midterm madness goes up against the clock. it is monday, november 3. and this is thousand oig. "now". >> do you want to run washington or you want to run your mouth? >> less than 24 hours until polls open. >> what can democrats to to prevent a republican takeover. >> they're fighting hard to try to hold their jobs. >> i think if could be a big republican night. >> there is a chance that it won't be a great republican night. >> we're seeing an increase in democratic intensity. >> you can't win on turnout if you're losing on message. >> it is political malpractice. >> so many good things that the president has done that we tend to shy away from. >> democrats have the not been able to put out this message about what has been done under president obama. >> just too much red out there for testimonies democrats to o. >> american people are look for for somebody who gets things done. >> they will either make capitol

hill work or they will screw it up. >> the most wonderful time of the year. in the final hours of campaign 2014 with nothing less than control of the united states senate and the size of ted cruz's ego hanging in the balance. candidates and their bringing name backers are in the final flurry of glad handing, back slapping and baby kissing as voters get set to go to the polls tomorrow to decide who will sit in 36 seats of the upper chamber. ten are tight races and right now things look good for the grand ol party. odds are somewhere between 70% and 96%. yes, according to the "washington post," you really shouldn't bother voting or for that matter it's all been decided. but there are also signs that some races thought to be tilting to the gop are tightening. two new quinnipiac polls have key races running neck and neck. cory guard per is up two points

over mark udall in colorado. and in iowa, it is a dead heat between democrat bruce braley and republican joni ernst. senator harkin is making a last minute campaign cameo with in-on that tune remarks about taylor swift. >> there is a sense that i've heard so much about joni ernst. she's really attractive. and she sounds nice. i don't care if she's as good looking as taylor swift, or as nice as mr. rogers. but if she moves like michelle obama, she's wrong for the state of iowa. >> ernst says she found the remarks offensive, but she's going to, quote, shake it off. and there is the very real possibility that we won't know

how the senate shakes out until well after wednesday because at least two races could be heading towards a runoff with senate seats in louisiana and georgia potentially still up in the air for weeks to come. happy holidays. p joining me now is heather mcgee, kurt anderson, harold ford jr., and jonathan chate. far another in another time zone. after the sound reaches you, how much faith should democrats put in these tightening races and what is happening specifically in places like colorado and iowa? >> colorado and iowa are probably the two closest places. and if the democrats are going to beat the odds and hold on to the senate, those are the places where they have the best chance to eek it out because they're close enough in the polls that a little bit better attorney skrout or the polls being a little wrong give them their best outside chance of doing this thing. >> but when we talk about the issues that are being debated,

there an increasingly narrow set of issues on the right in terms of ebola, isis and the failures of the man in the white house. and yet as rachel maddow points out today in the "washington post," for all the end of the world clamor around this year's elections, you would never guess that the economy is growing at 3.5%, unemployment is below 6%, and gas prices are way, way down. p but good news, smud news, we have decided to be miserable and afraid. >> it's the economy stupid is still the thing we're supposed to believe, and at this point, it's not just relatively better than it was five years ago. these are good numbers all around on the economy. and the stock market is doing better, is creating new heights and peaks every day. and it's not as though isaiah while it's monstrous and horrible is not a disaster

attributable in a clear way to the president and nor are the rest of the things. so it may be why, you know, the republicans if they don't do exceptionally well, certainly if they don't win the senate, but if they only do okay, it's a loss for them i think in terms of the meaning inferred about tomorrow. >> let's look at how the temperatures ha democrats have played this. the most important issues to the american public are the ones that have always been important to them. job creation and economic growth, 41% of the country says that's an important issue. breaking gridlock is 36%. 6% of respondents care about ebola. >> i think this president and democrats have a hard time bragging about business success. no doubt we've seen the market grow each day, some days we're reaching a different low, but new highs after that. but wages are a concern.

it seems the testimodemocrats a making the case we've undergone renaissance and we have to figure out how to get wages up. republicans are standing in the way of a minimum wage increase and some of the other dynamics of the economy. we can't afford to go down the path they choose to take us down. instead, we play from a playbook frankly that worked that required republicans making huge unforced errors. >> that worked pretty well because they were making a lot of unforced errors. >> if part of your message and your strategy is that hope that the other team makes unforced error, it's hard to win. i think you have to always be leaning forward. no pun intended. you also have to be asserting where you want to at that time country and why your policies are better. i think it's telling the president is at home today and at home tomorrow, not on the road. and i think he should be out even if it's in washington making some of this case because win or lose, he will have to deal with the congress that is very different.

even if democrats hold the senate, you'll have a number of democrats coming back to the senate who didn't run on a message of vote with me because i'm going to vote with the president on every issue. many of them have tried to differentiate themselves somewhat. so if i'm the president and i'm on his team, i wouldn't be defensive about this, i'd lean in even more and talk about the things we want do and talk about how you look forward to working with democrats and if it comes tomorrow, wednesday, or january when we learn if it's georgia, i'll work with this congress to do these things. otherwise i think we set ourselves up for this polarizing dysfunctional and kind of arresting narrative over the next year that won't produce any of the results that heather has worked to -- >> to that question, the whole game we're told is turnout. especially for democrats and progressive, you have to get the base out. so why then has there been this strategy up until this point of let's sdwans ourselves from the accomplishments of the president, the mention of his name, and a huge amount of hullabaloo of whether or not his policies are on the ballot.

and that would be a bad thing given how successful many of those policies have been. >> i think it's dispiriting. i've talked to people and working class americans about the kind of country they want to see. and particularly given this red map, particularly in the south, there has been a feeling like the candidates at the top of the ticket have not been willing to actually embrace the kind of progressive economic populism that in many ways the big moves that the president was able to make in the frankly two years that he had toly fwof ll lly go symbols of. whether health care, standing up to wall street. it's been at the top of the ticket in all of these states people have been running away from that message. there has been a whiplash around whether or not the democratic party will be a party that will stand up for the working and middle class and unfortunately, particularly when you have these low turnout races, you really need to show exactly as harold

ford was saying what they're standing for. >> jonathan, what is the likelihood political prognosticator that you are, what is the likelihood that we're talking about it for the next month or two months? >> it's possible, but the history in georgia is that republicans gain strength in the runoff. so if the republicans win but don't get 50% in georgia and it goes to a runoff, i think it's pretty much a sure thing that the republicans are going to win in the final elimination round. even if the democrats, even if nunn narrowly wins in the first round, she'll still probably lose the runoff. so that's kind of ap kn academi concern. you have alaska which is late, but you you'll notice that after a day or so. i think it will be an upset for democrats to keep it close enough that people will really wonder which party controls the senate. >> are you surprised son of the midwest what has happened in iowa is this because a lot of

folks says bruce bailey has this and then he made in-on that tune comments about chuck grassley.s says bruce bailey has this and then he made in-on that tune comments about chuck grassley. on substance, joni ernst got into a fight basically, verbal fight, with an esquire reporter on the subject of whether the president had abandoned the condition on ebola. these are not the most pressing issues for the midwest and for iowans. >> no, but iowa is a strange place. iowa had a reputation for being like it's a lower minnesota. it's a progressive place. but you have steve king as a congressman, successful congressman from iowa. you also have tom harkin as a senator. so it is a deeply purple state. yeah, braley is not a good candidate to say the least. speaking as a son of the midwest, what interests me is kansas. between greg orman and sam

brownback, i find that the single most interesting state interest per capita tomorrow. >> what is also weird, in terms of governors, there are 36 xwub torial races and democrats are favored in a lot of these races. which is a weird thing to have happen at a moment when every is expecting a republican sweep or rout in the senate. people are willing to vote for progressive policies tangible ones in the form of governors and what they represent, but when it comes for washington, there a disdifficult about what each party truly stands for. how is that? >> i think part of it is that there was a republican tide in 2010. so in some really key races, scott walker, governor brownback, people in these states have seen what it's like to have the big grand ole party ideology change the way their children are educated, change the way gore badge is collected, change the way tuition assistance is available. and it's not pretty.

and so you actually are getting right now hopefully what will be a sort of referendum on the size of government we want, the role of government in our lives and the he very real way that it is. it's not abstract, not about defense spending and tax cuts for the rich. it's about the quality of life in my community. >> and you look at these close races. democrats, we're having to defend ground in massachusetts, maryland, illinois. i think we lynn twin two or thr seats. one reason i think a lot are hesitant to call it a complete sweep, normally when you see these mandates, you see the governors race as an indicator. and i think heather makes the right point we're getting a little bit of a correction with some of these races. but at the same time, i think people are coming to understand that they want government to work. i saw haley barbour say incumbents or challengers who talk about results will win.

we can talk about tax inversion and turn it into a metaphor for the kinds of things governments should be doing. we were unable to translate that into some huge snowball initiative. people would say this means democrats will stand up for middle class families. i don't think we should have politicized some of these things. what with she should have been a politicizing our message. >> we have to take a short break. but if you thought congress could not get more dysfunctional, you have not seen ted cruz's plan for a gop-led senate. and the vote to legalize pot and others looking to end abortion. and later, nowhere to hide for washington's pro football team. thousands protest the team's name. all of that ahead on "now". let me get this straight... yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort.

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the folks at 1600 avenue are already bracing themselves. as one senior white house official says, we know we're in for an expletive storm if we lose the senate. the president is preparing accordingly. the morning times reports that top aides have met for weeks to plot the final quarter of the bom obama presidency, a chapter the white house is eager to get to. as one aide said, there have been $2 billion in ads expletiving on the -- hard to read these -- and no one to defend him. he's hired fired up to get the campaign behind him. but is the other side of the

aisle ready to grab the olive branch? senator cruz said he would push hard. miss first order of business, a series of hearings on president obama looking at the abuse of power. the lawlessness that sadly has pervaded this administration. jonathan, let's talk about the fork in the road. there seem to be two strategies that have been described by senior administration officials anonymously. someone compromise with the gop, another one is a big counter attack in the form of executive action. and i just -- can those two exist at the same time? can you get any buy-in from republicans if you do big executive action on immigration? >> no, you can't. and the first strategy is the one you talk about in the media and the second one is the one

you do. and the truth is, it doesn't matter. you need the house and the senate to pass a law and the president has to sign it. if one of them won't pass a law, it doesn't matter if the other one wants to pass a law. so having two chambers filled with ted cruzs is no worse than one chamber filled with ted cruzs. so you can't get below zero. right now they're at zero. >> we might be maybe at one and we're going it zero. and i think in terms of the president and democrats offering a decided alternative, this crystal sizes the opposition. the next two years will be ms.ab miserable, about abobut for dem this is clear positioning. >> which is one reason whether the senate goes republican or not not ultimately that consequential, because it will

not change legislative life in washington over the next two years. it's a great story if it doesn't go republican. but then the question becomes how much of an executive action president and a vetoing president does barack obama become and what does that do not only for the at atmosphere, but also for the democrats. >> i think democrats and independents have to realize cruz is saying subpoena power returns to the republicans. and wonder how many states ted cruz has traveled to. not many. i would hope there is a tea party voice that emerges, more of a rand paul voice, because he seems to at least bring a reasonableness and understanding that you have to work with people. i don't agree with him on most things, but at least he's reached out to cory bookers and others. hopefully cruz will be put in the minority part of a minority party. >> wonder if ted cruz, you know, if jack in the box can be put

back in. he has been campaigning for dan v sullivan, joni ernst -- >> but you have not seen him out front. if joni ernst wins, i think she becames the new face of that part of the republican party. she may not want the title, but she will be someone sought out because she's from iowa. republicans will want her on their side. >> and fell will ow republicans hate her as much. >> i wonder where the gop goes from here. there is a big question about mitch mcconnell said we may not have the votes to repeal obama care and ted cruz said we're going to do it one way or the other and mitch mcconnell said we'll figure out a way. that faction and fraction of the party still has some power.

and it remains to be seen who calls the power and i think will continue to try to do things to discredit the president. by saying he's a tyrant who is ramming obamacare down the throats of the american people, by saying he's abusing his executive you power when he abused so many fewer executive actions than president bush did and for much more benign domestic priorities like raising the minimum wage for federal contractors, not expanding an endless war on terror, that's the kind of thing that i think you'll fin to see continue to s. what you haven't seen is republicans addressing 2016. which is that they have to figure out how to appeal to america. instead they have been trying to shrink who counts as americans. >> and that's the whole point of

tailoring an agenda to a midterm crowd. as one white house aide said, we would be making a big mistake heading in to a presidential election year would we're not on the ballot but our party is and to make decisions baesed on the politics of an electorate that will not exist two years from you now. america is 2016. is this a group of midterm vote mercy 2014. >> but is ththis is a problem n going away for the democrats or republicans.cy 2014. >> but this is a problem not going away for the democrats or republicans. republicans have a majority every four year, but alternate two years don't seem to be changing. >> i hear you, it may be emerging that way. but i think we can all draw lessons from this. democrats will learn a lot and republicans, if they do, and it's still if because these races are tight, i hope

democrats and independents who worry about people like ted cruz having power may vote the other way. but if they do win the majority, i think it's incumbent upon this president, i hope he does not -- some things i've read they're looking at launching, progressive kind of counter attack. >> who on the panel is log s progressive? >> all of its. but it's critical to find compromise because the country would have spoken again. sdwr >> the country is not the speaking in '14. if you move particularly on -- let's think about taxes, trade, infrastructure, immigration. particularly taxes and trade where you might have a little bit of an inside the belt way consensus to offshore more be jobs, to lower the corporate tax rate, that is not an american consensus. >> that is the midterm

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and in alabama, voters will decide whether to ban sharia law. joining us now is supporter of the women's equality party christine quinn. on this exciting midterm election eve, so talk to me about how you understand this disconnect. alaska, arkansas, south dakota, not what we think of as banstios of liberal wage progression. but these will pass by huge numbers. where is the disconnect between having a republican legislature or sending republicans to washington and then being widely in support of democratic progressive policy? >> i think this question of minimum wage is not about progressive/conservativ progressive/conservative, it's about real life, whether you have enough mean to paid bills and put food on the table. and thing one thing we need to do better, and i say that as a

democrat, is make that connection. that we're actually the party that is in touch with people's real life needs and that is what raising the minimum wage is about. one of the women's equality platform is actually a pay equity, women should not just have a higher minimum wage, but should get the same wage when they ask as opposed to 77 cents on the dollar, 54 cents to the dollar if you're a latina. so i think that's the issue. we need to find ways to break through kind of politics and get to real life. because when you get to voters and ask them real life questions as we see here or we believe we'll see tomorrow, they know the answers. they know what will make their lives better. >> and i guess the question is, you have scott walker and chris christie saying i can't talk about the minimum wage anymore. scott walker saying i don't understand what the point is, i'd rather focus on higher paying jobs.

voters know this. how come these guys are not held to the fire by voters when they say stuff like this on specific policy? >> that's the worst issue for the republicans. democrats care about it on substance. they care about it as policy. but it's also really good politics for the democrats. that's where you get the huge majorities. republicans have given up on trying to make the argument. so their only response is ask me something else. >> i don't want to talk about the minimum wage anymore. i guess if -- i want to talk about a lot of stuff on the ballot. we don't have time for all of them. there is also the question of vote are suppression which is largely something put ford wardy conservatives. >> because voters are making the correct decisions by raising the minimum wage. >> and we don't want you voting on it. montana deciding whether to

abolish same day voter registration. >> same day registration is one of those things that everybody should be able to get behind. it cuts the red tape around the voting process. it makes it a one stop process. it is extremely popular in states where they have it. i don't think it will pass in montana. but there is a connection between the minimum wage issues and the control of who gets to vote. and we talked about it in an explainer, why does the voting gap matter. there is a racial gap in voting. and it's because there is a difference in the economic policies that come out in states where there is less of a voting gap, where the electorate actually reflects the working and middle class who make up the state and it's not so dominated only by the wealthy who are more likely to vote, only by the doan authorizes who really control the agenda. then you actually have fairer in my view economic policies.

and so we need to be expanding the freedom to vote so that our economy works for more people. that's something that this connection really, really underscores. >> and yet, harold, the question of voter i.d. laws is one that republicans are not giving up on nationally. and in a place like missouri where you have amendment 6, they have these red herring early voter constitutional amendments which in theory opens up early voting for six days ahead of the election, but only on weekdays and only during business hours. so say we're backing this initiative when it's fairly insidious. >> i've been traveling the country and you'd be surprised at the number of supporters of these efforts to restrict voting who believe that there are just legions of illegal folks in this country, undocumented folks in this country whom are voting.

the number of people whom are of color -- >> it s. s it just a feel somet >> i got into an interesting conversation a week ago. there are e-mail and internet campaigns on the way suggesting that people -- you have these untruths being spread combined with the sfervor that the real way you'll win is to shrink the number of votes. i hope all these things fail, but i won't be surprised if some -- there are some more insidious. >> like banning sharia law. that's another concern because undocumented muslims are coming across the border to vote.

and bring ebola to alabama. >> let's call it all of what it is, which is dog whistling. it's important that we actually name that this is happening, name the exowe tension angst many americans feel is being exploited by the republican party has not understood that they need to represent all of america. not just in off years, but in -- >> the fact a lot of republicans are supporting minimum wage increases around the country and you found republican candidates endorsing these efforts is telling. it suggests that maybe there common ground that can be found on some of the other issues. economic policy issues and fairness issues that we all deep lir care about. >> silver lining. >> never ceases to amaze me how much conservatives will just lie and the facts be damned. >> shamelessly insidious. >> and repeat lid over and over even when called on it. >> we have to take a quick break. but beyond just banning sha sri

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also whether to legalize marijuana and also crucial measures that could he said end legal abortion. kurt anderson is back with us. and just in time to talk about pot legalization. this seems to have happened really fast. and then as a political device, does this bring progressives out in an off year. >> it has happened fast. not quite as fast and consequentially i would argue as marriage equality happened, but it's similar. it's a matter of personal will i beer if i and who cares. yeah, go ahead. we have now more than 40 years experience in lots of people smoking marijuana and, yes, there are instances where it does bad things to people and

maybe there is neuroscience that says it's bad for a 16-year-old brain, but sending people to jail for this seems ridiculous to most people. and that is brking fatah comly. i think it will keep going. and of course medical marijuana which after all was a campbell's nose under the tent to soften the ground for this. now the ground has been softened, so this will happen. will it get progressives out? beyond progress suffers, or people on the left, i think it appeals to independents. >> yeah. and you could argue libertarians are also in favor of this. >> rand paul. you know, all along one of his weaknesses has been his softness on drugs and marijuana. >> and that is -- the decriminalization, and california, a major amendment on

the book ket, jodocket, reclass misdemean are ors. savings from not jailing those people goes toward prevention program, it could affect 10,000 people. as california goes, in some ways so goes the nation. there is movement afoot on both sides of aisle to rethink the way we jail people and for what we jail them. >> that's right. and as rand paul has astutely noticed, this is an issue where republicans can actually do something to appeal to the african a american vote because the war on drugs is one of the more discriminatory features of american life. the disproportionate sentencing, if you're black you're much more likely to be arrested for smoking marijuana than if you're white. this is something they can did without spending government money on a social program. so i think paul is ahead of the

game saying this is a concession they can make and still live with their ideological -- >> and would be better and also raise tax revenue.decriminaliza marijuana would. you support the women's equality party here in new york. and we know that one of the hurdles that the platform faced was the notion that you would uphold a row v. wade. one of the very dareproductive . one of the very dark clouds is around reproductive rights. v. . one of the very dark clouds is around reproductive rights. tennessee opens it up to whatever draconian measures they would like to pass. the personhood amendment. it feels like we have slid back very quickly. >> and all this is on the heels of the hobby lobby decision which was terrible for women and our right to choose. here in new york, all we wanted to do was put a state law that

says roe vs. wade is new york state's law in case we ever lose it and our opponents have gone crazy literally saying if that happen, dentists will be able to permit abortions which of course we've seen all over the country. >> yes, cavity fillings and abortions happening nationwide. >> this is incredibly serious because if this all goes through, we're going to move light years backwards like that in places where young girls and young women don't have the ability to control their own bodies and their own futures. and let's make no mistake. the conservatives start with abortion and then they will keep going. this is not the only women's issue they will attack. they will go on and on and on. >> and heather, of course, this disproportionately affects poor women and women of color because it becomes a resource issue. in tennessee, in 2010, one in four abortions performed in the state was sought by an out of state patient because women from other are poorer states in the

south can only go to tennessee to make a choice that has been guaranteed by the supreme court to them. >> and that's why i think it's such a shame that we keep guiding often the real women's agenda, which is actually an agenda for working women forks low income women who have struggling. into you can either have reproductive rights party or you can have traditionally what has been the economic justice party which has been the working party. >> if you look at the women's equality party, our existence is driven by the fact that we couldn't get the women's equality act passed. and, yes, roe vs. wade is a critical part of that. so is pay equity, so is a law you to prevent discrimination against pregnant women. it helps all women. but it's about a law to crack down on sexual harassment,

tougher protections f s fos fo violence. that's why when republicans said you can have nine out of ten provisions, the coalition did exactly what you said. it stuck together. because you know what, i was there on the sgay rights bill when they said we'll give you sexual orientation and then come back and we'll give you gender identity. and we're still waiting. they tried to sell thaus that bridge and sometimes we've bought it. we can't let that happen. >> so the subject of reproductive rights, there are some women who think it's okay no matter what happens in this state, i'll be fine because i can travel, i can do something. and in too much of the political class is dominated by i think a tacet understanding that for our daughters or our sisters, it will be different. it's just all these women in texas and sort of far away places that will have to deal with this. this is a really important economic and social issue for all women. >> although in terms of personhood, let's remember that they don't pass.

that they are pry are unconstit. so on that level, i don't think we need to be so worried. >> it's amazing that we're even still talking about this as a conception. it is also happening in north dakota, state constitutional amendment that could criminalize miscarriage if it happens. which is why it's important to pay attention to the whole ballot. >> and in some places you even have to flip it over. >> read it upside down. thank you all. it is awesome just to have you here at this gigantic election night desk. thank you for your time. it was a bad sunday for washington's football team. and it had nothing to do with what happened on the field. more on that next. [ hoof beats ] i wish... please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all...is health.

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