. >> so what do they do here in ohio? well, a grassroots coalition of senate bill 5 opponents launched the we are ohio campaign on april 9th. more than 10,000 people attended a rally in columbus. in less than three months they delivered the signatures to the ohio secretary of state. 1 million more signatures needed to put it on the ballot. it put senate bill 5 on the ballot this november, and it is written up as issue number two giving voters tomorrow the final say on where they're going to go on this issue. kasich tried to boost support for issue 2 by running to his former employer, fox news. >> you're getting demonized and beaten up. you have literally millions of dollars in ads now, $60 million to run ads. >> i would think it would be close to that. >> they're busing in union people around the country. i know because i met one of the bus drivers and unions give free weekends in ohio to come and protest you. >> not even sean hannity's made-up numbers are helping kasich. even prominent republicans are against it in the st

right now in ohio with 89% of precincts reporting, it's a blowout in ohio, the union stripping law hasn recalled. 39% of ohio voting yes against union rights tonight and 61% voting no to reinstate union rights. as soon as those results were announced, white house press secretary jay carney offered the president congratulations saying quote the president congratulates the people of ohio for standing up for workers and defeating efforts to strip-away collective bargaining rights and commenced teachers, firefighters, police officers and other workers who took a stand to defend those rights. bill burton the former press secretary for the president did as well tonight only with an eye toward 2012 presidential politics. bill burton writing from the outside group sporting the election, tonight, ohio voters rejected the republican vision for america that rewards big corporations and the wealthiest at the expense of middle class families. john kasich's agenda in ohio is a mirror of mitt romney's and finance more tax cuts for big corporations and the wealthiest. in 2012, voters won't have to gue

the union stripping bill in ohio will be recalled, repealed. t issue 2. 38% of votes for issue 2. and in maine, question 1 deciding whether there will be same-day voting registration. the "associated press" has now called this as well. same-day voter registration will be coming back in maine. it had been there for 38 years. republicans in the governor's office and the state legislature in maine got rid of it. maine voters have now put it back with 24% of precincts reporting. 59% of mainers voting to reinstate same-day voter registration, being able to register to vote on election day. 41% of voters voting against it. again, the "associated press" has called maine issue 1. in the great state of mississippi, the mitt romney supported so-called personhood amendment that would ban abortion as well as most popular forms of birth control and fertility treatment by defining a fertilized egg as a person, right now just 16% of precincts reporting, the no vote ahead at this point. 57% voting no in mississippi. 43% voting yes. again, just 16% in. we will h

i mean, have you ever seen an effort like this before in ohio? n-month struggle. in the legislature, the petition drive and the mobilization campaign to turn out the vote. i'm so proud of the public sector unions that came together. the teachers, the nurses, the firefighters, the police officers, the highway workers, together with our industrial sector workers, our building and construction trade workers, the house of labor to turn this issue back and move ohio forward. >> if i've got my numbers right, 80 80% of union membership in this country is in 16 states. correct me if i'm wrong on that. that's generally where it's at. what would a night like this do to workers who aren't in organized labor that may be considering it? is this going to help you send the message to those, you know what, you're out there fiking for these middle classers every day, every way. >> tonight's election is just a beginning of a new movement to fight for economic justice in all occupations and trades and move a working families movement forward for all ohioans and main

had the 99% movement not been out there, would we have had the same outcome tonight in ohio? sure it will be. for people like me, i am a state employee and we have a contract that expires in february. we were asked in the last three year contract to take three unpaid leave days. >> you've already had the haircut. >> if john kasich asks us to do that again, will he -- >> he's making $10,000 more than the last guy, isn't he? making $10,000 more than strickland. are you going to ask him to give that up? >> if he wants to do the same thing, he better do that to us. >> what about you? >> i'm a teacher and those guys stepped in my classroom and took my voice away from taking care of my students. it will be the last breath i take to let them take that away from me. >> where do you teach? >> i teach technology in beaver creek, ohio. >> did you know it would turn out like this tonight? >> i didn't think it would be this big. i'm glad it was. >> it's the teachers, firefighters, the middle classes of america. only time will tell if this message, this vote tonight resonates with people a

but greta, this is a good night in ohio. democracy in action. been a beautiful day, and so we're just celebrating. >> greta: all right, governor. thank you very much. we'll be watching ohio. it's a big player in 2012, and it's always nice to talk to you, sir. hope you come back. >> hey, greta. thanks for having me. i really appreciate it very much. >> greta: thank you, sir. >>> coming up, mr. herman cain says he doesn't even recognize his latest accuser, so what does he say is really behind the sexual harassment allegations? you're going to hear what mr. cain thinks. that's next. >>> also, it's a ticking time bomb. there's a new and dangerous threat from china. it could put the lives of u.s. troops at risk. senator john mccain is here to tell you all about it. ♪ ♪ mama said there'd be days like this ♪ ♪ "there'll be days like this," mama said ♪ [ male announcer ] the toughest job on the planet just got a little easier. with one touch technoly and even an air scrubber. the nissan quest. innovation for family. innovation for all. get up to $050 to

the union busting senate bill 5 will not become law in the state of ohio. this is a huge victory for the middle class in the state and in america. what do you think about it, guys? you okay with that? if the republicans want to call it class warfare, that's fine. the first battle has been won by the middle class. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >>> more than 2.5 million votes have been counted. with 86% reporting the vote is 39% for issue 2, 61% against it. it is a clear message that has been sent from the middle class from the state of ohio. the people of this state would not let a republican politician and his partisan operatives take away the basic rights of workers. john kasich, governor, this law bans collective bargaining for public worker benefits. it eliminated automatic pay increases. it made it illegal to strike and it did away with arbitration. here's the governor of ohio accepting defeat tonight. >> it's clear that the people have spoken. and, you know, my view is when people speak in a campaign like this, in a referendum, you have to l

they were involved in ohio in terms of buying ads and giving money.ohio with robocalls, telling people the polls will stay open for tomorrow. so you don't have to hustle out and get in line, but you can come out tomorrow and vote. that's an old richard nixon trick. >> a lot of misinformation going on. the polls open another 35 minutes in ohio. people can vote tonight, but tonight only if you haven't voted. gerald mcentee, thank you. >> get that vote out. >> say it one more time. >> get that vote out. >> that's the gerald mcentee we know. >>> ahead, herman cain says he never acted inappropriate with anyone, but another accuser just went public. a lawyer tells us about a major plan to speak out. next. [ male announcer ] our nation's veterans are real-life heroes. but when they come home, they don't want a parade; they want a job. the postal service employs more veterans than any other civilian employer. but congress is debating a bill that would force the postal service to fire tens of thousands of vets, close post offices, shut mail processing plants,

because it's happened in ohio before. bush versus john kerry race. ohio's secretary of state seemed to game the process from several different angles. >> it seems this law that's now in effect is all about discouraging people to vote, which obviously can become habit forming and the next thing you know, we have 2012 and it's their effort to suppress the vote and just, you know, purchase as many people as you can getting to the polls on the republican side. out-advertise big time, get your base out there and beat those that may be the novice news people out there that really normally don't get too motivated. if you shut down the early voting forum, what does that do for 2012 and the presidential? >> well, this is a very big deal because remember, this is a republican secretary of state and here we have what looks an awfully lot like a coordinated attempt to deny people access to the polls. if they get away with it this fall, you can presume that they will do so again next year. and remember that republican tie groups, supp

and we begin live in columbus, ohio. voters in that swing state made plenty of news, good evening. >> good evening, to you, bret. there is no sugar coating this one. ohio voters rejected issue two, would have restricted collective bargaining rights of public sector workers would have required them to pay into their own health benefits as private sector workers do. enthusiastic public sector union members watched the numbers coming in tonight. and a somber, humbled republican governor admitted defeat. >> it's clear that the people have spoken. and you know, my view is when people speak, in a campaign like this, and a referendum, have you to listen when you're a public servant. there isn't any question about that. >> we spoke to afl-cio president this evening before the final results are in. he's been following follows -- polls, and he said that this would be a game changer. >> this isn't going to be the end of the fight. frankly after today, it will be the beginning of the fight. we'll still have to fight against other att

and we begin live in columbus, ohio. voters in that swing state made plenty of news, good evening. >> good evening, to you, bret. there is no sugar coating this one. ohio voters rejected issue two, would have restricted collective bargaining rights of public sector workers would have required them to pay into their own health benefits as private sector workers do. enthusiastic public sector union members watched the numbers coming in tonight. and a somber, humbled republican governor admitted defeat. >> it's clear that the people have spoken. and you know, my view is when people speak, in a campaign like this, and a referendum, have you to listen when you're a public servant. there isn't any question about that. >> we spoke to afl-cio president this evening before the final results are in. he's been following follows -- polls, and he said that this would be a game changer. >> this isn't going to be the end of the fight. frankly after today, it will be the beginning of the fight. we'll still have to fight against other att

and we begin live in columbus, ohio. voters in that swing state made plenty of news, good evening. >> good evening, to you, bret. there is no sugar coating this one. ohio voters rejected issue two, would have restricted collective bargaining rights of public sector workers would have required them to pay into their own health benefits as private sector workers do. enthusiastic public sector union members watched the numbers coming in tonight. and a somber, humbled republican governor admitted defeat. >> it's clear that the people have spoken. and you know, my view is when people speak, in a campaign like this, and a referendum, have you to listen when you're a public servant. there isn't any question about that. >> we spoke to afl-cio president this evening before the final results are in. he's been following follows -- polls, and he said that this would be a game changer. >> this isn't going to be the end of the fight. frankly after today, it will be the beginning of the fight. we'll still have to fight against other att

i was in ohio, a couple times, with you a couple weeks ago. no one thought by this margin, but then when you sigh the margin in mississippi, these are not just victories, but almost a repudiation of the radical agenda on the right. do you think that maybe the right just overjumped the runway, they might have just gone so far that they've made people just say, wait a minute, we had better go out and protect the america that we love? >> yeah, and you're a man of the cloth. you know that pride goeth before the fall. he won by two points against governor strickland in 2010, yet the way they acted is they had a mandate with 49% of the vote, and tried to impose this radical agenda. people don't want radical change. they want jobs. they want to see the 99% get a fair shake. they had a govern and business establishment that is fighting for the 99%, not just the 1%. i think that was the strongest lesson that came out of columbus, ohio, yesterday. >> ohio bible-quoting senator sherrod brown. >> thank you. >> good to talk with you. >>> as the senator and

it can't motivate people enough to get out and do what they have to do in ohio and wisconsin because it is all connected. we are at an ideological cross-roads in this country. we have an income inequality in america that we have never seen before. i'm going to be throwing a chart up here every night for you to explain exactly who they are in very baasic terms and what they are doing to destroy our economy. destroy, sabotage, may i go so far as to suggest and flat out say that the republican party in this country, they are playing the game of economic terrorism on the american economy and the american middle class. and we, the 99.8% of us, we stand here idle. and what do the democrats do? well, what do you say we put the big three on the table for the super committee to chop up, medicare, medicaid, and social security? it's as if washington isn't hearing anything that's going on with the people across this country. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. do republicans hate president obama more than they love america? text a for yes. text b for no t

that what happens in ohio tomorrow is going to tell us a lot about the 2012 election, not just in ohiout the 2012 election. why do you expect the results to resonate on a national scale? >> first of all, everyone is watching ohio. as ohio goes, so goes the nation. i don't think anyone outside ohio fully understood the ground swell here in ohio. john kasich has been the best community organizer in the state for democrats, but it's not just democrats who have decided they're voting no. i mean, we've seen so many republicans come out against this. we're seeing a lot of independent voters. in my own neighborhood, yards that have mccain signs in 2008 have vote no on issue 2 signs. everybody knows a schoolteacher or a police officer or a firefighter or a nurse. for me, this is personal. i have a -- my sister, toni, is a public school teacher. my sister, leslie, is a nurse. the man who came earlier this week, or last week to our home to install our new microwave had a son who's a firefighter. he said he has never seen his son participate in a grassroots effort like he has with this one. he's

general can say tom i was just fine great to great to hear from you what democracy for america doing in ohio where we're going to watch a campus is mostly in the cleveland area and i came out you just spent some time with those folks and we've got a bunch of members have i don't fit in all that action campuses that are being done by labor various different labor we're going to stations out here so we certainly want to do what we can to support this great effort and a very optimistic place down and we're just waiting for anybody to come in and what one of the koch brothers and their many employees and. whatever doing. well that's the real rub their job they put on this judge judy campaign and radio campaign and robo call campaign dock to debate this issue but to confuse the voters on this issue you want to repeal s.b. five and restore collective bargaining rights you vote no on issue two had they been tried to basically switch the wording around and actually mislead the voters into voting yes on his shoe to for the benefit of collective bargaining rights i mean it really is just unbelievable

but the republican party itself was also divided so you had a divided left and right on this issue in ohio let's try to put the substantial of what happened in the political context, mainly what people were upset about were was taking away the collective bargaining rights of the unionists and the other provision about contributions to health and pensions are in polls popular with ohioens, so it looks as though the republicans now intend to reintroduce those two elements in the next sessions of the legislature. meanwhile, the democrats want a two year moratorium on any union related legislation and they know that if the other two provisions get put up to a vote people will probably support it. >> but the argument would be over time. if you don't take on collective bargaining, which gives the public unions outside influence over taxpayers, right? because they're basically able to influence the politicians through campaign contributions after sitting on the other side of the bargaining table with, if you don't do something to fix that, you can't fix the fiscal problem. >> and they would say s

do they see this as evidence that they can carry ohio? in the days that tim russert used to say ohio, ohio, ohio, it's one of those states that seems to be so much a bell weather. >> the story of politics has been the energy on the right. people engaged and focused and desperate to change washington. what we've seen in ohio, it's clear, is that not just labor, but the progressive movement, the democratic party is engaged and ready to fight. and in john kasich, they have a governor as they do in florida and wisconsin and a few other states they can demonize and make more of a punching bag than i think mitt romney can be made into because he's less of a distinct figure right now. to energize democrats in the short-term in ohio, in florida, this is a great day and a great result for the democratic party. and they're excited about it and they see they can be the party of energy, engagement, and enthusiasm. >> mayor brown, it seems that president obama is a highly educated guy, elite educated you might say surrounded by a lot of guys from the peo

here's what else happened in ohio. paying attention in the gofr job creation, they went after bargaining rights. they also did a radical rollback of voter -- of the voter laws that were passed ten years ago bipartisanly in the legislature. and so you've seen people who care about voting rights and people who care about collective bargaining rights coming together in a way they haven't particularly well in the past. and i think that's bad news for john kasich, the governor. the governor is personally and politically very unpopular in ohio now. i think that will -- i think you'll see him not on the ballot in 2012 but you'll -- because he's not on the ballot. but you'll see him talked about a lat because he's trying to take the state in the wrong direction. >> senator sherrod brown, appreciate the time. >>> want to remind folks that ed schultz will be bringing the ed show live tonight from ohio. again, a very important battleground state in next year's presidential election. >>> voter i.d. is another important issue we've

make one call to an allstate agent. >> labor unions are celebrating a bick victory in ohio after votersrturned to rein in teachers, police officers and government workers, signed in march by republican governor john kasich, would have stripped 350,000 public employees of the collective bargaining rights and pay at least 15% of their health care costs and the measure was rejected by more than 60% of voters. so, after taking a beating and scott walker's wisconsin and chris christie's new jersey is the outcome a sign that unions are making a comeback? we're back with dan henninger and jason riley and joining the panel. kim strassel. >> the message out of iowa, if you dare to challenge unions political power you'll be crushed. is that right? >> i think what we saw out of ohio this week, when unions across the entire country decide to focus on one race, and 30 million or more astonishing on one initiative. they can pull up and when their opponents make some tactical errors and we can talk about that. >> what were those mistakes, kim. you're right about the money and wisconsin managed to surv