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Cochran, mitch mcconnell, lamar alexander might all be breathing easier after tonight. in an off-year election, one of the biggest hurdles for both campaigns is making sure voters dont stay home. in the last gubernatorial election in 2009, less than 2 million virginians cast ballots. that was only 40% of registered voters. this time around both campaigns are expecting turnout to go up, perhaps exceeding 2 million votes for the first time in a governors race. mcauliffes campaign believes turnout ...

Himself in mclean. he says democrats need to turn the tide against the tea party and social conservatives and those who would defund or stop obamacare. >> they are sick and tired of the dysfunction in washington. they are angry over the shuts on your. the tea party used the shutdown as a bargaining chip. here in virginia we were hurt more than any other state. >> reporter: mcauliffe had a small lead for weeks. cuccinelli has been arguing that this should be a referendum and obamacare. cuccinell...

Well. a little bit of soul-searching as well about the taboos in china and what pushed this woman to take these steps. >> yeah. still seems like a lot we dont know. david mckenzie, thank you very much. we may never know. theres a lot more happening tonight. susan hendrix is back with the "360" bulletin. the fbi has just announced it is searching for a fifth ricin tainted letter. it was addressed to the cia to a location in mclean, virginia that doesnt receive mail. cia headquarters is locate...

Claimed. other news were following right now here in the washington, d.c. area get this. two women have been removed from the home of a senior saudi diplomat in an upscale suburban washington neighborhood and federal authorities have launched an investigation into what they described as possible human trafficking. cnns foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is joining us with the latest. >> reporter: were here in mclean, virginia. you can see the house where the women were working behind...

Rin, one of the first americans to renounce their citizenship to keep the irs from seizing their account information. a low-cal line of slurpies now by 7-eleven. let me tell you something. theres a 7 eleven in mclean, virginia, and i used to go there every day. and those slurpees were humongous and so full of sugar. im not sure what splenda will do to help the situation. the move comes at a time when companies have been marketing everything from spam lite to skinny cocktails. remember the big ...

But you cant always judge those type of elections. mayor nutter in philadelphia, hes done a good job, very popular. in the primary, he ran against a guy who had just gotten out of federal prison and who owed $500,000 in back taxes. that guy got 26% of the vote. >> how does that happen? >> but the mayor wins big in the general election. >> but west virginia is one of those weird states. west virginia used to be a solid democratic state. its going more republican. >> we hadnt lost -- until al gore...

>> when dick lugar moved to washington, he left behind more than his house. he left behind his conservative values. >> joining me once again, the "news nation" panel. talk show most msnbc contributor michael smerconish. also with us, the political science profess ompl a lot of people are listening to you there in indiana. >> i just had an hour-long conversation with listeners at wxnt and i made the argument that this will be the loss of another, it is hard to call him a moderate. i think of him ...

dance to into the motivating force of a business empire and made singers into fares. the legendary aretha franklin will join us in a few minutes. but here a look back at his career by koreen wynter. >> reporter: he was known as the worlds oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as "american bandstand" in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year l...

the u.s. military asked the times not to publish the photos, but the papers editor defends the move saying, quote, after careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the american mission in afghanistan, including the allegation that the images reflect a breakdown in unit discipline that was endangering u.s. troops. chris lawrence, who is...

>> and a host of several thousand other things. >> black man have to have multiple jobs in this economy. >> and will cain, columnist at theblaze.com. no surprise to me george zimmerman has launched his own website to try to raise money for his defense i guess. >> and living expenses. >> clearly. he cant work, not going to school anymore, in hiding. im not surprised by that at all. are you? >> i guess not. george zimmermans life totally changed over the last two weeks. regardless of his...