poll since july. ken cuccinelli has been outraised and outspent on the air by a wide margin. mcauliffe outraised him by almost $15 million. not the final number bus the closest we have. outside of the republican governor's association and the state party, cuccinelli only received three checks of $100,000 or more. mcauliffe, orlando, he had 37 different folks that were able to write him checks for $100,000. and the democrat party put every penny to work. 60% of the tv, radio, and cable ads were made by mcauliffe or groups supporting him. virginia's republican attorney general, ken cuccinelli, joins me on phone. you just voted. we showed pictures. you have made health care your -- you want to make this a referendum on the president's health care law and the last ten days. i guess my question for you is why not be entire campaign? why do this late switch the way you've done it in the last few days? >> well, chuck, it wasn'tly a late switch. obama care came online october 1st and i was the first person in the country to fight it. some people don't know, but terry mcauliffe didn't think it went far enough. a strong contrast and one of the next battles over obama care is in the state, do you expand medicaid or not. terry wants to expand it even though it's already failing in the first month and i don't. we have a live state issue here that has mostly been viewed at the federal level so far and we both have very clear and contrasting positions on it. and i think we're seeing the damage that obama care is doing with the insurance cancellations. unfortunately the revelations in the last week or two that the white house knew for years and years that all these millions of americans were going to lose their health insurance and yet they went out there and said if you like your health insurance and if you like your doctor you can keep them and it was not true. and here in virginia, you know, that has waken people up in the last two weeks, particularly as the failure has become very real. that's why this is a late-race phenomenon, chuck. >> okay. >> it really didn't go into effect until october 1st and the impacts are already being felt quickly and they're all very negative. >> obviously if you win you're going to believe it was health care that put you over the top. does that mean if you don't win virginia voters are saying, you know what, give health care a chance? is that how we should leave it? >> i kind of leave that to pundits like you. my job is really just to make the contrast, try to put the truth through to people about this and about our differences in taxes. he wants more, i want less. and you weren't the only debeat monitor to not be able to get him to take a firm stand on what we'll pay for and what he'll say. i imagine he hasn't come on your show either. he's been hiding. you know, while i'm terribly afraid of what obama care is doing to virginians, terry mcauliffe right now is more afraid of what obama care is doing to terry mcauliffe. and we'll find out when they count the votes tonight p. >> the last national figure you appeared with was ron paul. >> last night. >> last night. famously a libertarian presidential nominee way back when. and of course a republican presidential candidate a couple of times in the last decade. does that -- should we look at that and say you're concerned that there are some voters for the third-party candidate, the libertarian candidate, mr. sarvis, that you think should be cuccinelli voters? >> actually, i have a long track record as a strong pro liberty candidate whether i'm fighting the federal government, the biggest opponent of all, or just on behalf of one person. i'm going to leave as attorney general helping exonerate more belongly convicted felons than any a.g. in history. we fight the spectrum. liberty is something i've been proud to fight for, and ron paul is the face of that in america more than any other, so we were pleased to have him help us finish off the race last night. >> what do you make of all the analysis that says chris christie has run one type of race, you've run another type of race, you ideologically don't have a lot in common and the results should be viewed through that prism? what do you say about that? >> well, you know, new jersey's a whole lot different than virginia and he's an incumbent and i'm not. so, again, i leave that really more to the pundits. i'm focused on talking to one voter at a time. that's what i started doing at my own polling place. i'm working my way back through my old state senate district in fairfax and then we'll work our way down to rich monday. i'm answering questions, calling on decided voters during the day and just trying to get people all the information they need. there's been -- talked about the money in this race. that money has been spent lying about me in large part by terry mcauliffe. so i have a lot of truth to get out there. and the more people learn about me and my record, my actual record and what we want to do, the better we do. >> ken cuccinelli, republican nominee for governor in virginia, we'll be watching tonight. stay safe on the campaign trail. i know you'll be crisscrossing the state. >> thanks, chuck. good to be with you. j much more ahead. from cristy to the clintons, how this election day will echo for years to come. and the biggest governor's race not on the ballot, charlie crist. here's your planner for today. 7:00. what will we say about virginia after reading the exit polls? 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