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Ground, people losing their homes. a massive undertaking. thanks so much for that update. >> reporter: yep. jon: inside america's election headquarters and happening now, he is not bowing out. congressman todd akin refusing calls from republican leaders to get out of the senate race from the state of missouri. this after he made some controversial remarks about rape and abortion. akin even has an online petition folks can sign and donate money as he finds himself cut off from his party and their pipeline of campaign donors. for more on the mood on the ground in missouri, we're joined by a repo...

That. >> massachusetts is a model for getting everybody insured in a way that doesn't break the bank and doesn't put the government into the driver's seat and allows people to own their own insurance policies and not have to worry about losing coverage. that's what massachusetts did. >> all right, mister. we know you're distancing yourself because you want the gop nomination in 2012 but don't feel bad, mitt. you're not alone. here's a partial list of fellow republicans who have supported the health care mandate since their party first proposed it in 1993. senator robert bennett, senator kit bo...

2009 would have to say about that. >> massachusetts is a model for getting everybody insured in a way that doesn't break the bank and doesn't put the government into the driver's seat and allows people to own their own insurance policies and not have to worry about losing coverage. that's what massachusetts did. >> all right, mister. we know you're distancing yourself because you want the gop nomination in 2012 but don't feel bad, mitt. you're not alone. here's a partial list of fellow republicans who have supported the health care mandate since their party first proposed it in 1993. senator r...

Point in time, we were getting kit bond and george voinovich and that whole slew of, at the time, mostly republicans who decided to retire, four or five of them, very quickly, early on making that announcement. judd gregg was a january announcement. this year we've got kay bailey hutchison, joe lieberman. who else if we hear from in the next several weeks it probably means retirement? >> i think people have to be looking at jim webb. you watch him walking around the capitol a couple days ago, he seems like he has a little bounce in his step, seems happy. >> happy because he is running or not r...

Seat in 2012 because he's retiering. >> okay. so lieberman today, we were talking kent conrad just yesterday, both declining to run in 2010. we have a republican-led house now. now the democrats' chances of holding on to the senate just got a little smaller. big picture, balance of power here what are we looking at? >> the democrats control 51 seats with two independents. in 2012 democrat vz to defend a lot more seats than republicans. 23 democrats up for reelection, only 10 republicans up for reelection. so odds don't look great for dems based on that right now, but keep in mind, brooke, that...