convention there is an indication of that. and not just for north carolina, but also other states in the south, virginia certainly, florida, that we won in 2008. we just feel like it s important to always play on an expanding map, not a map shrinking back. north carolina sends that messa message. you won it in 2008, 49.9 to 49.5. that s a pretty tight margin. it was very tight. you want to keep it blue. the demographics of the state are as i understand it about 21% african-american, 7% latino. the median age is 36.6%. so as our political unit has come up with these numbers, seems that this is a pretty good mix of what you need to do in expanding your base. but there could be some down side. what about the fact that north carolina is the headquarters of bank of america, a lot of t.a.r.p. money went there, it s a big banking center and the fact it is a right to work
all this red behind us. it s an interesting phenomenon, what s going on. stand by, john. i want to check out some more of those house races. let s look at what s happening in pennsylvania right now. it s very, very close. 84% of the votes have been counted in pennsylvania, pat toomey, the republican, with 50.5%. joe sestak, the democrat, 49.5%. it s a difference of 36,402 votes. they ve still got 16% of the vote left to count in pennsylvania, but this is really, really close. pat toomey slightly ahead, joe sestak, the incumbent congressman, a retired u.s. navy admiral, pat toomey a former congressman. but we ll see what happens when they finish counting the votes. i suspect we ll need to wait for this to be resolved the old-fashioned way with the votes being counted. eric cantor is one of the top
patty murray is ahead by 14,261 votes. so it s very, very close. we have not been able to project a winner in washington state or colorado. remember, cnn.com is where you can go check out all the races you re interested in. the house, the governors races, the senate races. much more of our coverage right after this. [ j. weissman ] it was 1975. my professor at berkeley asked me if i wanted to change the world. i said sure. well, let s grow some algae. and that s what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae are amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we re hoping to supplement the fuels that we use in our vehicles,
want to sit in the back seat, while obama and nancy pelosi and reid drive us to the cliff? you want to turn it around and you ll driver s seat? he will be there working for you. next-door to us, right now, in virginia, we have mr. barack obama, campaigning with a congressman. and they are campaigning about cap-and-trade and they are in favor of cap-and-trade. [audience booing]. in west virginia, we are campaigning to abolish cap-and-trade. that is the difference. [cheers and applause]. check out how tight that race is. martha. 49.5% to 45.0%, within the margin of error and, it has gone back and forth, between joe manchin and raese and watch that come election day, tuesday, sarah palin went there and she was scheduled for the one rally and i guess the bus kept rolling
those folks with their ranges, charlie and stu in particular, it s more likely to be 50 to 55 than in the 30 to 40 range. if there s a wave, they all go. mark halperin, we were just talking about this earlier where jon meacham suggested shock on election night in 1994 that people like me could actually get elected. that happens in wave elections. i remember going out when i found out. the last poll we showed the friday before, i was ahead like 50.5 to 49.5, and that night i won with 62% of the vote. i walked out on stage. somebody said, hey, we just won the house. i said, you mean the senate? they said no, you won the house. you were shocked, too? i was shocked, stunned and deeply saddened. i wanted to scream as a minority for two years. mark halperin, i guess that s the big question here. is it going to be a wave election? the times suggested yesterday maybe not. there s a lot going on.