moment. bret: another hot senate race richard mourdock neck and neck by the senate seat being vacated by richard lugar of indiana. mourdock upset him in the general primary but he upset him in the general election comment rape and abortion democrats used against him. i want to point out that is based on the exit polling. you see 6% of the expected vote in on the screen there we are getting the raw vote total in as well as the exit polling and that s where these calls will come from when we can project winners. megyn: fox news also projecting now that liberal vermont senator bernie sanders, independent who caucuses with the democrats will turn back a challenge by republic john john mcgovern, he is a self-described socialist bernie sanders and peter will beat his republic challenger randy broke. bret: in indiana republic mike pence is vying with john craig in the contest to replace outgoing republic
mitt romney won most of the real estate in ohio. but look at harris county down in the southeast corner contains cincinnati. that went to the president and look to the north manufacturing belt. we have cleveland and tioga county. those all went to the president . then when you start looking at exit polling and the question of the autobail out. 6-10 supported the autobail out and of those who supported the autobail out 75 percent of them voted for president obama. and ohio seemed to be in sync in the senate race. and the big winners here in ohio were the television station. 175 million dollars spent on
very conservative county north of jacksonville on the georgia border. absentee vote there, mitt romney s percentages are just slightly better than bush got, george w. bush got in 2004 when he was carrying florida. they are a few points higher than john mccain got in the county as a whole, including the absentee vote in 2008 when he failed to carry florida and barack obama won it. so, we re looking through tea leaves like that and hoping waiting for avalanche of tea leaves to come. megyn: anything interesting in virginia? the virginia numbers have not been coming in yet. i expect them in almost momentarily. megyn: talking about from the exit polling in virginia we were told that the independents who had broken for barack obama first time around are breaking significantly for mitt romney this time around. i think martha said it was 59% romney, 38% for obama so far on the early wave. well, independents breaking for romney is what we have seen in most state polls and
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if it s plus 3 republican in those swing states it s tough to see how obama wins and that explains the conflict. bill: the point you make is well-taken, because you can dissect these numbers anyway you want and you can find information to confirm what you re looking for. megyn: right, right, that is exactly right. truly having tried to just be an honest consumer of what everybody is putting out on screen and off screen on all the channels my impression today is no one knows, they are all trying to spin us, the democrats want us to believe that this is a forgone conclusion that obama will win the states, republicans want us to believe the same thing about the three critical swing states that romney has to win. everything to this point is manipulation that is not to be trusted. the only thing we can trust at this point is the raw data and exit poll results we ll get in starting this evening. bill: in years past some of that exit polling was not necessarily reliable. megyn: in 2004 they c