likely to take this red state seat. in right-leaning utah both sides believe incumbent democrat jim mathison s retirement means all four utah house seat will be democrat next year. democrat sean eldredge, a millionaire investor married to facebook co-founder will bring national attention and money to that race and in new jersey john runyon is retiring and democrats do have a shot at a few pickups. another nail-biter will be in cole california s sixth district where the incumbent republican mike kaufman faces a tough challenge from the popular former speaker democrat andrew romanoff. this may be the closest race of the year, but overall it s pretty clear that democrats are rattled. next week both president obama and former president bill clinton will attend a retreat with senate democrats to try to buck up the troops. bret? carl, thank you. breaking late this afternoon, an italian appeals court upheld the murder
iowa s gop senate primary has six candidates. north carolina has nine. georgia eight gop contenders and alaska has five. some democrats think given the president s unpopularity the house majority is a lost cause, and they should focus on saving their majority in the senate, but the democrat in charge of electing house democrats says the gop has problems, too. they have not recovered from the shutdown. reporter: house republicans hold 232 seats, democrats 200. three seats are now vacant so democrats need 18 more for the majority. retirements cause headaches in both parties and veteran democrat henry waxman of california who would share a committee if democrats take control next year today announced he s retiring. republicans call it a reflection of democrat pessimism. i think it s another sign the democrats don t think they can get back in the majority, at least not in the near term. reporter: in north carolina s seventh district michael mcintire is leaving and both parties ackn