has resigned. the wisconsin senate is currently evenly split, 16 republicans to 16 democrats, thanks to that resignation. democrat tom barrett went into today s election with the endorsement of president obama, who tweeted i m standing by tom barrett. he d make an outstanding governor. b.o. while scott walker made his own presidential connection with this tweet. president regan died on june 5th, 2004, let s win one for the gipper. joining me now are rachel maddow, host of the rachel maddow show. and dorian warren, assistant professor of political science at columbia university and fellow at the roosevelt institute in new york. rachel, the exit polls indicated this was going to be close. we were being warned we were going to be up very late tonight
fourth senate seat in the state where the incumbent republican has resigned. the wisconsin senate is currently evenly split, 16 republicans to 16 democrats, thanks to that resignation. democrat tom barrett went into today s election with the endorsement of president obama, who tweeted i m standing by tom barrett. he d make an outstanding governor. b.o. while scott walker made his own presidential connection with this tweet. president regan died on june 5th, 2004, let s win one for the gipper. joining me now are rachel maddow, host of the rachel maddow show. and dorian warren, assistant professor of political science at columbia university and fellow at the roosevelt institute in new york. rachel, the exit polls indicated
than 300 civilians. an illness sweeps through two ships belonging to the princess cruise line, leaving nearly 500 people sick. the vessels returned to port in florida. the cruise line says all the people who got sick are suffering from neurovirus, which is similar to the stomach flu. angry frustrated parents in western new york want answers. almost four months ago, more than a dozen teenagers and one adult from leroy developed uncontrollable twitching and verbal ticks. tests done by the school and health department have found no environmental link, but further testing will be done. mitt romney is celebrating a resounding victory in the nevada caucuses, making him the only republican candidate to score back-to-back wins in two states in this 2012 run for the white house. let me ask you just four days after winning florida s primary, romney captured 48% of the nevada vote. newt gingrich came in a distant second with 23%. ron paul got 18%. and rick santorum came in l
the debris, but the odds of it actually hitting you, we took this a step further. that s one in several trillion, trillion with a t. chad myers, so the news today, we are now in the strike zone. is that for now or for good? that will be for good, until it falls out of the sky and we ll know. we were doing this little tweet thing back and forth a little bit ago about how the earth is not round. the earth is not round. it s fatter at the equator. so this thing will be closer to the atmosphere every time it passes the equator. every time it goes around the earth, it will start to drag. at one of those times it s going to get a little too close, touch the atmosphere, start to turn, burn up and that s when it s going to slow down enough to make the fall. there are several passes. i can show you coming up here. let me take you over to the wall here as well. we have kind of a different little plan here. the map as it s coming in right now, it s coming up and just to the south of a
been spending, weeks if no months, trying to undercut boehner every step of the way. now he s telling everyone win one for the gipper when he s been undercutting the gipper all the way along. what about the crisis situation we face? what happens when cut, cap and balance become stall crash and burn? that could happen by next tuesday afternoon what do the people like kelly from erie, the once who were, who really only care about the next tea party meeting that they have to go to. what happens when the government faces greek-like hell, and it would be all over their hometown newspapers that they were part of lighting the match? what s so amazing about this, it s a self-created, self-inflicted crisis that really masks a much deeper problem, includes that we aren t dealing with taxes and we aren t dealing with entitlements. that s the real debate. if they pass a short-term extension, then it s up to the establishment republicans that i was mentioning at the beginning,