this is maine's independent senator elect angus king.e's about to announce which party he will kau can cuss with. king is picking sides ahead of the senate leadership elections later today. let's take a quick listen. >> or associate myself with a caucus is which side to choose. and the outcome of last week's elections in some ways makes this decision relatively easy. in the situation where one party has a clear majority and effectiveness is an important criteria, affiliating with the majority makes the most sense. the majority has more committee slots to fill, has more control over what bills get considered, and more control over the senate schedule. but the question remains, what does caucusing mean? and this is a question i raise continuously in the campaign, and how does this decision affect my intention to remain as independent as possible? in order to answer this i had substantial conversations with two independent senators currently serving in the senate. both of whom are affiliated with the democratic caucus. joe lieberman of conn

i think there's a replacement. >> moderator: angus king. king: i would oppose repeal. >> dodge: i would favor repeal. dill: i would move to single pair universal health care. dalton: the republicans had two years to come up with a plan and they want to toe repeal it? that's silly. >> moderator: we literally have a few second, yes or no due support question 1 on the november ballot enabling same-sex couples to secure a marriage -- wood: look at my webs. >> yes. >> no,. >> emphatically in support of all human flights question one for legalizing gay marriage. >> moderator: all right. well, we're moving on to closing statements. each candidate will have one minute to speak directly to the audience. we determined the number you all drew numbers determining the order before the debate. steve woods, will go first go ahead. wood: the. i'm not a politician, you can tell when i took my shoe off, that doesn't happen during political debates. truth be told this is the first time i've worn a suit in a year. i'm concerned for maine. i'm concerned for the

people shouldn't say don't vote for angus king, don't vote for steve.hat's not, i think, a bit rooted in the democracy. >> what we're talking about is free speech in this country, and do i like some of the ads i see? i'm sure the people don't like them either, but the fact of the matter is that they -- we get ourselves wrapped around the axel in the issue. what we should be focused on is doing things to cut spending in the country, doing things to get regulations undercontrol, growing our economy. the average person in the state of maine, people who work with hands for a living, wonder how to pay their mortgage, how to pay their taxes, and send the taxes to the university of maps. that's what we should discuss. not somebody from georgia sending whatever in. we stand on the records. mine's been examined, everyone else's here has been examined. you have to deal with it. it's a serious job going after right now, and there's going to be very difficult decisions that have to be made, and to sit here and wring our hands and cry about who says what about who o

angus king will be an interesting player, david.e clearly would like -- he sounds like he wishes he didn't have to, that he would enjoy taking that power of being one independent senator. >> the streak of independence which i think a lot of senators would like to have, but i think it's appropriate for an independent to come into this congress and say, let's settle the score here a little bit and talk about how we actually want to govern because that, i think, is the real mandate that president obama brings into his second term, a mandate to make government work better. it's not necessarily policy specific. i think a little more leverage. but people want to break through that and make government work better. >> look, what happens in the next six weeks will set the tone. we know it's going to set the tone next year and two just completely different statements from john boehner and mitch mcconnell and we have this fiscal cliff. are they going to try to deal with it now or are they going to punt again? >> you could make a scenario or ma

but it's up to the people who decide they're going to vote for. >> moderator: okay, angus king? ing: this super pac business is awful. i think we ought to end it. there is a bill that congress calls to disclose that. one of the problems now is we have no idea where all this money is coming from for all these ads. that is the specific thing that the congress can do. the next step may be a constitutional amendment. the supreme court has ruled that this is valid. the only way to change that is to change the supreme court or change the constitution. this super pac money is ridiculous. here's a flyer that i got today or yesterday in the mail, promoting cynthia dill. it says i'm a big supporter of george w. bush and he would be surprised to find that since the i campaign for john kerry in 2004. it comes to me from safe nation pac. marietta, georgia. they are sending a flyer to democrats trying to convince them to vote. i think the whole thing is ridiculous. the rule should be only residents should be able to contribute. .. it's the political and industrial complex here in maine and nat

i'm 100% right. >> reporter: angus king says he's 100% certain of only one thing. that neither the democrats nor the republicans are always right. that is why when he takes his seat in january as the new senator from maine he will be doing it as an independent. >> the people are absolutely fed up with this nonsense. they have had it with washington not being able to get anything done. if you get people in a room, if you share a common understanding of the facts you can generally find common ground. and that's exactly the role that i hope i can play. >> reporter: he served two terms as governor of maine where he says he learned the value of being an independent. >> i don't have to check with anybody about what my positions are. i can call them as i see them. and that's what i did for eight years as governor there was one glorious six-week period where i had both parties picketing my office. >> reporter: at 68 king has been out of politics for a decade but says he felt compelled to return because the stakes are so high. he agrees with the democrats that higher tax re

we begin with angus king from maine. the 68-year-oldormer governor also was a wind power company executive. he won the seat held by retiring republican senator olympia snowe, with 53% of the vote. the independent king kept voters guessing which party he'd caucus with. he made up his mind last week, the day before i spoke with him. welcome and congratulations. you've ran as an independent. now you've announced you'll caucus with the democrats. why not remain independent and why the democrats? >> the first preference was and i always said during the campaign i wanted to remain as independent as i could be as long as i could be. it was always subject to being effective on behalf of maine. i'm not doing this as a stunt. as i looked at the senate rules and the senate precedents and talked to people down here who have a lot of experience, trying to go it alone without affiliation with either caucus i think really would be almost impossible particularly in the sense that it would largely exclude me from the committee process. t

a wild card in maine, the former governor angus king was to replace olympia snow.s not said what party he will vote with. >> some lobbying on both side to come over. that is for sure. what a fascinating night. it really was. don't think any one saw it. knew it would be close. popular vote does reflect that. awe. >> romney advisers, seemed lech they had no idea it was coming, blindsided by the results. >> analysts said both side thought they would win. one side would be happy. one side very much disappointed. it is what it is. that is our news for this half-hour. >> we'll leave you with some of the elections' most memorable images. you are watching "world news now." ♪ ♪ what does home feel like? it's in the faces of americans who built generations of memories in their home and then saw it slipping away. until friends they have never met, turned out to lend a hand. for more than 30 years, rebuilding together has spread hope to home owners in need. providing free home rehabilitation, making homes safer and more energy efficient. go to rebuilding together dot org and s

but we're adding an independent to the senate, senator-elect angus king of maine. coy today, not revealing which way his political affections may bend. everyone in the senate wants to know will king caucus with the democrats or the republicans. he rallied his opponents, democrat and republican last night, and will replace retiring republican senator, veteran senator olympia snowe. here is part of his victory speech. >> people don't care who gets the credit. they don't care who is winning and losing from year to year. and they're tired of the false choice that always seems to confront them. as a guy said to me early on this campaign, i've always wanted the chance to vote for none of the above. and you're it. >> senator-elect king joins me on the phone from brunswick, maine. congratulations, sir. senator-elect. you like how that sounds? >> thank you, yes. sounds pretty good. but i'll go by angus for now. >> okay. angus king, let me ask you this, everyone wants to know which way you caucus and i have a feeling you won't tell me yet. i understand you requested meetings

this purple one right here, this is for that newly elected senator, angus king. putting him sort of in the middle. we'll see what happens when he comes back. neither side has the 51 needed for control now. remember, republicans need a plus four, net four, in order to win. >> we'll continue to watch that with you. let's check in back with gloria borger and david gergen. david, you have been looking at these exit polls. >> i think two things need to be said. one, early in the evening we said the early exits seemed to be favoring president obama in many of the swing states. we said we've got to wait for the next round of exit polls because maybe it will move back to romney. it's interesting that the new round is starting to come in now, actually has two states moving a little more toward obama, not away from him. in florida, romney was up one in the early exits. now obama is up one. in pennsylvania, obama was up three in the early exits. now he's up five. we have to wait and see. there are some actual results coming in that are not actually in accord with the exits.

am putting angus king, self-described independent firmly in the democratic camp. he will almost certainly caucus with democrats in the senate. that's why democrats kind of below the surface did everything they could to help him win. >> jon karl, when you take a look at the big picture of the house, which we know -- when you go to the sfwhat what are we learning about the tea party tonight? the tea party fervor caused such a cataclysmic difference in 2010. >> well, i'm looking at a couple of the most high-profile tea party figures to see how they do. so far they've been hanging on. one of the races we're really watching is alan west of florida. a real hero to the tea party. he is now from florida 50/50 up by a little over a thousand votes but an incredibly close race and watching michele bachmann still waiting for returns there but the bottom line, diane, we'll have a congress that is more deeply divided even than the one we just saw because when you start looking at this, look at the senate, you have elizabeth warren on the left of the senate replacing scott brown

up over that video, so it is that volatile. >> joining us, independent senator-elect from maine, angus kingsenator-elect king. senator, you chose, i think, yesterday, you announced that you're going to caucus with the democrats. if so, why? >> well, i basically, throughout the campaign, said i had two criteria for coming down and making that decision, if i had to make the decision at all. the first thing i thought about which chris matthews suggested on "hardball" last summer was don't caucus with anybody, just stay totally independent, put your chair in the middle of the aisle, don't take a committee assignment. and the problem with that is, i'd be ineffective as a senator. that wouldn't really be fair to maine. and i thought about that option, but it just didn't make sense as we looked into the senate rules, particularly in connection with committee assignments. so then my criteria was, number one, how can i maintain the maximum area of independents, and yet at the same time be an effective senator? and i had a series of conversations starting with joe lieberman and bernie sanders, asking

of indiana and massachusetts. >>> and there is a wild card in maine, independent former governor angus kingd to succeed retiring republican senator olympia snow. king has not yet said which party he will vote with. definitely you look at it in a nutshell -- obama is re-elected. majority in the house and senate remain. marijuana legalized in two states, colorado and washington. gay marriage is legalized in maryland and maine. >> look at everything you listed, plus you look at the big role, latino population, played, and obama won the group by 70% you. you have to wonder. i have heard the analysts talk about this all night. time for introspection in the republican party, because maybe slowly getting at a pace where the country is getting. so that party has a lot to deal with over the next few months. coming up next -- the coverage of the election of president obama continues. >> we'll get some perspective on the campaign, the strategy and what lies ahead. stay with us. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by united health care. alth care. every time someone chooses finish

the colbert report can now conform former governor angus king has won, making the first senate seat ever by a burger king menu item. ( laughter ) and folks, this is true. this king is an independent. you can say good-bye to bipartisan gridlock and say hello to tri-partisan gridlock. screw you with melted better, maine. now, in indiana joe donnelly has beaten richard mooreduck after mourdock made controversy comment of rape being god's intention disproving the old political adage there's no such thing as bad rape publicity. now we're also following the senate race in wisconsin where tammy baldwin has become... she has become the first lesbian senator. well, first openly lesbian senator because you're not fooling anybody, lindsey graham. ( laughter ) now of course in addition to the senate, we're also tracking all the nation's referenda. california alone has 11 ballot measures this year, and florida has many that most voters simply scroll to the bottom and click "i agree." there's one in los angeles that could affect the entire country. los angeles county voters will decide on election day

that is maine senatet where we have angus king leading in the polls.ill does not have the support of the party there. angus king said he is not going to say which party he will caucus with. that means if we get a one vote margin into united states senate tonight angus king is going to be a literal king maker. he will decide who controls the senatet in that scenario. i called the office yesterday and they said they are absolutely adamant he will not say who he will caucus with. >> that is power. >> when you get this 50/50 nation where it comes to that that is the power that these swing guys will have because there are so few of them left. the moderates will be able to control things. that will really impact how we see the fiscal cliff negotiations throughout the fall. >> we will check back with you a little later. >> i learned something tonight. >>> the outcomes of the races will go a long way in deciding whether the u.s. economy hits the fiscal cliff or goes off the edge and whether buernanke will be leading the federal reserve. joining us is marty fel

the colbert report can now conform former governor angus king has won, making the first senate seat ever a burger king menu item. ( laughter ) and folks, this is true. this king is an independent. you can say good-bye to bipartisan gridlock and say hello to tri-partisan gridlock. screw you with melted better, maine. now, in indiana joe donnelly has beaten richard mooreduck after mourdock made controversy comment of rape being god's intention disproving the old political adage there's no such thing as bad rape publicity. now we're also following the senate race in wisconsin where tammy baldwin has become... she has become the first lesbian senator. well, first openly lesbian senator because you're not fooling anybody, lindsey graham. ( laughter ) now of course in addition to the senate, we're also tracking all the nation's referenda. california alone has 11 ballot measures this year, and florida has many that most voters simply scroll to the bottom and click "i agree." there's one in los angeles that could affect the entire country. los angeles county voters will decide on election day if

independent former governor, angus king elected to succeed, retired senator olympia snow.t said what party hill e will vote with. >> there will be lobbying on both side to come over. for sure, what a fascinating night. really was. nobody quite saw it like it was. close, highly contested. the popular vote does reflect that. tau a >> romney advisers were stunned and shocked. had no idea this was coming. they seemed blindsided. >> both side thought they were going to win. one side was going to be happy, other side, disappointed. it is what it is. that is our news for this half-hour. >> we'll leave you with some of the election's most memorable images. you are watching "world news now." ♪ ♪ ñcñ?xús1@ú? >>> making news in america this morning, the re-election. president barack obama wins four more years. >> i've never been more hopeful about our future. i have never been more hopeful about america. >> with a resounding electoral win and a narrow nod in the popular vote, the president lays out his first priority for his second term. >> tonight, you voted for action. not politics

and like bernie sanders and joe lieberman before him, angus king today chose the democratic party. that means unless the flake car mowno race gets upended in arizona, which is still counting ballots, unless that happens, we now know that the senate split starting in january is going to be 55 democrats and 45 republicans. we also know that democrats went from having 12 women in the senate to having the 16 women in the senate. that's four more democratic women in the u.s. senate. among the republicans in the senate, their number of women actually dropped. they went from 5 to 4. in the house, it's the same pattern. as best as we can tell thus far, there are still some things to be decided yet, but the democratic caucus in the house added eight women. there used to be 52 democratic women in the house. in january, there will be 60. on the republican side, though, they went down again. they went from having only 24 women in the house on the republican side to having only 20 women in the house starting in january. so even with there being more republicans in the house than democrats overa

angus king is an independent. neither democratic nor republican and he has not told us yet which side he is going to align himself with. the former governor, who is now going to occupy the open seat, owe limb yeaolympia snowe is rem that seat so angus king will be taking that seat. byron pitts is keeping up with the campaigns in the senate and the house for us. byron. >> scott, it's very likely that angus king could be a king maker once he gets to washington. he's the independent scott as you said. you can see his gold chair there. though he hasn't said which side he'll caucus with, both parties believe there's a good chance he will caucus with democrats. in maine it was a three person race between the former two-time governor of maine angus king who won and defeated cynthia king and republican state treasurer charlie summers. people look at our map for a second. we're talking to republicans just a little while ago this evening and had h they tell us y have to win one of the four seats on the east coast. they basi

nbc news also declaring angus king the projected winner in the state of maine.someone that we'll want to watch because he's an independent who hasn't said who he's going to vote with democrats or republicans when he gets to the senate. also, ben cardin, projected winner in the state of maryland. also thomas carper, the projected winner in the state of delaware. bob corker is projected winner in the state of tennessee. sheldon whitehouse in rhode island. back to you guys. >> all right. thanks a lot. that florida race for senate a key one to watch as we continue to wait for some presidential projections regarding that state. in the meantime, joining us now, former democratic pennsylvania governor ed rendell and former republican senator judd gregg. governor rendell, nbc news called pennsylvania too early to call but the president has the lead. anything that you hear out of your former state? >> the enthusiasm gap does not exist in pennsylvania. governor romney is turning out high turnouts in the red counties but in the president's base the turnout is off the chart

in maine independent angus king won the seat held by republican olympia snowe. >>> and the senate battle in massachusetts was among the most closely watched races last night. harvard law professor elizabeth warren beat incumbent republican scott brown. there will now be a record number of women serving in the u.s. senate. >> go, girls. and in missouri claire mccaskill managed to keep her senate seat. they say todd akin badly damaged his political campaign with his comments about pregnancy and rape, and we'll keep a close eye on michele bachmann. it looks like her seat is in jeopardy as well. >> and there was some backlash. >>> and we have all the state-by-state results online. for a closer look at that, check out abc.com. >>> so what is next now that president obama has pulled off such a decisive win? >> and we're going tell you. >>> up next, the real story behind this election and what it could mean for the next four years. you are watching a special edition of "america this morning." you're watching a special edition of "america this morning." ♪ a portion of every bottle that they sell

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in maine, angus king won the seat being vacated by olympia snowe. for more analysis on the state of the congress, here's senior political reporter. >> reporter: president obama will not have long to celebrate his election night victory. congress will soon be coming back to debate the fiscal cliff. this is the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes that economists say could plunge the united states into recession if it takes effect at the end of the year. now, house speaker john boehner says they are looking to kick the can down the road. he doesn't want to deal with a lame duck congress, but that's our next big fight. there will also be a big fight in the republican party. republicans will look at what happened in this election and try to figure out what's next. some will say we've nominated two straight relative moderates. john mccain and mitt romney. and we've lost both times. the lesson they will take from that is it's time to move to the right. it's time to have a true believer as the party standard bearer in 2016. other republicans will say

is coming back, but they very well might pick up indiana, benefit of richard mourdock and maine, angus king who is an independent and will caucus. you probably won't see a change. everyone believes the democrats will remain in control and that is not something, tom, they thought was going to happen at the start of the year. >> and let's look at the road map. mitt romney, three events in that virginia. the president heading out west to wisconsin, on the way to colorado and nevada. what do they do the next few days and what does it tell us about where they chose to travel on the few days remain something. >> there was a front-page story in the new york times. i think it's -- in terms of the latino vote. the president leads by 50 points and their idea is in colorado and nevada, a state which david axlerod said they would definitely win and a large latino vote in central florida, which is, when i was in the convention, tampa, the puerto ricans, not cuban americans, they want to draw the vote out. they know they're getting clobbered among white voters and this is about 36%. it's interesting that

independent angus king won the seat held by olympia snowe. >> and the battle in massachusetts, elizabeth warren, beat incumbent republican scott brown. there will be a record number of women serving in the u.s. senate. >> go, girls. and missouri democrat, claire mccaskill was able to keep her senate seat. todd akin badly damaged his campaign by his comments on pregnancy and rape. and michele bachmann, we'll keep an eye on it. her seat is in jeopardy, as well. >> and there's some backlash. >>> we have all of the state-by-state results online. for a closer look at that, check out abcnews.com. >>> and so, what is next now that president obama has pulled off such a decisive win? >> we're going to tell you. up next, the real story behind this election and what it could mean for the next four years. you're watching a special edition of "america this morning." introducing the all-new 2013 chevrolet malibu, our greatest malibu ever. ♪ >>> i have listened to you. i have learned from you. and you've made me a better president. and with your stories and your struggles, i return to the white house m

we have the newly elected senator from maine, angus king more towards the middle. he's said he is an independent, he will not say where he will caucus until he comes down here. nobody thinks he will actually caucus with republicans because they spent about $3 million to try to defeat him. but nobody has the 51 for an outright majority so far but we still have a lot of really, really close races we're watching. >> good news for democrats in the senate race there for those two races we just told you about. wolf, john? >> yeah. the balance of power in the senate will be interesting to see what happens in indiana. bet a lot of republicans wish richard lugar would have gotten that republican nomination, probably would have had a much better chance of maintaining the republican seat. >> you are channeling your inner mitch mcconnell. indiana, i just mentioned the big senate pickup for the democrats, that's the only pickup for mitt romney so far in the electoral college. we show mitt romney ahead at the moment but he has to have more take-aways than just indiana and its 11

is reporting thirty romney's well angus king is winning the senate seat in maine is the independent who's sort of republican and bill nelson has been declared the winner the democrat in the senate race in florida so we've got i think it is a huge i mean not that says it's a suburb closely contested but it was pretty closely contested and the fact that they're calling the senate seat already for florida hey maybe that means we're not going to be here until four in the morning maybe i think an awful lot is going to. basically election stuff that's the big issue in florida and in oil and we're going to certainly be talking about that more because i know you spoke about it for hours today really the three hours three hours that radio as well our election night coverage will continue after this short break. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera . russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other

he went beyond the pale when you accuse angus king of the allied air. charlie, i am tired of your commercials ruining all of my favorite shows on abc. you do not think angus is responsible for a lot of terrible things. as an voter and citizen of maine, i will ask you to stop your attacks for the next hour. if you do not do any attacks for the next hour, i pledge to give two checks for $5,000 a piece to the charity of your choice. this will prove that you will put maine first. >> now that you know a little bit about each of our candidates tonight, we will move right to our questions. there are a lot of issues. you are free to submit a question of your own. just one in 10 americans approve of the job congress is doing. this is according to the latest gallup poll that came out. the reason most of you are here is because senator olympia snowe decided to retire because she was tired of the lack of bipartisanship in washington. here is how she describes the problem. >> there are not red or blue issues. there are american issues. we need to look at critical que

the person who won is apparently angus king, a former two-term independent governor and democrats got behind him. they basically didn't support the democratic nominee. >> brown: explain, he's running as an independent-- >> he has not said who he will caucus with when he come comes o d.c., and that'ss how you get committee assignments. he played this very cool, but democrats decided he was the best chance of winning. they were worried about a split vote. >> if the democrats are able to maintain their slim majority, angus king gng to maybe matter a little bit more, a little bit less, depending on how many other races. >> brown: there are others that have closed because we have cannot call them, one is massachusetts. we talked about massachusetts earlier. tell us about connecticut. >> this is the republican, linda mcmahon, ran two years ago, spent $50 million. this year he spent another, i don't, 30-plus-million dollars. this is an open seat. the democrat is chris murphy. initially nobody gavecmahon a chance. she was even, maybe a few point ahead, but the raise has opened up against for

the colbert, angus king has won, first seat ever held by a burger king menu item and folks, this is trueis an independent. you can say good-bye to bipartisan gridlock and say hello to tripartisan gridlock. >> oh, no, not tripartisan gridlock. >> more than we can handle. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning" on the day after president obama won a second term in office. we mentioned earlier that florida is the only state still undecided this morning. >> most of the votes have been counted there. elaine quijano is watching the results in tampa. elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. 9 % of the vote has been counted in florida but it is still not enough to say who won. take a look now at the numbers, with more than 8 million ballots cast, president obama leads mitt romney by just 1%. now, as the ballots were being counted, obama campaign officials i spoke with were optimistic but cautious. the tone, however, really shifted once it became clear that president obama would take hillsborough county, this is an important bellwether here, since 1960 except for one elec

republican seat in maine went independent, and effectively democrat, assuming the new senator, angus kingucuses with the democrats. w-g-n political analyst paul lisnek has been here since yesterday. he's in the newsroom with a closer look at what happened last night. i think one of the things that strikes me is that we talked about this close vote, when looking at the electoral numbers it was not close at all. >> take a look at the numbers. look at this map of the state and it is like a sea of red. we have more red states than blue states. that is why we would entertain a discussion that if there was a tie in the electoral college from the would have become president. in the midwest he had kind of a fire wall. this is where the range of lugos. this was his saving grace. when pennsylvania turned so became a high of. ohio. as you said looking at the electoral votes that read does not matter. we're looking at 303 electoral votes for the president to only 2064 run a. for romney. florida is still not decided. it looks like they may go to the president. whether they do or don't, it will not cha

libya snowe the republican senator kind of a moderate she retired and independent has won maine angus king he's expected to caucus with the democrats so that's really a pick up for the democrats in the senate and we can also now report this is a big win for progressives here elizabeth warren has now won massachusetts. and also we're getting this is this is really huge actually i mean this was ted kennedy's seat scott brown won in two thousand and ten when the tea party revolt and it looks like two years later elizabeth warren is going to reclaim it for democrats shifting the party a little bit to the left in the senate are also getting killed conflicting reports out of wisconsin. we had some news outlets reported as over some are still too close to call but tammy baldwin who's trying to be the first openly gay tended to elect to the senate but she is close to winning that see we're going to still keep an eye on that. will you know we'll see what happens that's what i have for you that's all i have now more we get some more results back to you guys tom christine thanks sam. marc harrold wel

>> we have angus king just declared the winner in maine. we're hoping he will caucus with the democrats. he has not said publicly yet whether he will. and some of the races coming through. joe donnelly in indiana has been projected a winner by son. that's a pickup seat for us. both of those are pickup seats. we have others more hotly contested, a lot closer but so far, good news. >> suarez: and the president himself, you've been close to him for many years, a mentor to him during his statewide race this year. what have you seen this year in the campaign? it's been sometimes a little harder road. >> it's an extraordinary campaign. it's much tougher to run as an incumbent in a recovering economy, and i think we know that, and he was up against it. of course, mr. romney was forced into positions in a very tough republican primaryux which were hard to confident come november. i would think if he had one thing to do all over again, he would have said let's not print that article about letting the auto companies go bankrupt. that turned out to be

main senator-elected angus king saying he'd caucus with the democrats. here's what he had to say. -- maine senator-elect angus king saying he'd caucus with the democrats. here's what he had to say. >> good morning. all set. today i'm announcing my decision as to which party, if any, i'll associate myself in my work here in the u.s. senate. before doing so, however, i'd like to outline my thinking on this issue and set out the principles that have guided my decision. in answering this, who will you caucus with question, repeatedly during the campaign -- and i emphasize the word repeatedly -- i established two basic criteria that i wanted to maintain my independence as long and as thoroughly as possible while at the same time being effective in my representation of maine. the first option i considered was whether i could literally go at it alone. and not align myself with either party and operate entirely outside of the current partisan structure of the senate. although tempting in many ways, it's become apparent from extensive research into the senate rul

this morning we heard from the newly-elected senator-elect angus king of maine. he made his decision. he is an independent and has decided to caucus with the democrats. the associated press saying that will add to the party's voting edge. his decision ends months of speculation which party he would align with. with that alignment it gives the democrats a 55-45 edge. while we wait to hear from leader pelosi and other democrats we'll show you angus king, senator-elect from maine a short while ago. >> good morning. all set? today i'm announcing my decision as to which party, if any i will soothe with in my work here in the u.s. senate. before doing so i would like to outline my thinking on this issue and set out the principles that has guided my decision. in answering this, who will you caucus with question repeatedly with during the campaign, and i emphasize the word repeatedly, i established two basic criteria, that i wanted to maintain my independence as long and as thoroughly as possible, while at the same time being effective in my representation of maine. the

josh mandel.eating akin, and bob re-election in pennsylvania, bill nelson winningflor o by the angus king he we still don't have a call still too close tstabenow winning. still waiting on monta and north dakota. >> both rig call. >> the president has only lost tworond indiana, compared to what he was facing unemployment the democratic re-elect in recent terms, it was bill clinton and he was 18 points ahead of b that campaign and bob dole was a great guy and well liked by democrats but he was not a challenging presidential candidate to go up against and clinton won that with less than 50% of the vote. >> i romney campaign is not conceding the romney campaign is not conceding ohio. that was my mistake. kelly o'donnell is reporting that the state director in ohio nformed us that they do not believe thatdecided. ohio is president obama andt was what put him over the top to victory tonight butaign so far says, not so fast. we'll see what we can do to get somebody from the romney campaign to he can plain that to us in terms of a republicanx echo chambeon this, they are deciding that this is no