governors have a big hand in that, and if the governor in power is a is of a certain party, they have the advantage in that state. jon: that will be something to watch. fox is your election headquarters and we have the races coast to coast. jenna: the white house keeping a close eye on the election and president obama sticking close to home today but he certainly has big plans as we re learning for tomorrow. mike ehan yell is live on the north lawn. first of all, the president, vice president, spending a lot of time reaching out to radio audiences today. talk to us a little about the message they have. reporter: jenna, bottom line, they want people to go to the polls and they re trying to reach key constituencies that were important to their victory two years ago, namely young audiences, also the african-american community. here s a sample of what the vice president had to say today with tom joiner. we re going to lose some states but i still think we can hang on to the congress,
jenna: let s get back to our america s asking town hall. you ask the questions online at foxnews.com, and we bring our panel to answer the questions. bob beckel, kevin madden and bob cusack are all with us today, election day. bob cusack, let s start off with you. sean joseph had that question, we just got the news that the president is holding a news conference tomorrow around 1:00 in the afternoon. so sean joseph asks, what will the white house spin or talking point be tomorrow, and do you think the president will talk that talk tomorrow at the news conference, or is this something maybe unexpected? well, if democrats retain the house and the senate even by the narrowest of margins, they ll call it a victory. and it will be, certainly, if they retain the house. but in all likelihood they re going to lose the house and probably keep the senate. in the 2008 president obama told congressional republicans, i
coming into fox news channel there. i ll continue to work this story as details become available, i ll share them with you. back to you and jon. jenna: thank you. that horrible violence in mexico is just another reminder as this foiled mail bomb plot that we ve been talking about the last couple of days that national security is paramount. liz cheney, former deputy assistant secretary of state, liz, lots of focus inward, right? it s the elections, we re focused on what s ahead for our country but it s certainly a big world out there and those news stories remind us of that. in your mind, what s the most important national security issue that s going to be facing this new congress come january? well, hi jenna, thank you for having me. i think that it s absolutely clear we remain a nation at war and i think that the new congress will have the ability to take steps to do things like prevent funding for the movement of terrorists on to u.s. soil as the president has said he d like to do,
so we ve got to look at things that are going to really create jobs. really get the economy moving. jon: all right, let s hope it can happen. governor ed rendell, thank you. thanks jon. jon: you can get complete, up to the minute race results with our interactive election map, foxnews.com/results. you can follow the same races that we are watching on the channel. you can also track the overall balance of power in the house and in the senate. fox is your election headquarters on tv, on the web, and on your mobile device and i might just add that i ll be anchoring election coverage on foxnews.com this evening, along with harris faulkner, so be sure to check it out. jon: jenna: looking forward to that. jon, midterm elections follow patterns. presidents can see their numbers drop no matter what their popularity and congress can lose the balance of power. what s different this year? nina goss is presidential
politics it s very difficult for small parties to elect candidates. however jenna: we ll see what happens, me tphefplt a. sorry, we have breaking news meena, thank you very much for joining us today. thank you jenna. jon: fox news alert. on this election day, crime, violent crime in a normally quiet section of the country. harris is on it from the breaking news desk. reporter: pittsburgh, new hampshire is in north country and there s a man hunt going on. they ve had two people shot and police in that area say one of the victims was shot in the chest and quote is not doing well, according to the associated press. the other victim s wounds are said to be superficial. we re gathering information on this from our own newsroom here. as you can imagine. now, i do want to cast this carefully, because there was a viewer who contacted a fox employee at our news headquarters in new york a short time ago saying this shooting, this is according to a viewer, we re working to confirm this, m