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Embraced it. welcome back to "morning joe," it is wednesday, october 24th. still with us we have historian and author of "the soul of america" john meacham. professor at princeton university eddie glaude, jr., washington anchor the katty kay and joining the conversation white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire and white house correspondent for pbs news hour yamiche al sent do remember. >> jonathan lemire, our worrying led to a red sox victory last night, both of us texting e...

Ultimately it costs us. >> its a reminder we are more similar than we are different. people want a job. they want good education. they want good health care. before et we go, around the horn. we have less than two weeks to go. whats going to happen election day? >> anyone who is makes confident predictions is crazy, but i suspect the republicans are going to do better than maybe many viewers of this et show expect. >> i us celebrate crazy. >> republicans hold the senate. the house is up in the a...

You accept that. >> is that a hard thing for a soccer? >> no, no. >> youre thinking down the road, not thinking just about this game. >> you look at this. this is a tournament and you just need to get through. its the result that matters ultimately, and they knew exactly what was going on in the other game. >> all right. now we look forward to tuesday taking on belgium. i want to talk a little bit about what were going to be facing with this team. >> well, were facing what everybody calls sort o...

Got into the national honor society. it was big deal. my father says that makes me suspicious about the honor roll. i kid to make a point. are we making things so easy, lowering the bar, might make the kid feel good but the mom is saying he is getting encouraged about things likes lack of participation. >> its harder to get a kid motivate if if he is going to be rewarded anyway. if he gets a cod, why -- a c or d, why try? >> he had to have gotten so many other grays of acor a-pluses to outweigh ...

I think that can be catastrophic in electoral terms for the democratic party in the long run. if they essentially eliminate public sector unions the democrats will lose one of their most important and strongest allies they have in any election. so i think the republicans are going to be emboldened by this. with wisconsin, well have to watch to see what happens with the state senate races. four on the bubble tonight and that could have a real impact in terms of what happens next in terms of wisco...

In getting -- helping blanch lincoln, senator out of arkansas, squeak by. >> exactly. and -- that was president obamas candidate. and there was some talk that president obama did not go into arkansas in the last moments simply because they looked at blanch lincoln and thought she is going down. yet, president -- former president bill clinton was down there cutting commercials for her and doing rallies for her. he pulled her through. theres some question whether it was that close of a race to beg...

Of the vote to anyone out of the box. >> do you think, you think basically your theory right now is that both the democrat who only has about 23%, isnt going to get very much higher, probably or you dont know. and marco rubio may have a ceiling lower than 40. so there is an opportunity for the other guy to squeak by. thats your estimate? >> rights, 35, 36% of the vote. >> heres marco rubio on the "today show" today. >> theres no desseerting by anybody. this is the power of the people, its suppos...

Coast, but when you get up to central florida, this is charlie crists hometown, tampa bay to orlando. this is where the elections are won. this is where barack obama carried florida. so i wouldnt give a big share of the vote to anyone out of the box. >> do you think, you think basically your theory right now is that both the democrat who only has about 23%, isnt going to get very much higher, probably or you dont know? and marco rubio may have a ceiling lower than 40. so there is an opportunity ...

Undergirding for further policy development in that area from the republicans. i think that can be catastrophic in electoral terms for the democratic party in the long run. if they essentially eliminate public sector unions the democrats will lose one of their most important and strongest allies they have in any election. so i think the republicans are going to be emboldened by this. with wisconsin, well have to watch to see what happens with the state senate races. four on the bubble tonight an...