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elections in wisconsin, where democrats failed to oust republicans from control of the state senate. >> woodruff: we take a second look at jeffrey brown's conversation with philip levine named today the next poet laureate of the united states and a man who comes from working class america. >> i realized that this world that i thought was going to stop me from writing a decent body of poetry had in fact become central to my writing poetry. >> warner: and from our student reporting labs, we have the story of new york city schools labeled drop-out factories and now slated for closure. >...

fritz, republicans had a virtual lock on all of washington heading into election night 2006. they controlled every single lever of power they could control in d.c. by the end of election night 2006, that was no longer the case. >> by midnight in washington, it was a new day for the democrats, a national wave swept republicans from power in the house for the first time since the republican revolution in 1994. but the democratic wave didn't end there. well after midnight, the senate began to fall as democrats turned red states blue. >> 2006 was a clean sweep for democrats. they won a t...

>> the obama campaign thinks mitt romney is weird. >> mitt romney, get the phone. >> they plan an aggressive counterattack. >> assault on both mitt romney's personality -- >> to disqualify the opponent. >> also his business background. americans think he's awkward. they mentioned his love of skinny jeans. >> the other guy looks weird in skinny jeans. >> weird. >> shiny balls. >> weird. >> and "newsweek" cannot knock michele bachmann off message. >> my name is michele bachmann. >> an unflattering "newsweek" cover. >> a-ha. we'll have to take a look at that, won't we? >> with crazy eye...

>> ooh. >> the obama campaign thinks mitt romney is weird. >> mitt romney, get the phone. >> they plan an aggressive counterattack. >> assault on both mitt romney's personality -- >> to disqualify the opponent. >> also his business background. americans think he's awkward. they mentioned his love of skinny jeans. >> the other guy looks weird in skinny jeans. >> weird. >> shiny balls. >> weird. >> and "newsweek" cannot knock michele bachmann off message. >> my name is michele bachmann. >> an unflattering "newsweek" cover. >> a-ha. we'll have to take a look at that, won't we? >> with c...

three incumbent republicans have kept their seats. and if you're doing the math, two plus three, but wait, there were six. right. the crucial sixth race. the one that would change the balance of power in the senate is at this moment too close to call. this is the crucial race. wisconsin state senate district 8, where democrat sandy pasch challenged senate republican alberta darling. alberta darling is a veteran state edge slaitor. she has been in the state senate since 1992. she is chair of the joint committee on finance. alberta darling one of the governor's chief and most visible a...