party to try to save the governorship. not the first time he s heard that joke either. three new polls show senator harry reid and sharon engel locked in a dead heat forn the race for u.s. senate, the two ties with reid within a two point lead. fox news has engel leading by one point. reid said he is satisfied with where he is in the polls. dutch police have arrested and fined an america delta pilot who was drunk and about to take off with a jet full of passengers. officials haven t identified the pilot but said he is a 52-year-old captain from an unnamed state in the northeast. jersey. new jersey. police say the pilot was fined $900 and released. the flight, we re happy to report, was canceled. delta said it suspended the pilot pending an investigation. we ll be right back with nbc news political director chuck todd. don t forget you can always
a path for democrats, for my party to hold majorities in both places. pat buchanan, let s go through all the results. o donnell one. in new hampshire we have a close race. it looks like the establishment figure may pull that out. you want to take us, chris, we re going to ask pat the bigger picture. you want to take us to the results. let s take a look at the results. you mentioned delaware where christine o donnell defeated veteran congressman mike castle. o donnell finished with more than 53% of the vote compared to castle s 46.9%. we re in this to win. and we re in this to win big. and win big we did. don t ever underestimate the
that just is the definition i think of political turmoil. they re not going to go back 20 years. they re just going to look around their neighborhood, right? they don t have to go back. they re going to look around their neighborhood. i think you imply or suggest some ignorance about the voter no, i don t. no, no, no. if you re out of work, you re not thinking republican and democratic and what happened 20 years ago. you re thinking this guy i elected who promised me hope and change told me if he spent $900 billion that unemployment wasn t going to go above 8% and everything would be okay. he told me that two years ago. i understand that. and i think the voters are smarter than that. i think voters, they look at these people on the ballot this year, the republican candidates who are simply saying that republicans aren t offering anything different from what george bush left us two years ago. more deregulation, more tax cuts for the rich, more trade
strong the apocalyptic party, the republican party has a huge problem. don t want to be negative about people in the tea party who from active and care about their country, that s great. but they re narrowing the ability of republicans to be a majority you certainly don t second-guess an entire group of voters. just for the record, i was told back, pat buchanan, in 1994, that i was too conservative to get elected. in fact, eric cirque son i think went back and wrote a tweet wrote a column about it where he got all the quotes where newt gingrich was saying the same thing ability me that we ve been saying about christine o donnell. but there s a big difference, pat. i was in northwest florida. she s in delaware. that s all i m going to tell you, pat. then i m going to be quiet and wait for you to respond. joe, i m sorry, i didn t know you were talking to me.
go ahead and tell us what happened. let s backtrack to the results of yesterday s primaries. previously on morning joe. as seen here, five minutes ago. delaware, tea party favorite christine o donnell defeated veteran congressman mike castle to win that state s republican nomination for senate. she finished with 53% of the vote compared to castle s 46.9%. we re in this to win, and we re in this to win big. and win big we did. don t ever underestimate the power of we the people!