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Ellison, republicans only need six seats to take control of the senate from the democrats. do you think they could reach that target. it seems like they can, midterms favor democrats. democrats defending 21 seats and republicans have to only defend 15. in those states seven are those that mitt romney one in 2012. if this time favors them this is it. you have the president s approval rating lower and affordable care act a big burden on red state democrats. in 2012, republicans only needed four seats to gain back the senate. of course there is time for something to come up. right now they have certainly a lot of conditions in their favor. they have a lot of particularly, four, four seats, four senate races really look like they re leaning red. three are toss-ups. montana, south dakota, arkansas as well as west virginia. and those are ones look like they re leaning red. they still have to worry about ....
Now, obviously there is a nationwide feeling that we have to be more humane when it comes to our immigration policy, but i don t think there s going to be any pressure this year or next in congress. what about for those off-year gubernatorial elections? i understand we re talking about a bill that would be passed at the federal level, and yet folks that are running at the statewide level in these off-year elections nonetheless get attached to their party in a variety of important ways. i was just in colorado last month, which is a state that has gone from leaning red to almost completely blue, even in the 2010, the great republican year, republicans were still losing. and not entirely but a lot of it is because of the latino vote. they have risen up and immigration has been the key issue. so the house republicans there, for example, who are thinking about this, even if their district s relatively safe, they have to think if i m ever going to run for statewide office, i have to get ....
Appreciative of president obama s support but as far as presidential endorsements if we, here s what he has to say. i actually don t think it means all that much. i don t believe that the primary voters in colorado care at all who endorsed which candidate. reporter: now, keep in mind that president obama has very high ratings with democrats, but the colorado electorate is about a third independent and right now, leaning red. shepard: some. analysts call this a race, obama versus the tea party. reporter: right. the campaigns are not calling it that but ken buck on the republican side needs to tap into that independent streak here if colorado. because in the past, voters here really just leaned away from anything that appeared to be a little too left or a little too right. they don t like the extremes here and ken buck was carried by the tea party here into the nomination. ....