we'll see if women come out for allison grimes. she needs that vote even to have a shot of up ending the minority leader. >> and this appears that president obama may be on the ballot even though he's not, allison grimes tried to make mitch mcconnell the hate the figure. >> and david purdue has put his foot in his mouth on outsourcing a number of times, one of the things that is going to be really important to watch tonight, did the black vote come out and vote for michelle nun in that race? it's going to impact the governor's race. that is jimmy carter's grandson race. jason carter running in georgia. the reason that's so important is because you're seeing the old guard in georgia cede to the new guard. >> and cede on the issues of jobs. it could be an upset of gubernatorial incumbents who lose their job. >> that's right. after that we go to south carolina. there are two senate race there is. one is a special race. do you know the name doug huddo and joys dickerson. >> we'll never hear it again. >> we'll never here of joys dickers

allison grimes over the past month did just that. >> libby casey reporting. a lot of very interesting races and outcome did. let's go to david shuster with more. >>reporter: >> the governor's races, that was a wipeout of the democrats from wisconsin to illinois and maine to maryland. those were all states where president obama campaigned in receipt weeks for the democrats. in fact, the only state where he campaigned where a democrat won was in pennsylvania and that's where the candidate there beat tom corbett because corbett was down by double digits because he was tied to the penn state sex abuse scandal. that was the only case. it was it was a wipeout for democrats. they have lost historic margins down the u.s. house. it will be the biggest republican majority in the drunks house since harry truman some 70 years ago. of course, big questions about how will the republican congress govern? what will mitch mcconnell do now that conservatives are going to press him and press house speaker john boehner? and this has been a conservative john? >> all right. this i

allison grimes half his age. secretary of state of kentucky giving mitch mcconnell a really tough challenge. mitch mcconnell has been in office 30 years and he opens to go back. senator mcconnell has said that victory is in the air, and allison grams is predicting a photo finish tonight. you have to be at the polls now in kentucky in order to still cast your vote. we should be getting those election results early in the evening tonight. and this could be a real sent of how things are to go, but also mitch mcconnell is going to be watching here not just whether he wins re-election but if he could become majority leader in the senate. >> what issues have the candidates focused on in time around? >> they're talking about the jobs and economy. as i talk to voters today at a voting place, this were talking about president obama, gridlock in washington. people who are supporting of mitch mcconnell are not fans of the president. he has low voter rates here in kentucky. but those who are voting for allison grimes, they d

hillary clinton campaigning with allison grimes on the weekend.se race there, perhaps one the democrats would like to get the most to defeat mitch mcconnell, looks unlikely at the moment but not out of the question. it is sad but sadly hardly a surprise race is an issue in the campaign's closing days. louisiana senate contest mary landrieu stoked the conversation with this explanation of president obama's unpopular pit. >> to be very honest with you, the south has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans. it's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. >> she's being very honest and it's certainly true if you look in the south, race is more of an issue in campaigns, the president is more of an issue sometimes. what's mary landrieu's goal here? >> you know, it's funny, because she's gotten a lot of flack for this comment, a lot of republicans come out and said she should apologiapologize. she doubled down and sent out a statement yesterday saying i'm not backing down. this is,

mcconnell is winning with women against allison grimes. cotton is winning with women against mark pryor in arkansas. what rand paul is saying is what i have been saying. we have spent way too long showing up at the end. and we have to do better. that's why when he made the comments, he made them at the black engagement office that we pay for. >> congressman -- >> we're going to have a great night. >> let me go to -- if the republicans do have the great night that reince priebus is talking about. there's a lot of evidence they will, won't that demand a course correction from president obama? >> well, look, george, going into tuesday, i'll back up our ground game against his ground game. he has been putting as much money as he could. i know he would take ours over theirs. we're doing better in north carolina and new hampshire. we have candidates across the country focused on the issues, importance of the middle class and working families. and republicans have extremism. stack up our policies of increasing the minimum wage and fight for equal

allison grimes over the past month did just that. >> libby casey reporting. a lot of very interesting races and outcome did. let's go to david shuster with more. >>reporter: >> the governor's races, that was a wipeout of the democrats from wisconsin to illinois and maine to maryland. those were all states where president obama campaigned in receipt weeks for the democrats. in fact, the only state where he campaigned where a democrat won was in pennsylvania and that's where the candidate there beat tom corbett because corbett was down by double digits because he was tied to the penn state sex abuse scandal. that was the only case. it was it was a wipeout for democrats. they have lost historic margins down the u.s. house. it will be the biggest republican majority in the drunks house since harry truman some 70 years ago. of course, big questions about how will the republican congress govern? what will mitch mcconnell do now that conservatives are going to press him and press house speaker john boehner? and this has been a conservative republican mandate. john?

allison lundgren-grimes gave him a strong race. there were a number of times where the senate minority leader was pretty scared about the possibilities of her getting far more momentum than they anticipated. they were confident they were going to win, seven points as much as what the polls were indicating. they didn't see it being a 15-point victory. they conceded that was much more than expected. there's a lot of things that happened on the ground here in kentucky. president bill clinton campaigned for allison lundgren-grimes. mrs. clinton campaigned here and didn't do much help. grimes read a very, very tough pain. she was aggressive and was on offense a great deal going after mr. mcconnell. he is unpopular on the polls here and across the country because he is an incumbent, and there's so little going on in washington. confront the with the choice of a up and coming democrat, kentucky republicans. >> the senator will be there in just a moment. monica crowley is -- fox news contributor. carl just brought up the fact that hillary

and that begs the question why democrats including allison lundergan grimes were not able to pick some traction where you see progress in thousands of people benefitting from the health care's law. >> it hasn't gotten much coverage but allison has been very adamant about the fact she doesn't want to repeal the affordable care act, she doesn't want to take insurance away from the kentuckians who have it and who didn't. she wants to tweak it and make some corrections. she's been fairley defensive of the act and complimented the governor for his efforts in that regard. it's a very strange issue because most people who already have their insurance aren't affected by the affordable care act. they actually are because they have new protections. but that they didn't have before. they're not aware of it. i'm not sure how it's going to play. mitch was embarrassed because he tried to say we could keep connect without eliminating coverage and the expansion of medicaid which is nonsense. he's been called out for that. what mitch has done is run the campaign basically on two ideas. one is president

>> so allison grimes is going to need nothing short of a miracle. she needs to see this look more like 2012 or 2008 where the president supporters came out for him here even though he didn't win the state. in jefferson county where there has been extraordinary turn out, poll workers say it doesn't look like a mid-term. it looks more presidential. she needs to run up the numbers with african-american voters to beat the fact that the polls show a widening chasm in mitch mcconnell's favor. >> for grimes there, thanks for following that for us. let's go from kentucky to iowa. over there a 2ke78 krat is fighting hard to keep the seat for the party. bruce braley is in a tight race with joni ernst with pig castration and taylor swift comparison ads. ernst was ahead and that was unexpected. how large is that looming over the braley camp today? >> with certainty that "des moines register" poll is looming large over the campaign. there have been two and seven that showed a much closer race, but the polls considered the best and he has taken to stumping around

i will never forget the conventional wisdom for making me stumble through allison grimes. >> right. because she won by 15 point -- >> the margins is what makes us striking. there is a difference between local newspapers and local polles who saw what was going on. des moines poll, register poll, and endorsement of gardner in colorado and rouner in illinois. so there seems to be a division there. >> we will come back to the position of polls. but the liberal spin, those who say oh, it is an off year, mostly red states, seems pretty lame. >> but those things are true. >> true, but. >> if you get an electorate in off years. of course they matter, i would say that any party that loses tends to minimize their loss. these are natural reactions. >>. that any journalist should buy into that. >> no. my problem is that while democrats lost, a lot of democrat policies won. minimum wage passed in red states. pot passed in california. so i think there is a tendency to look at candidates as nothing but symbols. but of democratic policy. there were actual policies on the ballots that wound up doing

. >> on the other side we ha hahav have allison grimes who is the candidate.n't say anything when asked if she voted f-- >> michael grim is on our hit parade also, almost literally. else the one who is a congressman who did not like the question that a reporter from new york one was asking, so he threatened to throw him over the balcony of the russell rotunda. that's considered bad form, however, he did get reelected. >> that sounds like some good five talking turkey points we have for 2014. >> i will point out, as you just showed a moment ago, the president did pardon those turkeys. unfortunately, a lot of these turkeys probably shouldn't be pardoned. >> thank you so much, bob, we appreciate that, and we'll have mac and cheese on our table, too. >>> well, a family in minnesota will be celebrating thanksgiving today with one chair empty. but a decision a young man made before he died assured another family wouldn't have to. nbc's kate snow reports. >> reporter: matthew heisler was a junior in the university of north dakota when his parents and sister got the c

senate majority leader but that's if he can get past democratic -- past democratic challenger allison grimes in kentucky. because based on some of latest polls, grimes has narrowed the margin to single single digits against the longest serving u.s. senator in kentucky history. we'll see if that run continues or if the bluegrass ends upturning blue. then there's georgia. georgia, as some would say one of the states bracing for a potential runoff. michelle nun and republican david per due are fighting to replace retiring gop senator sax saxby chambliss. the libertarian has a chance if neither candidate would get 5 ooh% of the -- 50% of the vote. in the dope south, we could see another such runoff in louisiana. democratic incumbent mary landrieu is facing a republican from challenger -- challenger from cassidy and maniss. he's expected to draw enough votes to prevent either cassidy or marylandrieu from getting 50% of the vote. that's just a handful of states. arkansas, west very much virginia, alaska, new hampshire and north carolina all could play a significant role. if it comes down to kansas

if you watched on tv here, ever ad was allison grimes might support president obama. just like barack obama's face on the ads. i know, he's not an issue but he was here. the second is coal is a big industry here. mcconnell successfully attacked grimes and said obama and the epa are looking it attack the coal industry. the data suggests it's not true. the coal industry is declining for a lot of reasons that had little to do with policy . there are 120 counties in kentucky, obama won four in 2012, miss grimes won ten of them. she lost 110 counties. most of them the eastern and western rural parts of the state. >> thank you so much for both of you for being with me this morning. appreciate your time. and i want to go now to msnbc steve corp. knack key. extraordinary on the giant ipad thing. what a pleasure to see you. we have viewers waking up to the shift. lay out the agnat me of the wave. >> there's a couple of components. i can tell you a few of them. one is, from the state of kansas we can look at pat roberts, the republican incumbent was re-elected last night. the wo

but this is allison grimes' home town and there are a lot of those that haven't been counted.>> and let's go to nick. >> reporter: this is the first step in the battol counting process. the poll workers were here getting ready for the process to happen. all 156 presyncs around gwinnett county will show up here and they'll start to get tabulated. we'll see them show up here around 8:00 p.m. and this is the georgia board election results and virtually in realtime we'll see the results show up and with the close senate race between michelle nunn and david purdue expected to be down to the wire, we are looking at a an exciting night here in georgia. >> thank you very much. and as we get the results, we're getting an early read from voters of what is exactly on your minds. let's go to john king at the magic wall. >> let's look at the mood in kentucky and georgia as we wait for the polls to close. in kentucky, 63% of the voiters disapprove of how the president is handling his job. you would think that is a big benefit for mitch mcconnell. he said his opponent is close tolt president

he easily beat democrat allison grimes who stumbled late in the campaign. republicans cruised to victories in west virginia, south dakota, and montana, but it was iowa an republican coming from behind to overtake bruce braley. >> my tame is tom tillis, and i'm the next united states senator -- [ cheers and applause ] >> swept past kay hagan. >> i think senator reid is going to have a different office assignment come january. >> reporter: colorado's incumbent senator losing to corey gardner. and in arkansas -- >> how about that win. >> reporter: tom cotton denied mark pryor a third term in the senate. >> i think it was a win we all hoped for and maybe expected, but perhaps a little earlier and bigger than any of us would have expected. >> reporter: but democrats were able to stop the bleeding in several states. jeanne shaheen put away scott brown. and in virginia mark warner is locked in a dead heat with ed gaestby. in louisiana no candidate received over 50% of the vote, triggering a runoff next month. three-term senator mary la land -- land drew will phase

, where senate minority leader mitch mcconnell appears to be moving away from challenger allison lundergren grimes. in louisiana's three way race, the numbers show democratic incumbent mary landrieu with 40% of the vote, over republican challenger bill cassidy. this brirm race will go to a runoff if no one goes to the -- >> rights now the current makeup is 45 republicans, 53 democrats and two independents who caucus with the democrats effectively giving the president's party a 55-45 advantage. but democrats have a tougher hill to climb on tuesday night with more seats of theirs that are up for grabs. we have got team fox coverage for you. correspondent john roberts who's live in new orleans 69 but we begin with our chief political continue carl cameron live in kentucky. >> reporter: we are here at an allison lundergren grimes event here in kentucky where she's going to have to scramble to fry to get back in this race. the latest polls show that mitch mcconnell may have turned the corner and won the election. he will be the senate majority leader, he has shown a great deal of confidence in the last

allison lunderagan grimes. pat? >> ca ris ma wins -- charisma wins it. mcconnell wins it again. he's very tough. very able. they just won't get that guy out of there. and she -- when she -- ms. grimes refused to say who she voted for in 2012 -- >> yeah -- >> that. >> i think it hurt her. kentucky is a red state. mcconnell is coming back to lead the new majority. >> mcconnell is the wiley coyote but i couldn't bear to give it to him so i'm sticking with allison lundergan grimes. they don't like mcconnell in the state. if the senate goes republican, it will be a great consolation prize for democrats if mcconnell goes down. >> eleanor vote with your heart. forget your head. >> that's right. >> i would have said grimes myself, if -- mcconnell's approvals are terrible right now but, you know, turnout is very important for democrats and it is going to be hard to get people to turn out for a woman who would not say publicly that she voted for barack obama when everybody know she is did. >> i think mcconnell will definitely win. he has delivered for the state. brought the bacon home. if

up more than six seats needed to win a majority, mitch mcconnell easily defeated, the democrat allison grimes, his goal, becoming senate majority leader. >> just because we have a two party system doesn't mean we have to be in perpetual conflict. i think i have shown that to be true at critical times. >> republicans on capitol hill called tuesday's results a rejection of president obama's policies and direction of the democratic party. >>> democrats did however score victories in new jersey and delaware, in new jersey corry booker cruised to his first full term as senator beating republican challenger jeff bell by double digits. booker had previously won a special election for seat of the late frank lautenberg who died last year. in his victory speech booker says nation is tire of partisan bickering. >> we would get so much farther when we reach across the the aisle, when we work together, when we focus on not petty political victories but on the progress of the people who elect us. that is what i'm committed to do. >> in delaware democrat chris coons returns to washington, for his first full

allison lunder man grimes 41. >> in alaska the ballots are still being counted. sullivan holding on to a five point lead over incumbent mark begich. we can update that for you and toll you 94 percent of the votes counted so far. democrat mark warner holding on to a small lead over ed gillespie separated 12,000 votes. 95 percent of ballots have been counted at this point. >> louisiana they are headed to a runoff. as expected neither candidate getting the necessary 50 percent. mary landrieu getting 42 percent, cassidy 41. to new hampshire that is going to a senate race shaheen 52 to 48 over scott brown. >>> republicans win a sweeping majority over the senate. how do they do it? >> peter doocy takes us beyond the numbers of the biggest races. peter, good morning. >> republicans across the country last night held their breath to see if they would take control of the senate. the clincher came held to republican challenger tom tillis in the most contentious senate race ever. >> that's freedom. then there was senator pat roberts in kansas on his way to a fourth term aft

senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has been locked in a tense battle with allison lundergren grimes. she's been wading through some hot water after having trouble answering the question of whether she voted for president obama, as you may know, even the president has acknowledged that members of his own party may have to distance themselves from him and his failing policies if they want to win. the latest information as key races into the homestretch. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live for us in philadelphia. where president obama is on the campaign trail tonight, and john roberts is in new orleans covering a race that could well end up in a runoff, leaving the nation waiting to call which party will leave the senate. campaign carl, as we like to call him, is in kentucky where as i mentioned the most powerful republican in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is locked in a close race, carl? >> hi, harris, we're actually here in lebanon, kentucky at an allis allison lundergren grimes, she's going to have to pull out one heck of a come from behind in the next 48

kentucky, allison grimes wouldn't even admit to voting for the guy. >> that was someone who does notmodern politics. the reality is, you can un, but you can't hide. whether you invite the president into the state or not, the president is now on the ballot with you. and it is really counterproductive and almost irrational for candidates to run away from the president. a story i love --6l1w charlie c as a republican at the end of the 2006 election wouldn't invite george w. bush into the state to campaign for him as governor of florida. in 2014 at the end of the campaign, he wouldn't invite barack obama. and each time, and each time the vast majority of people who disapproved of the president voted against him. that's the reality facing hillary clinton or anybody else in 2016. the outgoing president casts a big shadow over the election to replace him. one more number -- if you look back at exit polls, in 19 8, 88% of the people who disapproved of reagan on his way out the door voted for dukakis. in 2000, 80% of people who disapproved of clinton on his way out voted for george w. bush. i

and in the case of allison lundergren-grimes, her campaign has distributed a flyer of their own. on race. in the case of allison lundergren grimes. she literally waved this and accused mitch mcconnell of voter intimidation. on the back it is however essentially a straight criticism of attack ads fromwçn the president and her policy allegiances. in the case of the grimes campaign, however, there has been a democratic flyer put out that has a picture of mitch mcconnell on the front and an african-american family on the back and mitch mcconnell is targeting our community. the grimes campaign attempt to have this stopped was tossed out by a judge saying it was not election intimidation, megyn. >> oh, boy. kentucky's not alone. a number ofg race to try to gin up support. suggesting southerners don't like president obama because many are racist. an idea south carolina congressman echoed today. >> so there's nothing racial about some of the -- stress about barack obama, you're just not telling the truth. the fact of the matter is we,x know there were a lot of people, i don't care what he

if you vote for allison grimes, you're voting for the president and his policies. on the other hand, she's tried to distance herself from barack obama and says she disagrees with him, over coal, for example, she wouldn't confirm she voted for president obama in 2012 or 2008. that distance has helped her run her campaign here and helped her compete against mitch mcconnell and in the end we'll find out if there's been enough. there's been a lot of money spent here as well, close to $80 million in all if you count some of the outside money, one of the most expensive races in the nation. >> peter cook, stay with us for a moment because i want to bring in phil mattingly, the president, and administration, are they ready for majority leader mcconnell? >> they won't admit that publicly, pimm, but they've been preparing for contingencies like a republican majority in the senate going forward. look, there's work to do on both sides in terms of relationship between the two and something the president underscored in the annual white house correspondents dinner, kind of a laug

the kentucky senator easily won a sixth term in the senator defeating allison grimes. >> that was a bigwas close, mitch mcconnell showed what happens when you pound out kentucky, he was playing it really hard and fair and alison lundergan grimes spoke to the need to the voter to remember who you are. she wouldn't say who she voted for in the last presidential election. he coasted to victory. may have a tougher time becoming majority leader. house republicans also keep control of the house of representatives. never really much in question but they picked up 14 additional seats. i think they only lost one, still a tally to be done there. speaker john boehner beating his rival in ohio's eighth district, boehner is expected to run again as speaker of the house and you had some history in utah where republican mia love won the fourth district. she becomes the first african-american female republican ever elected to congress. that's got to make everybody happy. >> we have so much to talk about this morning and joining us now is someone who campaigned hard for many of the republican candidates

in kentucky democrat allison grimes has fallen nine points behind republican minority leader mitch mcconnell. he hopes to become majority leader if they come out on top. it's down to the wire that will decide washington's power. louisiana and georgia have runoff elections if their one candidate doesn't get 50% of the vote. >> our election coverage continues on nbc bay area.com. click on decision 2014 button at the top of the page. we have the latest. we'll keep you up-to-date on all the elections tuesday night. nbc bay area.com. >> you wanted to die, and on her own terms. brittany mainer died this weekend. her good-bye on youtube went viral starting a whole new conversation about patient's rights. >> the worst thing that could happen to me is that i wait too long because i am trying to seize each day that i somehow have my autonomy taken away from me because it's the nature of my cancer. >> now, this is part of maynard's video farewell. she was diagnosed in april of this year with a fatal brain tumor. she was given just six months to live. she said she didn't want to die, but if she was goin

the president who you work so hard for strap down in the white house rejected allison grimes and even say whether she voted for him. bill clinton, everyone's favorite surrogate. >> one of the peculiarities is that a lot of these are taking place in these deep red states. six states where the democratic senators in which obama lot of by 19 points. he wasn't a popular figure in these states. it has been a turbulent couple of years. obama campaigned to the blue states where he remains popular. it's more likely that in the states where obama went, he will win. where clinton won. just because of the nature. >> clinton campaigned in 43 states and obama went to 7. >> clinton is a popular figure and people have a very warm memory of the years. he has been out of office and out of fire for all this time. he's a good surrogate at this point. >> is clinton a good role model for president obama in that he and ronald reagan had bad setbacks in their terms with scandal and losing the senate in both cases and got stuff done by reaching out across the aisle. >> i think that's going to be the great ch

journalism where because hillary was out there campaigning for candidates, she's going to save allison grimes? this is how the republican governor association. i don't think he had much to do with the gop governors who won. we all pretend these endorsements are important. >> i'm not sure the voters care, but i do think it's sort of fair in politics that if you're in charge of the rga, you get rid for that. if you're out on the trail and you're a giant force, as the clintons are, then yeah, you get a little blame out there. andrea mitchell said, because obama is not out there and they are? exactly. >> clinton makes choices about resources. hillary wasn't directing campaign in the gop funds or anything. >> christy made four trins in maryland. the obamas were in maryland continually and he got some help from clinton. there were cars going up and down my street with the bull horps on the top saying, make history again with michelle obama's voice. i thought -- it's what lyndon johnson did in the hill country in 1956 to get elected. these guys are serious. >> as a journalistic matter, you want to r

allison grimes would not say whether or not she voted for him. bill clinton is telling people obama is a lame duck. is there something mr. obama could have done better to quiet the critics? >> first of all carol, in 40 of 43 midterm elections since 1840, presidents who were in the white house lost seats in congress. history is a guide. we know democrats will lose seats. in six of the states, president obama lost in 2012. mitt romney captured seven. if we get away from the math of it, i think what we need to focus on is people are frustrated with washington d.c. because he is president, they're frustrated with the president no matter what political party he's in. i wouldn't blame it all on president obama because toxins are all around washington d.c. they must be coming from here. here's what they should do in closing hours of the campaign. tell voter what is they stand for. raise the minimum wage, help middle class, make sure students are able to negotiate loans. these are issues that are popular. we want equal pay for women. they need to talk ab

. >> allison grimes, it looked like she might give mr. mcconnell a run for the money. >> first thing i need to do is get the senate back to normal. >> mitch mcconnell is looking forward to being the senate majority leader. >> byron, senator ted cruz, is he going to be a northern the side of the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell assuming he gets it? >> mcconnell was asked about that at his press conference in kentucky today and acted like, ted called me up and congratulated me, and we're all friends. i think cruz is trying to establish himself as a counter leader in the senate. he lost a lot of credibility after the whole government shutdown thing last year. he actually did not do as much campaigning for some of these senate candidates as other people did. >> so what's the biggest change you think the american people will feel with the senate going republican? anything? >> it's clearly defined now who stands for what. everything was kind of muddled. we knew the president was in the white house. he didn't have to deal much with legisla

. >> allison grimes from kentucky. go. >> did you vote for president obama? 2008/2012? this election isn't about the president. it's about making sure we put kentuckiens back to work. i was actually in '08 a delegate for clinton. >> she never answered the question. why was that dumb? >> didn't you feel like you were swarming watching it. she knows i think it's 60% of the state doesn't like obama but she could say i'm a democrat and i voted for obama, i disagree with him about guns, but he is the leader of the democratic party and i'm not denying the leader of the party, i'm just telling you i'm a different kind of democrat and here's who i am. she invited people to think obama is the devil. >> she also looked like a sleezy politician. >> you agree with me? >> i do. i think it was a foolish move. >> i think it was stupid. it just hurt her. >> and the proof is right after she said it, all right, mcconnell went up in the polls and he's going to win big. mary kathryn's second one comes from alaska. >> i was on the anchorage police force for 20 years. i know what he did as a

so the lies or the notions that are telling black americans, oh, allison grimes is saying that republicanse blocking the ballot -- >> oh, that's true. >> all the evidence shows that the voter i.d. voters implemented in georgia why is more black voters voting? >> because of the direct response to the gop actively trying to suppress the vote. >> it doesn't prevent minorities like you and me from voting. i think that -- >> crystal, when you design a law that specifically is target polls -- in florida, because you know -- >> blacks are -- >> wait, let him finish. >> you know that african-americans have been participating for decades, you know that they were ineffective during the gore/bush debacle, you didn't address it until the black man was voted president, we know it's more than just a coincidence. it is a direct response -- it is in direct response to the historic number of the voting. >> let's talk facts. in 2007, that was -- >> i did talk votes. >> georgia passed their voter i.d. law in 2007 before barack obama became the first black president. that's -- let's not insult black americans

allison grimes trying to make this about who do you hate more. same thing in georgia and in race after race where it's an anti-washington antileadership fury that is out there. >> is this an election driven by fear, anger, or anger and then fear? >> i think that it's both. that's a cop out answer. but the truth is when you look at the fear, you saw the republicans trying to make isil an issue. >> there was an ad on the air in georgia where the republicans are accusing the president of allowing ebola into the country and here comes isis. >> that is where the fear comes in to play. you heard a congresswoman from tennessee talking about how the borders themselves should be sealed because of ebola. boom. right there. two issues. she got immigration and ebola. so it's this tactic they're using, wisely so, because in that part of the country, these issues have played before. >> but democrats have seen this coming before. >> democrats are also using it. they're basically out there saying if you don't vote for democrats then your right to choose will be

you see allison grimes say repeatedly, i'm not an obama democrat i'm a clinton democrat. i think the democrats have made this as much about obama as the media. >> also the question of competing story lines. i've seen more coverage this week of the nurse who was fighting the main authorities. she doesn't want to be quarantined. some other places of the midterms. >> in fairness, i think a lot of people are more interested in ebola and interested in isis than these midterm elections. so the media is covering what the people want. however, i think a lot of the mainstream media know this is going to be bad for democrats. a lot of the comments, as you mentioned, have been i think pretty inflammatory towards female republican candidates. they look and see hey, nothing to see here. we're not going to cover it this time around. very different with a republican win. >> even in this final week, tv networks have led with ebola, led with the spaceship crash. i think that's the perception of people that run these programs is that's what people are more interested in. >> people, as andr

she sees women particularly as candidates and she steps in with allis allison grimes against mitch mconnell. it puts her in a win-win, if you will, visual in all of this. what comes out of her mouth, that will be interesting to see if there are any quotes. >> it does create her some favor with the democrats in the party which she's going to need if she runs. >> i will say again, if you're a democrat thinking of running against her in the primaries or more importantly, if you're a republican thinking of running, opposing her in a general election, i don't think she's done anything to scare you off. >> we shall see how the clinton saga plays out. it is the battle over immigration reform as president obama blames republicans for taking action which is why he says we need a democratic senate. mitch romney says it's the g.o.p. that can tackle the immigration issues. and rand paul claiming the g.o.p. brand is broken. hear what he says the party needs to do to have a chance in 2016. i'm an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help

i talked with allison lundergan grimes about a flyer she is accused of distributing.one the that proposed goirvet youd i.d.s at the polls. >> reporter: the democratic party has put out a black and red and white flyer that's has a picture of an african-american family on the back, that mitch mcconnell is targeting our president and our community. there are a lot of people who think there is too much racial tension going on. but it's really about the president's agenda. bill: a new poll showing the republican ahead in the senate race in georgia. david purdue 48%, democrat michelle nun, 44%. you need to get to fight to allowed a juneoff. what's the focus for these two candidates in. >> as you pointed out those polls are too closer to comfort at the last debate republican david purdue repeated the strategy of his campaign commercials linking his opponent michelle nunn to the president. >> in georgia the name of those policies are michelle nunn. >> let me remind you that if you want more credit lock i think you go by the name of david per dupehdue right here in georgia. re

similarly in kentucky mitch mcconnell is not in any real doubt now he is leading allison lundergran grimes. if he wins by five points or less we should look to other states to have some surprises some pleasant surprises for democrats. >> so let's talk about what many have talked about which is that this could be a way of election for the republicans if cnn and the washington post are right they end up winning a lot of these races and take control of the senate does that necessarily mean that it is a wave election for republicans? because it's not same story when you're looking at state houses as who might win groafnls governor's rations. >> lot of them are reluctant to use the word wave. field that favors republicans so they have been expected all along to pick up seats. but honestly compared with expectations democrats have outperformed and it's been surprisingly hard-going. if you look as you just said at governor races a lot of democrats are struggling. senators were elected in 2008 which was a great year for the democrats so they are struggling and they are also as i said in hostile gr

mary landrieu and allison grimes that have been aggressive in saying i am not tied to this president. >> a couple of our reporters at the "huffington post" subjected themselves to reviewing tapes of every senate debate this year and most of the gubernatorial debates and found that president obama was mentioned 500 times across 130 or so debates. he was mentioned positively exactly seven times out of 500. that gives awe a sense of the tenor of this thing. the democrats have tried to say that they are on their own and they are bill clinton democrats and independent democrats and bipartisan and don't mention democrat and barack obama in an effort to avoid both the history and the presence and the history and the presence of the president. it hasn't helped them that much because what it's done is further weakened the president in my view. he has been subjected to a billion dollars worth of negative advertising with no response. that is the effect of it. whether that will save -- it's not going to save allison crimes i don't think. it may save jean shaheen and may allow michelle nunn to sq

i understand why kay hagan and allison grimes and mark pryor all made the individual rational decision to distance themselves from a president whose approval rating is low. the collective result of all that, of all these democrats acting like barack obama was totally toxic was to reinforce among the voters that barack obama was toxic leading up to an election where they were tied to barack obama whether or not they liked it or not. they all ratted out obama and they all went to jail. and republicans won't let voters forget who the president was and who his party was. tom cotton, the winning republican candidate in arkansas said the president's name 74 times in an october debate. here's just a little bit of what that sounds like. >> barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. barack obama. >> the republican strategy, that was it this election, was to nationalize the campaign around barack obama and the democratic strategy i

we saw that with allison grimes and they went in a little bit, but i think there is a concern probably of the national party and the democratic senatorial campaign committee to go mother into debt. they do that to spend yourself to the edge. to go further into debt for a race that not only doesn't decide the majority. they will be in the majority no matter what, but given what the polling would suggest is hard for them to win. >> let's talk about this repair mission that joe biden was on with leaders of the american jewish community. given what happened between barack obama and prime minister netanyahu and jeff goldberg's interview where a top official was described as referring to netanyahu as chicken blank. we know the recent history. joe biden goes to the podium before the jewish federation here in washington. this is what he had to say, speaking about the prime minister. >> you better damn well report that we are still buddies. you got it, right? i signed a picture for bb a long time ago. i have a bad habit of -- no one doubts i mean what i say. sometimes i say all that i mean thou

a new nbc poll shows mitch mcconnell polling ahead of allison grimes by nine points, despite multiple visits from bill and hillary clinton. in kansas, independent candidate greg orman is locked in a tight race with three-term incumbent senator greg roberts. orman was asked once again which party he was caucus with if he was elected to the senate, and once again he refused to answer. >> i think i've been clear about what i plan to do when i go to washington. and i've said from the beginning, i'm not going there to represent the democratic party or the republican party. i'm going there to represent kansans. >> in iowa, a quinnipiac poll shows the race tied between bruce braley and joni ernst. the des moines register released a poll showing braley behind ernst. tom harkin is now at the center of a controversy on commenting on joni ernst appearance. >> i've been watching some of these ads. and there's sort of this sense that, well, you know, i hear so much about joni ernst. she's really attractive. and she sounds nice. i got to thinking about that. i don't care if she's as good-looking as