this is why you see interest groups like the walton foundation, famously anti-union, supporting money into this ballot measure to pass it. so what you really see here is at the top line, a progressive effort to raise revenue, but underneath, the devil is potentially in the details where some of that money goes to one of the ring wings big project and that is to take money out of the school system. >> we have seen a lot of acceptance for the fact that we saw a lot of success in the mid 2000s, arizona, colorado, florida, missouri, nevada, oregon, washington, all raising the minimum wage through state ballot initiatives. why are we not getting as many states doing that in the last two years? >> the context for those raises in the mid 90s is the fact that the federal minimum wage had remained from $5.60 an hour. congress had only voted three times in the last 30 years to raise it. so when it stays flat for that

moment, too close to call. terry mcauliffe is leading. and polls close in one hour as an overwhelmingly democratic city decides whether it will elect it's first democratic mayor in over 20 years. it's election day with mayoral elections in dozens of cities, including a couple of counties in colorado to sucede and become the 51st state. a tea party birther candidate against an established republican and yet another evocative sign of intraparty warfare. and those gubernatorial races in new jersey and virginia. with tea party republicans helping the gop take the house a year later. this offyear election probably not offering the same kind of prophecy. alex bag -- your reaction to the