are mad as hell. so, again, a sign that he was the choice of angry voters out there, managed to capture that. didn t hurt that he was a poure lot of his money into this. let s talk about new hampshire. still too close to call there. it is. kelly who has been backed by sarah palin is attorney general in that state and clinging to a very narrow lead. you can see it right there as they continue to count the votes over a tea party-backed candidate. kelly who was the favorite in this. she was backed by palin and a lot of people see her as a national star for the republican party. a few women of natural stature in the republican party and she faced a tough contest in new hampshire and the expectation is that she might be able to pull it off, but it will be a narrow victory. chris? thank you so much. i want to bring in karen finny, former press secretary for hillary clinton and also ron
yes, ychris, i do. the republican establishment in washington, yes, i do believe they were taken off stream and i think a lot of the leaders here very comfortable in washington and don t get back to their districts as much and don t travel around the country as much. i ve heard, i ve seen it and it s not a shock to me. it s a shock to a lot of the people in the building behind me. do you feel like you were delivered this huge gift? i am not going to count any chickens before they re hatched because i learned a dramatic lesson during the presidential primary in 2008 the voters will have their say and all the predictions can kind of get thrown out the window. ron is doing a valiant job trying to spin this, but the writing was actually on the wall for the republicans, frankly in the bush term and going into the 2008 presidential where we saw the with ginnings of and what is a true conservative and the
new york state, too. carl paladino who beat out congressman rick lassio. norah o donnell is breaking down the winners and losers. all right, certainly wasn t dull last night. let s start in delaware. so, you ve got, you ve got this christine o donnell who, for a lot of people, it seemed, came out of no where. she beat a guy who had all the experience, had quite a bit of money, what happened there? well, now you have the republican hopes of winning joe biden s seat shattered. i mean, she is not the republican s dream candidate. she is their nightmare candidate. the state gop chair in delaware has called her dilutional and said she cannot be elected a dogcatcher. there are a lot of enraged and stunned republicans here in washington. saying privately they will probably not pour any money into that race and it s done and it s now likely the democrats will hold that seat and hold on to joe biden s seat. i think what s also stunning about it. not only it shows the power of the te
mid-term poll. democrats better get their butts back to washington and start listening to folks and start acting and fighting like they want to win. congressman anthony weiner will blast off in the playbook later on in the program. first, this is the story that has me fired up tonight. we ve done this before and we re going to continue to do it. i m joining you tonight from new orleans at the infamous ernest morrall convention center. hundreds of people have lined up at this free health care clinic which is run by the national association of free clinics and sponsored by generous msnbc viewer donations, and we thank you for that. you re affecting a lot of americans. thousands are expected to come through the door before this ends tomorrow. it s a two-day event, hoping basically to get just basic health care and get their lives back on track. so many of them are hard-working americans who have found themselves, through no fault of their own, out of a job. many of them have b
outer banks and cape cot, ad, although it could change directions and head for land. jeff morrow is in cape hatteras, north carolina. what do you see today? reporter: it s not a bad beach day today, earl is at least two days away from the outer banks of north carolina. there s still a lot of people out on the beach and a lot of people enjoying what is the last unofficial week of the summertime before we get into the labor day holiday weekend. and a lot of folks are going to see what the local county emergency management people do here. right now they have had one meeting and they re particularly concerned about some of the coastal roads, particularly on hatteras island, that it could cut people off on that island. but right now it s more of a wait and see attitude. they re going to wait until tomorrow morning because we have a couple of days before it heads our way. a little bit farther off the coast, we re okay here, we just get a little bit of wind and rain. a little bit