432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. let s get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. i think you saw we made very good progress. we ll come back tonight and i believe tonight we ll have the votes to finish this once and for all. just remind me of what my father always told me. it s not how you start, it s how you finish. we have to finish for the american public. this is now the fifth longest speaker election in house history. mccarthy lacks the votes, however 15 house republicans who oppose mccarthy are now in his camp. i know you re all wondering what changed the vote. i think i can
reality is that you re dealing in a body that has only ten republican vote edge. he had dismissed some of these conservative members in the summer maybe thinking that he would have a much bigger margin in the house. many retrospect, did he botch it? well, look, these conversations have been going on since election day. many were going on before hand. we all agree things need to be reformed in this body. this body needs to be fixed to get back to regular order, to get back to committee, to get back towards a balanced budget. but this is going to be the reality that we face. i mean, there s many of us elected with our priorities, with our constituents priorities like i for one absolutely 100% believe that we have to get to a balanced budget. we re not going to do it on the backs of our troops as we face a rising china that is preparing,
awards, business awards that i ve won but the best thing i ve ever done in my whole entire life is run for this senate seat right here. you can say democrats really defining history by actually gaining a seat in the senate during the mid term. mr. john berman live at the wall. i read that it s the first time since the 1930s a sitting presidential party has defended every senate seat in election. so history is defying history. you can see raphael warnock with a 95,000 vote edge, one month ago he led by 37,000. he expanded that growth. how? one thing we haven t talked about is the black vote. you had two african-american candidates here obviously. warnock was kdecisive in his victory. the areas with the darker colors
Madison, the first week of April, 1961 Close Close Close
Madison, the first week of April, 1961.
As the municipal election of 1961 approached, no one expected Mayor Ivan Nestingen to be a candidate. The 39-year-old attorney and former state representative was certainly popular enough to coast to victory first elected in a special election in 1956, elected to a full two-year term in 1957 by a 3–1 margin, he was reelected without opposition in 1959. And now he’s riding high as the champion of the Frank Lloyd Wright Monona Terrace auditorium and convention center, which he’s pushed to the verge of construction.
But Nestingen had led the Kennedy for President Club during the successful Wisconsin primary campaign in 1960, and chaired the state delegation to the national convention, so everyone assumed he’d leave Madison for a job in the new administration.
organization. the huge crowds of three years ago were the result of a large and deep operation, much of which still exist. plus. we still got the 35,000 vote edge over the republicans. but that s down substantially from the 110,000 register voter edge democrats had in 2008. that is putting a chill down the side of david axelrod and the gang in chicago. iowa is competitive territory. on the marquee campaign issue of jobs, iowa unemployment is 6%, lower than the national average of 9.1%. the state lost over 21,000 manufacturerring job since the 2008 election. that economic unease was a factor in the 2010 gubernatorial race. i defeated incumbent governor, something that hasn t happened in iowa since 1962. how is it going, iowa? plus, it will be impossible to rep kate the obama replicate obama-thon put on for iowans in the first run. iowa was spoiled in 2007 leading up to the caucuses they basically had all obama, all the time. president obama will be back in iowa tuesd