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Together to move our state forward which is what i think we can do. >> it seems among the -- among the most important voters you had were people that told our exit pollsters that they supported you and that they would prefer the president over mitt romney. so there was a chunk of voters that said democratic voters or voters that are supportive of president obama that also supported you. what should mitt romney and president obama learn from that? >> yea. the first part, clearly, i heard it. i've heard it for the last couple of weeks overwhelmingly which is something that started resonating in ...

Million. scott walker and -- spent their final weekend of campaigning trying to seal the deal. >> that's what's at stake. whether or not we're going to we moved the state forward, million dollars worth of savings. property tax relief. >> scott walker's reforms are not working for the middle class. we're delivering a message of hope and come tuesday, we can have some leadership that will be for the people of wisconsin. >> ed schultz has been following this story from the very beginning and i know, ed, you've been there all weekend. good morning. thanks for being here. give me your impressions o...

Lieutenant governor. thank you so much both of you for joining us today. what prompted this, to run? >> one, there was no one in the race. i'm the only one on the democratic side in the race. i know the issues. i had been campaigning for dubose around the state. >> what do you say to those who say her role is to help you? >> if it moves the state forward, let's have more of it. yes it's innovative. but this is someone who's a strong mother, a businesswoman, someone who knows policy as good as anybody in the state. >> so people are saying in that question comes some thinking it might be a polit...

Microcosm of what's happening nationally. if you think you can go in and tackle jobs in a way that's more effective than governor granholm has, than other politicians in your state, i want specifics on how you get that done. so far it hasn't worked. you're saying both parties are to blame but you're running as a democrat. not run as an independent then? >> i thought about it. in the end, look, i'm a proud democrat. there's nothing wrong with being a proud republican. the point is, we're americans first and it's time to stand up, as americans, in michigan, and do what's right. when the election...

Positive about moving this state forward, if he ever needed any assistan assistance, that this democrat was at his disposal. >> in virginia, republicans retained a 21-19 lead in the senate, despite the fact that former new york city mayor michael bloomberg spent more than $2 million in favor of gun control in two races. it was a blow to democrat incumbent governor terry mcauliffe. who did 24 events over the past four days and sold the election as make or break for his progressive agenda. >> in virginia, you're a lame duck quickly. you can only serve for one, one term. so mcauliffe is in the ba...