campaign in which his office, his fiancÉe, and his own moral compass were criticized, governor john kitzhaberwon last night defeating incumbent dennis richardson. thanked supporters from the hilton in downtown portland. republicans added more than they needed six seats to their ranks to take over the democratic senates, but the sixth seat was in north carolina where thom tillis defeated the incumbent, senator kay hagan. here is thom tillis speaking in charlotte. danceverybody gets to only in america l as all going down on an freeway newlyweds in the back of a limousine a banker's.on and or daughter all they want is everything she came out here to be an actress he was a singer in a band ♪ >> thank you all. late, but i don't know about you all -- i have got a little bit of energy right now. you all did it. you did it. i get to take a break off the campaign trail, now you to change a bit because i am thom tillis and i am the next united states senator -- [cheers and applause] but i want to make absolutely certain that every single one of becausel calls me thom you are a friend -- >> yes, we are!

i'm john kitzhaber and i'm proud to be your governor and asking for your vote on november 4th. >> moderatorthat concludes tonight's gubernatorial debate. i like to thank representative richardson and governor kitzhaber joining us. don't forget on 7:30 on thursday, nbc 5 is hosting meet the candidates forum. with that is thursday at 7:30 right here on nbc 5. we invite you to stay with nbc 5 and nbc 2 throughout 2014 your place for election coverage. the ball is in your court. don't forget to vote. on behalf of all of us here in the nbc 5 studios. good night. [applause] >> throughout this campaign season, c-span's coverage has included about 130 debates from around the country. one ever those debates we've been follow sergeant open georgia senate race between democrat michelle nunn, republican david perdue and 30 pared candidate amanda swafford. here is look at their recent debate. >> so, david, during your tenure at dollar general you made over $40 million, and yet there were 2000 women that sued the company during your tenure and they said they were paid less and it was found by federal inv

oregon governor, john kitzhaber eked it out. back to you. >> big, big, big night.s in the united states senate. they got 52 guaranteed. that number could go up. >> could go as high as 54. if they win alaska and the louisiana runoff, which is next month in december. we still haven't called the virginia race. ing loose like mark warner is going to hold on there. let's switch to the balance of power map so you can take a look at it as you take a look at the senate races. here we are right now with three outstanding at 52. mark warn e, the democratic incumbent, ed giless pea ran a closer race than anyone thought it would be. the republicans were already favored in the state of alaska. this one takes a while to count because of the remote areas, but republicans were already favored. there are exceptions to every rule, but it is really hard to see the republicans losing alaska on a night they're winning in colorado and they're winning in iowa and they ire winning in north carolina. it's just almost inconceivable, but we'll count the votes and see what happens in alaska.

nbc news can project in the oregon governor's race democratic incumbent john kitzhaber has been ablen to the race. there was some discussion about his very interesting fiancee and her past. and there's something going on in florida that nobody quite understands. but here's what's going on. in the florida governor's race nbc news has not projected a winner in this race. nbc news says this is too close to call but rick scott has just taken to the podium at his headquarters in florida to say that he called rick scott to congratulate him on running the race. ed schultz is at charlie crist headquarters in florida. ed what's going on? >> reporter: well a number of new agencies have called it. so there was really some wondering of what was going to unfold here. what happened here was charlie crist came out, took the high road and didn't say anything about any kind of voter irregularity that was contested earlier tonight as he was looking for another hour out of broward county. didn't say anything about that. he talked about friendship he talked about values he talked about thank you for the