you get a lot of youth voters is to make sure you hold election during a presidential election year. reporter: 63% of gop millennials. reporter: it will be an elect to watch as the initiatives go across the country. in massachusetts democrats outnumber republicans 3-1. then there is a dueling proposal which seeks to legalize recreational use of marijuana but with fewer government restrictions. opponents of the proposal include the republican governor charlie baker.
good morning. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your a.m. wake-up call. i m carol costello. get ready for the president response to president obama s jobs bill. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the jobs plan, the obama jobs plan. so now we ll just have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is already taking indirect swipes at congressional republican. listen to what he told the congressional hispanic caucus last night. if we re being honest, we know the real problem isn t the members of congress in this room. it s the members of congress that put party before country because they believe the only way to resolve our differences is to wait 14 months until the next election. i have news for them. the american people don t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. 14 months from now as in november 2012. probably a topic that dominated dinner conversation between two republican
public. is this a referendum on the obama presidency? there had been polling done ahead of this election and it showed that the economic recovery was the number one theme. the fact that bob turner, who was a former cable tv executive, has never been a politician before, although he s run in some other races. the fact that he could beat a democrat in this district where the democrat was really expected to win this race easily until the past few weeks. democrats became increasingly nervous. this is a district where democrats outnumber republicans 3-1. it s not as liberal as many people might think. there are a lot of conservative democrats, that is, and the republican candidate here seized on their frustrations. been asked by the people of this district to send the message to washington and i hope they hear it loud and clear. we have been told this is a referendum and we re ready to say, mr. president, we are on the wrong track. you know, kyra, the democrat in this race t