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The democrats also flipped control of seven governorships. stacey abrams in georgia is still hoping to make it eight. republican brian kemp declared victory, but the nbc news decision desk still ranks this race as too close to call. and abrams has not conceded, notably. and while jon tester of montana snuck out a victory while most americans slept last night, the big senate race in arizona is also still undecided, as is the big senate race in florida. seems like we were just talking about these ...

Of different geographic concerns and different ideological alliances. if we see a spike like youre talking, 35-36% of eligible voters, how would you expect that to map in terms of partisan affiliation. obviously that wouldnt just be a pure democratic vote. >> i mean, predominantly if you look at them on average, lean for democratic around the country. when it comes to cuban american vote, puerto ricans are going to be really interesting test this year. thats we talked so much about how this midt...

In the last three midterms. 2014, 2016. that is the number of pivot counties that won in 2016 that obama won twice before. that is the real battleground map. notice the cluster in the midwest. iowa, wisconsin and michigan. democrats are making strong runs for governor in each state that voted for trump. it is annoying to say it all comes down to turnout, it is a cliche and it is true. 40% is the average turnout for eligible voters in the last three midterms. including 2006 and 2010. 2014 midterm...

Registered as republicans. 37.2% are democrats. then you get into the nonparty affiliation. thats 26.6%. so the question really comes down to whether the republicans or the democrats were able to reach out and get those nonparty affiliated people motivated to vote for whoever it is that they feel. here you can see, here comes the mayor making his way in with his family. >> i know youll try to get a question to him, kerry, as we watch him. >> reporter: hes told us that hes going to talk on the wa...

With marsha blackburn. the senate race underway 12 tig tight. most polls show blackburn ahead. his party has frustrations with him. >> its unexpected to have a competitive republican versus democrat in the state of tennessee. what is it about the political climate has you in the game? >> the more moderate people and the fact ive been that way as governor and reached across the a aisle puts it in play. >> what surprised you the most about this race? >> i think in political terms, i knew that in a...

Regardless of race, creed, color, neighal origin, political affiliation, believing in our shared responsibility, that is also just as much as ideology as is your thoughts of ideology on health care and taxes. no, you dont get to look away from the fact that we have a president that has stoked fear and division and continues to leading into tuesday. to suggest somehow that is not an ideology in itself, it is. it is a fundamental core belief of this president and his surrogates and those who follo...

Unstable majorities and political stalemate. despite how things appear in the news, aberage americans are no more politically divided now than we were in the 70s. they have not adopted more extreme eideological views. instead its the parties and the politicians that there more poleized and have gone into narrow groups that dont represent the whole of the u.s. no wonder then result of the latest monthly survey of political affiliation. the largest group among us still the independents. 28% call t...

Different political affiliations, different races and different walks of life to hear what really matters most to them ahead of tuesdays election. these are the people that are going to decide the neck and neck race here in arizona between martha mcsally and democrat kyrsten sinema. we will talk to mcsally just ahead but first we wanted to hear from the voters themselves. we start with the pressing issue of immigration and how illegals have affected this border state. raymond arroyo joins me for...

Presidential in 2016, we saw about 60% turn out. posters are not forecasting turn out to be that strong, some say it could be as high as 50%. >> great almost always the line is long, it shows a lot of people care. >> the line does not bother me, i dont have anything else to do today now. reporter: democrat appear to have higher numbers in turn out in early voting, party affiliation does not always indicate how folks will vote. >> jeff paul, thank you. >> voting early and often, measure north car...

Now. not a problem. reporter: in georgia, candidates are closely tracking folks who didnt vote in the last midterm election. data analysts saying 36% of the states 1.8 million early votes are from new voters, folks who didnt vote in 2014 some key states are seeing more republicans overall nationally democrats have the upper hand in turnout by about 5%age points. as weve seen in the past, party affiliation is not a guarranty how folks will vote. eric: a lot of enthusiasm shows on both sides. jeff...