not let you down. shepard: he actually accepted victory on facebook then held a news conference before he had even been declared the winner. but late this afternoon they did make that declaration. it s the latest senate contest so far to earn a checkmark. of the difference between bennett and the tea party candidate ken buck there was only about 15,000 votes out of nearly 1.6 million cast. another colorado politician celebrated his victory with a little exercise. look at this. [cheers] incumbent democratic congressman ed did a couple of cartwheels there for a crowd of supporters in denver last evening. it was apparently more than just fun though. he has done this before at parades in the district. during the campaign republicans had used video of perlmutter s cartwheels in attack ads but he is still at it the president reacting to the new normal in d.c. today during a white house news conference. taking a pro-business tone after yesterday s election results.
widen will keep his seat in the oregon senate. house races illinois 14, this is a flip, defeating foster, this is a pick-up for the republicans. to kansas 3, the republican will win this race. this again a conservative district yodder. this is a gain. pennsylvania 8, fitzpatrick, interesting race, democrats hoped that murphy would be able to hold on to this seat. he s a two-term incumbent, lawyer and iraq vet. he won in 2006. he did vote for health care, the health care vote may have cost him in this election. now to ohio 15, this is a pick against kilroy seen very
bret: some of these senate races, including california, were able to call right when the polls closed. in california that s not the bastion of conservatism it hasn t been in a long time. it has always been up hill climb. carly fiorina going against a very entrenched incumbent. but she made a race of it.i tho. i was one of the few predicting the republicans would take the senate. i was wrong about that. but we are going to take the house at a larger level than most of the people had projected. what is most interesting, a lot of the leadership of the democratic house are packing boxes. i only wish i had the u-haul franchise in d.c. a lot of cardboard boxes are going to be sold, there s folks making moves after tonight. megyn: you raise an interesting point particular about what we are seeing in the senate. will the senators elected tonight go back with some sort of wariness about how they
bret: 7th congressional district in colorado down the line democrat-republican district. any word? it is mostly in. perlmutter the democratic incumbent is going to hold on. frazier the african-american city councilman is trailing. it looks like two african-american republicans in the house of representatives. latina governor of new mexico, latino governor of nevada, indian-american governor of south carolina. state legislative level even more. in my home state of texas we are going to elect two african-american republicans overwhelmingly white districts to the texas house of representatives tonight. megyn: barbara boxer did not runaway from the president s agenda yet she