Boy, their impact was felt last night. Yep. You have a race between two factions of the Republican Party, businessbacked candidate Bradley Byrne defeated Tea Party Darling dean young. One more, in new york city, there was never a doubt. Holy cow. Bill de blasio coasted to victory in a win for the Progressive Agenda he defeated joe lhota is progressive the word here . All right. The first democratpoints. The first democrat to be elected mayor. There is progressive, then there is this bill depalassio. All right. We will get there. Good morning, everyone, we are in washington. With us on set here in washington, we have White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. Sam, that was all wrong what you tweeted. That was all right. That was so bad, i cant believe who would do it, some . It goes back. You study the ancient scriptures. Sol, leviticus, what happens in a circumcision stays in a circumcision. Pictures of a circumcision. Thats no fair. Its a modern digital age. Poor baby. Its almost kardashian right there. And the political birth, also. Msnbc political analyst is with us. Political commentator, Senior AnalystCokie Roberts and columnist for plume berg view al hunt and were not done. Because in new york, the great, the very scragly, the very. Look at that, hes bad. The Matthew Mcconaughey going on there. Ill take that. Did sam send us pictures from this event . He sent us a picture right before. One picture prebris. I wont apologize, lets see what happened in virginia last night. All right. We have some things to talk about. In virginia, Ken Cuccinelli says the results proved republican groups proved they missed an opportunity to win. By actually nominating the right guy. Good point, ken. Adding they should have stepped up their support last month. Cuccinelli said voters sent a strong signal about obama care while mcauliffebridge is the bridge to divide. Despite being out precedented 15 million, this race came down to the wire because of obama care. That message will go out across america tonight. The truth is that this election was never a choice between democrats and republicans. It was a choice about whether virginia would continue the main stream bipartisan tradition that has served is so well over the last decade at a time when washington was often broken, just think about what virginia has been able to accomplish when we work together. The polls show kind of a wide gap and that terry would win. You put it close. 7, 8, 9 poevenlts anybody that spent time in virginia, Terry Mcauliffe. I like him. Hes not a virginia guy. Hes not a virginia governor. I lived in Northern Virginia, i lived in washington during the last campaign. You walk through. I told him this you hear that voice, thats syracuse, new york voice. Thats not the voice of a virginia. Although, he covered tidewater by a lot of votes. I will say this, though the fact, cokie, im certainly not spinning here. I was for the fan of cuccinelli in the very beginning because i thought he would lose, but you take the Government Shutdown, which killed him, you take his own fraud candidacy, you take the ethics investigations and his extreme positions, he wrote a book like opposing Social Security, medicare. This race was almost won. If im a democrat, im not sitting here thinking this is a high water mark. For virginia like liberalism. No, it certainly isnt. Except what you lock like, if are you a republican, you have to keep looking at the demographics and the last Gubernatorial Race in virginia, 78 of the voters were white. This time, 72 of the voters were white. Cuccinelli carried the whites by big margins. But you know, every time. There were probably a lot of white republicans who stayed home, because they werent going to vote for Ken Cuccinelli or Terry Mcauliffe. How do we know . I just know. Because hes look, to the data, however. Those public polls were wrong. They had wrong i thought jeff geen the mcauliffe poster always said until five days ago, this was going to be a two, three, point race. Democrats are saying we own everything now. Republicans had to work. This is the thing. Republicans had to work extra hard to lose the way they lost in virginia last night. They had to go out of their way. The Government Shutdown really helped. The Government Shutdown, also three in ten voters in virginia said their personal households were affected by that. Not only the Government Shutdown, which was huge, also, the extreme candidate, i will use that word, the extreme candidates that came out of this caucus process cuccinelli was one of the more moderate candidates. The ting from the exit poll, though, which is that they asked who do you blame for the Government Shutdown in virginia . Actually, it was spread evenly, just bare lir they blame more republicans than obama. My theory. Hold on, though, you got to finish that story, though, for people whose vote was decided on the Government Shutdown, that broke big for democrats. I think the simplest explanation is the most likely one here, which is twofold, Ken Cuccinelli spent more money, that helps. Secondly, there are more democrats coming into Northern Virginia. You combine those two, you will end up with a solidly although slightly leaning Democratic State until you have a different type. Michael cuccinelli has a reason to say, hey, guy, if you had supported me as much as you supported Chris Christie, i probably could have gotten that 2 . We put three times the money in virginia four years ago the circumstances were the same. You have that Northern Virginia swing and the weight of Northern Virginia has become very much as we see a state in parld, where three county, baltimore city, prince georges county, Montgomery County determine the outcome of a rails. You seen the party has not adapted to that t. Dra demographic shift, the ability on the ground to put the money in there in the last hours makes then you look at Northern Virginia, and you had a lot of Republican Voters, a lot of swing voters that stayed home. Interestingly enough, bob mcdonald who we were praiseing for years because bobs for jobs. He ran a nonideological campaign and won big, his Approval Rating in virginia, according to these exit poll, still high. Considerably higher than the president s. Bob mcdonald, let everybody hear this. The candidate matters. The ideology matter, bob mcdonald is more popular in virginia than barak obama or Ken Cuccinelli. Or Terry Mcauliffe. Bob mcdonald remains popular. He has a big story if virginia is women which helped lead, of course the nbc news exit polls the democrats to victory. More than half voted for mcauliffe. Voters believe the economy and health care were top issues in the election. Cuccinelli beat mcauliffe on votes, keeping it close. The issue of abortion rights helped mcauliffe eek out the win. Voters said it was their tough issue preferred mcauliffe. He won big with virginia voters affected by the Government Shutdown as we said. But we got to talking about cokie. Obama care. Wait a second, normally, you dont see it. Normally, you do not see voters that many voters that they care about abortion. Its usually way down the list. Right. But it was like the third issue in voters concerns and they voted overwhelmingly for mcauliffe. Dont explain who that is. Because cuccinelli is adamant opposition and but its interesting, married women voted for cuccinelli by about nine points. Unmarried women voted for mcauliffe by 42 points. So, i mean, you are locking at a huge spread. The split of course in new jersey, so if democrats think theyre going to run on abortion nationwide, they should go to see what happened up in new jersey, where you had the first prolife republican winning statewide. We got to talk about obama care. Really quickly. Because Ken Cuccinelli and we are like 11 minutes in. We havent talked about how does this disaster rollout impact the race in virginia . Cuccinelli made a bet down the stretch by hammering obama care, im going to win, early in the evening, a lot of liberals are on tv saying, oh, he miscalculated. Hes getting killed. By the end of the notice, everybody is thinking this campaign, if it had gone another week, he may have won. Im not sure he would have, i think he scored points, a lot better than the other miserable ads he ran. That did have some effect. Clearly, one cannot imagine why it would be a liability given the other weeks. Latinos and asians, looking at where they vote. It appears they went 65, 66 for the democrats and that again in virginia is the Fastest Growing slois of the elector. Up in new jersey, we got the exit polls, its almost a 5050 split. Slightly more t. Family is with christie. Governor Chris Christie in new jersey received 60 of the vote in the typically blue state. Hes presenting himself as an outsider who can appeal to both parties and get the job done. While we may not always agree, we show up. We show up everywhere. We dont show up just in the places that vote for us a lot. We show up in the places that vote for us a little. We dont just show up in the places where were comfortable. We show up in the places where worry uncomfortable. Because when you leave, you need to be there. You need to show up. You need to listen. Then you need to for the next four years, we will fight to make those changes permanent and we will fight to make them bicker. I did not seek second term to do small things. I sought a second term to finish if job. Now watch me do it nbc news poll showed governor Chris Christie. He wants to finish the job. Stop. We love chris. He wants to finish his job. He wants all right. It affects their homes. Thats the job he was talking about. The land shroud made possible thanks, to a third of democratic voters, 31 of liberals and one in five africanamerican voters, strong support from women gave him a 15 point edge over Barbara Bueno, a woman. Christie had a 28 advantage with men. Shes also a check. She lost the catholic vote big, too. Wow. With many expecting him to run for president if 2016, 51 of voters said they believe governor christie would make a good president. If the election took place today, by the way, governor christie would lose his home state to Hillary Clinton 48 to 44 , interesting. Lets go to new york, hes a jersey guy. You can see. Hes got that. No nonsense. I dont know what you say that jersey has points like that, but they dont. Willie, Chris Christie, a guy who has been mocked by people on the far right talk radio, the guy won the majority of the hispanic voters, he won 21 of africanamerican voters. You have to go back to Richard Nixon that did that well nationally in these areas. Last night, what was your take away being a native new jersey . Well, if the crisis one year ago today after mitt romney lost election to barak obama and the Republican Party was looking us up saying we got to do something about women and something about the latino vote. This morning, we wake up, Chris Christie winning women, winning latinos in the Democratic State, 700,000 more than Republican Voters exist in the state of new jersey. 21 of african americans, up from 8 for him four years ago. He won 342 of democratic voters. Interesting, you all were talking about samesex marriage, he is obviously against samesex marriage. He tied barbara bound no among people for samesex marriage. 4949 was that number. Obviously, sandy helped him. 85 of those coming out said they approved of his handling of that. If you are locking at chris chris teerks not saying he will be the nominee. He likely will run. If he was building a resume like a College BasketballTeam Building his resume for the big dance, he can go back to all these numbers now the National Party cant ignore what hes done in new jersey and what he did in all these demographics last night. Willie, we had a lot of people come on our set in the past sixandahalf seven years, if anybody came on and said you know what, i think a prolife guy against samesex marriage canbin win big in a blue state like new jersey, we would think they were crazy. This is yet another example of how the candidate, himself, pat buchanan would say, the political atmospherelight, if you get the right athlete, they can do big things in states that, you know, bill clinton in arkansas. Quickly, if theyre running against somebody nobody loix. That helps, too. We ask in exit polls, are you voting for your candidate because you like him or her or like him with reservations or dislike him . One of the voters said they disliked her. So thats not going to work. That will help. Anyway, willie, its pretty remarkable this guy who is prolife, against same six marriage did as well as he did in the blue state. Against raising the minimum wage, a lot of things important for voters who voted for him in large part t. Spotlight gets a lot big fer he decides to run for president , boating say Hillary Clinton will be an entirely different matter with due respect to senator bueno. I think things get ramped up now. Mark halperin was around the studio, he said he thought that governor christie actually nodes to do more with the message, not enough to fall back on the numbers. He needs to go after specific republicans and digging in on this antiwashington position. Whats really interesting is how people approved of his handling of the economy, which remains the number one issue for everybody. Yet, 85 said they approved of his handling of sandy, which was an enormous number, obviously. 65 approve of the economy. Its not to get caught up in everybody elses excitement about him. Its really going to be a matter of taking, joe, you know this, you know our base, he will have to take what hes done and translate it in real terms for the base to understand, im with you, im leak you. Look what ive done. A guy that vetoed tax increases, prolife, took on the union, had a showdown every bit as tough as scott walker, what this isnt like a leading question, whats not conservative about him . Just. The thing with that, there is a lot. Its not that its not conservative. Its problematic. What . For instance, gun control. What is his position on gun control . He has been supportive on assault weapons ban, Climate Science, he has been supportive that Climate Science is true and should be observed. He has expressed in his support for a path for citizenship and supportive of president obama. Can i say of all things you listed, that latter sin is the greatest sin. At the end of the day, no matter how you cut it, this other stuff pales in comparison. By putting a picture of obama together. Watching him last night in the themes of his speech, explicitly looking forward to a president ial run, secondly, political productivity is a selling point vs. Apathy. I think it resonates now. I think a lot of people, including in the Republican Party are tired of seeing nothing happen. They want to see someone that can produce change. Even the union households, he only lost them by six points. Thats amazing. More than a quarter of a vote. Quickly, hes got to have sometime fairly soon his houston ministers moment. Hes got to address some of these right wing groups and say, im not with you on everything, i am a basic conservative, see how that sells. Right now, theyre suspicious if places like iowa. The poem who have the money are not. Hey, listen, we have a lot to do. Alabama race. Oh, lordy. I cant believe you talked as much you did. Do you need to interrupt in do i have to foley okay about it neighborhood, former adviser David Axelrod joins us and hardball analyst will talk to charlie cook and later carol king will be joining us. Love her. Plus my zbal up in new york with the political playbook. Also the mayor of toronto admits he has used crack. I never saw that coming. I know. We will show you his absolutely surreal news conference. There is no reason to be covering this. He said it will probably not happen again around that tie he was wearing yesterday, i had bed sheets like that on my bunk bed. Bill kierans will have a check of the weather. Entertainment value. Good morning, everyone. As far as travel goes today, minneapolis saw two inches of snow, if are you waking up to that, at the airport, there will be minor except for that, rain,. Right across texas. So, chicago, st. Louis detroit, houston, there will be minor airport delays and travel concerns. Its not going to be Severe Weather or thunderstorms. Its a steady kind of cold rain. You can see the snow ending in minneapolis. Its 33 degrees. Be careful on the bridges and overpasses. The roads should be okay. As far as the rest of the region goes the rain in green, it will be a soaker of a day, chicago, st. Louis, then it will head to clevela