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The Doc Dennis “Doc” Littky has spent a lifetime working to transform education. He is one of the leading innovators in America and arguably the biggest change agent in education in America. He either single-handedly or with others co-founded The Big Picture - a network of high schools across the country, The Met School and now an accredited college — College Unbound. His work as a principal at Thayer Junior/Senior High School in Winchester, N.H. was featured in an NBC movie, "A Town Torn Apart" based on the book "Doc: The Story of Dennis Littky and His Fight for a Better School."

The big board. david, let me just start with you on the cook report's analysis. the last movement you made was of house seats trending more in the democratic direction. is that the general momentum, you would say, of the last week? >> well, we're going to be busy bees at the nbc decision desk tomorrow night because we've got 75 competitive races, which is the most we've had in eight years. and we've seen two offsetting trends in the past couple of weeks. we've also just seen this staggering financial advantage for democratic candidates. they're raising unprecedented sums of money. and that's a...

Today the cook political report, the most authoritative analysis of house races, issued its final analysis on the fight to control the house of representatives. cook changed their ratings for ten house seats, giving democratic candidates a better chance in nine of them. the cook report now lists 75 competitive house races to watch in tomorrow night's election, returns 70 of which are currently held by republicans. joining our discussion now david wassermann, political analyst for the cook political report and msnbc's national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board. david, let ...

Over again, he seems to be focused on fighting for illegal. >> the alternative is to deposit 11 million people. >> meanwhile, the cook report has upgales from leans rep now to toss-up. so, rick, i said i was going to ask you about this. you certainly know the former spokesman for senator cruz' campaign, do you think that beto o'rourke has a chance for this? >> yes, he has a shot of winning this race. the race is trending towards beto since its inception. i've said for weeks it could be won by beto. it's in the realm of possibility.

Democratic message is or who their leader is. that's really important because of the chaos in republican politics, tax bill allows republicans going into november to say we're for lower taxes, democrats voted for higher taxes. elections are decided on contrast and that's an important one to overcome. >> nonpartisan expert at cook report, says people haven't factored in how much worse things could get for house republicans in the next days. but david as fellow traveler and sometime critic, house republicans are going to say at least in some districts they finally got a bill passed with taxes an...