another woman, deb fisher defeated former senator bob carey.where, voters reelected six democratic women to the senate. and this bringing the total number of women senators to an unpress dented 20. joining me now is keli goff she is the political correspondent for the root. and the greet christine pelosi, chair of the california democratic party women's caucus. welcome back inside "the war room" to both of you. >> thank you. >> great to be back. >> jennifer: keli let me start with you? are women more excited to see the extremists defeated or to see so many women win? >> that's a tough one, but i would have to say, there seemed d b aotot of c cerergoioi on whenever i would hear a mourdock or akin went down. and those weren't just from women, there were a lot of embarrassed guys that were happy. >> jennifer: there are a lot of moderate men who really are embarrassed. christine obviously last night was a great, great night for democrats, and it was because women and people of color provided a great firewall for the president. and that is only goin

that is in nebraska with a retirement among democrats there and now deb fisher will be the new senator from nebraska. there's a big change. but what doesn't change is that republicans will control the house. democrats in charge of the senate and the white house and a lot of work to do. lynn? >> so that begins. kelly o'donnell for us this morning. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is live for us in democracy plaza where all the excitement happened last night. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, lynn. it was packed in here last night as the big announcement was made. with the big nor'easter it cleared out in a hurry as the winds picked up. it's a very windy morning throughout this region. the big concerns in this area are the areas devastated by sandy only a week ago. this storm is going to add insult to injury, more power outages, more beach erosion, more large waves crashing into homes. that's going to happen as we go throughout this afternoon and this evening. as far as the wind goes, they're already beginning to pick up, gusting now to new york city at 32. at the peak of the

yesterday senator two senators bumped into elizabeth warren and deb fisher for the first time while onathroom break. she tweeted, too funny. first power meeting with e warren and d fischer in the senator's only women's bathroom. going to need a bigger bathroom. there are a record number of women, 20 in the senate this term. >>> still ahead on "way too early," why are you awake? your tweets, texts, e-mails, whatever you got. we'll take them. "morning joe" now is moments away. [ male announcer ] introducing the new dell xps 12. part of a whole new line of tablets from dell. it's changing the conversation. ♪ flavor boost, meet beef. it's swanson flavor boost. concentrated broth to add delicious flavor to your skillet dish in just one stir. mmm! [ female announcer ] cook, meet compliments. get recipes at flavorboost.com. you know it can be hard to lbreathe, and how that feels.e, cook, meet compliments. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-dail

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deb fisher, when i interviewed her, nobody thought she would be the nominee. but she was personable, and articulate. >> she's a farmer not an artist. >> i think she didn't do great in the debates, but, look, this is a republican state. she's a good candidate. and bob kerry had lo o baggage. when you're head of the new schools in new york city and you talk about having moved to new york and you have become more liberal and you're on videotape, that's not a good thing. >> brown: that's a republican win, but mostly-- i want to ask you, stu, because you have been watching senate races for two years, since the last cycle. are you surprised in what we've seen so far, the democrats winning, so far, the close races? >> no, when i look at my rothenberg political reports sheet which i've been working on hee fotwo yrs. no. we haven't seen any surprises. we had bob casey winning in pennsylvania. bill nelson in florida. claire mccaskill in missouri, deb fisher. and elizabeth warren in massachusetts. having said that, there is a general sense here that things are, i think,

@she is deb fisher from nebrask.n the issue of elizabeth warren, she now becomes the senator in the senate refused to confirm her as head of the er financial protection bureau because of their involvement with the banks. what does this mean for her to become a senator and where does she go with the banks? >> she will really- quite frankly, she will extend the tradition of barney frank, ted kennedy as great fighters from massachusetts who are willing to go out and take risks, the whole the financial industry accountable. right now if i was running at pailin in corp., i would be very worried. this is someone who wants to kill payday loans -- and we should, because it is used three. she is someone who i think you'll see force in her party and, as close to filling the void left by ted kennedy. no one can do that, but she comes as close as any one person can. she comes in with people of all races from this country and women who really want to see her do well, but a country yearning for some of the take on the banks who is

we have deb fisher in nl will be the first in -- nebraska. that's the first in that state. >> this is interesting when you looked at the presidential contest. single women voted for barack obama. married women broke for mitt romney. how the parties are positioning women voters looking ahead? the issues they think are important to women. >> what's notable is that it shows the younger women are going to the drattic party. i think that's -- democratic party i think that's pretty clear. whereas the older women are still i think identifying more with conservative politicians. but young women are seeing this not just as culture issues not just women's issues, also looking at economic issues and i think there are a number of reasons that the democratic party resonated with them. i think they believed in healthcare reform and there are fans of the fair pay about that was signed into law by president obama. >> kate, thank you so much for staying with us this morning. and i know it was a long night for you so hopefully you can get some sleep. >> thanks

that is going to work against bob kerry and for deb fisher in nebraska.et's take a look at the next one we have. this is the wisconsin race, we saw the former governor of wisconsin tommy thompson as he was interest during governor romney in his own state. this one shapes up very tight right now against representative tammy baldwin, michael. >> tommy thompson came back to wisconsin after working in washington as a lobbyist. after he won the late republican primary by a narrow margin, tamee bald within the incumbent congresswoman from mad today son hit him with a barrage of ads calling him a lobbyist. she took the distinct lead in polls for a while. the most recent surveys have been more favorable to tommy thompson. wisconsin is a target state and the polling has been very close there. you're seeing mitt romney is speaking as we speak in west alice, wisconsin. i think that is a race that either romney and thompson will win or barack obama and tamee baldwin. martha: another coattails situation. we'll have to leave it there. we will be following these real cl

ted crews in texas and this time deb fisher in that nebraska senate race.here is the evidence that proabortion or pro-gam gay marriage or pro-amnesty but fiscally conservative candidates are are the solution to the g.o.p.'s problem? moderates like scott brown and charlie summers just lost their senate races in massachusetts and maine. both blue states. would their type of republic have won in conservative red states? of course not. until more liberal republicans start winning their races, why should they dictate the terms of a new g.o.p. agenda? yes, republics, of course they need to attract more single women and latinos. but pandering isn't the answer. good policy and good politics is. i don't think it's any harder to convince more hispanics or more single women irish catholics eye tannial immigrants new deal or jfk democrats become conservatives during the reagan area. if you believe like i do that social economic poes are the best hope for the nation. then aban dogging your positions to become more popular is a path to complete irrelevant. did barack oba

nebraska was supposed to be in for the bag for the republicans as well, but now tea party favorite deb fisher who holds the same view as mourdock, on abortion, is losing ground to her democratic opponent, former senator bob kerrey. kerrey also got a boost from senator chuck hagel, a republican. meanwhile, republicans who had rejected todd akin in missouri after his comments about legitimate rape are now having second thoughts. national republicans won't say whether they're injected funds into missouri, but suddenly akin received more than $2 million in the final days of the campaign. but the extremism is taking its toll on other high profile races in the house. joe walsh in illinois seems to be toast. polls are tightening for steve king in iowa. things are not looking real good for congressman alan west in florida. his republican opponent in the primary just endorsed the democrat in the race. michele bachmann is locked in a tight race against democratic challenger jim graves. the right wing's war on women came up in the last debate. bachmann was asked about richard mourdock's remarks. bachman

deb fisher republican is going to be a little ahead in the polls going into election day. in montana where incumbent bob tester is facing a tough challenge. the republicans appear to be ahead in the polls. although in montana there's not a whole lot of polling here. watch for this one on election night. and in north dakota, long-time democratic senator kent conrad is retiring. republicans appear to have the edge in this race. gop needs four seats to take control of the senate. unless mitt romney wins the presidency. in that case, republicans only need three seats because as sitting vice president, paul ryan would cast the high-breaking vote for control of the senate. >> many thanks. eamon. >>> coming up, obama's midwest firewall may be cracking. can romney's running mate deliver his home state of texas in the badger state senator ron johnson's going to join us next. >>> everyone easily favorite conservative columnist is ann coulter. why does she believe romney is still going to carry the day? but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a lan

deb fisher in nebraska, linda lingle in hawaii there are lat of women running. >> close to $100 millionf her own money in one of her campaign ads. she points out she went through bankruptcy and pulled herself up, which would certainly be an appealing message to some voters on either side. we'll see what happens in the races where we're keeping our eye on i guess the year of women 2.0, or whatever they call these things these days. thank you so much, mark. great pleasure. >>> coming up, if president obama wins, could his victory be a template for democratic victories for years to come, a template maybe your kids' kids will be talking about? >>> plus, no booze on election day? wtf! why there is a ban, yeah, i said it. why is there a ban on alcohol in some states? some people are going to need a stiff drink. it's one of the things we thought you should know. just a little yuk yuk today. and tumblr, behind the scenes pictures, including me rehearsing for our exit polling. and a shoe dilemma facing face the nation today. take a look at the tumblr page. you'll figure it out. ♪ many of my pati

. >> there's one wrinkle in the story which is deb fisher from nebraska who actually has the same positions be senator and she's one of the five women who are going to be freshman senators from this cycle. i think the difference here is she was smart enough not to say stupid stuff. but it doesn't make her positions different. i think the one thing we should take some caution at is that ee don't have an electorate yet that is paying sufficient attention underneath the rhetoric. >> but what i would say to that is, hello media. the way that we are an informed electorate is by, when people are putting candidates up, that there's a little bit of vetting. i can only be as responsible of a citizen as i know about the person. and so i hope that as we have seen this wide swath of people making all kinds of decisions about what women can't do and what rape is and is not and what gifts these people are given and don't pull my name for christmas. i want a bed, bath and beyond card. i don't want gifts. that is a message to everybody. please, please look deeper into all the people running and get elected

and deb fisher in nebraska, she picked up a gop seat in that state that had been held by retiring democratic ben nelson. over in the house as we were saying, jenna, republicans will retain control which means john boehner will keep his job as speaker of the house. he's expected to speak later today on the way forward in gridlocked washington, but he made of saying last night that voters kept the gop in control of the house which suggests to him that they don't want the government to raise their taxes. and as far as the minority leader, it will be up to house democrats to decide if nancy pelosi will keep that job. but it's not over for the current, now-lame duck congress. when they return to town, they'll be under enormous pressure to come to a debt deal before $400 billion of automatic new taxes and $100 billion in automatic defense and domestic program cuts hit in january. and, jenna, as you know, that's the so-called fiscal cliff. jenna: an interesting couple weeks ahead. molly, thank you. jon: we saw a lot of folks standing in very long voting lines on this election day. one way to take a

i will not let you down. >> reporter: so a big night for democrats and the senator elect deb fisher whos a republican will be among 19 women in the senate. in connecticut they have elected at 39 years old the youngest new senator chris murphy, a democrat. and of course, the house has remained in republican hands and the democrats in charge of the senate, and the republicans in charge of the house, and awful lot of work left to go. >> kelly o'donnell for us, thank you very much. elizabeth warren is the senator-elect in massachusetts after defeatcumbent scott brown. elizabeth warren, it is good to see you this morning and congratulatio congratulations. >> thank you. good morning to you. >> you are the first woman to be elected to the senate from massachusetts and you will hold a seat that was held for nearly 50 years by ted kennedy and at some point as your victory was announced you guaranteed that the democrats would hold the senate and talk to me about the significance of the win. >> well, this is a win for america's middle-class. this is a win for every family that really has been hamm

his only winners of the night were dean heller, the incumbent appointed senator in nevada, and deb phish fisherask. more than $100 million went to candidates who won versus those who lost. it turns out his rate of return, if you want to put this in business terms, was an anemic 1.29% return on the dollar in terms of winners and beating people he didn't like. he was asked about it, mr. adelson, on fox -- actually rove was on fox. >> yeah, look, if groups like crossroads were not active, this race would have been over a long time ago. president obama came out of the box on may 15th with $215 million of advertising over a 2 1/2 month period designed to demonize mitt romney. >> how is that for an argument? if it wasn't for his own money, romney would have been less competitive and would have lost earlier. how will that fly with the billionaires who put their money into this thing? michael isikoff knows about this stuff. he's national investigative correspondent for nbc news. john heilemann is with "new york magazine" and an msnbc political analyst. gentlemen, you're both pros. money, money talks. b

seat there, he loses out to -- baba kerrey tried to reclaim the senate seat there he loses out to deb fisher. and in new mexico, this was the seat left open by jeff, it will not change hands. the democrats keep this seat. and martin wins with 51% over heather wilson. many thought she had a chance to win, she loses with 45%. and ohio, this race -- sherrod brown able to keep his seat over josh mandel. he wins with 50%. and in pennsylvania, yen, and thereby the case to the democrat wins with a comfortable margin. a 54% over 45%. the to our web site c-span.org for more details. host: from the wall street journal, economic money rooms after win come in the second term, president obama confronts an economy that offers glimmers of long missing vitality but remains a held back by fiscal and regulatory uncertainties and slowing global growth. united states stock futures headed lower and the dollar weakened as obama won another term on tuesday. market's extended losses and in early trading after obama's victory over mitt romney. the presidential contest grew close attention from investors in part beca

now looking at the republicans, in nebraska, deb fisher has won. we could see women holding 20 seat is about the end of the -- by the end of this evening. that would be 1/5 of the chamber or 20%. while that is certainly significant, we all should keep in mind that women make up 51% of the u.s. population. scott? >> byron, thank you. we want to go to dean 's a bit of reality check. the republicans may be waiting for the returns to come in but in fact secretary of state's office here says that the outstanding returns are coming from urban areas, traditionally democratic areas not rural areas, traditionally republican areas. then there are the provisional ballots which will be counted later. i stress that in 2008 they broke to president obama like 6 to 37%. so governor romney would have to be ahead of president obama at this point right now to have any hope to actually claim the state's electoral votes. >> pelley: thank you very much, dean. you are watching cbs news coverage of election night 2012. >>> this is a 9 news now campaign 2012 update. >>> an

. >> also nbc is projecting that deb fisher has defeated bob kerrey in the senate seat in nebraska. that was a democratic-held seat, that is a republican pickup. that was one republicans were reasonably confident that they would win, but it got a little close for comfort at the end, again, for republicans they'll take solace in taking some of these seats and limiting any damage that they would have in the senate. i think they're much more upset about what happened in missouri and indiana, two seats they should have won that they did lose. we're bringing carrie back into the conversation by popular demand. what are you hearing when you're off camera, what are you hearing specifically from the obama folks? we're assuming -- we're trying to read the body language from a lot of republican incoming e-mails, read it from the obama folks. >> you know, i mean, i think the senate, the balance -- one more thing in these senate races is something that, you know, is going to give them -- i think like i said earlier -- another data point as they talk about, um, a mandate. i mean, ity we've heard

in nebraska fox news can now project that republic deb fisher will win the senate seat there being vacatedy by ending bob kerry's quest to return to the senate. the republicans have picked up a democratic seat there. kerrey ran in 1992. also a one-term nebraska governor. two terms as senator. he was trying to pull off upset here. democrats had high hopes but deb fischer the republic will win that democratic seat. >> megyn: ben nelson who went completely after the radar after the healthcare law was passed and he was part of the cornhusker kick back and so heavily criticized and he had been all over the media prior to that he we really never saw him again and decided to retire. >> bret: that's exactly right. >> megyn: a republic seat. >> bret: enough about what could happen down on capitol hill. let's talk about what's happening right now. the votes that are coming in, the fact that florida is possibly as close as it is, brit, within 10,000 votes. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? >> bret: i'm the same place where the rest of you are. we are looking at a situation where only a coupl

fisher, the republican is now the projected winner. kerrey is a former presidential candidate. his national fame not enough to carry him against debischer. we're seeing that tammy duckworth is the projected winner. an iraq veteran and double amputee. she was featured prominently in the democratic national convention. and something interesting to throw in here. paul ryan, who was running for the house again, he is projected to win that house seat for paul ryan. he has won one of his two races. >> he did vote twice today in jamesville, wisconsin. >> we are watching still too close to call situations and too early to call. there's colorado, too close to call. 18 electoral votes, very important for both candidates to win ohio and florida. stay with your money, your vote on cnbc. back in a moment. to a currency market for everyone. the potential of fxcm unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. the potential of yelp unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the b