But right now, i want to advertise what youre going to see tomorrow night. Lets put it this way. Its going to be an edgy, uneven, nasty, and unpredictable evening here on msnbc. Rachel mado and i will be giving you the results as quickly as anyone gets them. Theyll be challenging, difficult, and the night will be longer than most nights because were simply not going to know the winners of the close races that will decide who controls the u. S. Senate. Heres my prediction about the drama. To quote the great betty davis. Fasten your seat belts, its going to be a bumpy night. And this is especially the case for the democrats defending off a republican takeover. They need to beat scott brown in New Hampshire for sure. Kay hagan needs to win in North Carolina. Orman needs to win in kansas. They need two more wins in colorado, iowa, alaska and georgia, perhaps somewhere else. Its not going to be easy. More like an icebreaker jamming its way over the north pole. But it is possible and the polls show its possible. We have reporters covering some of the tightest races. We begin in overland park, kansas. Kelly, it is so fascinating that it comes down to 4950, and this one guy who nobody heard of a few months ago, orman, nobody knows what party he feels at home in, and he could decide the whole shebang sometime after tomorrow night. And hes enjoying that moment. I was with him today as he was visiting potential voters in topeka, kansas. And what he is saying, hes giving us clues, but not answers. When i asked him about which party he would align with. Hes running independent. But in the senate, you have to sit on one side or the other. Get your assignments from a leader. You have to work with a structure, the organization of the senate. And basically his answer is, he will work with the majority. But he wont say if hell sit alongside republican or sit alongside democrats. Today he said, he would not be a silent soldier for either party. He thinks that gives power to kansasans because he might be able to be a power broker, chris. The bottom line is, after all that dedeferment of the answer to your question, who is he going to vote for, harry reid, or mitch mcconnell. And my question, do the voters understand the powerful game this guy can play . Also, all the democrats are thinking hes one of them, hes going to help them get the 50 they need to win. In looking at those clues, he voted for president obama in 2008, and for romney in 2012. He lines up with abortion rights and immigration and gun background checks. But what voters are saying, they like the appeal of this fix of broken washington, end the gridlock. Thats appealing in a campaign season. When you talk to voters about how the senate works day to day, just like anybodys office is organized. You have a boss you have to report to upon. In the senate, those Party Leaders call a lot of shots. If youre not on one side or the other, it can be difficult to be effective. Orman thinks that by being in the center, and throwing his allegiance back and forth, that that would give kansasans power, when i talk to senator pat roberts, he said thats like a High School SophomoreWalking Around saying im just looking for good ideas. Sharp criticism from him. Republicans are worried about kansas because pat roberts has been in polls running really underwater and thats a real concern. And i were a republican in kansas, would i trust a guy that called me the clown car . Give me a break. Thats a phrase i use here. And there you have within independent saying the republicans are in a clown car. Im joined by luke russert in iowa. All your political skills are required. Can the democrats count on iowa, or is this too far a reach . Well, depends who you talk to, chris. But the Des Moines Register poll, the Gold Standard of polling, showed joni ernst up seven points on saturday night, was a gut punch to the braley campaign. Quinnipiac came out today showing the race tied. All that being said, some numbers have struck me in that poll, in terms of his own district, hes losing by three points. In terms of the issue, who cares more about people like me . Joni ernst, a republican with strong Tea Party Support doing better on him on medicare and social security. So definitely some stiff head winds, but the way democrats can win this, chris, they have to have the ground game they had in 2012. Republicans said theyve narrowed the gap, wont be able to bank as many early voters, and that republicans will win on election day. But democrats are confident they can get voters to the polls and make an upset occur. That all being said, the momentum is with joni ernst, 44yearold female combat veteran. Everyone in the gop is waiting for her, because they think shell be a rock star. And everyone thinks if she pulls this off, she could become maybe somebody a vp nominee for republicans. Thats how much shes regarded within their party. They want this victory, not only for control of the senate, but also to make a new perhaps National Party star. You know how somebodys going to lose, when they bring up the dewey beats truman thing. Every time you pull that out, it means youre going to lose. Tom harkin, democrat, apologize for comments last week he made about joni ernst. In this senate race, ive been watching some of these ads. And theres the sense that, joni ernst, shes really attractive, and she sounds nice. Well, i got to thinking about that. I dont care if shes as good looking as taylor swift or the nice mr. Rogers, but if she votes like michele bachmann, shes wrong for the state of iowa. This is a tough counterpunch. I was very offended that senator harkin would say that. I think its unfortunate that he and many of their party believe that you cant be a real woman if youre conservative and youre female. Again, im greatly offended about that. If my name had been john ernst, attached to my resume, senator harkin would not have said those things. Thats called an attack from a defensive position. The most powerful thing in politics when youre defending yourself and your honor, people root for you. And, chris, one thing that really comes up with this mess with harkin, what an unforced error. Today was the day that bruce braley wanted to be on message, talking about medicare, social security, talking about the health care law, which is somewhat popular here in iowa. Not able to do that, because the lead of the local newscast and everything everyones talking about on the radio and, why would harkin say such a thing . Hes since apologized to ernst. She had fun with it, quoting taylor swift, saying, i can shake it off. All that being said, not what bruce braley wanted to talk about the day that he was trying to move turnout in his way in eastern iowa. Thank you. Joining me is suzi kemp. Now we have a tricky situation down there in georgia, which i hate because it complicates things. But is this any reason to believe that if Michelle Nunn, the daughter of the former senator from georgia, if she cant win the 50 points now, any reason to believe that she could win them later on in january when they have the runoff . Well, its interesting. I actually was Walking Around with Michelle Nunn earlier today as she was out canvassing for votes in decatur, a suburb of atlanta. I asked her that very question. And she said, weve defied the prognosticators before, which suggests that i think they know it would be really very much an uphill battle. The wild card here is that libertarian candidate Amanda Swafford who you havent heard much about, because shes only polled, 3, 4, 5 digits. The assumes is those voters would be conservative and would go for perdue in the runoff. Any reason to believe a libertarian would vote for a democrat . I think folks are definitely making a distinction between Michelle Nunn and president obama and the washington democrats. I know this has been the line of attack from republicans, from Perdue Campaign from the start, but they do see Michelle Nunn as being her fathers daughter, as being more of a moderate, more of a cent rift. Even those who support perdue, have a positive image of her. Some folks, ive talked to republicans who like her, but they cant bring themselves to pull the trigger. Well said. Thank you to everybody, luke and suzi. Im joined by Steve Kornacki. I want to tell you my assumption. You can tear it to bits if you want. I think we agree, there are three ways the democrats need to begin to win the evening. One, hold on to New Hampshire. Beat scott brown there. Kay hagan has to hold on in North Carolina. And a break with an independent who will probably go with them, greg orman, we just talked about. After that, im wondering how they get the two more they need. Lets go to the big board. Lets take a look at what i think would be the most likely path for the democrats to retain the senate. Start with two assumptions. For the republicans, kentucky, looking good for mcconnell. And arkansas. Move those over. New hampshire and North Carolina, move that over. The big if in kansas, say orman wins and goes with the democrats. The republicans then at 47. This says 46. You have to remember, there are two independents, king in maine, sanders in vermont, caucusing with the dems. Thats 48. Add two. Which means the democrats are two short of what they need, they need 50. There are five states on the board right now. The bad news for democrats, in each of these five states, theyre behind in the polling. So what is the most likely way they can get there . Colorado, udall is running behind in the polling right now. Democrats will say, the last time there was a major Competitive Senate election in colorado in 2010, the 11 polls in the month leading up to the election, not a single one of them put the democrat ahead and yet they won by two points on election day. They say they missed the latino vote. Two major variables. Lets say the polls have missed that in colorado and democrats can pick it up. Where else do they look . I think the next most likely one, believe it or not, is alaska. When they talk about states being tough to poll, they are talking about alaska. Weve seen polls with begich of ten points, and polls that put his challenger ahead by a single digit. This is a state where if begich wins comfortably, we wouldnt be shocked. If he loses it by a big margin, we wouldnt be shocked. But hes shown life. You got 48 now, you got two independents and joe biden to break the tie, i think that is the most likely way they can get to 50. Thats really good. Let me ask you about probabilities. It seems to me that those are all possible. The trick is, they all have to happen. Thats the tricky part, right . Like we say, you have three other sitting here right now. Iowa, like being luke was saying, the quinnipiac poll they were talking up today. Theres these runoff scenarios right there. But what it really comes down to for democrats, New Hampshire, North Carolina, kansas. Absolutely mustwins. And then basically they need to pull off two upsets. They need upset in colorado and probably alaska. Theyre going to need to get lucky. Probably not going to get lucky, but ive seen luckier things. To be honest, we know the business. Its hard to poll alaska, for example. And the accent on the progressive voters showing up in colorado, which is purple. Its a hard state to figure. There are suburban women who are prochoice, cultural conservativism, but theres a lot of smart people who read the newspapers that could show up. They did it for michael bennett. And thats the key in colorado, to keep in mind. Why we say theres some uncertainty there with the polling, its not necessarily about showing up in colorado anymore, because this is the first time that colorado has universal mailin balloting. So every voter in the state has been mailed a ballot. They dont need to drive down to the school or the polling place. They just need to be moved at some point in the last few weeks, to check a name off and put that in the mail. Democrats are saying the exact kind of voter youre talking about, maybe wasnt going to go to a great effort to go to the polling station, but will put the thing in the mailbox. This sounds like a republican horror story. So easy to vote. When do they have to arrive . Do they have to be datemarked . They have through tomorrow by mail. You mean, the mail would get there in two or three days, with snail mail . Thats right. And alaska could take a while to get in. Believe it or not, were talking about this in the context of this election. Its crabbing season in alaska and there are hundreds of fishermen who are out to sea and they have until the middle of november to get their ballots back. Thanks so much, steve. Nobody does it like you. Coming up, whats a stake tomorrow night . Thats a big one. What does it mean for president obama if the democrats lose control . Or keep control . Ted cruz is talking about what hes bringing. Hes out for trouble. What can we expect from the republicans, including ted cruz, the joe mccarthy of today. This is hardball, a place for politics. You probably know xerox as the company thats all about printing. But did you know we also support hospitals using Electronic Health records for more than 30 million patients . Or that our Software Helps over 20 million smartphone users remotely configure email every month . Or how about processing nearly 5 billion in electronic toll payments a year . 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We were misled, there were supposed three protests and then something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that and that was easily ascertained that was not the facts. With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead americans. Was it because of a protest, was it because of guys out for a walk who decided to go kill some americans. At this point, what difference does it make . Both you gentlemen have had the honor and the guts to run for office. Joe, i want to ask you about the power of the Sub Committee which ron johnson will control. Ive been told thats the only chair on the hill where the chairman and his majority members dont have to get the okay. They have the rights to use subpoena. Thats where the game plays to me. Your thoughts . Well, ive seen the committee on the house side, the i saw what it was like when republicans ran it, and when democrats ran it. You could put a mirror up to it. Obviously, the subpoena power is important. I think more importantly ive heard about ted cruz. Ted cruz is an outsider in the Republican Caucus inside the senate itself. Republicans understand. Most republicans i talk to understand, if all they do is obstruct in 2015, theyll lose the big election, the big prize in 2016. Theyve lost five out of six of the last president ial elections. They have an Approval Rating far below that of barack obama. They have to put points up on the board over the next two years. Or theyll be the party of no, and they wont win in 2016. Most republicans understand that. I dont know if ted cruz does or not. But i dont think it really matters at this point. Let me go to harold. It seemed to me the party has made mistakes. Back in 1947, after the long new deal period, they said every day started with a prayer and ended with a probe. Are they going to make that mistake again . Joe said it well. If they do, it will be two years where the paralysis and arresting narrative that grip washington will perpetuate itself. Assume they win, if they get the president trade promotion authority, but senator reed has been unwilling to give it to him. If republicans offer a narrow tax reform bill and offer some Infrastructure Spending for the president , can you imagine the start they could get off to. The question really comes, can you make ted cruz, to joes point, the distinct island of one . If you dont do that, its problematic for republicans, and for the country. How does the fight go . Progressives dont want to hear it, but good possibility republicans will control the senate. Heres the question, how do they make that pivot between why dont we fry to get a trade bill through . How do we get tax reform, plugging loopholes. Even the president believes in that to some extent, and infrastructure. How do they put together a Growth Program that gives people really good jobs or waist the next two years trying to point the finger and screw obama. Who makes that decision . Only one democrat matters in washington, d. C. , and its barack obama. Republicans have a lot to prove over the next two years. They need to prove they have a positive agenda. A lot of conservative thinkers believe that barack obama has a lot to prove as well. Hes got to prove he can make the pivot bill clinton did. Bill clintons greatness, as a president , came after republicans like myself came into washington and started fighting him and bill clinton figured out how to work with us, how to beat us. We passed welfare reform together, balanced the budget, passed tax reform together. Passed Regulatory Reform together. 22 million new jobs were created over that decade. Thats something barack obama has to do, and he needs to do it the last two years if republicans take control. You can blame republicans for obstruction not talking about you. Talking about my friends in the white house blaming republicans for obstructionism if they want to and they can make a lot of great points, but if hes stuck dealing with republicans over the last two years, hes going to have to make the pivot that bill clinton made, and if he does, he can get Energy Reform passed, he can get tax reform passed, he can get education reform passed, and he can really get a lot done. How does the president jump into this . I agree with him completely. Can this president say, damn it, i lost big. I can listen to you about Corporate Tax reform and listen to you on trade and dont just take the labor unions side. Is he willing to be that humble and deal in the middle . If he wants to get things done, hes going to have to. In addition to the domestic challenges where there may be some progress this president will still face Foreign Policy challenges. Im hopeful the president will do it. It will be interesting to hear bill clinton who will be asked to comment if republicans win the majority. Mr. President , what advice do you have for this current president . Curious to see the approach hell take with the drama and the impending run for mrs. Clinton. I hope he doesnt notch them too far to the right on Foreign Policy. I dont either. But we have to think differently about your posture there. Its going to be a fascinating president. I can guarantee you he wont go as far right on Foreign Policy as Hillary Clinton. I love your smile, joe. I love it. Hillarys more of a neo con than most republicans are comfortable with. If you want to know what people are thinking heading into tomorrow night, lets look at what voters are searching about. Where are people searching to learn stuff about the candidates they want to vote for or against. Well give all of you that in a minute. This is hardball, a place for politics. 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Google tracked the most popular search items in the last 30 days associated with candidates in states with hot contests. Most people want to know the voting record of the candidate, they want to know their age for some reason, and they want to know their net worth. That tells me a lot about the issue of class arguments over wealth and who do you trust. When searching for scott brown, up in New Hampshire, another popular search item was, youll love this, center fold. There he is, 1982 spread in cosmopolitan magazine. When searching for his democratic opponent, different story there. Jeanne shaheen, top search item was Hillary Clinton, because she campaigned for her this sunday. Its also a state where they have an all female cast of top leaders. The governor of New Hampshire, the two members of congress. All women. In iowa, with bruce braley, chicken dance, referring to the ad that theyre running against the democrat. The chicken dance. Bruce braley claims hes a farmer. So am i. 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Kansas, i think orman will win and vote for the democrats with leadership if they do well elsewhere. Then maybe iowa, colorado, alaska, georgia. I think they got a chance. Its a very narrow path to victory, but one of the few best Case Scenarios i can think of. This is the roundtable msnbc political analyst howard fineman, joan walsh. In that order, tell me what you think. Talk now to progressives and tell them where their chance lies tomorrow to keep control. Give them some sugar. Okay, so progressives out there, as youre watching, the first thing you need here. As youre watching here on msnbc, the first thing you have to watch is New Hampshire. If Jeanne Shaheen can hold on in New Hampshire and shes facing a surprisingly strong challenge from scott brown. If she holds, theres hope for you progressives out there. Similarly kay hagan in North Carolina, shes got to hold there. If those go democrats, then theres hope to keep watching. That will get them to 8 15. You got to hope the independent in kansas is going to win. Thats an early call too. And you have to hope that he caucuses or gives indication that he will. Hes running against republicans, so by logic he will. He calls them the clown car. I call them the clown car. And iowa, i feel, is going to be tough. Colorado, the democrats have to hold colorado. And thats going to be tough as well. But theyve got to do it. Colorado is an almost skriz frenic state, its probably the toughest state to call. Its deep red and deep blue. And alaska, i dont know if begich can hold on. Then you got the two women, Democratic Women in louisiana and georgia. They have to do well enough to give themselves momentum of some kind going into those runoffs. Thats a big democratic night if all of that happens. The inquisition, i got to go to joan walsh. Your colleagues who read your stuff, what should they be looking for . I think its the three weve all identified and personally i think the two most likely are going to be alaska and colorado. Thats what Steve Kornacki said. Whats challenging about that is we are not going to about until very late, or maybe days later. And we dont know the rules, i think, for colorado, voting by mail. Its never happened before. So that kind of thing, as you joked before, democrats like things like vote by mail. That should be positive for the democrats. Its easy to do. But if people dont understand it its registered voters voting. Also the republicans have been focusing more on that. Let me go to steve here, the gray lady. All hope is lost. Its like o. J. , if i did it. It they do win, how do they win . I would say, yes, absolutely kansas, North Carolina, New Hampshire, that has to happen or its over. We all agree. After that, i feel like iowa, and colorado, i think republican candidates have kind of made the sale there. So whats left . I think obviously alaska . If youre looking for a hail mary, its going to be alaska. Because that race is so all over the place. [ all speak at once ] crab fishermen back in time and get their votes in. And then georgia. I agree. Georgia, shes a nunn. Nuunnnunn. And firsttime candidate for senate. Cant use against her the things youve used against democrats, she hasnt been with obama all over the place. So she has the most capability to skate over i agree. If she hadnt been running against a strong candidate. If they win the three all we think they probably have to win. And then you pick up another state, alaska rather, you need a huge amount of money pouring into georgia between now and next year. Thats already happening. Theres tv time thats been reserved in both louisiana and georgia. Both parties are already gearing up for that possibility. What im saying is, we will know pretty early in the night whether its an early night, whether were talking about the crabbers in alaska. Lets get everybody excited who is going to vote tomorrow. Im going to get strong and emotional about voting tomorrow. Lets talk about if the democrats lose, we talked about how they could win. But if they lose, you have the subpoena power, republicans ought to grab that baby and use it to investigate benghazi, to the irs, to everything. Everybody tonight has put their finger on the big danger for the republicans. Its going to feel really great to them in the senate if they get the senate back. If they get the subpoena power of that committee. If Mitch Mcconnells in charge, even if he has to deal with ted cruz every minute of the day, which is a nightmare that will make them happy. President obama by his executive actions, i think, if he were more machiavellian than he actually is, he would be suckering the republicans into doing just that. But they might find something. What . They might find something. Why should darrell issa have all the fun . Well, yeah. Darrell issa is going to be [ all speak at once ] we have been waiting since 2008 for republicans to have an outbreak of sanity, to realize demographics are against them, they have to come up with a governing agenda. Tud cruz gets joined by ernst, by possibly corey gardner. I dont agree. [ all speak at once ] i think Speaker Boehner comes out with more members and a stronger hand in his house. I think republicans in the senate and in the house will say, look, we have leverage now. We can proceed very strategically, put the pressure on obama. I think well see more and more of that. The party out of power always has a little more of a problem and then Hillary Clinton comes in and says, all right, you kids, you cant run this place. Heres the problem with that scenario. The people who will get elected, on the house side and senate candidates, are going to be more aligned with ted cruz than mitch mcconnell. Right. Thats the problem. Rand paul will play peace maker. 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But there can be too much of that, too. I think theres a resurgence of people who want a little more civility and discourse. Is this animal house against the conservative club on campus . This is animal house. Hes a brawler. Its his brand. The republican party, its combination of ooesz coast, people with some money, a bit more hawkish and then the midwest people more lib retarian and more isolationist. This looks like the bottom of the tributes. Yes, two points of view and both guys capable of getting grassroots voters excited for Different Reasons. They both have very Different Reasons for crossing over and trying to get some sen tryst votes. It cries out for the answer, howard and i were talking earlier about the third man and the third government. This demands there be a third choice. Id love it if they did, but they probably wont. And the other guy is too rough. And you have to mention, as weve been mentioning all night, ted cruz. What youve got is three cat goirs here. Youve got the managerial kas goir, which Chris Christie would be in if he werent always saying sitdown and shut up. H. R. May come. So theres the managerial class. And then theres the ted cruz cultural anger class. And then theres rand paul, who is the trying to be the bridge builder, oddly enough, the son of ron paul, the libertarian. Who looks president ial . None of them. None of them do. None of them look president ial. What are they auditioning for . Maybe for the republican nominati nomination . Theyre auditioning for iowa. They are. But none of them, including Chris Christie, can cross over in a general election. Christie has bruised himself so much, hes not the person to go up against Hillary Clinton. The job is open. People like jeb bush, although hes got the has pinnic kids. You can be the be more proimmigration than marrying somebody from mexico. But then i look at john casey in ohio. It seems like the job is open. These two dwies are not going to fill it. I think there are a whole bunch of governors we havent talked about tonight. Theres casic. There are people in the midwest, right, who have some connection to the tea party, grassroots, who have solid records, conservative governors. And i think those guys are going to emerge more as the party elite says well, do we have the best that we can have right now. They are charisma free. Mike walker, talk radio host. Hes a very good speaker. You have to see how he can talk on the bench. Theres some cynics who will argue that president obama has given charisma a bad name in certain respecteds. The older republican party, a Royalist Party of succession, paul ryan, who we have not mentioned, who is on the ticket, would be someone we talk about. Hillary clinton taking the secretary of state job. She was just another talker from new york. Senator. She wouldnt be in position to be the next president. I dont think. Thaipg, guys. As always, good luck tomorrow night and your strongest emotions. 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Thats hard e hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in, election eve in america. Nate silver is here with his final senate forecast. Plus, senator sheldon whitehouse. Then, the latest darkmoney ploy to fool democratic voters in three states. And why being a bad candidate doesnt necessarily mean youre going to lose. Tonight, our bipartisan lisz of candidates we believe have a real shot at winning. Senator jackson claims to be for the people. But hes the first one to give it to the peopl