A flood of famous surrogates are hitting the trail. Having highprofile surrogates to boost the rallies does help. William Jefferson Clinton bill clinton is returning to the bluegrass state. We stood up to everything they had thrown at her and shes still standing. One ad stars mitt romney. If you want to shake up washington then your candidate is thom tillis. They have to be willing to answer the tough questions and his opponent has not. Today, president obama heads to maine. In the middle of a tough governors race there. We know obama is not on the ballot. I would like to be candid with you. I would be very surprised if obama is reelected. Democrats are very, very nervous. For good reason. This is a very favorable field for the republicans. The question, of course, who turns out to vote. We have new polls tonight in some of the campaigns that will decide control of the United States senate, while the most popular politicians in both parties continue to rush from state to state, campaigning for candidates. In north carolina, kay hagan is four points ahead of thom tillis. In New Hampshire tonight, one poll shows a tie at 4949 between incumbent senator Jeanne Shaheen and scott brown. But a different poll just out tonight by the university of New Hampshire has Jeanne Shaheen ahead by eight points in New Hampshire. And a new quinnipiac poll in colorado shows republican cory gardner widing his lead over mark udall. Kentucky is seeing a lot of the clintons these days. Hillary clinton campaigned for Alison Grimes. And today, bill clinton made his fourth trip to kentucky where Alison Grimes is try to unseat Republican Senate leader mitch mcconnell. You may not like me, but you still got to vote against her. Its not that you want to vote against her. Theyve trite to kick her off the ballot and put the president on in his place. A man whos been here for 30 years said im sorry, i cant talk about your promise. I cant talk about your problems. I got to demonize her. Into the valley went goliath and david. David turned out to be a girl who whooped him anyway. The obamas spent the day in new england. President obama campaigned in maine. And Michelle Obama went to rhode island to help ramondo in her campaign for governor. Then headed to connecticut to support the reelection of governor dan malloy. Where the first lady was confronted by a young woman who was disappointed by the governments failure to act on immigration reform. You can not yet in the audience unless youre going to vote. You got to vote [ applause ] every single issue that you care about, whether its schools or jobs or dreamers or neighborhoods, so many of those decisions are made by your governor. Understand this. This is local politics. Joining me now as youve already noticed, alex wagner, host of msnbcs now with alex wagner and chris hayes, host of all in with chris hayes. The stars of the a block. The big news tonight is the hot poll out in New Hampshire. An eightpoint lead. There hasnt been any polling that either candidate was going to pull an eightpoint lead. Scott brown has run a totally ridiculous race. I mean you do have to worry about isis ebola on the southern border. Exactly. He drove his pickup truck and was mr. Moderate then became this crazy fear mongering vampire sweeping through New Hampshire. I think a lot of people wondered, wait a second, this should have been a safety for her. And it turns out maybe we dont know. Eight points. One of the things that weve seen in the models, the various models, as many models as there are competitive states now, maybe more, is that blue states, which New Hampshire is at this point. It used to be much more of a kind of swing state. They tend to come home. And were seeing that is baked into a lot of models. Its true about louisiana where even when the polling is in flux, theres a feeling that landrieu has a tough climb there. Kansas is extremely popular, accomplished, decent senator. I also think the problem with his campaign is its been so singular in its focus. Its not a bad focus but uhs a walk and chew gum kind of situation. There are many other things he should be focused on and ignoring his his panic population in colorado could be an issue. I have never seen a candidate attacked for leaning too hard on one issue. I mean, if you go to count the republican candidates who leaned on tax cuts, tax cut, tax cuts and nothing else, what i wonder about is now that weve gotten into this saturation level of advertising, and, you know, multimillion dollar advertising and campaigns in states that used to spend 2 million for the whole thing, that they hit a level of saturation very quickly. And if all your ads, or the dpom pennant part of your ads about this one issue, you can wear out voters on the one issue. This happens every election cycle. Its sort of an arms race to ad blitzes. And so much money has been spent on the senate races. And yet, i mean, its as tight as anybody can remember. We really legitimately, not just because were all going to be talk on the air on election night, we dont know what is going to happen. Which is crazy given the teeup here in terms of money spent on these campaigns. I want to go back to scott brown for a second in New Hampshire. He has been running against president obama, not against the incumbent senator. And so what weve all been saying, if scott brown pulls that out in New Hampshire, then you would expect to see something of a wave against the president in other places. Yeah. But if this poll is accurate tonight, if thats what you see on election night, chris, that Jeanne Shaheen wins by eight points, what will that tell us about what might happen in the recollection of the country . Thats an interesting question. If it were to be eight points, that would mean a better night for democrats. People are thinking. And one of the things weve seen, weve seen it now twice. We saw it in 2006 and 2010, its unclear, it doesnt look like the polling supports that this election will be like those two. Which really were nationalized referendum elections. This election seems more local despite the fact that republicans have tried to turn it into a referendum on the president. If we saw, i guess what i would say is if we saw things going in the other direction like we said, we could draw conclusions. If were sitting around the desk and scott brown is winning by enough to call it early, thats looking like a bad night for democrats. Jeanne shaheen winning by eight points would we suggest the democrats are better positioned and the race is more localized, which is what democrats have been hoping for from the beginning in the entire cycle. Can i just say, another weird part of this is there are 36 gubernatorial races. Weve talked a lot about how the republican races are worst news for the republicans than democrats. And the senate races are worst news for the democrats than the republicans. I still dont know how you sblit the ticket in kansas. There is not a clear line of thinking about how the governors races affect the down ballot races. I think part of this has to do with what makes this the battleground race in the senate and the Midterm Election so spectacular. They know theres divided government now. The filibuster has rendered the senate this dysfunctional body. Because its not a majority body, it doesnt even seem like majorities matter that much one way or the other. Although they do. Theres a much more clear line of causality. This person is going to be setting School Funding or vetoing School Funding. That stuff, the a to b causality, the ways basic mechanism, i vote for this person and we get this outcome, thats much more present. Than barack obama this or this person has unpopular stances on this issue, as opposed to these are the differing views for the governing legislating agenda for the next two years. Lets go to one of the guys who wanted to be one of the big republican surrogates out there helping the candidates, Chris Christie. He hasnt been as useful for a variety of reasons as he had hoped to be at this time. There was that video yesterday we saw of him telling a constituent to sit down and shut up. He responded today. Lets listen to his response about why he said that. This is new jersey. If youre give, it youre getting it back. I love having [ applause ] most of my things we dont. But if someone is going to stand up, i ignore them for a while and they get rude and talk over me and other people, then im going to engage. And thats what the people of new jersey expect from me. And i dont like being forced to do that, but i wont shake away from it either. Its another day at rancho christie. Hes in new mexico. He describes it as another day at the ranch. Ranko christie. Nowhere i never want to visit. I want to take a quick look at the sit down and shut up sound bite again. Just to contemplate how this will play in iowa when he runs for president. Exactly. You want to have the conversation later, im happy to have it, buddy. But until that time, sit down and shut up. My favorite part about it is the lie that he is happy to have the conversation. The conversation is sit down and shut up. And by the way, the first terrible part of it is the actual sound. The second terrible part about it is the substance. This guy is talking about the disbersment of federal storm disaster aid to victims of hurricane sandy. And the issue for governor christie, given the fact that only 20 of sandy victims have gotten the money they need, that is a major issue. Not just in terms of personality, but in terms of stewardship of the state. And responsible use of government money used to be a republican issue. Well, there are a million reasons that Chris Christie is, i think, dead in the water. Not the least among them is the state we talked about this on the show tonight. The high unemployment, standing rigid. They had four credential downgrades. Theyre runs huge deficits. The sandy stuff has been totally mismanaged. Theres no real record. Hes 20 points down. Alex wagner, can you hang . Im glued to the seat. It turns out someone mistook best story of the week. Mindy kaling for Malala Yousafzai. We will test your ability to tell them apart by what they say. Also, coming up next, chuck on a bus. 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But earlier today, he spoke with louisiana democratic senator Mary Landrieu who is facing a tough reelection challenge. This is not my hardest election. People in washington can say that, but you can look at me. Do i look stressed or unhappy . This is not my the weather helps today. But this is not my hardest race. My hardest race for the senate was 18 years ago. And when people say oh, everything has has changed. Not for me. Its all been tough. Join meg now, the moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. The poll out of New Hampshire showing an eightpoint lead for Jeanne Shaheen what do you think of that . Neither campaign believes its eight points. But the democrats have been pretty insis tint theyve kept a small but consistent lead. Republicans havent really had any internal numbers to dit put that either. Ive always noticed with campaigns, the more they trumpet a public poll, the more they dont believe that poll is usually what ive learned at least in the last week. But look, this has always been New Hampshire to me, lawrence, is the wave test. If scott brown wins New Hampshire, it means there was a republican wave. I feel like were looking at two potential scenarios on tuesday night. Theres a wave building for the republicans, or this is an antiincumbent year and we see all sorts of crazy results that may lead to a republicancontrolled senate, but could also lead to a lot of new democratic governors. So probably the best sniff test on that is going to be New Hampshire. On the merits when you look at scott browns unfavorable ratings, its hard to see how he wins without a wave. And the wave would be the antiobama wave since scott brown has really been campaigning against the president in New Hampshire, not campaigning against Jeanne Shaheen. So that win would be a clue, would be an indicator that wow, campaign against the president is really effective. Right. I think thats exactly right. I mean, you know, thats the one thing, you cant i dont think there is a person being used more in a Television Ad these days than president obama, at least on the republican side of the aisle. I mean, you probably see him more in tv ads than the actual republican candidates themselves. I love my friends who look at this stuff at a living, to do that comparison. But i bet the number of seconds onair probably obamas face much more prevalent than the actual face of republican candidates for the senate. It reminds me of 94 where virtually every Republican Campaign took the democratic candidate and in 30 seconds morphed that person into bill clinton. And that gave the republicans the first takeover of the house in 40 years. Chuck, louisiana where you are now, this is one of the more complicated races. Its a threeway race. We might not have a declared winner on election night. Then what happens. Well, look, the landrieu campaign is going for 50 . The accomplished republican candidate sf absolutely playing for the runoff. Hes only showed up for about half the debates. Sort of saving his money. And hes rally been sort of i laing low, just getting enough support to try to get the runoff. Theres a third candidate, a more conservative tea party type, a man who, he shows up to every debate. He might be helping the republicans because he gives conservatives who dont like cassidy somebody to vote for. But the landrieu strategy is to get to 50. Theyre hoping to make a huge effort of africanamerican turnout. If the africanamerican share of the electorate is over 30 , gets to 31, 32, and Mary Landrieu can win 31 , 32 of the white vote, thats her path to 50 plus one on election night. Even the landrieu folks believe its a narrow path. But the real magic number to watch on tuesday is 46 . 46 or above and i think its fair to say shes 5050 in the runoff. And in pretty good shape to make it competitive. If shes in the low 40s, this some polls have had her, i think thats a sign that this is going to be an uphill struggle in the final four weeks. If you stack up right now, the republican candidates number and the Tea Party Candidates number, thats a number that overwhelms Mary Landrieu. It would. Theres a chance those who dont like cassidy stay home. Thats a possibility. What is the runoff about . Is it control for the u. S. Senate . Is it red versus blue race and its to decide who is in charge of the senate . Or is it Mary Landrieu versus bill class di. Some argue because the senate had already been decided. Republicans sort of took the foot off the gas and she was able to win the whos better for louisiana argument. If it becomes a partisan argument, some democrats admit thats harder for Mary Landrieu to win. Thanks for joining us from the campaign trail. 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