How would you richer Current Governor . We have a multitude of ways you can reach out to us. Tell us who your governor is and what you like or dont like about that person. The phone lines are on your screen. You can tweet us and we have over 100 participants on our Facebook Page and you can always email us. We have pulled the front pages from regional papers to show you two races of note, its the virginia governors race and this is from the Richmond Times dispatch. Go to the new jersey papers, the Gubernatorial Race in new jersey. Mr. Christie is expected to win that race. We are using these races to talk about larger gubernatorial issues and how to rate your governor. Give us a sense of how your governor is doing and you can do so today. Here are the numbers again host we will take your calls in just a moment. We will talk a little bit about those races that we highlighted at the top of the show. Helping us to break it down is alexander bern. He is the senior political reporter. Thank you for joining us. People about tell these two races why or why not they are important what would you say . Caller the new jersey race is very important for one reason and one reason only. That is Chris Christies national future. If he wins this election by the margin that the polls show, that is a big feather in his cap. He is a potential candidate that will be able to say he was a conservative and up loose date in a blue state. Complicated. Ore theres not a dominant personality involved. There are two candidates both are very flawed. This is an important race is that we have seen over the last few years in the state of virginia that it has gone from a predominantly republican state to a real swing state. Is thatcould see today virginia may be leaning to the democrats. This is an off year election. Virginia has historically elected a governor from the opposite party. Like the trend will break tonight. Host talk about the significance in the virginia race there is also a third candidate. Caller that is right. Robert sarvis is running under the libertarian banner. Play off of to divisions on the right. Open his tagline is openminded and open for business. He has liberal views on abortion and gay rights. Unlike ken cuccinelli. Use of how theve state ought to use the business. Turnoutat is the expected to be and who does that favor . Caller both sides agreed that the turnout will be north of 2 Million People. That is more than voted in the 2009 governors race. It is really an open question. Democrats feel good about the turnout. They feel that they have put a lot of time and money into making sure that they have voter show up today. Asublicans benefit from much as virginia may be changing as a state, the people who tend to be most intent about voting tend to be the more conservative, the older a lecture it. We saw some highprofile people campaigning for both of these gentlemen. Specifically, Terry Mcauliffe and can pitch and ellie. And what does this tell you about the importance of this race . Caller the republicans had this parade of wouldbe president ial candidates. Others o and everyone except for chris christie. On the democratic side, you had barack obama and joe biden in the last 48 hours. In the last few weeks, you had bill and hillary clinton. They have been there for Terry Mcauliffe for a very long time. Be hard forill people to say the big impact the overwhelming star power on the democratic side. Republicans have a strong bench on the 2016 residential race. They do not have a lot of people who can go toe to toe with sitting and former president s. Host what does poland look like in virginia . Caller it varies. It has been pretty consistent for months. From aves have buried few points. Private, other races are probably closer to five percent. The turnout you mentioned is key. Republicans show up, even though their candidate is failing at this point i think we democrats will show up, even though their candidate seems fine. Host talk about chris christie. If he wins reelection, what does he face . Caller he has a whole bunch of issues related to education. Shore, gaythe jersey marriage these were raised in his first term. These are not completely resolved. We see him as someone who certainly could run for president in 2016. It will be interesting to watch. Before he gets sucked into the 2016 whirlpool, what will he prioritize . And his challenger anything to add about her . Waitr i think we should and see what she has to say about this race. She is a candidate who has a number of hallmarks of a person who democrats would ordinarily support. She is an experienced legislator. She is a highprofile woman in a state that has not elected a female democratic governor. She has not gotten support from the national party. She is someone who could lay down some interesting straight talk. Burns, a Senior Reporter for political four politico. Thank you. On facebook. Com, our cspan page, you can post your thoughts. Sean wolf out of california says that jerry brown is terrible. There are 100 plus weighing in there. Phones, democratic line in montana. They q4 waiting. Thank you for waiting. Caller i am so grateful for your program. You guys are wonderful. Youre a bright light in the midst of darkness. Here is what i would like to say. My governor is excellent. Mr. Bullock is excellent. The only thing i have to say is Representative Government is not listening to the people. We called them repeatedly. Even the Democratic NationalCommittee Says they are not listening to people. Arehis farm bill, they trying to take away all of the would i personally like to ask cspan to bring a more issues about Animal Rights and the treatment of livestock animals. Please, you can do this for us. Shine the light. This is a very dark area in our society. Host thank you for the comment. Go, what specifically do you admire . Caller he tries as hard as he can. We have a Republican Base to senate, though we cant get anything through. Were trying to get legislation wegive breeders to stop need quality of life for animals, not quantity. Anyway, thank you so much. I am so grateful. Line. Republican chicago, illinois. Caller everybody who complains about republicans we live here in illinois and we have a vetoproof senate and a vetoproof house. Stand orlicans cannot stop our financial fiasco. We are the worst in the country, if not secondworst. Host who is your governor . Caller quinton. Host what would be your opinion of him . Caller no one can address the problems that we have here in illinois. We have problems with pension reforms. Were going to get caught up and nobody ever applies money in the right place. Were coming to the expiration of the tax increase and nothing has been done. Evil,it there like see no hear no evil, speak no evil. Host another caller from illinois. Independent mind. Caller good morning. I have to agree with the last caller. I would like to add that illinois has been democratic rolled for the last 20 plus years. It was run by chicago, basically. 175 billion dollars of pension debt. 100 plus is nonfunded. We have the third highest gas tax in the nation. We have one of the most indebtedness percentages in the nation. We have the highest unemployment in the nation. If anyone wants to see look at illinois. We kick the can down the road for 20 years. State andcians in the the governor have spent almost four years trying to come up with a solution to the pension debt. Can you imagine . They cannot come up with a solution to it . Host a lot of people giving their thoughts on the governor. Is this because we talked about the virginia and new jersey governors races . The coverage on cspan will begin live tonight at 9 00. That will be on our main channel. Look for more on our website. Janet is from virginia beach, va. Democratic line. Caller hello. Good morning. I am not very happy with our governor. I am very happy to be voting today. I wish we could get someone in like kentucky. That would be great. Host you will be voting for Terry Mcauliffe then . Caller absolutely. Lesser the of two evils. Host why specifically . Caller womens rights. I do want to Say Something about the lady who was on a minute ago. About Animal Rights. I agree with her 100 . We do need to do more about that. Mcauliffe, it is probably more about what cuccine lli is for. He is so radical. It would be a repeat of mcdonnell. I hope it stays will end in december and we will get on with it. Is joining us from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Republican line. You are on. Businessur governor is friendly. He has lowered taxes on several corporations. He has lowered several taxes on corporations which is helpful to business. He focuses on jobs and trying to increase jobs here. The main thing is he does not lie like the president. I like that about him. Host what is your Legislature Like in pennsylvania . Who controls it . Caller republicans. Host as far as lower taxes, what do you like about him . Caller that is the main thing i would say right now. We need the jobs. Businesses, paying lower taxes, they can hire more people. He is honest. He is not like the president. Host another opinion of the pennsylvania mayor on Facebook Robin is talking about heaven called him awful. Facebook. Com is where you can post those. Send this email too. When you look at governorships across the country, area of them are in republican hands. 19 are in democratic hands. Hands. In independent you can see this map demonstrating. This is the independent line. Caller we have to get some credit everybody wants to get a job. Know, besides personal reasons, we may not always agree is pretty exas it all depends how many people are allowed to sign onto health care. We should have done this years ago. It would be really rude of duty not to allow everyone onto her health to report reform. Nobody else wants to have kids in this country. Host when it comes to the jobs question, what has rick perry done to bring jobs to texas . Caller . Shes gone. The line. Nelius on caller i just want to say one thing. I like my governor. All governors who go along with this barbaric standard ground law are doing the same thing. Host why do you rate your governor zero . He hung up to. The tallahassee democrat is looking at the previous governor. He is going to run in that state for governor as a democrat now. This is the top story. This is one of the most closely watched Gubernatorial Races in the country. He challenges rick scott. Mr. Christoffel reverse mr. Some of theeverse contentious policy decisions that made during his first year in office. He supports tax cuts for the middle class and once further cuts to education funding. He says that what we have in florida is not working. Next up is lafayette, indiana. This is terry on the republican line. Caller good morning. About wanted to complain our senator our governor, i mean. I have a newspaper article in front of me. This is from january 30. He wants to ease my water regulations. This is on the heel of state budget cuts. Tois sponsoring a bill decriminalize marijuana. Democrat sponsored bill. Madeommittee recommendations and modifications. The governor found out about this and said to stop it immediately. It is the number one selling illegal drug in the world. You could break up drug gangs if you legalized the stuff. It is ridiculous. It is harmless. Napoleon bonaparte went into egypt and discovered it there is no chance of overdosing. Our government could make money instead of drug gangs. My father told me year after year that you can buy Illegal Drugs in the prisons. Deals fromh better the guards. The guards make more money from that than on their paychecks. Host independent line. Good morning. Youre on. Who is your governor . My problem specifically is that this government has come that if he mindset turns back the clock, for instance, there are people here that he believes should not be allowed to vote. What they have done is made a problem out of no problem. They just created one. This was to keep people away from the polls. How can voting be a problem . How can sameday registration be a problem . With do not have a problem people voting illegally, then why are they doing this . This is the pattern all across this nation. People need to wake up. We are not going to be a another thing i would like to say, with governor christie, everyone is watching the news. Everyone is saying how much he is going to win by. To theat means Republican Party and to the democrats and all of that nobody mentions the fact that governor christie spent over 1 million to help cory bookers election. Upstaged by his by the person running against him. Nobody mentions that. If you are going to win so big, why would you move that kind of money so they his image . It is almost like the media is in bed with that. I would like someone to call in and become that. That is an interesting concept to me. Host out of maine, the governors race. The Washington Times wrote about portland, maine. They have endured more than a dozen elections without anyone s sexuality. Ichaud everyone knows that he is gay. He came out publicly. He was being dogged in his gubernatorial campaign. His mother and siblings did not want to be interviewed. There was a threeway race. He is running close in the polls. The election as an 2014. Flagstaff, Arizona Democratic line. Caller good morning. I finally got through. I wanted to say that my governor is jan brewer. It goes to the Animal Rights issue you were talking about this last night. As far as the gay and lesbian issue i am disabled with a brain injury. Came and putada restrictions on Service Animals. They said that Service Animals can only be dogs and miniature horses. I guess they put something online to hear from people before they made this decision, but this decision came about because it is obvious who has money. Restaurant associations and people like that say that people were bringing her stocks into restaurants and letting the meat off of plates. They are putting in laws to prevent that. If they changed the nature of the business and disrupt other customers, they could ask you to leave. Has your governor weighed in on this . I am trying to get the connection. My point is that they heard from people who have no access to the internet. They cannot afford a computer i have a brain injury and i cannot use the internet. I could not be heard. She signed into law in the spring it became effective in these restrictions on Service Animals for the state of arizona. I am living on 700 per month. Heard i do not have money and i cannot change my position. I have no voice. I cannot get another job. From pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Republican line. Caller hi. For republican tom corbett he was a great attorney general. I believe that he is a great governor. The best governor. There was cronyism before. What makes him great . Caller he has tried to do well by the people. He is fair. That is marianne from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. A couple of emails for you. This is from b. J. In annapolis. Were talking about martin omalley. Higher taxes, dropping house prices, millionaires leaving the state. Also weighing in about the governor of minnesota, mark says that they are fortunate to have mark dayton as governor. He serves the common good and has appointed people to support were looking at races in virginia and new jersey. We have an opportunity for you to talk about your governor and how you would rate your governor. The numbers are on your screen. Taking a look at virginia and new jersey, our coverage will start at 9 00 this evening. Tune in to get the latest news and your reactions. That coverage starts at 9 00. You can get more information at cspan. Org. The information is there for you on the screen. We will hear from michael in myrtle beach, south carolina. Independent line. Good morning. Caller Governor Haley has done an excellent job. Boeing,esses michelin, are expanding into south carolina. Is department of revenue reached a year ago by hackers. 3. 5 million citizens in our state had their search Social Security numbers and other information criticized compromise. Reaction was slow. There was a fourmonth gap before they fixed the problem. I would rate my governor out of because of her inability to handle the situation. Host Supreme Court and abortion law is the top story on the Washington Times. In abortionng that cases, the Supreme Court will block the texas law to restrict abortions. Case is an oklahoma seeking to revise restrictions on abortions. Planned parenthood asked the high court to put an emergency hold on the new state law requires abortionists to have local hospital admitting privileges. About the decision that Supreme Court adjust justices made about oklahoma. The oklahoma law required providers follow food and and Drug Association rules. It was dismissed and they the wall will remain struck down. Veronica from indianapolis, indiana. Republican line. Caller hello. We will hear next from jeffrey. Jeffrey is from gary, indiana. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think that i would give my governor is zero. He is not the governor of all of indiana. They have a stranglehold. Reason, they have built a third airport in this area. He does not care. I think he is partially a tea party person. Host talk about this airport. What he mean by that . Caller we are in the northwest corner of indiana. We have the Perfect Place for a third airport. , ohare, anddway then gary. We are vying for that third airport in this area. It would be right by the tollway. The land is not being used around here. I do not think he wants to believe. What do you mean by that . This is a democratic area. Ifry, other areas the state would actually beefed up and give us a chance to get a third airport. Host massachusetts, good morning. He is wrong. He is a good he is a big zero. All he cares about his taxes.