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Minnesota is another state getting extra attention today. the road to the house majority runs right through minnesota for both republicans and democrats. it is home to five of the most competitive districts in the country, including minnesota's second, where incumbent jason lewis is facing quite a challenge from angie craig. joining me from red wing, minnesota, nbc's kevin tibbles. in the last week, you visited half of the state's congressional districts. what have you learned, and what are you seeing there today? did you try to get into that giant shoe wiat the red wing factory? >> reporter: ...

That is a district that could switch from democrat to republican. well, down here in the second, a lot of people are hoping it's going to go the other way around and go from republican to democrat. i'm joined by the fritzes. deb, how did you vote today and why? >> democrat. mostly on moral and ethical reasons. >> reporter: would you like to define for me, mr. fritz, what does that mean? >> more kindness, the vitriol that's coming out, the hatred, the fear mongering has got to stop. we have four granddaughters. we want them to grow up in a better world, not what you're looking at right now. the...

This closely. nick, what are you seeing and hearing about how the polls are going? what are you seeing from voters there? >> reporter: well, this voting station has been open since 6:00 a.m., and it's been, i would say, a trickle because arizonans do love to vote early. we've got a little bit of analysis of those early votes, which suggests that turnout will be high. one analyst has actually said democratic turnout in certain precincts is, quote, gangbusters. that'll give us an indication as to how people are engaged for the midterms. and if they're going to take the senate, they really, reall...

On this board we can see in this voting station. these are the eight candidates but there's only one who's a real contender, vladimir putin right in the middle of this poster. it gives some biographical details about him. he was born in '52. it says here that he also has 13 bank accounts containing a total of about 240,000 u.s. dollars, he has a flat, a garage, and three russian cars. so it's giving a bit of biographical information. apathy was a concern. but vladimir putin himself came out on national television a couple days ago and appealed to people to make their voices heard. and at least...

Is galvanizing people. it creates foe activism. i tweeted about it. i blogged about it. what comes through the whole affair, nra's comments today, one thing to do today, vote. okay? vote. run for office. help someone run for office. help someone get to a voting station. recommendation steer someone to vote. the only way to change the gun laws is when a majority of americans or majority of representatives at the state and national levels change the laws. it's very clear that persuasion is not going to do it. repeated mass killings are not going to do it. there's only one thing to do, and that i...