big picture, what it all means for you. this is america s election headquarters mid term special. bret: we ll have live team coverage from the fox news election team. eric shawn is in new york keeping track of voter fraud allegations around the country. shannon bream in west virginia for the surprising race there and aneata vogel and we begin with chief correspondent carl cameron what s at stake. reporter: historic opportunities in the u.s. house of representatives and there, republicans need a net gain of 39 seats tonight. as we look across the country. increased advantage and momentum for the republican candidates and look at this of the 100 most competitive races across the country, only 99 of them on this map are blue. if you peek closely you can see only a handful, a total of nine of them are republicans and the concentration up here in new england and the central midwest suggest that republicans have an opportunity tonight to make a big comeback, excuse me, on tuesd
congress? a new wall street journal poll indicates tomorrow will be yet another change election for our country. the key finding. 49% of likely voters prefer the outcome to be a republican-controlled congress. while 43% a democratic-controlled congress. nbc news washington bureau chief mark whitaker is in new york with me. john yang is on the the ground in las vegas, nevada? and ron mott is in florida. we begin with ma. the cook report is saying that the republicans will gain 50 to 60 seats in the house and six to eight seats in the senate. that s a downgrade from seven to nine seats in the senate before today. obviously the voters have to vote. but pollsters will tell you from all of the polls that they look at, the generic poll that you just talked about, the wrong track, right track. if you extrapolate from the president s current approval ratings, all of them suggest the house is out of reach for the democrats. i think we can safely, at least we can t predict it but t
big picture, what it all means for you. this is america s election headquarters mid term special. bret: we ll have live team coverage from the fox news election team. eric shawn is in new york keeping track of voter fraud allegations around the country. shannon bream in west virginia for the surprising race there and aneata vogel and we begin with chief correspondent carl cameron what s at stake. reporter: historic opportunities in the u.s. house of representatives and there, republicans need a net gain of 39 seats tonight. as we look across the country. increased advantage and momentum for the republican candidates and look at this of the 100 most competitive races across the country, only 99 of them on this map are blue. if you peek closely you can see only a handful, a total of nine of them are republicans and the concentration up here in new england and the central midwest suggest that republicans have an opportunity tonight to make a big comeback, excuse me, on tuesd
big picture, what it all means for you. this is america s election headquarters mid term special. bret: we ll have live team coverage from the fox news election team. eric shawn is in new york keeping track of voter fraud allegations around the country. shannon bream in west virginia for the surprising race there and aneata vogel and we begin with chief correspondent carl cameron what s at stake. reporter: historic opportunities in the u.s. house of representatives and there, republicans need a net gain of 39 seats tonight. as we look across the country. increased advantage and momentum for the republican candidates and look at this of the 100 most competitive races across the country, only 99 of them on this map are blue. if you peek closely you can see only a handful, a total of nine of them are republicans and the concentration up here in new england and the central midwest suggest that republicans have an opportunity tonight to make a c tuesday in the u.s. house of re
they are in the mix. but it s impossible to precisely measure how big the enthusiasm gap will be. megyn, the democrats that voted for the first time in 08, by other polls they are not coming back to vote and that s why the president is out there trying to energize and so far basically uninterested youth vote that is critical to his victory and is not now appearing vote tuesday. the president spent a lot of the past week reaching out to americans in particular. thank you both so much. thanks, megyn. this is breaking news on this major campaign controversy out of alaska. as i mentioned moments ago, joe miller, he s the republican candidate for the senate in alaska. his campaign is accusing a local tv station of knowingly conspiring to smear him about 72 hours to go before this thing is tied up. moments ago that tv station blasted the miller camp, accusing them of misrepresenting the events.