luke, joe walsh was the first elected member to appear on this broadcast.y finished him off? his disgraceful attacks on tommy duck worth, his contempt for the president, hiss abuse of harry reid, his failure to pay child support, his abusive response to constituents? i could go on. what do you think it was? >> well, martin, all politics is local is something we're fond of saying, and the knock on joe walsh was that he was more concerned with his own self-image than he was for the actual constituents in the district. >> you surprise me. why would anyone think that of the great mr. walsh. >> what's interesting if you talk to high level gop aides, a lot of them are smiling owe every this joe walsh loss because guess what? one less thorn in the side of speaker boehner within his own conference he has to think about and deal with. there weren't a lot of tears at rnc headquarters when joe walsh went down. >> wow, so they're actually celebrating his demise. todd akin is gone having given up his house seat to run for the senate. what about the great allen west? the

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. bachmann wouldn't tell voters

joe walsh on joe walsh. i didn't see that coming. he wanted to hit himself one last time.tatement. he said, they attacked me for my principles. yes, that's what happens in elections. and turns out they liked the other person's principles more than your principles. welcome to democracy. let's bring in the crew, ana kasparian, jayar jackson michael shure is in "the war room" in san francisco. now before we get to the talking here i want to play you one more clip. rush limbaugh has figured out it turns out there are minorities in the country. he's on it. >> rush: we put forth some of the most accomplished minorities that this country has to offer. the republican party has more elected hispanic serving in office than the democratic party has. yet what is said about republicans? racist sexist, bigots, homophobes etc. so forth. why does putting markio rubio at the front convention not work? why does putting the governor of new mexico not work. why does putting mia love, who sadly lost, one of the most accomplished achieved, decent people in this country. she's african-american.

i called joe walsh losing a year and a half before it happened. watch this. owofof the earth, man. again, he thinks on medicare you got to double down, you got to go harder at it. he's a first termer, he's going to be one and out. i'd be really surprised if he survived that first term. he's a bull in a china shop. he has no idea what he's doing. >> cenk: now he can go on home. that was on may 26, 2011. wonone and done. now his or her is compilation. >> i was fully prepared to lose this battle. >> you're never quite prepared to come forward with a speech that is required tonight. >> things don't always turn out the way you think they are going to. >> we all may wake up tomorrow morning with long faces with long faces. >> when the numbers looking, we have lost this race. >> i will look back knowing that i was attacked for standing for my principles. >> it's particularly appropriate to thank god who makes no mistakes and who is much wiser than we are. >> cenk: well, finally you admitted that. he makes no mistakes. apparently he meant for you to be a looser. now m

>>> and joe walsh, remember that guy?may be the one republican member of congress most democrats want to see defeated. >>> let me finish with the >>> let me finish with the metamorphosis of mitt romney from, well, caterplar to butterfly? that is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> we showed you the averages of the polls from battleground states. let's take a look at some individual numbers. in wisconsin our new nbc news/"wall street journal"/maris poll shows obama with a three-point lead. in new hampshire our poll has the president two points ahead. in iowa our poll has president obama up by six, 50%, 44%. in colorado a new cnn/opinion research poll shows the president leading by two. finally to michigan where a new epic poll shows the president ahead by six, 48%, 42%. we'll be right back. >>> for the past few days all of us have been focused on one of the worst storms in our lifetimes, and we're awed and humbled by nature's destructive power. i was out in new jersey yesterday and saw the devastation, and you really g

th$]is is her s joe walsh. we of the claire mccaskill.r holding on to that speech izbs nothing that anywould happen until todd akin was her running mate. in the middle of claire mccaskill's speech iowa was won by president obama. we also have another call to make. in the oregon presidential race, nbc news is projecting that in oregon. so in terms of the 11:00 poll closings, president obama won california and washington and hawaii and oregon. mitt romney won in terms of the bigger news reaction that you're seeing here in chicago is to the iowa news and to the oregon news and we have just learned that in the state of ohio, nbc news has projected that president obama has won the state of ohio. president obama has been re-elected for a second term. >> he did it. >> with this call in ohio, it is ao done deal. presiden wo it's 12s past 11:00 p.m. on the east coast. ohio put him over the top. chris matthews? >> he didn't need stuff. i said this at the beginning o geography is very powerful. i've watched some of the ugly stuff perpetrated by peo

. >> bill: michele bachmann, almost, almost lost, oh, man we came close but joe walsh was trounced bymy duckworth a great candidate and great american. unfortunately, steve king won in iowa, but joe walsh and allen west the intelligence level of the united states congress just rose by about 15 points. shari is calling from south palm beach, florida. good morning. >> caller: good morning gentlemen, good morning bill. >> bill: great morning huh? >> caller: amazing morning, a happy morning. i'm recovering from surgery and watching you on the current network. i'm so pleads with the outcome and so pleased that we have another four years. this is going to be really exciting what happens and what foretells in the coming years. >> bill: let me tell one tell you your part of florida came through too. there was a very heavy obama vote. >> caller: i was telling dan there, i think at the o.s.u. hat. you look smoking hot in carols scarf. >> bill: all right smoking hot yes. >> caller: my husband is a cuban american and i have been fighting with my cuban in-laws about why they should vote for obama

joe walsh and allen west lost their bid and todd akin lost against claire mccaskill.t has yet to concede. nbc news projects his challenger patrick murphy will come out on top. here's a way they left their mark, including one from "hardball" itself. >> we need to let president obama, harry reid, nancy pelosi and my dear friend, the chairman of the democratic national committee, take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will of the american people take it somewhere else, to the bottom of the sea, to the north pole, but get the hell out of the united states of america. >> first of all from what i understand from doctors it's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, a female body has a way to shut that thing down. >> don't blame banks and the america place for the mess we're in right now. this pisses me off. too many people don't listen. >> chris, do you support that? hey, chris. chris, chris, chris, chris, chris, i love it, chris. >> well, all the same, some side show regulars

you know, they bought on paper joe walsh. now or never actually boasted to the local newspaper that they were going to bury tammy duckworth in a sea of negative ads and they're delivering on their promise but you know, governor, they didn't bury me in iraq and they damn well are not going to bury me now. >> jennifer: you go! that's what i'm talking about! despite all of this outside support, they're not fooling the folks you have been in contact with. you're leading. why do you think that despite all of that money you are still leading? because of that spine you have, that's what i think. >> well, you know, i am leading because we're talking about the issues. we're talking about the social security and medicare guarantees about student loans. mr. walsh has insulted just about everyone in the district from latinos to african-americans to women to my military service to seniors. and they're done with him. they're done with him because he does not remember the word servant in the words public servant. his job is to serve the peo

, joe walsh lost to tammy duckworth.n "the rape thing" coster, he lost his race for the house in washington state. todd "legitimate rape" akin, he lost the senate race against claire mccaskill, which was once considered an easy republican senate pickup. republican rosco bartlett, who did not have the stats handy on pregnancies resulting from rape, he lost his re-election bid in jand. rick berg who said we can work out the details later of whether rape victims go to jail for abortion, he lost. john mcgovern who doesn't want to talk about rape, he just wants to talk about his pure, pro-life core, he lost to bernie sanders in vermont. paul ryan, who called rape just another method of conception, paul ryan did win back his house seat, but he lost the vice presidency in rather spectacular fashion. and tom smith, who thinks getting pregnant out of wedlock is totally similar to getting pregnant by being raped, just put yourself in the father's position, he lost his u.s. senate bid to incumbent democratic senator bob casey of pe

the dirty angry money pouring into republican congressman joe walsh's race against tammy duckworth isthe call pain's final week. walsh famously accused president obama of lying about the effects of not raising the debt ceiling back in 2011. let's watch that. >> president obama, quit lying. you know darn well that if august 2nd comes and goes there's plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of our social security obligations. have you no shame, sir? in three short years, you've brup bankrupted this country and destroyed job creation. you're either in over your head, you don't understand what makes this country great, or you're hellbent in turning us into some european big government wasteland. >> well, whatever you think of that, "chicago tribune"/wgn poll last week shows tammy duckworth leading that person by ten points now and a ppp poll the same week showed a 14-point lead for duckworth, his challenger. and yet the conservative superpac freedom work is pouring another $1.7 million into the race and the pro-tea party now or never superpac is spending another $1 million. with

. >>> and joe walsh, remember that guy?e may be the one republican member of congress most democrats want to see defeated. olympic met me finish with the metamorphosis of mitt romney from, well, caterpillar to butterfly? that is "hardball," the place for politics. c-max has a nice little trait, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that's not all you'll see, cause c-max also beats prius v, with better mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. [ male announcer ] it's time for medicare open enrollment. are you ready? time to compare plans and see what's new. you don't have to make changes, but it's good to look. maybe you can find better coverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. ♪ medicare open enrollment. now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare. ♪ >>> we showed you the averages of the polls from battleground states. let's take a look at some individual numbers. in wisconsin our new nbc n

joe walsh and alan west.track wrong track doesn't just mean get that guy out of the white house. it means stop the crazy train and unload those people. >> stephanie: by the way bitter, party of one. mitch mcconnell it's for you! >> stephanie: yesterday he said the voters have not endorsed the failures of the first term. >> they kind of like what he was doing. >> stephanie: they've given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a balanced congress. >> stephanie: the one you've been so helpful with. the way you've been so helpful and bipartisan all along? oh really? whatever. get back in your terrarium. let's go to -- >> he's just upset he didn't get control of the senate. >> stephanie: yeah, i know. michael in sarasota, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi michael. >> caller: how are you, my love? >> stephanie: i'm fine. >> caller: you and your merry band of elves have made my absolute life just a joy! >> stephanie: oh, thank you, honey. >> caller: darling, the french -- i have a

and in illinois this is interesting, tammy do you do you recollect -- duck worth has defeated joe walsh. so that's another big one. by the way you want to keep in mind the electoral college race. the first person to 270 wins the ability to bomb iran. and right now obama is at 243 and mitt romney is at 203. so keep your eye on that. [crowd cheering] donations trickling in for the presidential race. it's magical, thank a lot guys thanks for joining us. tonight's results, guys, what do you think. >> jon tonight's results have caused a seismic shift? what we're forecasting for the 2016 election. the real winner tonight looks to be hillary clinton who is now projecting pat 68% chance of victory -- >> [crowd cheering] >> that's up from 54% just a few hours ago. obviously premature to call the 2016 election but i think through demands we have at least examined some vice presidential options. tonight mitt romney received very little minority support. we're talking jimmy buffet concert level. so that's clearly going to have to put some coffee in that cream. wouldn't hurt to counter hillary with

and in illinois this is interesting, tammy do you do you recollect -- duck worth has defeated joe walsh. so that's another big one. by the way you want to keep in mind the electoral college race. the first person to 270 wins the ability to bomb iran. and right now obama is at 243 and mitt romney is at 203. so keep your eye on that. [crowd cheering] donations trickling in for the presidential race. it's magical, thank a lot guys thanks for joining us. tonight's results, guys, what do you think. >> jon tonight's results have caused a seismic shift? what we're forecasting for the 2016 election. the real winner tonight looks to be hillary clinton who is now projecting pat 68% chance of victory -- >> [crowd cheering] >> that's up from 54% just a few hours ago. obviously premature to call the 2016 election but i think through demands we have at least examined some vice presidential options. tonight mitt romney received very little minority support. we're talking jimmy buffet concert level. so that's clearly going to have to put some coffee in that cream. wouldn't hurt to counter hillary with

joe walsh, allen west, todd akin, and richard mourdock were all sent walking.er two years of tea party talk, american voters said, they've had enough. joining me now is former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, now an msnbc political analyst and michelle cottle, washington correspondent for "newsweek" and "the daily bea beast." thank you for being here. america spoke loud and clear last night. what does this say about the rhetoric be that we've seen over the last two years. >> well, i think if the republican party is smart, they are going to take control of the divisiveness but they've also got to take control of themselves because this was, too me, a moral victory in many ways. you and i discussed this and you deserve abundant credit, rev for getting this done. but all of the voter suppressions, shortening the days, voter i.d.s, all of those things backfired tremendously. i was in philadelphia and appeared in four black churches on sunday and the voters there, the congregation, they were angry. they were angry because they thought somebody was trying to take aw

congressman joe walsh and allen west both gone now.his. >> they want hispanics to be dependent upon government. that's their game. >> take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the american people somewhere else. you can take it to europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, to the north pole, but get the hell out of the united states of america. >> president obama, quit lying. does that say anything about the mean spirited ugliness that defeats those that are ultimately the deciders of this country and that's the voters? >>. >> well, it does say that the american voter does ultimately get it right. i don't think, unfortunately, that it's reason for optimism. while those two gentlemen may be gone, others will come, others will take their place. if you look at the caucus, particularly among house republicans, it really hasn't changed that much. even when their leadership is trying to be accommodating to the extent they are, it's not clear that they have any flexibility at all to do that and to celebrate

up until then joe walsh and allen west and the gang are there. -- >> they are not going to lay down. >> they don't have any incentive to help john boehner and mitch mcconnell. they want to burn the thing down. >> scott brown sure does. >> well, yeah. >> play nice and then gets to be senator. >> if john kerry goes to defense or state. >> a progressive until -- >> but to your point, hugo. we have maintained, i think, through the last couple months of the election that the president kind of figured out during the payroll tax cut fight how to win this stuff, not negotiating initially behind closed doors but taking it to the american people. what he's doing right now -- >> you have to do both. >> absolutely. >> they will make a mistake if they just think they can -- >> steam roll. >> legislate this in front of a podium. >> meeting with business leaders today, progressive caucus, meeting with congressional leaders on friday but he knows that's not where it stops. the american people and the power of the bully pulpit is instrumental in getting anything

she defeated joe walsh, the tea party favorite. women did very well. elizabeth warren, claire mccaskill, and so forth. >> 20 women in the senate now, and what is interesting is the republican number goes up from five to four. the democratic number comes up to 16, which i think does reflect the larger problems in the constituency wired to the republicans. you see these women who are winning not because they are the daughter of or the widow of, not appointed. they are fighting their own political careers and it is rather remarkable. >> let me ask you a question. we will see where it goes. what happens if john kerry becomes secretary of state in massachusetts? scott brown? >> i think they have to consider that. scott brown lost. he is still a viable. the question is, who would be -- the with the democrats put up if john kerry leaves? >> he ran in an impossible state. i think elizabeth warren is going to be one of the real stars of the new democratic congress, and i can see her in national politics, at the presidential level, really soon. the other really

this, of course, after freshman house republican joe walsh of illinois insisted there is no such thing as an abortion to protect a woman's life or health because of "advances in science and technology.". and representative todd akin's infamous remark about women's bodies shutting down to prevent pregnancy in cases of so-called "legitimate rape." >> so doctor, are these extreme remarks by republicans distancing themselves from these remarks, are they what are keeping abortion front and center? >> they are actions. they remind women of people trying to redefine rain rape. the words are bad enough. the actions are worse. >> i disagree, bonnie. i think it's to the less advantaged to keep this conversation going. most of them are concerned about the state of the economy and jobs and that's what they are going to the whole thinking about. >> what we know is abortion is the leading topic for women. 39% to 19% to the economy. with the electorate being 56% women, swing voters being a key women demographic, the candidates and the campaigns need to address the issue and have to be in front of it.

just now finding out with most of the precincts reporting, the court's leading by 14,000 votes, joe walshl not be able to overcome that amount. you can see people again finding out about this news right now word is spreading quickly here at her campaign headquarters. she told me earlier she is very confident about the race and that lead really never subsided it's just a matter of time now before she actually comes out to meet the crowd some people in her campaign were telling me they were waiting for the associated press but everyone here is very excited and we are waiting for duckworth she is now coming out to any second i've not really know how long that is going to be this is been one of the most exciting and one of the nastiest races that has had national and even international attention there. and there are even some international alex reporters are here from thailand. the crowd is very excited anxiously awaiting you can hear the music behind me people are dancing people are waiting for dock were to take the podium. duckworth to take the podium. she is being projected as the this is

democrat tammy duckworth is on her way to washington, after she defeated republican congressman joe walshe won the 8th congressional district by 10-points with 55- percent of the vote. nancy loo is live in rolling meadows where duckworth is thanking voters and volunteers today. nancy? >> it was under a glaring national spotlight. >> on the morning after her big win the congresswoman elect treated voters at the metro station to thank them for sending her to washington. she told them that she is eager to get to work for the eighth district even for those who did not support her. >> it does not matter whether or not you voted for me. what matters is that i do my job serving them. >> her win was one of the countries most closely watched races. it follows an especially bitter campaign. labels as too extreme and a deadbeat dad. accusing duckworth of focusing more on her life as a disabled veteran. in conceding walsh was somewhat emotional about having to leave congress after just one term. >> respect what happened tonight. it was not an easy phone call for me to make. respect what happened toni

democrat tammy duckworth, who is challenging freshman republican joe walsh, visited with a group of residentsn streamwood. duckworth enjoyed a dance performance by a group of children wearing traditional colombian dress, and took a low key approach ... mingling with the crowd of about 150 people... >> her opponent was out with volunteers and supporters at his campaign headquarters. >> this is going to be a close race because we have such a eight strong energetic campaigstrong energetic campaign... she does not >> he is confident voters will re-elect him >> they call it the million muppet march -- and it happened in the nation's capital today. some 18-hundred public television supporters rallied on the capitol mall -- in support of funding for public broadcasting. it was a response to mitt romney's proposal to reduce funding for p-b-s -- and programs like *sesame street.* the corporation for public broadcasting's budget for this year is some 445-million dollars. the participants r-s-v-p'd on facebook -- and brought their own muppets to the march seseme street celebrates its 43rd birthday on no

i've been coming up in this half hour with the departure of firebrand tea partiers or crazies like joe walsh and allen west and the arrival of progress is like alan grayson and elizabeth warren working americans finally have a chance to get a fair deal on capitol hill tim carpenter with progressive democrats of america is here to answer that question and later if you think it's crazy that karl rove tried to steal the election this year only to be thwarted by anonymous and you haven't been paying attention for the last fifty years of american history i'll explain that i'd still be to. get the best of the rest of the news down in florida his eighteenth congressional district tea party congressman allen west finally conceded his house raised to democrat patrick murphy further improving the democrats' performance on election day over the weekend in california two republican congressman finally conceded their close races to democrats as well also democrats kept get a different seat in arizona and held on elsewhere around the country to pick up a handful of more seats in the house of representativ

the republican leader he has to produce something some of the t partiers are not going back like joe walsh in the house and others are really at a point where these people ask what are you doing down there? i think we're going to see some changes. to think things may change >> he was harking back to his lovely days of no rights states no blue states we knew that wasn't true when he said it bought it sounds good he is aspiring once again and he can be very inspiring. he needs people to watch his back i think. with the election over wall street today the dow jones industrial average 313 points we are left wondering how the president is going to negotiate the biggest issue facing the u.s. economy as clarence pointed out the fiscal cliff tax hikes automatically go into effect january, should politicians not agree on the nation's fiscal matters and get them under control? a chicago man left fighting for his life after a brutal attack near the red line and family members say it all started with one cell phone also a teenager sexually assaulted on election day just blocks from the president's hom

tammy duckworth and joe walsh. club in chicago for this. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," we will talk about the final 48 hours before election day, followed by a look at the economy and the swing states. later we will discuss the role of religion in this election season. our best is gregory smith. "washington journal," with your calls and e-mails live at 7 eastern on c-span. with election day just three days away, we will bring you live campaign events tomorrow on c-span. first, president obama in hollywood, florida at 3:40 eastern, followed by mitt romney in pennsylvania at 9:25 p.m. eastern. >> these are the stories your textbooks left out. there are great stories about real people in american history, very important moments that we don't know about. the first pilgrims america came 50 years before the pilgrims sailed. they had the good sense to land in florida in june instead of december in massachusetts. then they were wrapped -- wiped out by the spanish, but we completely left them out of the history books

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they are some of the most illinois illinois, the incumbent is joe walsh.'s gotten in trouble for screaming at his constituents on camera. in redistricting, he was up against an even more difficult district and up against a very tough opponent tammy sh tight in the eighthis in florida, alan grayson has defeated todd long. also in florida, the scandal-ridden republican congressman david rivera has been defeated. davidrivera has been defeated and he has been replaced by joe garcia. in iowa steve f the most high-profile far right of congress has won k re-election. christie vilsack was his oppo. michele bachmann is 50/50 with á her graves. she'samous even before she ran for preside this year. high-profile member of congress. that race could not be tighter. obviously no characterization there. district 18 in florida. this is also a race where there is no characterization. 50/50 west in florida district oprphy. look how fight that is. not just 50/50 but in terms of that raw vote. we're going to keep an eye on the house races, some of the ballot races and senate r