defense. you ll find towns with large defense installations are very happy he s there. so more building of airplanes, boats, things like that. he talks a lot about infrastructure. we saw those stocks go up. construction, brick laying, electricians, plumbers, things like that. whether it is defense or it is infrastructure, you need engineers. looks like there be those are places where you can see jobs. here s one that s interesting. that is that if he succeeds in lowering the tax rate to the corporate tax rate to 15%, it becomes very attractive for people to become independent contractors because they don t pay the high 30% tax rate. they can become contractors, write off their business expenses. if you make enough money that way, you could conceivably employ other people. you might see people becoming independent contractors as
come to the table is you have to remember that a lot of these defense installations are sitting in republican districts. they re in texas. they re in alabama. they re in mississippi. they re in places where this may be the largest employer some of these guys have. for example, in ohio, in dayton, ohio, you know, my colleague mike turner is always saying there s 20,000 uniformed people, there s 30,000 contractors outside of the fence who work there. that s 50,000 jobs in his district, for example. so if you really begin to see those deeper cuts into defense without us being able to realign how those cuts will be made, what you re going to see is these red district guys, these republicans screaming when they found out that they ve cut their own throat. do you think they realize that, that they may be in danger of cutting their own throats? well, i think until they start to hear it from their people, they may not be.
obviously especially northern virginia. a lot of government workers. southern virginia, defense installations. nearly half the voters in virginia said it was republicans in congress to blame for the shutdown and look here, you see that play out. it is shaded bloox of those voters, nearly nine in ten voted for the candidate. the shutdown also a factor. one last point to make. at a your mcauliffe said his opponent was a tea party extremist. he said he was too far right for a state like virginia. 43% of the voters in virginia opposed the tea party movement and you see it shaded blue. terry mcauliffe winning big. if the early results hold up, you see him winning in the middle of the electorate. taking advantage of the shutdown. using it against his challenger, pushing his republican challenger to the right. we used to think of it as conservative. you can think of it as moving to the middle. these exit polls we ve had. 50%, cuccinelli. 43%, 7% for the libertarian
the widower of one of the victims. just ahead, in the wake of the navy yard rampage, lawmakers are asking tough new questions about security at u.s. defense installations and the background checks on defense contractors. and a cnn exclusive. he s given spiritual advice to millions. now the pastor rick warren talks with cnn s piers morgan about his personal tragedy, the suicide of his son. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you ve known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who s lived well into their 90s. and that s a great thing. but even though we re living longer, one thing that hasn t changed much is the official retirement age. the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years.
led lights lit up. the union jack will be raised at all government buildings and defense buildings and naval installations and other defense installations. there i will will be celebrations obviously breaking out all over the place. but in the meantime all we can tell you is that things, as far as we know, from what we ve been hearing from representatives of kensington palace are going along at a normal pace. labor continues and once, once the baby is born, the queen will be notified and then the rest of the world will find out pretty fast, jon. jon: whatever happened to the town crier announcing it in the middle of trafalgar square or something? what about the protocol? there are all kind of protocol surrounding a royal birth, right? reporter: you know, you would think so because this royal family is really about the pomp and the ceremony. there will be a baptism at some point and the baby will be baptized in something called the lilly font. each royal baby wears the same