republican house candidate ruth mcclung. i m a physicist. i love equations and love facts. what we re seeing right now is it s not adding up. reporter: and president obama on tuesday will spend more time doing radio interviews to get out the vote, as well as monitoring the results and, of course, his normal presidential duties. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. millions of election eve robo calls jammed up the nation s phone system. the new hampshire democratic party says it lost phone service at campaign offices at 11 different locations. phone systems operated by comcast and other companies were bogged down for hours last night at the peak of all those at the peak of all those robo calls. the race for senate in nevada is seen as one of the most critical and for good reason. the state leads the country in unemployment and foreclosures and the highest ranking democrat in the senate is in a fight for his political life. jonathan karl reports now from reno. reporter: for
put the damn car in the ditch. now let s look at the candidates like tom tancredo. he s running in colorado and polls have him running within five points, as close to three points to the democratic front runner. i want to show you his momentum. look at this. he enters the race, here. everybody else, here is hickenlooper. everybody else has been in the race. here is the republican. this is where he enters the race. look at this. never been done. never been done. then there is also ruth mcclung. we had her on friday s show. she is the 28-year-old scientist who decided she wasn t going to sit on the sidelines anymore. she wanted to run for congress. her mom is her campaign manager. she was basically laughed at by the establishment g.o.p. for taking on a longtime progressive incumbent. somebody that everybody said unbeatable. they ve been called a
political suicide mission. now that she pulled in by two polls, dead heat with the powerful progressive. g.o.p. has come in and offered her money. god bless you, ruth. this woman in arizona. she turned the money down saying i m sorry, g.o.p., but i think your money comes with strings attached. ruth, you are exactly the kind of person we need. these are two examples, and there are countless more popping up around the country. while it looks like good news, i want you to know, a little black rain cloud glenn is here. there is still a danger. and here is the biggest danger. heading in the 1946 election, the republicans hadn t seen majority in years, since 1928. they had gained 55 seats in the house and 13 in the senate. two years later, they lost 75 seats to the democrats. they were labelled a do-nothing congress. after that election, republicans would suffer a
get votes. her stronger supporters seem to be those who detest harry reid. there s two people i hate in the world. the guy who ran over my dog in a ditch while i was in the military and harry reid. reporter: in an exclusive interview with abc, angle shopped short of predicting victory. do you think you ve done what you need to do? do you think you can win this? i m still doing what i need to, which is get out and talk to voters. reporter: we asked her about one of her more controversial positions, about getting the united states out of the united nations. i think that s one of those nonessential places we really need to look at. reporter: this race may come down to which candidate voters dislike the least. as one republican pollster told us, reid and angle are the two most unpopular senate candidates in the country right now, but, of course, one of them has got to win. jonathan karl, abc news, reno, nevada. and be sure to stay with abc news online, on facebook, and on the
the next two years. and buses are lining up to take voters to the polls. minutes of last-minute calls hoping to fire up supporters. in all, 435 house races, 37 senate races and 37 for governor. and tomorrow, we re going to learn a lot about washington and ourselves. sending a message to congress and the president. and our big political team is on the streets across the country tonight covering it all. so let s begin this election eve with jake tapper at the white house. jake, i can only imagine they re getting ready for a very long day and a very long night. reporter: that s exactly right, diane. top democrats say they expect republicans to take control of the house of representatives tomorrow. but the fight is on to contain the damage, keep the senate in democratic hands and get every last voter to the polls. democrats in colorado say to get out the vote in this final push they are knocking on more than 600,000 doors. have you made up your mind about who you re supportin