candidates in every congressional district in texas and that s happening nationwide as well. so what are the lessons if any that national democrats are going to learn from texas, or if you look at the run in pennsylvania? it is different, it s a different landscape, especially when you have this early on and you have this different districts. these rays are local. one is that democrats are energied. republicaned too, you saw that turn out here, the difference in increase in that turn out was much bigger with the democrats. you also have the national party not necessarily being insync with what s going on on the ground. things like that, so the national party needs to be careful. abbey quick final thoughts to you my friend. i think that s the key point. it wasn t just that race, there
a call to action. it got players more energied to do something. it spreads information more quickly. we all got to see the past lawsuits, the discrimination lawsuits about the apartment buildings that he owned and the sexual harassment allegations against him, we could punch up on our computers and call up the depositions of discrimination allegations in the past and what i said to adam is, look, you had all of these witness statements and could you not have investigated them like you investigated this tape? just because donald sterling had the money to settle these cases without findings of fault and make these cases basically go away doesn t mean that there was nothing wrong here and he was great about considering that possibility and saying, hey, it s a different time now and we re happy about the action that we took at this time but he considered the possibility that maybe they should have done more in the past and, you know, you like someone leading the league who is at least taki
to go anywhere in the house or the senate really at this point. what s the purpose of having this right now, and do you think that we re seeing a renewed energy among the left for solutions to addressing climate change? i think the senate democrats are making their donors happy, unable to pass climate change legislation, unable to get any sort of carbon tax or anything like that, they are doing something to try to show their donors on the left who, are agree with you, invigorated right now, energied, trying to find a way to use their vote and particularly their money to leverage more out of the obama administration, perhaps even leverage more identity of democratic candidates in 2016, certainly those in the mid-term elections, tom stier, a big fund-raiser for democrats who cares about climate change, has prompted to dump $100 million in the mid-term elections, 506 his own and 50 raised from other people. he hosted a fund-raiser a couple weeks ago for the democratic
south korea today. but he is delivering a strong message to north korea about its plan to test-fire a long-range missile. pyongyang claims it will launch a rocket-powered satellite next month, not a missile. south korea says regardless, the technology being used is a violation of a u.n. security council resolution. and former vice president dick cheney is recovering today after undergoing heart transplant surgery. cheney, who is 71 years old, was reportedly on the transplant list for over 20 months. he has had at least five heart attacks since 1978. no word op the identity of the heart donor, but cheney s family says they will, quote, be forever grateful. now to the 2012 contenders and the impact of the latest big contest in the presidential race. louisiana s republican primary, rick santorum easily won, capturing 49% of the vote. mitt romney came in a distant second with 27%. newt gingrich s southern roots, it didn t help him in this state. he got just 16% of the vote. r
cain has been battling serious image problems. he s accused of sexual misconduct and have a 13-year extramarital affair. here is how cain ended his campaign. so as of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, i am suspended my presidential campaign. given the recent accusations of extramarital affairs, was this cain s best recourse? cnn s wolf blitzer joining us now on the phone from hollywood, florida. wolf, was this cain s best option? you know, under the circumstances, he really didn t have any other choice. his poll numbers had really gone down over the past few weeks since the first allegations of sexual harassment by four separate women came forward and when this other woman alleged a 13-year extramarital affair. the money was drying up, the poll numbers were going down. in october, he was in the mid-20s among republican likely caucusgoers in iowa. now he s down to 8%, some were suggesting he was going down to 4%. it looked like it was all over. and it obvio