>> welcome back. the midterm elections did have a few problems. voters in connecticut's largest city had two extra hours to make their picks. a dozen precincts in bridgeport ran out of scanner ballots, forcing some voters to wait in very long lines there. a judge ordered those precincts to remain open until 10:00 p.m. instead of closing at 8:00 as scheduled. ballot problems had election workers out in california putting in overtime as well. they were forced to use rubber erasers to remove smudges from mail-in ballots. they say the extraneous marks from printer toner were throwing off the optical scan ballot reading machines. in other political news this morning, president bush writes in his new memoir that he considered dumping dick cheney from the ticket in 2004. mr. bush said making such a change would have demonstrated that he was in charge. cheney had also become a lightning rod for criticism from the left and the media. but in the end mr. bush said he