ohiosi but the senate race, more anybody else in the country. not surprising i that case since he knows the electorate. a small point. republicans have lost both of th states of their candidates on the presidential ticket. a new hampshire, romney has ahome there. he may lose that. he s lost michigan. his own home state. it s something you don t see very often. he will probably lose cali too. he has a home there too. ohio right now the democrats own the russ belt. all the talk about jobs all the bad economy. michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin hasig he original plan. this terms of wisconsin, some of the best reporting on wisconsin through the whole uprising around the ulmnion stripping and recall effort against scott walker was done by john nick else. familiar with the politics in wisconsin, which has been called for president obama. and also with the politics in
call. the incumbent democrat is earl tomlin. too early to callcan early to call in the incumbent democrat jay nixon,challenger. we have a state call i the presidential news ise winner in the state of wisconsin. tamron hall hpolling. you just this crowd around me we telling us about wisconsin because the next set of information might give us insight. what were votersee f in america? exit pollsunfa the american economic system favors the rich while 40% believes it is fair t now take a look as we deeper. we ask whether the policies would favor the rich middle class or at romney s numberers, 52% believe his poliould favor the middleclass. just 2% think h po comparisone number for obama, 31% say the policies avor the poor while 43% woulhe middle only 10% believe the
projection in the senate race. senate race is too early to nbc news is say ing saying that tammy baldwin, the democratic candidate there, is in the lead. the wisconsin race at the presidential level has been called for president obama. i want to bring in fineman to talk about the paul ryan effect onw= his home state of wisconsin and whether hs a chance there with o without him. that s a short story. the paul ryan effect wasn and talking to one of key washington tonight just a few minutes ago, he said that paul ryan represent represented was more beloved inside the a phenomenon2%beltway than he was nationally. he questioned wh right choice. i would also point out that ho thought was as a self-described deer hunter catholic, that s how he described himself, that paul ryan would help in theuss belt culturally pennsylvania ohio whole belt that has in which the gan democrats were
jazz. moment. $y we have a big call to make izn a big state. he t pennsylvania is president obama. described as sylvania was too early to call but it wabama or that president obama had there. now we re looking at the dynamics in terms of what just closed at states that we have anr for the pres michigan going to the president. but wisconsin also has 9shotly-watched senate s a y-watched senate race. these states mial, but they are senate battlegrounds. let s go to alex for more that. n inin north dak heidi heitkamp in a tight race. retirement. if the republicans pick it up it dynamics happens at the top of the ticket.y to call with 1% of the votes in. oud tininrich. on to wisconsin, as mentioned, a really interesting race there. the machine tpmhat scott on to texas, ted cruz goes e to r. will bedu a interesting to see how th np iz-n gill brand is the projected winner. michigan debbi stabenow holds on.
state, but he was a popular elizabeth warren has defeated scott brown and that s a democr senate in massachusetts. inston who is a adviser to the scott brown campaign is a man by the name of eric fehrnstr who also has another horse in the race named mitt chris jansing is joining us from boston. ths far, the overall maring any news from the campaign? we re not. not since we have called penn wisconsin. they were feeling very hing we were hearing where romney is believes win this. they say turnout is beating their expectations, bead beatintheir models in key states. they talked panhandle that the lines were sensing a lot of enthusiasm. i think one of the key things that mitt along th and now he was feeling it it emotionally. he s had key staffers around him as he like sue stevens and his son tag with with him. and they still be won. i think the other thing we should point out t]ro you is that