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Let's talk about it with larry sabato, director of the university of virginia's center for politics. larry, i have to point out, a couple of days ago, you thought mur murkowski was going to win this thing. what do you think has happened here? >> yes. every single source that i have in alaska told me that lisa murkowski would not only win, she would win handily. those same sources told me this morning that there aren't enough votes left out, even including the absentees, for murkowski to win. mur cow see is behind about 2000 votes and she would have to win an enormous percentage of the remainin...

Mccollum, 20 years in congress, been the attorney general, he's twice run unsuccessfully for the u.s. senate and he was essentially disqualified as washington insider and not adequately new and conservative enough, not the new type of republican that most voters want, they say, in 2010. so it will be scott versus alec sny -- sink. sink starts the race foferred a little -- favored a little bit. polls suggest an advantage over rick scott, so ten weeks from yesterday and one of the most important gubernatorial races in the country because whoever controls the governor's office in florida has a re...

Independent there. but a big surprise on the republican side in florida's race for governor. carl cameron is live with that story. carl, how did the outsider in the gop race pull off this win? >> reporter: you're talking about rick scott, the millionaire, self-funding candidate from naples who did tremendously well, and has in effect captured the opportunity to protect the republican governorship for the state of florida. this is a gop seat, charlie crist is the incumbent, he had been a republican when he won it. now, rick scott, having spent a tremendous amount of money, pulled off a victory ...