Why you vote or why you dont vote. Heres how you can let us know. If you want to tell us on social media about why you vote or our twitter page, facebook or send us an email. We have front pages from some of these Key Senate Races that many are watching. The lexington Herald Leader out of kentucky highlighting the race between Mitch Mcconnell and Alison Lundergan grimes. It highlights the 4 billion price tag. Turning to the pages of louisianas paper, highlighting Mary Landrieu and bill cassidy expected to go to a runoff. That race is the states most expensive ever. None of the three front runners likely to draw 50 . For sets up a runoff december 6. , the morningo iowa register talking about the race in general taking a look at the governor race between joni ernst and bruce braley. If you turn to the pages of the New York Times, and op ed by two. Entlemen your predictable vote. It goes on talking about the psychology of voting. For you, we want to hear from you about why you vote or dont vote. R democrats. Four democrat on ourtart with patrick line for democrats. Tell us about your plans on this day. Caller good morning. Booth go to the voting and cast my vote for the democratic tickets. Me, the reason i vote is because its the only way anybody can actually move anything or make a difference. The reason i vote democratic is republicansink the pulled back on a lot of programs. They want to repeal the Affordable Care act and things like that. That is part much it. Host the wall street journal highlights the senate race in your state. Scott brown and Jeanne Shaheen. You will vote for senator shaheen . Caller yes, i am. I dont want scott brown and there. Scott brown in host why . Caller Jeanne Shaheen is more trustworthy. If she has been in that position. I dont necessarily trust his ideals or what he says that he wants to do. He is with the republicans, theirend to feel ideas pull everything back. Host mel from new york. Independent line. Caller good morning, pedro. I vote because i want to preserve this republic. When ben franklin was asked what we have, he said we have given you a republic. If you can keep it. We have to be engaged and informed. Here in new york, we have somebody to vote for our current governor, andrew is a progressive. If you look at her Economic Business climate, you see what progressivism is doing to ruin a states economy and limit the freedom of the people. In new york, there are conservatives. Im one of them. I want to preserve what we were given when our country was conceived. That is liberty. Host have you voted already . Caller i already voted. I was there at 6 15. Host what was the turn out like . Caller there were a few already there. Just behind my apartment. It was a short distance to walk. You see cars lined up. Todd during to kentucky, from shelbyville. Republican line. Caller good morning. Beautiful morning. To the previous colors comment callers comment, we cant have our government operate well if we dont actively engaged our government selection. If we dont get out there and make our opinions and voices known, we can have a Representative Government cant have a Representative Government. I already cast my vote for mr. Mcconnell to continue his leadership. Hopefully majority leadership after today. The collection of real clear politics polls shows he has a 49 favorable chance to win the contest against miss grimes. What most determines what goes into your vote . How do you gauge who you are going to vote for . I look at thecaller records of the candidates. The experience of the candidates. Package. The whole for me come outside polling is great, but i try not to let my be gauged aged or colored by the overall idea or perspective of someone. I like to make my own decisions. Host a handful of states being determined. The wall street journal has pictures of four of the races. Arkansas, tom cotton against mark pryor. Joni ernst and bruce braley. Scott brown facing off against Jeanne Shaheen. Experimentingi with mailin voting today. Im not able to vote because of the fact that they took my rights away because im a convicted felon. I dont think thats completely right. I wish they would give us our rights back. We already paid our debts to society. Host how long have you been not able to vote . Caller since 2007. Host have you try to appeal . Is there a process like that in connecticut . Caller not that i know of. This all happened in florida. I put in for the Voter Registration card but they never mailed me back anything. Im stuck waiting to vote eventually. Kai in washington, d. C. On her independent line. Good morning. Reason why i vote is because its all we have, man. This country is so incredibly corrupt. , but ito be a democrat switched to independent because the democrats dont seem to be able to compete with the nasty. Cans were soho are so when you listen to cspan, you get so disenfranchised and careful when you listen to the republicans. They cant convey anything to it is so scary. I lean towards democrats when theyoting because at least sound like they care about poor people in the middle class people. To them, theyn want the country to be like it was back in the civil war era. Understand, this taking back our country. Vote . How do you plan to caller im voting today for brown for governor. I actually live in maryland. Cant bring myself to vote republican. They have not yet shown me they care about everyone in this country. If theypublicans would just listen to their candidates and put them in our shoes, they would understand this better. If you are just joining us, if you plan to vote, why. If not, why. Many polls opening early this morning to our coverage of election day 2014 will start at 8 00 p. M. Tonight. You can comment on the phones come on twitter, on facebook. Campaign 2014, election coverage. Over 130 debates being covered. If you want to see those and see information from that, go to our cspan website. They feelhouse saying confident that the senate will stay democratic. Including the White House Press secretary. Ifwering a reporter question the president himself agrees with the vice president. [video clip] idea thated in this as voters hone in on the central question of this campaign, are you going to be supportive of the candidate fighting for middleclass families. That is a strong argument. They are also backed by a tried and ground strategy tried and true ground strategy. In strategies that were successfully led by the president s team. That is the way the president has made a tangible contribution to benefit democrats on the ballot tomorrow. The White House Press secretary talking about that. Why you vote or plan not to vote. John from texas, republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning and thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts this morning. I feel its absolute crucial we restore the three equal branches of government. Havee never in my 51 years ever seen a president acting more like an emperor by executive decree. I appoint a czar its wrong. Are being denied the sensibilities of individualism. It is up to a person to seek out and be the best person they can and stop looking for the government to help you. The previous caller said the republicans are meanspirited and ugly. Its not that, sir. We believe in the spirit of an individual and of the godgiven tiest and the liber afforded to us in the constitution. Vote for parity. Thank you so much for allowing me to share my thoughts. Host joe from iowa on our independent line. Caller i have already voted. It is my only expression of freedom that we as americans have. If you try to take away a free mans freedom, that is the worst thing in the world that you come up against. Host who did you vote for . Caller bruce braley. Host why did you choose him . Caller hes the better of the two candidates. Koch not paid for by the brothers like joni ernst is. Have you voted for both democrats and republicans in years past . Ballot. We have a secret is the same question they asked the lady running against Mitch Mcconnell. Host joe from iowa talking about the senate race. If you go to real clear politics, they take a sampling of polls across the United States and combine them into tossups and likely races. Tossups in alaska, colorado, georgia, iowa, kansas, louisiana, New Hampshire and North Carolina. People will be looking to as polls continue throughout the day. You can see the wrap up of what happened tonight at 8 00 on cspan. Arizona, democrats line. Caller good morning. It is my right to vote. Im female. It took us until 1920 to get the boat. During the civil rights era, a lot of people thought and died for that right. Im democrat. I take offense to people who have down our president. He is our president. I voted because its my right to vote. Host susan from georgia. Democrats line. Caller thank you so much for cspan. Im not going to vote today because im in the middle of moving and i did not get my Voter Registration sent over. If i were voting, i would vote for Michelle Nunn. Im a democrat because i love the republicans. As i was divorcing a republican pilot, my attorney had me interview my replacement. Divorced me the day my was final. I have taken zero for child intimidation from a republican county. Georgia is corrupt and it is red. Republicans are drooling i dont respect them. Host real clear politics looking at their combined poll average and taking a look at georgia. As a result of those combined edge. Purdue with the 47. 4 over Michelle Nunn. You talk specifically about a race you are watching. Why you vote or dont look. Numbers will be on the screen. West virginia, talking to frank on the republican line. Caller i hope joe from iowa does not think he is fully anybody. Fooling anybody. Has brought party us legalized government paid for abortions, homosexual marriage and 17. 5 trillion in debt. God will not bless a country babiesgally kills unborn. We cannot spend our way into prosperity. Vote republican. Host this is charles from ohio. Caller i am independent because i believe the democrats are spineless and the republicans are totally corrupt. They are voting to send jobs out the country. I dont understand that. If you look at the proper candidate, what are the qualifications . Most of these republicans send jobs out the country. The democrats allowed it. Host you are planning on voting today . Caller i am. Host any indications of which raises you will be most interested . Caller he tried to stop other things, so i am going to try to vote him out. I have to vote for somebody for governor. Races, im going to see what the qualifications are. That is charles from cleveland, ohio. Mitch mcconnell is not only the Senate Minority leader, but he gave the address this past weekend. He talked about what would happen if the senate does go to republican hands and talks about the idea of ending gridlock in washington. [video clip] the American People choose to send a republican majority to congress the selection, we can finally help ensure a new republican majority would mean we would get everything you want from washington. We would be able to bring the current legislative gridlock to a merciful and. Be able to start sending bills to the president desk again. Under a new majority, our focus would be on h passing legislation that improved the economy. That helps restore americans confidence in their country and their government. We want to ease the squeeze on working families and improve economic opportunity. We want to make it easier for families to join the middle class. We want to increase Career Prospects for college graduates. A new republican majority would look towards ensuring those of policies instead of succumbing to the current gridlock. Host robert from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Good morning. Old and im 78 years black folksime when could not vote in certain states. It is a disgrace if people iat home and not vote keep hearing republicans talk about what they want to do. Realize the stock markets are up and people have health care they have never had before . I dont know what people really want. Has attacked obama so much that people dont even know and take what they hear on these cable stations, all the negative things about obama. Hope is that people get out of bed and get outside and vote. I dont care how you vote, but vote. Host you talked about the messages that come out. How do you think democrats have done in talking about health care and the economy . Media keeps saying obamacare instead of aca. It scares people. They listen to all these people on cable. Ple are impressing them pressing them to vote for what they think the people want. Want goodcans really health care. Negativenessuch that comes out of peoples mouths on these cable stations. Thats why these politicians go one way. Host paul from texas on the republican line. Caller good morning. I would like to remind everyone in america, there are three god,s we could turn to pray and vote. I have already voted republican. The Democratic Convention voted god out of their platform. I have to turn to god. What determines who you will vote for . What are you looking for . Christians. Conscience. Te their we have people voting for parties instead of voting i do not want my fouryearold i cannot do that anymore. We have to turn back to god in this nation. Ronald from philadelphia, pennsylvania. Independent line. Caller im definitely going to vote today. They are talking about taking back the country. Who are they going to take it from . Women or minorities . They want to take it back from everybody. Undecided voters are the topic of a piece in the Washington Times. Maryland is up next. Troy on the democrats line. Good morning. Im 50 years old. 1984 when i since was so anxious to vote for reagan and mondale. I lost. Hadnto crestfallen, i voted since then. Because that is what we have to do. We dont have a voice. Host turnout is going to be crucial in your governors race in maryland. Caller yes. Im getting up right now and ready to go. Host who are you supporting . Caller brown. Host tell us why. Caller i have voted in the past republican. It took me a while to do that. With brown, i think he is the way to go. On ourrom louisiana independent line, here is glenda. Caller im really an independent but i will vote democrat because if you vote independent, your vote is going to go to waste. Mitch mcconnell saying hes going to help the working class. They dont say anything about raising the minimum wage. The republicans want to get rid of obamacare. They do not have an alternative. They keep saying theyre going to do this and that but they dont have anything behind it. A lot of these people who are going to vote today are so uneducated about what is going on. It is scary. Host tell us about who you are going to support in the senate race. Caller Mary Landrieu. Host why her . Caller im against bill cassidy. He wants to change the retirement age to 70 and prioritize medicare. It wasexisting going way up because of preexisting. It was not for the Affordable Care act, i cannot get insurance. If they bring back preexisting and give all people a 400 check a month to go by private insurance, they are not going to be able to get it. It would take their entire Social Security check to buy insurance. There is no way i could support bill cassidy. He is for the wealthy, not the working class. Francis in hear from tennessee. Republican line. Caller good morning. I would like to say that i wish you all could come up with a better system to give more equal democrats and republicans. Democratsent and the say all is well. The number that is unemployed, it is greater than it has been in a long time. Nobody talks about the debt. People cannot even write trillion. It has 12 zeros and it. In a matter of six years, we have increased that debt by a trillion dollars. 8 trillion. The Federal Reserve has gone into debt buying bonds to keep the stock market up. I wish things were better, but we have to be honest and know that the economy is drowning and people are in trouble. Think when you vote and please vote republican. Host who do you support on this day . Francis . If you go to the pages of the New York Times, plenty of stories about election day today. Also a story taking a look at a position by the Justice Department centering on automakers. Hyundai and kia for misstating mileage. Carl davenport 20 us on the phone to talk about the story. Phone. Ing to us on the caller the Justice Department yesterday handed down a settlement that totaled 300. Illion in penalties overstating their mileage on their stickers. Ed them for violating the Clean Air Act. One of the largest settlements ever by the federal government. Of the most committed punitive actions ever taken against the auto industry. The point they wanted to make was, by overstating their mileage, they sold vehicles to consumers who then spent more money and did not get the mileage they were promised and put more Carbon Dioxide into the air. The administration wanted to make the point that Clean Air Act regulations, they are going to enforce those regulations and provisions aggressively. Host we want to hear directly from eric holder himself who made a statement about the settlement. [video clip] under the historic settlement we announced today the hyundai and kia will remedy themselves by doing three things. They will pay a civil penalty of 100 million. The largest civil penalty ever secured under the Clean Air Act. This will send a strong message that cheating is not profitable and any company that violates the law will be held accountable. Forfeit thekia will gas credits the company wrongly claimed. Requiretlement will the