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These things a bellwether no matter how desperate we all are for real honest to god elections that arent just polls. it is, at the end of the day, a republican district held by a republican for a really long time. im glad you brought up the nr -- >> this looks to me someone looking at internal polling thinking things arent going well. >> i predict its going to be a sink victory. when we saw them throwing david jolly under the bus there, that was expectations management. they know they need to ho...

Around the clock to elect him as their next candidate. no mistaking what has happened in the day before this contest. republicans turned on their own candidate evidently in the expectation that he loses. and why is that? because of the bellwether phenomenon. they want to be able to blame an allegedly totally flawed outlier candidate rather than concede theres anything about this race tomorrow that might be a bellwether for what else is going to happen in the country this year. the tactics of the...

Think 3-1 campaign-to-campaign but he has been propped up more so than she has with outside money and its all on health care. it is all on that issue which is why you have no choice. joe, shes had $5 million of basically anti-health care ads thrown at her so how do you not go after it head-on? she had no choice to do this. >> the question, mark, is how do the democrats not answer dollar-for-dollar in a race like this when they know this is going to be seen as a bellwether certainly. again, becau...

Democrats on obamacare is to scare seniors about the, quote, cuts to medicare. that is the big very, very successful 2010 tea party line that ran in ads across the country. has that been making itself known in this race? what do you think of the effects on that? >> i dont even think bob barker can sell this one to seniors, honestly. i want to go back to 2012 when we saw a similar sort of special election that was described as a bellwether. its kathy hochul in upstate new york which is a republic...

Car that can differ so dramat dramatically about when and where and why the shot was allegedly fired. >> not only did oscar pistoriuss friend contradict other witnesses, he also seemed evasive, unsure of himself, unsure of his own testimony and statements under cross-examination. his performance on the stand buoyed it seemed the defense team. they left the pretoria high court at the end of the session with smiles on their faces and his friend will now appear again for further cross-examination t...

Republicans have run against democrats on obamacare is to scare seniors about the, quote, cuts to medicare. that is the big very, very successful 2010 tea party line that ran in ads across the country. has hthat been making itself known in this race? what do you think of the effects on that? >> i dont even think bob barker can sell this one to seniors, honestly. i want to go back to 2012 when we saw a similar sort of special election that was described as a bellwether. its kathy hochul in upstat...

Obamacare, right away. >> the priority is obamacare, not us. >> this has become an obamacare election, and it is widely viewed as a tossup. joining me now, jess mcintosh, communications director for the political action committee emilys list. jess, my understanding as a dislow sure is emilys list has been very active in the race. >> were absolutely behind alex sink. we supported her 2010 race and are proud to be supporting her again here. >> this race, election is going to happen tomorrow. do yo...

With just over 48% of the vote. sink took just 46%, and the libertarian in that race got 5%. now, this race is seen as critical because the district is a bellwether. it went for president obama by small margins in 2012 and 2008. both national parties and outside groups poured money and energy into the contest to test drive their messaging for november midterms. the winner will replace republican bill young who held the seat until his death last fall. its a growing trend in business: do more with...

Very similar kind of platform so i suspect that alex will win. it will be a close election tonight. $9 million or $10 million spent down there but i think she will pull out a narrow victory >> you mentioned the money. lets take a look at the money gone in. $5.5 million for alex science sink and the democrats and nearly $1.5 million for david jolly, not like money from the campaigns but tons of outside money pouring in. why do you suppose so much effort and money, american crossroads and the rest...

Around the clock to elect him as their next candidate. no mistaking what has happened in the day before this contest. republicans turned on their own candidate evidently in the expectation that he loses. and why is that? because of the bellwether phenomenon. they want to be able to blame an allegedly totally flawed outlier candidate rather than concede theres anything about this race tomorrow that might be a bellwether for what else is going to happen in the country this year. the tactics of the...