he was a secret agent but wasn t. manchin won the seat held by robert byrd, beating john raese, a guy who said in an interview, i made my money the old-fashioned way, i inherited it. he wasn t kidding. republicans picked sharron angle to run for senate in nevada. sharron angle said conservative the would turn to second amendment remedies if they didn t get their way at the polls. she lost. harry reid held on to his senate seat though the polls looked like trouble for him heading into that day. in connecticut, linda mcmahon had pro wrestling dynasty name recognition and ton of money going into her campaign for chris dodd s senate seat. in the end, democrat richard
some of these key races and states. foreclosure rates, unemployment rate in west virginia if you go back over the past 22 months, the unemployment rate has been a major issue between joe manchin and john raese. look what it s done in west virginia since january 2009 up 3.4%. joe manchin was able to overcome that which is an extraordinary thing for him to do, especially given the way he turned around his campaign in the final month of that race in west virginia. one of the other highest unemployment rates in the state of florida. marco rubio ran away with this election. foreclosures, unemployment, retirement money, it has been a big issue in florida. so too has the jobs picture down there. florida is up 3.2% in the last 22 months, well above the national average the big one, the mack daddy of all economic pictures in nevada.
the winner congressman john boozman has led consistently. the health care law is considered her downfall in this state. hike huckabee is now project mike bebe is expected to win re-election here his opponent jim ket businessman and state lawmaker could not overcome the popularity of beebe. bret: fox news can project in the state of tennessee bill haslam has won this race against democrat mike mcwherter. this race had been leaning the republican s way all along. not a surprise and you can see 71%, it s a big win for haslam in tennessee. polls closed in west virginia about an hour ago where there is a battle for the former seat of senator robert byrd, democratic governor joe manchin against john raese in this state let s
republican. voted for cap and trade and stimulus. not only voted for it but helped write. that s right. he probably had to cast a vote he would cast committee chairman manship. go ahead. across the board. look at early races in indiana, virginia, florida. if you are a democrat, i i hate to say it but chris wallace is right how big this is likely to get throughout the evening. the only hope i think is how many of the senate seats we can hold on to. because this is looking very, very tough at this point. brit: i would have to say that the manchin win in west virginia is a good sign for democrats on a night of very bad signs because, after all, john raese was ahead in polls running up into the last week on a night when it appeared, you know, republicans are winning bigger than i might have imagined in the house. problem for the democrats is they don t have a lot of popular incumbents running for governor. the one hope here is that i
all right. we are here at the wall to take a look at the balance of power in both the house of representatives, as well as the senate. in the house, you can see red for the republicans, blue for the democrats. and those are some of the remaining seats yet to be called. here on the senate side, let s take a closer look at this. here you can see the majority 51-49 democrats so far. 46 republicans. it want to take a look at the races to watch. and here they are, the ones that are in red. we have been watching closely there, the blues are the democrats. let s go back now and take a look at the big map. let s begin, first of all with the senate races. the democrats managed to hold on to four very important ones, notably in west virginia. governor joe manchun was running senate against john raese.