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And in no case is that more apparent than the virginia house of edelegates this morning, where a single vote split control of the house for the first time in nearly two decades. yesterday's recount found that democrat, shelly simonds has 11,608 votes compared to republican david yancy's 11,607. >> she was behind ten couvotes before the recount. joining us now, delegate-elect shelly simonds. you know, donald trump would call this a landslide, shelly. one vote. one vote is going to send you to the house of delegates. how did you feel when the math was done yesterday? >> oh, i was so excited. i h...

Republican lieutenant governor and for four republican senators. in wisconsin, republicans have already lost majority control of the state senate in part because of the first round of elections held last summer in which two republicans were ousted. before their decision to strip union rights republicans had a big majority in the wisconsin state senate. thanks to those recalls and the resignation of another senator facing a recall, wisconsin senate is tied. they have split control between republicans and democrats. there's not a majority leader, there are co-leaders. with four more recalls to c...

Resignation of another republican senator facing a recall, the wisconsin state senate is now tied. they have split control between republicans and democrats. there's not a majority leader, there are co-leaders. with four more recalls to come in wisconsin, republicans might lose more seats in the senate and they may lose the lieutenant governor and the governor. this is the red hot political contest for the presidential campaign happening right now. the primary on tuesday is thought of as the most important of tuesday's contest. in part because it's rick santorum's last chance to make a convinc...

Unions hitting hard against republican governors. in at least eight other states they're pushing legislation to limit or eliminate collective bargaining rights, triggering protests in michigan, ohio and indiana. why are these democratic legislatures going awol, turning into a trend story? republicans have control of governors mansions in both the statehouse and senate in 21 states. there's split control in 17 more. former pennsylvania governor ed rendell and nbc news political analyst. governor rendell, you're watching this and you didn't have nearly these showdowns and had your share of spl...

Have it on the side. i was surprised you didn't see more embracing of the debt commission politically that seemed like this. let's get to the reality of this. i think the way this white house operates is they assume this is an opening bid. they know this is going to be a lengthy series of negotiations with what is a split control in congress, and so i think they're probably willing to go more on the cut front, but why show it all now. that's not what you do. >> senator, you said things that seemed continue dickry, the president has tax increases in his budget proposal and he should have done m...