college loans for millions of americans, and i'm schooling sean hannity on america's hunger crisis. >> you share my faith in america's future and that's what drives me every single day. your hopes, your dreams and i'm not quitting now because in america we don't quit. >> the big man on campus took republicans to school today. tonight, gene robinson and e.j.dionne on the stark contrast between mitt romney and barack obama vision for america's youth. john boehner is fear among gering about an economic mushroom cloud. >> his policies will turn america in a direction that we may never recover from. >> the republican leader is way out of line. we'll set him straight. now legislatures are running away from alec. we learn everything we need to know about alec.

sales of the chevy volt are way up. >> they catch fire. >> the former gm executive behind the volt and conservative responds to the haters. >> the political right is constantly talking about the flammability, overheating, fire hazard. folks, it's a pure fiction. please get it out of your heads. good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. president obama is passing the test on student debt. republicans are on the verge of flunking out of class. he was at the university of north carolina at chapel hill today. he told students why he's able to relate with their own struggles. >> this is something michelle and i know about first hand. i just want everybody here to understand that this is not, i didn't just read about this. [ applause ] >> i didn't just.

[ applause ] >> i didn't just get some talking points about this. i didn't just get a policy briefing on this. michelle and i have been in your shoes. we didn't come from wealthy families. when we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. when we married, we got poor together. >> we got poor together. this is something mitt romney cannot say. heck, mitt romney didn't remember to talk about student loan debt until he was already walking away from reporters. >> okay. thank you. how about that -- one thing i wanted to mention. there's one thing i wanted to mention that i forgot to mention at the very beginning, and that was that particularly with the number of college graduates that can't find work or that can only find work well beneath their skill level, i fully support the

effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans. >> we have a reversal. mitt romney is taking president obama's position on student loan rates, but he can't take the position that the president has, and that's personal experience. president obama was still paying off student loans while in the senate. >> we only finished off our student loans, check this out. i'm the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. that wasn't that long ago. >> the president took his message to taping of late night with jimmy fallon. his outreach to a youthful audience is working. a new harvard university poll shows that president obama with a 17 point lead over mitt

romney. it's a six-point gain since the end of 2011. unlike romney, president obama has been an honest broker with the younger generation. so have the democrats if you look at it. in 2007 the new democratic congress passed the college cost reduction and access act. the bill e lowered rates. the democrats worked on behalf of low income students and got president bush to sign a helpful piece of legislation. now republicans, what do they want to do? they want to undo all of that. congress paul ryan, they want to lock in the loan rate. lock it in at 6.8%. the budget proposal calls on congress to roll back certain recent expansions. it says these should be returned to the preccra levels. this marvelous budget as mitt romney calls it makes millions of low income college students

pay double interest on their loan payments. "the ed show" called paul ryan to find if he stands by this proposal and of course we did not get a response. the progressive pact has responded to mitt romney's new position on student loans. a web ad shows what romney really thinks about student debt. >> law school and they are doing away with unsubsidized loans which make bs it impossible to pay off our debt and have car and a family before we retire. what are you doing to do for people like me? >> i wish i could tell you there's a place to find really cheap money and free money and we could pay for everyone's education. that's not going do happen. i would like to have more competition between schools. i hope you shopped around and tried to find the school with the lowest possible tuition. >> he said cheap money, not going to happen in front of the crowd. sorry struggling students. in mitt romney's world, you're

on your own. he doesn't sound too different from congresswoman virginia fox who has no sympathy for anyone with student debt. >> i have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $202$200,000 of d or even $80,000 of debt. there's no reason for that. >> president obama was quick to remark on fox's comments today. >> can you imagine saying something like that? those of you who have had to take out student loans, you didn't do it cause you're lazy. you didn't do it lightly. you don't like debt. a lot of you, your parents are helping out but it's tough on them. >> mitt romney just can't find the pulse of every day americans. not everyone is going to go to college and come away with a high paying job like a doctor or

banker. there are teachers and social workers. they're not going to be making big bucks, but they're boing to be doing a lot of good work. don't you think they should be allowed to have a fair shot at a low interest loan, a reasonable rate without republicans changing the rules on them all of a sudden. the president gets it because he's lived it, and he's winning over young americans with common sense. if you're a student, you're sitting at home sitting at home in your apartment or dorm room. you have to ask the question what did i do? why do republicans want to make money on me? you're banking your honor future. any time there's a bank involved, the republicans want dollars involved and they want to make money. they're about profit. they're not about people. president obama is about opportunity. he's lived it. he wants you to live it. there's one candidate in one party that understands your world. there's one candidate in one party that doesn't give a damn and has no clue.

remember, in the ryan bill, what they want to do is make that higher interest rate permanent. they want to fix it in. that means no breaks. you just heard mitt romney on the campaign trail saying i don't know where you're going to get cheap money. he's not about cheap money. he's not about giving you the 20 somethings a break to get through college. i understand interest rates. 3.4%. that's a good low rate. what's wrong with 2%? the democrats need to start changing their thinking. an educate student is an investment in this country. it's an investment in america. romney who hasn't lived it just doesn't see it that way. get your cell phones out. tonight's question. do college age voters have any reason to trust mitt romney? text a for yes. text b for now. you can always go to our blog. we'll bring results later on in

the program. i also want to point out that students, it's fair to say, they're the working poor. you ever come across a rich student that might be working one twor jobs to get through school. for some reason the republicans have it out for the poor or downtrodden who are just trying to get ahead. i'm joined by e.j.dionne. e.j., when you look at this and you see what the republicans are advocating, how in the world do they expect to win over younger voters. you just heard mitt romney say i don't know where you're going to get cheap money. they don't believe in it. >> i think you saw why romney sort of shook the etch a sketch on this one. i think there's something important we should appreciate which is this is the first

election where both sides are fighting for the vote of the young people. ten years of change when young people really started coming to the polls. this is a big deal. i think mitt romney realized that the republican position in the house is just totally unsustainable politically. i also think that he sees that both at harvard institute of politics policy and another poll by the young people at georgetown shows that obama isn't quite where he was in 2008. obama was on that campus because he knows he's got some work to do. he carried the youth vote by two to one. i think romney has to distance himselves from the republicans in congress. i think he's going to have to pressure them to vote for this change. i don't know they will vote to do it or vote to avoid the change. >> the stafford loans have

helped 35 million americans get educated. it seems the ryan and romney plan on student loans is a hand out to the banks. they view the students a as commodity and not an investment. you agree with that? >> yeah. in fact, what the democrats did, i think a few republicans voted for it but what liberals say is this is not something where the making a profit by a bank is the highest priority. the highest priority is to help students go do college. when government took over this program there was still administering it when the banks did it. they are saying let's cut that profit out so we can share it with the students. really hard times when government programs can make things cheaper even though no one on the republican side and a lot of americans don't believe that. >> you think president obama has some work to do. he's hitting the late night tv

circuit. here is president obama slow jamming the news with jimmy fallon. here it is. >> now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people. [ applause ] aww, yeah. >> is that a good example of why president obama is winning over young people? there's just that connection there and is this politically a smart move to run that late night circuit? >> i think it is. it worked for bill clinton. it's worked for obama before. i think that obama got some extra votes last time because he was the cool candidate and being for obama was the cool thing to be. that's not quite the same now because you can't run as quite the same kind of hero after you've had a rough time for four years. i think compared to mitt romney, he can probably pull it off again. >> the way this is breaking down, i think you have to view the youth vote in america going to be make or break demographic

in this election. great to have you with us. >> great to be with you. >> remember to answer tonight's question. share your thoughts on twitter. we want to know what you think. john boehner says if president obama is reelected, the economy may never recover. the scare tactics won't work speaker boehner. richard wolf joins me. the chevy volt is a great american success story. why do conservatives hate it? former gm executive joins me later in the program. stay with us.

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coming up, house speaker john boehner channels dick cheney with his dire warning about the economic policies. the alec fallout continues after more than a dozen companies cut ties with the organization. lawmakers on a state level are starting to do the same thing.

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absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on november 2nd we make the right choice. if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again. we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the united states. >> oh, yeah, an oldie but

goldie. that was vice president dick cheney back in the day, september of 2004 warning of dire consequences if john kerry were to become president of the united states. the scare tactics are being rolled out once again. this time about the economy. here is john boehner. >> america can't live for four more years with barack obama as president. his policies will turn america in a direction that we may never recover from. >> really? looks like boehner is the new cheney. let's see which part of john boehner, what he really objects to. let's go back, a little history lesson here. on inauguration day, january 20th, 2009. the stock market was about 7,900 today the closing bell at 13,000. you know what this means? if you had your guts to put your

money in the market then, look where you would be today. what does boehner not like about that? general motors which was about to bite the dust became the number one car manufacturer in the world under president obama in january of this year. now, you can't build rome in a day but in 2012 this is pretty good news. who would have thought gm left for dead by the republicans would have been able to do that. which cities do you think would be better off without the resurgence of the american able industry. when president obama took office, we were losing jobs. there's now been 25 months, look at this. 25 months of private sector. the rate has been dropping under president obama. it's not where we want it but it's moving in the right direction. two years ago, president obama

called on the united states of america to double exports over a five year period. that affects the manufacturing sector. exports where are they? they're up 34% over the last two years. president obama has his plan on track to meet his goal. that's a hell of an increase. despite constant obstructionism. they haven't helped him do anything. he's kept the economy from falling off a cliff. it's now coming back. president obama moved away from the policies of george w. bush and the republicans. that must be part of what john boehner is really objecting to. richard wolffe, great to have you with us for the discussion. >> pleasure. >> facts are facts. will it stick with the american people? what do you think? >> i think it's hard for the republicans to do what they are doing which is say who are you going to believe, me or your

lying eyes. the economy is moving in a different direction from where they want it to be. they can say the economy should have have, would have been better if republicans would have been there. it's kind of what mitt romney is trying to say. that argument is hard to pull off. they can do what john boehner is doing and say it's terrible. no matter what you're hearing and no matter what you're seeing, it's all bad. you can fool some of the people all of the time and some of the people are not ever going to vote for this president. it will work for them. >> you got 450 right wing talkers that are hammering this stuff every day. you have the folks across the street giving boehner the platform. it seems like he's going to the karl rove school and play book, attack where you're weak. these are facts but maybe we can get that head shaking crowd that we saw in front of ted nugent believing something different. >> it's true 70% of the country think we're in recession. we in media have some blame for

that. people use the language of recession long after it ended. that's just wrong. it was sloppy talk from a lot of people in the media and in the public debate there. you're also flattering. this is not karl rove sophistication. this is much simpler. they are not talking about what they have done the you heard dict chenecheney. these republicans are not saying we did this, go vote for us. we created the jobs we promised. we challenged the debt ceiling. they cannot make that case. they have to go the other way and say the stuff that's happening in the economy is fot really there. >> here is john boehner talking about the deal with president obama during the debt ceiling debate. >> when you look at this final agreement that we came to with the white house, i got 98% of what i wanted. i'm pretty happy. >> he says he was pretty happy. why isn't he happy anymore? >> why didn't he take the deal?

you get 90% of what you want in politics, you don't take it. that's a tough sell for the american people. if you think it's country first and not caucus first, you take 98%. >> should president obama run on his record? all the things i just listed out, it's a lot. what do you focus in on that's really going to drive home with the american people? >> part of what the obama campaign has to do is remind people just where we've been. i think there's selective memory about how bad things were. they have forgotten. you want to have some amnesia here because it was so awful. we can't know where the bottom was going to be. we didn't know how many coworkers would be laid off, whether the stock market would ever come. without scaring people about how bad it was, we got to remind ourselves what the journey has been like, and say how much further there is to go. that's not that easy either because you've got to believe this president is going to keep

things on the track its been. you've got to speak to where people want to go not their fears about where we've been. >> he says we'll never recover. that's what boehner is saying. it's a page out of cheney's negative talk. lawmakers are starting to question alec's right wing agenda. i'll talk to one lawmaker that is leaving the group. alec whistle blower joins me next. will conservatives be able to handle rom's french connection. stay with us. ♪ [ lauer ] this is our team. and unlike other countries, it's built by your donations, not government funding. and now, to support our athletes, you can donate a stitch in america's flag for the 2012 olympic games in london.

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whoa! no one said "cheese." progressive mobile -- insurance has never been easier. get a free quote today. welcome back. the american legislative exchange council or alec as we have been reporting on has been responsible for some of the most anti-union, anti-democratic and pro-gun measures in this country. alec grabs right wing legislation to better serve its corporate members, and it pushes it on state legislatures. now, folks are waking up to what's really going on. progressive groups are putting measure on them. some of the most recognize brands in america have left this organization, alec. 16 of the 76 democratic state

legislatures have cut ties with the group. tonight, number 17. a democrat joins me on the program. ted vic is currently a democratic candidate for the united states congress. he's been a member of alec since 2004, but is resigning from the group. thanks for joining us tonight. why have you decided to leave alec after eight years? i guess i should say, why did you join? >> i'll tell you, ed. alec was a group that offered a place for democrats and republicans to come together to talk about real issues facing our country. to talk about policies issues that can move our country forward and make the economy better and make businesses work better and make government more efficient. unfortunately, alec over the last few years have gone more and more to the right and not done what its original intent

was to do. >> you consider yourself a conservative democrat. at what point did you serve notice that there was a shift in ideology and was it a particular issue that moved you? i keep thinking about voter i.d. why would they get involved in that, but what was the lynch pin for you? >> it started about three years ago, ed. i noticed the trend. i don't know if it was the tea party movement that was taking over alec or what the right wing agenda was. it started moving to the right and getting very extreme. you're running for congress because we're tired of the extremes. the american people are tired of the extremes on both sides, and they want to see this country move forward. they want to see a congress that can work together. what did it for me is i was at a speech, a luncheon that the governor was speaking and i got up and walked out last year in response to. he was bashing the president.

bashing democrats and i told the executive director as well as the president of our state and said i'm not going to stand for this. if alec doesn't change, i'll be leaving this group and encouraging other democrats to do so as well. >> what do you think the future of alec is at this point s? >> it was a very good tool where folks from opposing sides can come together and talk about the issues outside of the boxing ring of politics and work on things in a bipartisan manner, in a statesmanship manner. if alec would get back to its founding principles, those principles where folks from both sides of the aisle work together and try to find real solution that's got place in this society. right now if they continue to do the right wing thing thas are doing and pushing agendas that doesn't have nothing to do with more efficient government then it doesn't have a place in politics in my opinion, and that's why i'm resigning.

>> do you think that some of the sponsors didn't know how active they were in the right wing agenda until the social media got after it? obviously, the stand your ground law got a lot of attention with the death of trayvon martin. then upon further review they have been very involved in voter suppression. what does that have to do with business in america? >> thank you very much. that's what the private sectors figured out. they are a big part of alec as well. they had an opportunity to sat down with legislatures. this was the largest legislative exchange in the nation. they had an opportunity to come. we started having conversations with them as well. they were concerned about the direction alec was going and they have pulled their sponsorship and support. i think they rightly have done so. >> you think alec has done damage to the country with some of the radical legislation they have pushed and gotten through? >> i think extremism on the right side is definitely done

damage. we have seen that in our economy. the gridlock that's going on in washington, d.c. right now. as you said i'm running for congress. folks are sick and tired of the gridlock. the folks in marlboro are starved for jobs and starved for real leadership to move this country forward. >> how many more of your colleagues do you think will distance themselves from alec? you've been very graphic about what you think the problem is and what the issues are. the you think all democrats are going to leave? >> well, i think it would be a good stand that democrats as well as moderate republicans ought to come out and take a stands and say we're interested in solving the real problems of this country. we're not interested in taking up right wing agendas and issues. i encourage my democrat colleagues as well as my republican colleagues to do the right thing and make alec either change dramatically or not join

alec again. >> i don't think they will ever be trusted again. ted vick good luck to you. thanks for your time. there's a lot more coming up. stay with us. >> we got a car for you. it's a volt. you're going to puke. >> a conservative gm executive is calling out his fellow conservatives. >> you believe that the volt catches fire was a product of the obama administration when it's none of those things. >> you don't want to miss my interview with the man behind the volt. walking around the city of paris. >> how can righties stomach mitt romney french connection? sean hannity reaches a new low. the right wing media is going all in on the republican war on the poor. >> most plerns even in poverty have a basic level of living.

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i got to get inside a brand new chevy volt fresh off the line and five years when i'm not president, i'll buy one and drive it myself. >> that was president obama praising the chevy volt and sales surged. nearly 2300 units sold in march. it was named 2011 motor trend car of the year and 2012 european car of the year. back in december, mitt romney said the volt was an idea whose time has not come. whatever that meant. here is a small sampling of how conservative pundits treated it. >> does it have a floor?

>> it's loaded with taxpayer subsidies and offered with the taxpayer bailout. >> you'd have to give it to me for free and i'd rather roller skate backwards in the lincoln tunnel. >> the volt is a dolt. it stinks. the car you have to plug in ain't exactly selling out. not even close. >> another obama proposed another plan. give money to people without any strings attached. >> let's bring in the former vice president, chairman of general motors. great to have you with us tonight. it stinks was the comment that one said. what was your response to ma montatage of sound we just play? >> i'm a conservative and it bothers me when conservative

commentators can stand on its own merit without falsehoods of the most advanced car on the planet. as you correctly pointed out car of the year in united states and europe. the vehicle where an owner gets over 250 miles per gallon. 7,5 $7500 credit is another thing that obama puts on the car. everybody fails to mention that the tax credit was enacted under the bush administration and so forth and so on. you heard many conservative commentators talk about chevy volt fires. you had lou saying they all catch fire. one volt caught fire after a

highly destructive crash test. it caught fire three weeks later which should be enough time for people to get out. >> what was your role with the chevy volt? how involved were you with the design and manufacturing of this vehicle? >> i led the team that did it. i'll tell you quite frankly, i was very annoyed with the fact that toyota seemed to become the darling of the environmental movement. the thing was well american car companies are brain dead. they could never do anything like that. i said, let's do the moon shot. let's do something that's way beyond what anybody else in the world has done. let's use lithium ion batteries and one of my executives said, let's not make it all electric because it will get too expensive.

let's use a smallish battery to give us 40 miles of electric range and a small gasoline generator will kick in case people want to go an additional 300 miles. showed it at the detroit show in 2007 almost year and a half before obama was elected president, and it was a smash hit. everybody said they will never build it. general motors would never do that. the japanese said they can't do it. lithium ion batteries won't work. we had torrents of negativism. it was a highly motivated, highly inspired team and as motor trend said a bunch of michigan engineers in cheap suits just out engineered the best engineers in germany. >> it's also been a political football. here is darrell issa from the congress. here it is. >> do the american people really think we should have put $375

million in ge buying the electric cars so everyone could make a statement about the future with really bad car. >> that's archaic thinking. your thoughts. if we listened to darrell issa we could still be in cart wheels the way he's talking. >> it's highly unfair. it's wrong. my problem with it is it's so untrue and wrong that everybody can see through it. that harms the conservative cause, which other than the chevy volt i deeply believe in. >> good work. thank you so much. the right wing smear machine spent the last two presidential elections slamming democrats for being elitists, but now the republican nominee is the one with the fonds memories of vacations this paris, france. what will the conservatives do?

coming up, after years of

pantsing democrats as elitists, republicans are throwing their support behind mitt romney. his latest out of touch moment is coming up next. if you think mitt is out of touch, wait until you hear what sean hannity has to say about hunger in this country. don't forget to tweet us. we're right back. ♪ dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪ dave, where are we on the new laptop? it's so slow! i'm calling dave.

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more evidence mitt romney has no connection with the middle class families in this country. at a press conference yesterday a member of the foreign press, foreign press asked romney what he remembered about his time in france. well, really service an easy lay up. he could have talked about being a missionary in france. instead, he said this. >> i have a lot of memories of france. i think the best memories were with my wife on vacations from time to time in france. the last vacation we had there walking around the city of

paris. walking around the city is one of the most magnificent cities in the world. i look forward to occasional vacations again in such a beautiful place. >> he decided to talk about his much fun as he had vacations with his wife. less than a week ago mitt was complaining about obama's elaborate vacations. the republican party is about to nominate the type of candidate that they have spent the last eight years trashing. president obama was a harvard eating snob who put fancy mustard on his cheese burger. >> plain old ketchup didn't cut it. >> i hope you enjoyed that fancy burger mr. president. >> well, when michelle obama took a trip to spain, right

wingers like michelle bachmann had a fit. >> there she is clomping around the beach side in her designer shoes at a time when so many people are feeling the pain that obviously michelle obama is not in touch with. >> it's not just the obama's in in 2004 fox news was relentless against john carry for his frenchness. >> they are saying he looks french. >> the man who would be america's first french president. >> are the republicans going to effectively be able to make him french? good afternoon, everybody. >> so much for the conservatives freedom fries and liberty toast. time to break out the bordeux. the republicans have a french speaking nominee with harvard

degrees that's worth a quarter of a billion dollars plus he has zero ability to connect to anyone who routinely strolls around the eiffel tower. you're going to need it, dude. next up, sean hannity is challenging mitt romney for the title of the most out of touch person in america. i think sean may have the edge tonight. you won't believe what he had to say. stay with us. [ male announcer ] can febreze set & refresh make even this place smell fresh?

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the $20 million radio host responded by denying the existence of hunger this america. >> i have friends of mine that eat rice and beans all the time. beans protein, rice inexpensive the you can make a big pot of this for a week for relatively little amount of money for your whole family. you should have vegetables and fruit in there as well. if you need to survive, you can survive off of it. it's not ideal. you can get some cheap meat too and throw in there. there are ways to live really cheaply. >> it's that entertaining conservative talk. he has no clue. he has no concept of reality. this is the republican idealology, denial. under president george w. bush the united states government officially eliminated the word hunger. in 2006 the department of agriculture legally changed the term for people who can't afford to put food on the table to very

low food security. the republicans eliminated the word hunger, but pretending hunger doesn't exist doesn't change the facts. 6.7 million households suffer from president bush's very low food security. 16.2 million children live in households that struggle to put food on the table. that's one in five kids in america going hungry. i want sean hannity to look at those kids in the eye and say you're not hungry or go to a soup kitchen and tell those people to go buy a bag of rice and a can of beans. heck, his friends do it according to him. i'm joined by vicky, the president and ceo of feeding america. great to have you with us tonight. what is your reaction to this conversation to what sean hannity is saying about hunger in america? >> it's good to be with you.

my reaction is hunger is a serious and critical problem. you cited the statistics. we know it's doubled since recession began. we also know that it affects every county in this country. we have done a lot of research. just because people think it's invisible and they don't know someone who is struggling with hunger, we know it exists across america. >> what does hannity fail to understand about the problem of hunger in this country when you hear that? >> i think he and a lot of people fail to understand that first and foremost, it's not a political issue. hunger has always been supported by both republicans and democrats. making this a partisan issue is not what we're all about. i think he fails to understand that this recession, which has been the most impactful downturn since the great depression has affected millions of people, 49

million people. that's almost a sixth of the american population. we're not talking politics. we're not talking a partisan issue. we're talking about american people. >> how has changing the term or word hunger to very low food security affect the perception of hunger in this country? hannity thinks there's no hunger. go get a bag of rice and can of beans and everything will be fine. >> it doesn't matter what you call it. hunger and food insecurity are one in fact same. it's not something that people want to talk about. i've traveled across the united states and met with thousands of people, thousands of mothers, children, senior citizens that are not going to run out in the street and tell everyone i can't provide enough food for my child to eat a decent meal tonight. that's not something that most people are proud of. we work very hard to get people to open up and feel that they

are welcome and that there's an understanding place around a recovery. >> more kids go to bed hungry in this country today than they did last year, is that correct? >> than ever before. one in five children than ever before. one in five children are at risk of not learning or at risk of serious medical issues or at risk of not being ready for the future. this is an american crisis that we have one in five kids in this country going to bed hungry. >> thank you for your time. i appreciate it. that's "the ed show." the "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. thank you. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. it's election night. polls have just officially closed here in the great state of new york. at this hour nbc news is declaring the race in new york according to our