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Gubernatorial elections across the country, governor complaint asich wanted to do a lot to save the budget, everybody seemed to rally behind that budget until it became clear what that meant and that became a major issue for him, the union poured tons of money into this election, $30 million to get the vote they got last night. whats your take? >> my take is this is a classic case of republicans overreaching. voters in ohio do want to fix the states fiscal problems and theyre prepared to take on...

You had a democratic governor reelct dollars in the state of kentucky, you earlier had a democrat elected in west virginia, at the same time the virginia senate is nearly deadlocked. martha: right. >> so i think its very, very close, martha, no clear verdict. martha: take look at some of these governors approval numbers. im very interested in this. we had scott walker, we all remember what he went through with the unions in wisconsin, he has a 42 percent approval number, lets take a look at the ...

Dilapidated state budget in the state of ohio, a law limiting the bargaining rights of unions struck down at the polls resoundingly. heres the governor reacting to what was a big defeat for him. >> the ability to bail them out, somehow come to the rescue with money, we dont have money to do that, so they may have some ideas and im willing to listen to what they might need, you know, whatever relief they might need to allow them to meet these financial challenges today, im willing to do and well ...

this news conference. >> i have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period. as i sat in my hotel room with a couple of my staff members as they got to the microphone, my first response in my mind and reaction was, i dont even know who this woman is. the charges and the act sayings -- accusations are absolutely, i absolutely reject. they simply didnt happen. we will get through this. the fact is, these anonymous allegations are false, and now the democrat machine in america has bro...

The first time that arrows have felt really, really good! martha: he knows how to work a crowd. christopher han joins me, former aide to chuck schumer and gretchen hammill, former spokeswoman for the house conference and director at public notice. welcome to both of you. interesting. herman cain was the first person to get into this race on the gop side and it was greeted with sort of barely a notice, now hes up at the top. gretchen, what do you make of it? >> everyone keeps looking for a romney...

Candidates because i do not think herman cain can answer those questions. these great at slogan earring and likable but he will not sustain this for long. martha: newt gingrich has hung in there and sort of rising sort of like the engine that could. thats going to be something that is going to be interesting to watch as we go forward. thank you very much, crist han, gretchen hammill, thank you guys. have a good one. bill: gingrich is climbing into double digits. well see whether or not that stic...

us on track. >> i respect mr. romney. he had a successful business career. he was a wall street executive, i was more a mainstream executive because of the businesses i worked with hands on throughout my business career. a lot of people that listen to me at various events they dont care that it havent had high-level government experience. they care about my common sense approach. bill: thats what he has to sell, so far, steve centanni, its working for him. >> reporter: this is the firs...