host: we're talking with david lauter, "the los angeles times" bureau chief about the makeup of the electorate but cannot on tuesday. democratic line, 202-585-3880. republican line, 202-585-381. independents, 202-585-3882. mr. lauter will take your questions and answer your comments about the makeup of the electorate. i want to focus on party identification. the electorate was 38% democrats, republican 32%. independents 29%. is this now democrats controlling the majority of folks to come out? guest: it is important to make a distinction between party id and vote behavior. they are related things, but there are different things. there's a lot of confusion about that during the course of the campaign, and a lot of arguments about polls because people were mixing up those two things. you've got a country that is closely divided between democratic voters and republican voters. a lot of republicans, including a lot of republican pollsters, figured that the party id should be equally divided. when the polls kept coming out in the pre-election surveys showing more democrats than republicans, you have

later, david lauter of the los angeles times -- the "los angeles times." >> i need some help over here>> can you tried to give up without anybody knowing -- did he try to get up without anybody knowing? >> where is sgt. yates today? >> we followed him after this airplane ride for many months. he ended up entering himself into a program at walter reed, where they ended up using acupuncture, meditation, other techniques to wean him off of all the drugs he was on. through this program, he was able to walked out of all to read -- out of walter reed and his own two feet. i commend the military for allowing us to tell the story, the good and bad, and for recognizing his problem. by recognizing there is this problem of over-medication, and that they are looking for outside-of-the-box ideas on how to fix it. that is the whole thesis of the film. the medics is -- the idea is that the status quo isn't working. >> more with heineman on sunday night's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: according to exit polling from tuesday, latino turnout was at an all-time high. president obama rece

host: david lauter is the bureau chief of the "l.a. times." thank you. guest: it's a pleasure. host: election night coverage starts at 8:00. you can see the election results of the presidential race. look at the senate house and governance races, and your reaction to what is going on. look for it on c-span. listen it to on c-span radio. and also on c-span.org. joining us now to talk and continue on this election day coverage, greg gumbel -- greg jerry ree -- giroux. guest: guest: in a presidential election as close as this one as the polls project, we can't fore close the possibility of that happening. the constitution holds for electoral college process you should which the electors, the people that were voting for today rather than the candidates to meet in their state capital and in december. specifically, december 17 and they cast votes for president, vice president of the united states. and if that vote comes out to be 269 to 269 of those votes, well, in any presidential elections, those votes are transmitted to the congress and on january 6, those votes were counted befor

and david lauter from the los angeles times. >> several live events. the world affairs council holds a forum on national security issues facing the united states. that is on c-span 2 at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and on c-span 3 at 9:00 a.m. eastern, a forum hosted by the barbarous and policy center on post-election analysis. and now the national journal hosted a forum that included several pollsters. this is a little more than an hour. >> al-qaida and not like united technologies? i am a fat guy who prefers elevators and escalators. and i fly away too much for the engines. if i looked like you know what, then you are right, your eyes and not deceiving you, i got about 2.5 hours of sleep. we were on the decision desk at nbc. about 50 people and a room at about two-thirds of them are statisticians and they are looking like models on each race. it is like nasa meets politics. and we are sort of the non quantitative people. they are sort of the, and a does this make sense sort of thing. it is really cool for me to be in that room. but anyway, it is a lot of fun a

. >> david lauter is the washington bureau of chief of the l.a. times. latimes.com is where you can find information and putting their interactive map on this election day. mr. lauter, thank you. >> always a pleasure. .. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c, november 6, 2012. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable harry rei, a senator from the state of nevada, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until november 9, friday, at >> we'll be watching races, and get reactions, facebook, and twitter, live coverage begins tonight at eight eastern on c-span, c-span radio, and, of course, on line at c-span.org. while you watch, use computer to access maps with ap election results with updates on the balance of senate and house, track the state balance initiatives in realtime as results