they did not vote for tim cucinelli. i said i don't understand where are you getting the information from. i think you have a very important message because i was a flaming democrat when i lived in new york. i always admire the senator that always said you can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts. i want to ask how you, mr. matt lewis, can get your analysis out more? that's my question. >> tell your friends. clip the ads at the daily caller. send us some money. this is a message that we can -- as someone who writes, it's awesome. my dad was a correctional officer so he literally went to prison for 30 years. you know, voluntarily so i could get to write in a fight about politics. so i feel very honored and privileged to get to do what i do. i hope it makes some small difference. you have to keep sort of preaching it. i do think that there were a lot of mistakes made in virginia and the race. and i will say that the negative ads, terry mcauliffe and the other democrats ran against cucinelli forced him i

they did not vote for cucinelli and i said i didn't understand. i asked for they are getting their information. i think you have a an important message. i was a flaming democrat while i lived in new york and i always admired -- i can't think of his name -- he said you can have your own opinion but you cannot have your own fax -- daniel moynihan. i want to ask you how you can get your wonderful analysis out more? that's my question. guest: follow me on twitter. tell your friends and click the ads. send us some money. i think this is hopefully a message -- as someone who writes, it is awesome. my dad was a correctional officer. he literally went to prison for 30 years. voluntarily. so that i could get to write and opine about politics. i feel really honored and privileged to get to do what i do. i hope it makes some small difference. we just have to keep reaching it. i do think that there are a lot of mistakes made in virginia in this race. i will say that the negative ads that terry mcauliffe and other democrats ran against cucinelli utterly destro

cucinelli closed on obama care. mccullough said he would expand obama care more, included virginia in the medicaid program. cucinelli said i'll do everything to fight obama care. that's what enabled cucinelli to make this as close as he did. >> stephanie cutter, is that your take on it? >> i read it as a rejection of the republican party. if you look at what's happening in new jersey, chris christie ran not as a partisan republican, but really as a moderate. and the thing that bolstered his numbers is the hurricane, hurricane sandy, where he put politics aside and got criticized by the republican party. look at the exits in new jersey. even though chris christie, there is an overwhelming win there for him, they're rejecting the republican party. 58% disapprove of the republican party. in virginia, we see what's happening in the race. the votes are still out in fairfax. so we don't know what the margin will be. cucinelli is losing among women, because he's seen as too extreme on abortion, on contraception. even on ec

and yet it seemed like the cucinelli campaign didn't think it was going to be a problem. somehow they thought women would step in line and do what they thought they would do and just vote along with them. and yet terry was able to turnout, women in particularly black women i thought was interesting. >> let's be honest, what the republicans and what ken cucinelli was counting on was this old model, the old cynical model we've been talking about for the last woup l years when president obama's not on the ballot, when it's not a presidential election year, women, nonwhite voters, young vote voters, they do not tend to show up. you can run a more conservative campaign and you can run up big numbers like in southwestern virginia, you look at the sort of emerging demographics outside washington, d.c. and northern virginia and they're not going to show up. that is the revelation of this election. president obama is not on the ballot, they shoeded up. it's a huge difference. >> do you think -- it was kind of part of the missology of 2012 talking about the rising electorate, afric

first up the cucinelli. let's see that again in slow motion. how about the mcauliffe.o you want to vomit right there? >> just a little. >> no one was prepared to make the choice. which one would you rather drink for the next four years? >> they are both horrible. i love virginia but i don't know what part of virginia this represents. >> perhaps we we have to find me suitable stand-ins for foam ingest. no credible ran in the state. they say 36% of likely voters will choose pond exum will 43 become the are supporting dog food. what does this say about the current state of politics. it was out of the mouth of babes where true wisdom came. >> i can't believe how many people is dumb. >> crazy world we live in? >> yes, it is. is. [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight abc crend cent and cofounder of bob woodruff foundation. stand up for heroes taking place in new york city this wednesday. please welcome to the program bob woodruff. [cheers and applause] nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> jon: how many years now? we're talking about woodruff foundat

can cucinelli are lumped into this national narrative is being tea party. ken cucinelli was a state senator for many terms and was a virginia attorney general and is a patent attorney. he was trained as an engineer and is clearly a credible and competent legislator who happened to be very conservative. dean young in alabama was essentially a political consultant who had been part of the chief justice war machine who had been a perpetual candidate and ran many times and lost. i agree, it's probably not fair to lump tea party in. i think dean young loss for a variety of reasons and i think they probably nominated the better candidate in alabama. host: springfield, missouri, independent caller. caller: i think we very much have a corporate congress. whether they are democrat or republican or independent or tea party, they are there to be a public servant. they make more money than the average american. they have more benefits. when they shut down the government, they did not lose their pay. they did not lose their healthcare. it's about who has the most money.

in support of cucinelli, negative ads have been running about $10 million.illion has been spent. >> right. cheryl: now, we go through and we move into next year, is this going to haunt voters in virginia? >> i don't think so. cheryl: go ahead, tim. >> i think there could be, as juan suggested earlier, real down tick implications of cucinelli being so dwarfed, of mcauliffe so successfully painting him with a wad brush. first of all, that swings the state senate over to democratic hands because the lieutenant governor breaks the tie vote, and that allows mcauliffe to help build up the democratic network for congressional, senate and presidential races in the next two election cycles. mcauliffe is really bringing in the business community in northern virginia to the democratic side while cucinelli is saying he's run against crony capitalism so much, he's turned off a lot of the contractors in northern virginia. cheryl: that is what's so interesting when you compare virginia and new jersey, juan, this is a referendum for the gop overall. this is going to show th

finally, i want to say something specifically to the hundreds of thousands of supporters of ken cucinelli mr. sardis and i know that the hundreds of thousands of you that you worked so hard and i know tonight is not easy. i've been involved in a lot of companies that didn't succeed. including my own race for governor in 2009. i understand that emotions are raw. i have been there. i get it. so while i promise you tonight that i will be a governor for all virginians, the real test is my actions when i take office. i expect you to hold me to my pledge to work with both sides and i hope that once -- i hope that once we have started to make bipartisan progress on critical issues leek jobs, education, that i can earn your trust. virginia, thank you for the

i thanked ken cucinelli for his service and dedication to the commonwealth of virginia.irginia and america have seen contentious races before. every time, we end upcoming together to pursue the common good. one particularly famous virginian confronted a bitterly divided electorate after the presidential election in 1800. relishing the victory or governing only for his supporters, thomas jefferson devoted much of his first inaugural address to bridging partisan divides. he said, quote, every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. we have called by different names brethren of the same principle. 213 years later, the truth is that our differences of opinion are still often not a difference of opinion or goal. over the next four years m

for the past month, cucinelli's been down by ten points. guess what the libertarian's polling at? oh, ten points. thanks, libertarians. interestingly, in the past -- we'll see what happens tomorrow -- but interestingly, cucinelli's been closing the gap, and i hi that is because of obamacare. so this is a big opportunity for us republicans to take back the senate, get a nice veto-proof majority in the senate and, frankly, it doesn't matter what happens at the presidential election. [applause] >> one of the reasons that virginia is turning from red to purple is because of illegal immigration. >> uh-huh. >> the demographics of virginia have changed dramatically from where they were ten years ago, twenty years ago. and this crowd here in california, southern california specifically, they've seen the demographics of california change dramatically because of illegal immigration as well. what's going to happen to the country if california is no longer reagan country or nixon can country, it's now via rah goes saw country? >> right. >> what's going to happen to the rest of the country if

they did not vote for cucinelli and i said i didn't understand. i asked for they are getting their information. i think you have a an important message. i was a flaming democrat while i lived in new york and i always admired -- i can't think of his name -- he said you can have your own opinion but you cannot have your own fax -- daniel moynihan. you how you can get your wonderful analysis out more? that's my question. guest: follow me on twitter. tell your friends and click the ads. send us some money. i think this is hopefully a message -- as someone who writes, it is awesome. my dad was a correctional officer. he literally went to prison for 30 years. voluntarily. so that i could get to write and opine about politics. i feel really honored and privileged to get to do what i do. i hope it makes some small difference. we just have to keep reaching it. i do think that there are a lot of mistakes made in virginia in this race. i will say that the negative ads that terry mcauliffe and other democrats ran against cucinelli utterly destroyed and crushe

cucinelli was outside of the mainstream on women making their own health care decisions, being the first attorney general to sue to overturn the affordable care act which did work against him with certain demographics. being a climate deny. not putting out a pro-active economic plan those things matter in an election. i don't think you saw that at all from cucinlli all of the positions he took outside of the mainstream worked against him with the population that he had to turn out. >> a lot this was interesting side note both outside money on the left showed up for the first time in this election, that hadn't happened in a mainstream kind of way. as i mentioned the closeness of this race was not accurately reflected in public polling i'm not sure it was reflected in g.o.p. polling that's something that needs fob addressed because the central trust of cucineli should have revolved around the tax cut. >> o'donnell: i want to come back we'll talk more about governor chris christie's victory republican who won in the state of new jersey, very democratic state the future of the republican par

we told cucinelli six months ago, run in the education governor. doesn't mean you believe in taking over. but that's what people say is important to them, you share those concerns. i think there are always sleeper issues. what the republicans need to be careful of is i believe a diversion from obamacare. the white house and democrats are now going to start pushing things like immigration reform and all different kinds of things. >> haven't they pushed immigration reform for a while? >> have athey passed anything? >> but i'm saying -- when is the last time the president said anything about immigration other than a sound bite. >> i was walking around the capitol, i saw paul ryan. where is entitlement reform in this mention? republicans ran on that. >> you're going to need a republican. it is off the grid this idea, there are a lot of people, republicans and economists who -- and business community who were against the government shutdown and two thicks they as to why they were against it. they said listen, if you want to -- if you weren't talking abo

finally, i want to say something specifically to the hundreds of thousands of supporters of ken cucinellind mr. sardis and i know that the hundreds of thousands of you that you worked so hard and i know tonight is not easy. i've been involved in a lot of companies that didn't succeed. including my own race for governor in 2009. i understand that emotions are raw. i have been there. i get it. so while i promise you tonight that i will be a governor for all virginians, the real test is my actions when i take office. i expect you to hold me to my pledge to work with both sides and i hope that once -- i hope that once we have started to make bipartisan progress on critical issues leek jobs, education, that i can earn your trust. virginia, thank you for the honor of electing me to serve as the 72nd governor of the commonwealth of virginia. thank you, god bless you, god bless the commonwealth of virginia and the united states of america. thank you. \["life is a highway" playing] in new jersey, chris christie easily reelected. he spoke to supporters for 20 minutes. >> well, well, well, how about

looked like terry mcauliffe was going to clobber cucinelli in virginia.is even very tight in the end, it's going to send a signal that, no doubt, a lot of democrats are going to be watching closely across the country. chris, thank you so much. have a great day, have a great weekend. and sign up for chris' daily political newsletter, fox news first. go to foxnews.com/foxnewsfirst and just put your e-mail address in there, and you will et request it -- get it. so what do you think about all of this at home, folks? what do you think about the six people? send me a tweet @marthamaccallum and chime in, let us know what you're thinking about today because we've gotten a ton of fascinating feedback from people at home, and people are nervous. they're pretty concerned. gregg: you know, the other aspect is it attires that -- appears that nine out of ten people who have succeeded in signing up, they're going on to the medicaid rolls which are already a mess. which kind of defeats -- martha: adding to the bottom line of the program. gregg: yeah. getting into the pri

cuche ne cuche ne cucinelli by about 25-1.u look at the state of virginia, it's an important state for democrats to hang on to. it would be great for hillary clinton for example, if she were to win to have such a good friend as the governor of that state. you know, this is a state that president obama won twice. so it's really important for them. if they want to win again in 2016. to have a democratic governor there. >> now between the new jersey contest, virginia contest, whatever happens, we're going to be looking at the results tomorrow night. wondering, first of all -- what they mean potentially for mid-term elections in 2014. >> right. you know we always like to draw these big conclusions. sometimes for example, when i look at the state of new jersey on what it may portend, i'd have to say that chris christie is a very special candidate. and that most important thing we might be able to learn about chris christie, if he wins, as we expect he will win, is even though not so much politics, but the way he portrays himself as

. >> rose: but what he did do cucinelli he campaigned on obama care on the last week and that seemed to have worked for him and might portend unless the administration can build a better case it will be an issue in 2014. >> this is the great debate coming out of this race because the mcauliffe campaign says we saw nothing in our polling that said obamacare caused any enthusiasm, increase among republicans, they had seen the race tightening a week before and they say this is all natural factors, now republicans say no the minute we turned this into a referendum on obamacare the numbers started slinking, all that is necessary yes, sir is for republicans to believe that and they will .. and run on 2014, the question is you put quite rightly is a year from now is the public going to be engaged in a conversation about obamacare in the same way they are right now? it is a white hot issue, bad for the president, because of healthcare web site doesn't work and a lot of the program doesn't work. where will we be in a year? will it have worked itself out and people signed up and looking good -

. >> i thought though the narrative being spread by ken cucinelli was he did quite well given the circumstances had planned to focus on obama care and how the roll out wasn't going well and they couldn't because the shutdown took all the oxygen out of the room. >> okay. sam, thinking about this divide would there really be any big difference in your view between say electing ted cruz as opposed to chris christie as president? >> ultimately? >> in content terms. policy terms. >> no. i think to a certain extent ted cruz obviously has a strain of fundamentalism and i think some measure of social conservativism but if you look at chris christie's record, all it shows is he is less fundamentalist in his social values, that much more craven in trying to appeal to that party. he has been running for president in the past year and a half, two years. you look at a guy who wouldn't allow for marriage equality in new jersey of all places. this is a guy who is basically trying to send a signal if you folks don't want me to move this country forward i'm willing to drag my feet when it comes to that. >> than

he will beat ken cucinelli. terry mcauliffe wins a close race, closer than some were projecting.sh is standing by at mcauliffe headquarters. they just heard us make the pro sque projection. they are all pretty excited. >> reporter: that is an understatement. all the various organizations have already called the race. it seems as though this has been the moment they were waiting for, to hear us project that terry mcauliffe their candidate that they worked so hard for will be the next governor of the commonwealth of virginia. i have to tell you that this is a moment that many people thought was going to happen hours ago because of the way the polls were look going into election day. they felt that there was going to be a pretty comfortable and early lead and early victory. but they'll take it now even though it's a little bit later than they thought it was going to be. as you can see, a lot of happiness here that the man who everybody has known nationally as somebody who was the democratic national chair, the close confidante of the clintons will be the next governor of virginia. a

. >> there was a lot of talk about the tea party in virginia, especially cucinelli was talking about it right? >> yes. if the tea party was as strong, he could have got over the hump. the issues with obamacare and president obama and mcauliffe are facing are not tea party issues. this is not social conservativism and the issues the tea party is running on. >> in fact, in alabama tea party candidate lost a race tonight as well. let me talk to you about governor christie in new jersey. no surprise that he won. everybody predicted that. what does it mean for his presidential possibilities in the future? >> if he lost it would have been a huge problem. that's a threshold issue right there. he had to win this election in order to continue to be a front-runner for the 2016 nomination for president as a republican. the fact he won by the margin he did, the fact he did so overwhelming with the hispanics, minorities, democrats in new jersey showing he can reach across the aisle only strengthens his candidacy. he's the republican that republicans across the country can get behind. he's not a t

if that race had gone another week, cucinelli would have won. because of obamacare.didate had gotten out earlier -- >> no, i think the libertarian also takes from are liberals as well. stuart tooth not much. >> on issues like civil liberties. stuart: you're desperate, judge, you're totally wrong -- >> what am i going to do with my one-liner now, the government can't even deliver the mail? it's not going to work. [laughter]% stuart: drop it. judge, thank you very much, indeed. >> pleasure, stuart. stuart: president obama working on a fix for the obamacare train wreck, and regardless of what it is, know in this: it's going to cost you bigtime. we'll deal with that next. >> if you have or had one of these plans before the affordable care act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you could keep it. if it hasn't changed since the law's passed. ♪ [ male announcer ] they are a glowing example of what it means to be the best. and at this special time of year, they shine even brighter. come to the winter event and get the mercedes-benz you've always w

the other interesting thing is c cucinelli underperformed mitt romney. the underperformed romney so democrats have learned how to do this effectively to motivate their vote and so i expect to see a lot more of it. >> one quick statistic. there is one place in virginia i can guarantee you went over 90% of women and that is in one precinct in virginia that contained the birdy university where he won 97.1% of the vote, 1200's votes. that same emphasis can said the precinct ablaze with enthusiasm. one thousand two twenty-fifteen, and 15 for robert -- >> there's a search for those 20. >> last question. going once, going twice. there is one right back there, red tie. >> i am curious, big picture. >> wait for the mic. >> kind of curious, big picture. looking at the broad history of the united states we have seen a couple national political parties collapse. the federalist collapse, you think maybe we are looking at a reasonable prospect republicans are heading into collapse? >> i don't believe there is the real risk of republicans of either party collapsing for

you mentioned the election in virginia and i hope people will vote for ken kuchen ellie -- cucinelli.e need jobs. the jobs are real bad in this area. host: we will get to the virginia race but on the subject of the employment nondiscrimination act, this is a politico story from the end of september. do you think that poll is accurate? caller: it might be accurate, i don't know. i know that christians will not -- if we haveody a republican that runs for president and he supports gay and the gay jobs bill, we will absolutely stay at home. we will not vote for him. i don't care who it is. the christian people will stay home, the real christians. host: that's bob from pennington gap, west virginia. the conservative family research council put out a statement on this procedural vote in the senate today. they said -- they say the law would force christian bookstores and other toes -- and other places change their identity -- gender. to be hired. making matters worse, perceived gender identity status does not require sex change surgery. enda allow some biological males that claim to be femal