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Were getting one report on the ground there, trying to track down, that we may not -- it may not be until thursday that we get more votes out of maricopa county. hundreds of thousands of vote we may not get until thursday. a minute ago, that outstanding governors race in connecticut now, ned lamont, a radio station in new haven, connecticut that says bob stefanowski got on the air and conceded. he was leading all night and in the last couple of hours lamont took the lead, hartford and bridgeport...

Youll see it play out in these suburban areas sooner rather than later. >> i think it might be shrinking. >> i agree. >> republicans reliably, you know, rely on suburban educated white women. and those numbers are shrinking. >> we should point out these are preliminary numbers and its very early. its just 5:30 on the east coast. if this story has not been written. we dont know whats going to happen throughout the night. quickly back to david chalian with more exit polls. david? >> anderson, we a...

One more key state in a long list of key states today. wisconsin. where governor scott walker is asking voters to back him one more time. cnn national correspondent ryan young joins us now from waukesha there. how is it looking there for the former presidential hopeful, we should note, scott walker there? uphill climb. >> absolutely. a tight battle here. hes going against tony evers. a lot of people have been talking about the race because of how close its been. we have been talking to voters li...

You dont know what the early vote is all about. for or against something. >> two things. context matters. lets take a look. that was early voting and absentee voting. -- it was early voting, not early and absentee. if you combine them, this time around republicans have 40.1% of the early and absentee votes in florida. the democrats have 40.6%. half a point. but thats only 24,000 votes. two years ago the democrats combined out of the two had a 96,000 vote margin. this time around if they were doi...

Control of the house could be decided tomorrow. jacob, thank you for being with us. im a california kid, and i grew up thinking of orange county as the bastion of the republican party and conservatism. now it seems like not only has the politics changed, but we all need to learn the technical part of orange county too. >> its unbelievable, rachel. i dont think its an exaggeration to say that especially if it goes late into tomorrow evening, this could be the most consequential election jurisdict...

In in these rural trump counties, for example, this is a county where donald trump got 72% of the vote. showed you a minute ago, 72% of the vote here in 2016 in this county. 57-42 in the absentees. the margin district-wide for donald trump was 55-39. so running 15 points off his number here. thats an encouraging sign for democrats. this is a county where trump got 66% of the vote. in 2016. running at 59% right now. so early indications there. democrats expected to do better. were going to find o...

>> i want to get your initial response there. net negative for the republican partys image in the national poll, net positive for the democratic party image. what did that tell you? >> im going to do something amazing, todd, im going to agree with tom perez. i think its hard to look at exit polls when sloetevoters ar voting. i have a hard time looking at them when many voters voted absentee. lets get voters get out and vote. if you havent voted, get out and vote and we will look at the results w...

So, you mentioned 30 days as a possibility -- thats sort of the longest possibility, coming up, you know, if it gets tight, but we could be talking about at least a day, at least a week, depending on the scenarios. it depends on the margin of votes when it all goes down tomorrow night. a -- and so jacob, theyre counting absentee and early votes already. what happens in terms of the division between the day of votes, too? if theyre not done with all the votes that have come in already. >> thats...

Theyre put into a pneumatic tube. theyre on a chip, because they have electronic voting machines. theyre shot through a tube in the roof into the room back here where theyre counted in person. you could see as many absentee votes come in after tomorrow as in-person votes. you could have hundreds of thousands of votes cast in person tomorrow. this process stops, and you still have an additional couple hundred thousand votes that are coming in absentee and will have to be counted after the fact. a...

And the 49th will all be counted here. not only will they be counted, theyve been being counted here for weeks, 29 days so far theyve been doing early voting. whats happening right now, rachel, as a matter of fact, is these are early and absentee votes that are coming into this location in realtime. so you mentioned 30 days as a possibility. thats sort of the longest longest possibility coming up if it gets tight. but we can be talking about at least a day, at least a week, depending on the scen...