hillary rodham clinton is not interested in another four years and speculation is sentencing on jim kerry. tim geithner is also expected to be replaced by jack luan leon panetta has said he is ready to return to his walnut farm in monterey. >>> it is not clear what mitt romney's plans are after losing out his bid for the white house. after watching the election news, he told them, win or lose he wanted to spend time with his family after months on the road. they are refusing to speculate what might be next for him but the former governor is unlikely to disappear from politics completely. >>> they are revealing two things to watch this. marijuana is still illegal under federal laws despite the passage of the two measures. colorado and california is the first state to allow potato for use. oregon has rejected the measure for use. >>> the protest will mark the one year anniversary of occupy cal. students say the money should be used to lower tuition. >>> meantime the proposition 30 said they will resince the $239 fee end cries that will bring increases back to last year's rate. students will

senator jim kerry is expected to be replaced by john and leon panetta said he is ready to return to his walnut farm in monterey. >>> there are still thousands of ballots to count since tuesday's election. they have 235,000 mail in and provisional ballots to tally. san francisco has 90,000 and alameda as 1 40,000. it could be days before we get some of the final results. >> sal, how is highway 101 doing? >> well, it is actually doing okay, dave. pam, we'll see some traffic drive willing through. incase you are trying to get to the air port, getting down to that general area of the bay. we are seeing more of a backup as we hit closer to 6:00 and we are expecting it to be in those cash lanes, it is coming off the pass and it looks good to caster valley and beyond. let's go to mark. >>> we are dry right now no rainfall to worry about at least for the morning commute but look at what is happening to our north and even towards the east. snow levels are eventually dropping and you will notice it dropping and we do have a wind right around fso and right around fairfield sustained at 18. you can

kerry in louisiana. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. >> what's up? >> caller: lng in my sight.an't seem to make myself pull a trigger. >> i like the limited partnership more because like that yield and they've been able to pay it. cqp is my favorite and preferred way to play that combination. >> let's go to charlie in new jersey. >> jim? i sold some heckman. i had a loss on it. i sold some heinz and bought abbott labs. >> you're in the right direction. there was an article about recycling water. that is heckman's bread and butter. they didn't mention heckman. i thought he should say, listen this is our bread and butter. that was disappointing for me. lit's go to rick in georgia. rick? >> caller: jimbo. i need to know about gold, gld. >> buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. >> first in show. what can i tell you? it's a fiscal cliff play either way. and let's go to dan in missouri. dan? >> caller: yeah, one which you thought about anheuser-busch stock. >> oh, my. just a terrific stock. i like diagio more. i do like bud very, very much. let's go trob in connecticut. rob? >> caller: what's goi

kerry were. you know, they were -- the peopleou mentioned david plouffe, jim mussina and jim axelrod -- particularlyssina and plouffe, i wrote about this, they saw this as a contest between economics and demographics. the economics were going to be a headwind for president obama and the only way to win was focus like a laser beam on four groups. the rest of the campaign was just mood music for them. they were looking at african-americans, hispanics, collegeén educated white women d young voters in nine states. that was -- they had a year and a half before they had to engage with romney. a year and a half and a $1 billion to go out into those states and figure out not just in a broad way these were the groups they had to do well with but how do you move those people? >> how do you find out how to do it? >> some of the -- chuck said there was no issue -- they were able to talk to of people in those ind out what issues matter to them. the thing is the president did along the way. whether it was the dre act move in thespring, the gay marriage move. a lot of the things he was doing in term of policy and

times and they all showed something similar, while i learned covering the 2004 campaign, jim was with john kerry and i was with president bush from the white house. everything was tied and they said it was in the margin of error. every single one was for president obama. any single poll may be wrong, but in the past, everything was not wrong. >> engine never know. i was covering john kerry and if he had become the president i would write about what his presidency would look like. everything that we were hearing was the president would win. and i got a call from rural ohio, saying, we did not -- we see a surge that we did not anticipate. >> and that can happen tonight. we don't really know. and that is the narrowness and the mystery tonight. it is 49%, and one was of 49.57, 49.53. this is close. >> i am wondering if we will see something that will be completely under water and my job will be dependent on today. with the obama white house. and tomorrow is a different day if mitt romney wins. and the news gathering, this is something completely different. and they wrapped their heads around, -- >>

governor jack markell, jim clyburn, obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod, bob mcdonald, ted strickland and bob shrum, a democratic consult and the who worked on the kerry and gore campaigns. special election coverage here on cnn begins right now. >>> it is up to the american people right now. good morning and welcome to our special edition of "early start." we have complete 4ri6 coverage of election day 2012. over the past 17 months we've watched two campaign spend a combined $3 billion, two candidates duel it out in three dramatic debates, all trying to win your vote. now more than 1 million campaign commercials later, 1 million campaign commercials later, the polls are opening. voting is beginning in parts of vermont. mitt romney not letting up on this election day. he's added two final campaign stops in cleveland, ohio and in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. both of them, of course, critical battle ground states. (is in chicago today. aides say he is likely to continue his election day tradition of playing basketball with friends before he goes to watch the returns. cnn reporters are fanned out all across the battleground states this morning, including in

jim. >> i smits won he asked his opponent to be his secretary of state. >> that doesn't mean life is like that. that's why i'm afraid about john kerry. the i love this, this is a great piece. tea party activist blames republican establishment. fight, fight fight. angry tea party activists say romney was too moderate. go, further to the right go! >> they'll blame the recession on the establishment. >> stephanie: a republican from washington said republicans need to become more modern, not moderate. >> what does that mean? >> stephanie: i shall believe it's becoming more modern, hayes panics women take our values and religion to every corner of the country. yeah well, you did. we heard you. we got it. she said i think it's more about the messenger and who's communicating our values. no, it doesn't matter. anybody in that republican field would have lost. >> that's citizens united. it's the first victim of it. >> stephanie: yes, romney was a bad messinger but it's the message. >> you must move further to the right. >> blame the president for stuff we did. people saw through it. >> conservatism and modern are not -- >> these guys spent m

jim clyburn, obama campaign senior adviser david axelrod. virginia governor bob mcdonnell. former ohio governor ted strickland. texas congressman jeb hensarling and bob shrum, a democratic consultant who worked on the kerry and gore campaigns. it is tuesday, november 6th, election day. "starting point" is coming to you live from washington, d.c., and we begin right now. >> welcome, everybody, you're watching a special edition of starting point and cnn's live coverage of election day 2012. the two candidates have been talking for about 17 months now and now it's the american people who will have the final say. these are the states with polls that are opening right now. state of delaware, state of florida, state of georgia, illinois, kansas, louisiana, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, missouri, pennsylvania, rhode island, south carolina, tennessee, and washington, d.c. you're looking at a live picture now from wilmington, delaware, where joe biden is expected to vote at any moment. the vice president then will head to chicago to watch the returns with president obama today. mitt romney is not letting up on this election day. he's added two campaign campaign stops today in cleveland, ohio, and in pittsbur

jim and for all the puppets and the fun this morning that we have been having all morning long. i'm kerryou. >> we need to get an outline as a -- owl on a co-host on the show. >> is it stuffed or real? >> i don't care. >> what's the difference? >> i don't have any standards for owls whether it's stuffed or not. >> can ask the who, what, why when and how? >> thanks, carrie. >> why do emotions run so high on black friday? why? >> joining us is fox news contributor and psychiatrist dr. keith ablow who is here. he handles and figures out and cuts through the mess whether you are normal or nuts. doctor, nice to is he you this morning. >> hey, good to see you. so all of this hysteria. we see the stampedes, 12.95. >> yoga pants at victoria secrets causes people to go crazy and run out there. normal or nuts? >> unfortunately, it's normal. because the combination of rarity and opportunity unleashes something in human beings that result in this stampede mentality. after all a pair of yoga pants if it were the fact that you were just at the street corner would you like to buy this at half price you

state in the nation, john kerry got more votes there, a higher percentage of the votes there than he did anywhere else. so that was always going to be uphill for him. and jim pointed out earlier a couple of disappointments for the romney team which is having such a tough night in so many states. they were optimistic about. scott brown's pollster and three consultants all also worked at romney hq in boston. >> and, again, it's not just the scott brown defeat that has republicans bothered tonight, it's that they lost indiana and missouri, because those are two surprises. so that's three seats you lost, now, it's been offset a little bit by a pickup in nebraska, senator bill nelson stepped aside. there was a very competitive race with bob kerrey who's been a figure in american politics for the last 30 years. he had a comeback at the end, wasn't enough, couldn't win. we're going over to george allen now who is up at the podium here in virginia. >> you have heard from all over virginia, we've learned from them, we've heard their voices, and it's important for people to advocate for the values and the families of small business people throughout the commonwealth