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There are republican candidates on the ballot in three big races tomorrow in three quite different electorates, but their fates say a lot about the political moment. in virginia, the attorney general, ken cuccinelli, the pro transvaginal ultrasound tea party candidate, is limping his way towards an embarrassing defeat in a state that is reliably republican at the state house level, where the current governor, bob mcdonnell, won handily three years ago. in new york city, which hasnt elected a dem...

Washington state and california, both elect members of congress and all of their elected officials through a top two system. the top two vote getters in a primary, regardless of party, go to a general election. the biggest one that we all paid attention to last year was brad sherman and howard berman two liberal democrats running in the san fernando valley to represent hollywood effectively. and at the end of that race, when the two -- those two democrats, the most expensive house race in the en...

>> the story of how we got to the brink of economic catastrophe is not just a story about ted cruz and a bunch of gop extremists. its much bigger than that. its a story about how we elect a our leaders in america. there are two fundamentally different electorates that shape american politics. theres the one that comes out to elect a president and theres the one that votes when the president is not on the ballot. >> its pretty clear that the obama/pelosi agenda is being rejected by the american p...

You pretend that the 41% of people who cast ballots are a good representation of america. and they arent. this is america. this is what the electorate looked like in 2010. and this is what it looked like in 2012 when 58% came out to vote. in the 2010 shellacking, the electorate had fewer african-americans, fewer latinos, and more whites. it looked, well, less like america. in short, the 2012 electorate looked kind of like the audience that watches the super bowl, while the 2010 electorate looked...

That tends to favor republicans. for democrats, the big challenge going forward is to try to leverage the near-catastrophe engineered by the gop to convince their voters to come out in 2014, a year from now, even though the president wont be on the ballot. >> reporter: the story of how we got to the brink of economic catastrophe is not just a story about ted cruz and a bunch of gop extremists. its much bigger than that. its a story about how we elect a our leaders in america. there are two funda...

That was the last time this city elected a democratic mayor. it looks like it will happen unless these polls are way off next month. when you lock at that 24 hour-year gap in new york. what do you think that is all about? >> well, i look at the fact that market greene i think would have won had he not agreed to let rudy stay in office for 90 days following 2011. >> this was in 2001, he was running. >> terrible, terrible mistake. the electorates will say, geeze, if you cant handle things, why sho...

What i mean. a battle for 18 to 25-year-olds. a battle for young people. get young healthy people to seen up. there is really very few groups of the electorates, republicans had less success communicating with. what you are seeing. ive dont know the message. thats the message that worked with core republican audience. older audience. big government run amok. thats what theyre sort of suggesting i think, the government will be in the, in the examination room with you. the kind of message if im in...

Conservatives and republican whose are choosing to fight the law this way by trying to sort of muck up implementation are not fighting on the tur theyve know how to fight on or theyre good at fighting on. what i mean. a battle for 18 to 25-year-olds. a battle for young people. get young healthy people to seen up. there is really very few groups of the electorates, republicans had less success communicating with. what you are seeing. ive dont know the message. thats the message that worked with c...

After millions of dollars and thousands of hours of analysis, there were plenty of memorable moments, the 2012 race changed very little. in his book "collision 2012" dan balls writes about a battle between two polarized electorates. one that brought president obama to power in 2008 and the one that brought sweeping republican gains two years later. america seems to be left with the status quo. the gop kept control of the house. the division between the parties is as sharp as ever. that doesnt me...

Citi cities, race. these white democratic defectors, writes greenberg, express a profound distaste for blacks, a sentiment that pervades almost everything they think about government. most of them by landslides. in some ways its still the story of american politics. president obama has won two solid national victories now but re-elected despite a dismal showing with working class white voters. they panicked over the inroads republicans made with blue-collar whites. they arent as worried anymore....