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Colorado. we told but that. and washington state, there you see colorado were watching that closely, and washington state, murray had a slight lead. but this could go down to the wire, and were watching it for a while. as you look at the senate balance of power, its getting closer for republicans. theyre not going to pick up the majority in the senate. but they could pick off another race in washington. and well watch that one. >> joining us for an interview, governor-elect of the state of ohio....

State attorney general agreed to extend the deadline for returning absentee ballots to be postmarked by one day. >> our sheriff was better at getting ballots to his pretrial detained inmates than the justice was getting military personnel their ballots. >> reporter: inmates in jail did get their ballots on time. >> theres a process that guess on every election that i dont think has been deviated with. that occurs on a regular basis. >> reporter: military and overseas voter empowerment akerman da...

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Does anyone care? >> sometimes they do care, sometimes they see advantage of avoiding problems but other times they miss opportunities. politics is the art of consensus building. you have to reach across the 50-yard line and get that 51%. so the price i think that some of these candidates pay is they narrow themselves just to a base. a base is not enough to win an election. youve got to reach across the middle. >> its interesting, too, because hatred of the media is now kind of so widespread its...

Keys. there are the antlers. "morning joe" starts right now. we have this parallel system in the shadows in which people can give $100,000, $1 million, $10 million, not the captains of these industries and special interests, to defeat or elect candidates and they dont have to disclose. it makes the campaign finance system fraudulent and it throws us back to the days of the robber barons and the gilded age. well keep fighting this fight. well deal with whatever happens. its not something well l...

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From the elect. in a lot of these races people were undecided now they are saying okay i picked my spot one way or the other. what are not seeing, i think is important, necessarily some big, new momentum on the democratic side which is what theyve been hoping for. the key number, you look at all democratic candidates running. you do not see, this is a problem for them, them breaking that 50% number. for a party on its back foot in an election they need to be doing better that is going to be a th...

Mayor elect in washington, d.c., vincent grey and i decided the best thing to do for the city would be for me to step aside, because we really want to make sure the entire city now can embrace the reform efforts. certainly for some members of the community to have me continue to be associated with the reforms was not going to allow them to do that. i asked my deputy chancellor to step in, in my . i asked my management team to stay in place through the end of the school year. those folks are the ...

Picture. in at least 7 states that we count the tea party insurgent beat the establishment republican candidate in senate contests. what is happening in the gop? is it a civil war? a battle for the soul of the party? what is going on? >> no, there is no civil war and lets be careful about tea party favorite. everybody says marco rio i rubs the tea party favorite in florida. it was the guy outside who had endorsed president obamas stimulus bill and running asin independent and demonstrated his wi...

Evil ceo with ties to wall street who spent her time slashing jobs. in return we saw fiorina tell us barbara boxer is nothing more than a tax and spend bitter partisan who spent a lot of time in washington with not a lot to show for it. >> if you look at senator boxers record you will see she is for more taxes, she is for more spending, she is for more regulations and she is also for big government and elite extreme environmental groups. people are going to decide if they want to have me back or...