>> today, the president heads to missouri for republican senate josh against claire mccaskill. they are neck in neck in the polls. as we see, believe it or not, gang, the first votes of the 2018 midterms in wyoming, vermont, casting ballots. steve kornacki is at the big board for us. what do you have? what are you hearing? >> the earlest of the voting. new jersey doing no excuse absentee. two states are going to get an early start. we are probably going to be spending a lot of time talking about this. let's start, you mentioned minnesota. these are the congressional districts of minnesota. this is one of the most interesting individual states. why? these two districts here, two and three, this is a story we are familiar with. the twin cities area, each is a