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>> it has gotten very democratic in the last couple of cycles. this is a test. if a young kid who is the gop nominee can really utilize this issue, and beat mcauliffe, that's going to show things for his party going into the midterms. but i wonder about on that issue and watching that clip in that room, how much of this is grassroads and how much is astroturf. >> that's exactly right. >> how much is this activist driven, people super invested in the issue and how much of this is medium to low information voters and parents who aren't following -- it can have the same effect. the tea party star...

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 ...

Terry mcauliffe. >> how do we know? >> i just know. >> because he's -- >> 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 sai...

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They voted overwhelmingly for mcauliffe. >> don't explain who that is. >> because cuccinelli is adamant opposition and -- but it's 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 they're going to run on abortion nationwide, they should go to see what happened up in new jersey, where you had the first pro-life republican winning statewide. we got to talk about obama care. really quickly. because ken cuccinelli and we ar...