i think martha coakley is done. >> martha chokely. screwing up against. losing the unlosable race. martha coakley did lose. there's a headline you'd see. but martha coakley did lose the governor's race to a republican, charlie baker. you see a close race there. about a 40,000 vote race. baker becomes the republican governor. massachusetts is a very democratic state. it's a state that president obama carried by 30 points, that hasn't voted for a republican candidate since reagan in 1984 when he was carrying every state, it's a state that is elected one republican senator, scott brown, in more than 40 years and immediately threw him out of office. massachusetts is a very blue state. this result is not that a surprising and i don't think says much about martha coakley at all. let me show you what i mean. you have to go back here -- not to this but to this. this is 1990. we're going to go through the last generation. this is the governor's race in massachusetts. notice anything? the republican beats the democrat. the democrat was conservative and the republican liberal but there you go

martha coakley has lost what was once a big lead over charlie baker.s. it means that tomorrow against all odds, a republican could very well take over the governorship in arguably one of the country's bluest states. and new england maybe tomorrow could go from having just one republican governor to having five? new england, really? joining us for the interview is massachusetts governor deval patrick. thank you for being here this evening. >> rachel, i was looking forward to being on before your such gloomy introduction. >> talk me out of it. i look at the governors races in new england and i see five out of six in reach for the republicans. why is this happening in such a democratic part of the country? >> i think it may be with due respect to your fabulous team and to you, you are paying more attention to polls than to what's happening on the ground. the races certainly here in massachusetts will be won by the democrat because we've got a really strong grassroots organization. and we've been working them all around the commonwealth for weeks and month

the move comes under pressure from high-powered people including the state's attorney general, martha coakley. >> on thanksgiving resident departments in plose grateful for the support from across the country. the holiday is also bringing a welcome change to the area, peace. after a week of sometimes violent protests. >> a nearly empty parking lot along what should have been a long, exciting parade route. the st. louis thanksgiving day celebration was canceled. >> they canceled the parade due to that reason. >> today's biggest event made its way through new york city. demonstrators there led a march of their own as they made their way towards the parade, police made several arrests. >> this is a national event. an historic event. anybody who would seek to interrupt it would be very callous indeed on this very special day. >> rioters. people looting. >> on this day, kids have a different focus, leaving their mark with the words they think ferguson needs the most. >> it is a message of hope. >> plane hopeful the violence is over in part because of how peaceful last night's protests were. even o

and martha coakley was supposed to have an event with the fishermen in gloucester.game changer has been the unfortunate passing of tom menino and that's gobbled up a tremendous amount of the news coverage of what probably would have been the coverage of this fisherman incident. it's still making head ways and it's still getting coverage and noise. but menino has come onto the scene unexpectedly in this event and really stolen the news cycle. >> the mayor, you know, he'd been the mayor for 20 years and a larger-than-life figure in boston and politics. the funeral service i guess is going to be on monday the day before the election. joe biden will take part in that. ultimately tom menino would love it if we're talking about the politics of his death, i guess, ultimately, how do you see that impacting the race? >> the candidates both stopped campaigning on thursday, the day of his death, and charlie baker intended to not campaign on friday. martha coakley ended up having an extensive schedule actually, she campaigned in new bedford, had campaign events all over the sou

deep blue problem for the democrats, in massachusetts, charlie baker won the race over democrat martha coakley. a new republican governor in arkansas, former homeland security official asa hutchinson defeating mike ross giving control of that top office after eight years in the hands of democrats. republicans also won tight races. florida, reelecting republican rick scott to a second term. that's a set jk to new democrat charlie crist. scott spent nearly $13 million of his own money in this contest. in wisconsin, scott walker easily won re-election to a second term over double digits to mary burke. this keeps walker in the mix as a potential presidential candidate in 2016. republicans held on to the state house in georgia. republicans gave incumbent nathan deal four more years. he defeated jason carter, the grandson of former president jimmy carter. and doug ducey won over fred duval. ducey is best known for building the coldstone creamery ice cream chain before selling the company in 2011 and getting into politics. republicans lost only one state house. pennsylvania. democrat tom wolf is the

you remember the name martha coakley. they are running four points ahead of her.y of boston. the biggest city in the state, charlie baker had over 150 campaign events. he is not going to win boston, but the question here is he is cutting into that enough that he might turn a very blue state red tomorrow night. >> you can catch up with steve weekends on msnbc. you have a busy one ahead. thank you for spending time with us here. stay with us for all your election results as they come in tomorrow night. rachel maddow and chris matthews teaming up to host the special coverage 689 it begins at 6:00 eastern tomorrow night. up next, the supreme court taking on a big issue of citizenship. we will explain with pete williams after the break. what they do actually is rocket science. but at ge capital we also bring expertise from across ge, like lean process engineers we asked who does what, when, where, and why that step first? ideas for improvement started pouring out. with a little help from us, they actually doubled their output speed. if you just need a loan, just call a

in massachusetts that state going red with charlie baker defeating martha coakley. as we look at maryland larry hogan upset the democratic lieutenant governor anthony brown. a republican is once again leadilead ing arkansas and asa hutchinson defeated mike ross. republicans are gaining governorships in the most expensive gubernatorial race in the nation. florida governor rick scott is preparing for a second term after defeating former governor charlie crist by a little more than 1%. >> florida is on a mission. than mission is to keep growing and become the best place in the world to get a job, raise a family, and live the american dream. >>> extend voting in brow ward county due to system mall fujss. he felt it was important. a judge rejected that request. as we steer north into wisconsin, republican governor scott walker defeated democrat mary burke for re-election. it's the third victory in four years for the possible 2016 candidate. after he beat a recall challenge in 2012, if you recall. >> we're excited about the next four years. instead of what they tried to d

republican charlie bake erwining the governor's race over the democrat martha coakley. it comes after eight years of democratic rule in massachusetts under governor deval patrick there is a new republican governor in arkansas. former homeland security official asa hutchinson defeating the democrat mike ross, giving the gop control of the top office after eight years in the hands of democrats. the gop also taking other tight races where democrats were given decent odds to win. florida voters reelect rick scott to a second term as governor, delivering a stinging rebuke to democrat charlie crist. scott pumped nearly $13 million of his own money into his campaign in its final days. he becomes just the second gop governor in florida history to win reelection. in wisconsin, the republican scott walker easily won reelection to his second term by double-digit others the democrat mary burke. that victory keeps walker in the mix for a possible presidential run in 2016. walker angered many voters and had a recall election in 2012 after he ended collective bargaining rights for the

charlie baker leading by about 5,000 votes over martha coakley. me good news and bad news for coakley when we look closely at the map here looking at all 353 cities and towns in massachusetts. actually, rear not going to. i'm still learning this. here's what's happening in massachusetts tonight. in 2010 when martha coakley lost that special election to scott brown, one of the biggest weaknesses she had was small blue collar workers defected and went with him. she's made up ground, folksr example, the city of lowell she lost that then he won that tonight. waltham, she lost that in 2000 she carried that tonight. the problem is it may not be enough. as we said she's 5,000 votes behind right now. the biggest democratic producing city left on the map, lawrence an old mill town on the merrimack river, that just came in and it left her still behind. what you have left now are a lot of -- there are some blue collar rare areas in the boston area like winthrop and then you have small and mid-sized towns in central massachusetts. it is hard to see her making

it was interesting to see her campaigning for martha coakley. hillary clinton was out of her comfort zone and it did not end great. she will have moments like that. on the republican side, there is the media primary. we are all writing various versions of who is up and down. mitt romney is not running. i cannot keep protecting that he is. nor can i pretend that hillary clinton is responsible for democratic losses and mitt romney is responsible for republicans. debate on the republican side has shifted to the right. what will become a major issue is immigration. you saw this play out in the primaries. when it comes to what paul described as a void that has and you haden on it a catchall of stuff. you had the border crisis, the sil,ened economy, i ebola. you saw numbers going sideways in these races. , the republican party is about to have a big definitional moment on this. to dok obama is about something through executive action that will please neither side of his party and will be where republican stakeout around stop. -- stake out ground. >> h

i just don't like -- the best thing that happened last night was martha coakley lost the race. she was an awful person as you were telling me. >> is she the same woman that called curt schilling a yankee fan and the same senator that lost to brown which was ted kennedy's seat? >> as long as she wasn't his financial advisor. >> that's harsh. we are going to move on now. should your phone be prone? a virginia judge ruled defendants can be forced to give up physicaller prints so cops can unlock and search their phone. the case came up with a man wanting to strangle his girlfriend. his lawyers refused. giving up pass codes would violate the right of self-incrimination under the fifth amendment. phones lock using a fingerprint scaner because they are akin to a dna sample or physical key. for more let's go live to the chief legal correspondent. >> remi, i want to point out if it comes down to you and the bird and legal correspondents, i don't want you to feel bad. you were a finalist. >> i am confused by the whole thing. >> it doesn't make a lot of sense to the average person. if you

massachusetts charlie baker narrowly defeating martha coakley 48 to 47 percent. in maine incumbent republican paul page defeating 48 to 47 percent over mike michaud. >> is the war over? voters not buying it. what this means for 2016 and beyond. >> >> president obama was hit by a harsh referendum on his own presidency. what were voter's thoughts if they were headed to the polls. republican strategist and former congressional candidate>> thank you for being with us. >> were you surprised the results this morning? >> i was surprised many seats. thfdz about obama and the presidency. actually in this case it was totally personal. it was much less about his policies. even in conservative states when they were on the ballot directly like minimum wage and background checks on gun sales those passed. they have a mandate on what voters want. the ballot when it came to initiatives and candidates why do you think that happened? >> the national minimum wage is more of an issue for the state of arkansas. it was healthy anna wild night. part of what republicans shouldn't learn

martha coakley, poor martha coakley. she was a successful attorney general but she lost these two high profile races in massachusetts, lost to ted kennedy's senate seat. her answer to so many questions like whether illegal immigrants should get drivers licenses or whether they should build a casino in springfield, she she said i'm open to it. charlie was more open to it. he didn't seem threatening. some of the democratic messages were just, the republicans are just so awful they cut education, they're extreme on social issues. the stunning race is maryland and again, anthony brown wasn't incumbent. he was lieutenant governor but he ran a kind of taking it for granted incumbent type campaign. he didn't have any kind of positive message and didn't get his voters out. you look at the five biggest jurisdictions. baltimore county, anne arundel, major population centers. he got 190,000 fewer votes from those five counties than o'malley got four years ago. so what -- you know, some of the democrats were good on offense. malloy,

so when she goes to a rally for martha coakley in boston, she looks like an ease liz beth warren wannabe. i'm not an anachronism in her party. she has to do contortions over the next two years to get there in time for 2016. that might not be convincing enough by that time, though. >> brad, i want your response to s.e., but also -- >> please. >> -- let's talk about who came out and voted. this is a non-presidential year. lot of people have been saying look, you didn't have as many minori minority voters out, young voters out for their base. do you think that that is a leg up for you guys in 2016? >> well of course i do. look, this say problem that democrats have to solve. we have got to figure out how we take presidential year voters that come out in big numbers, younger voters, minority voters, and make sure they understand the stakes in the midterm election. sometimes i think a party doesn't, a party's base doesn't always understand the sakes in midterm election when they hold the white house, and we've got to do a better job than that. i disagree totally with s.e. on where hillary clin

republican governor races, charlie baker winning the governor's race over democrat martha coakley.s after eight years of democratic rule in that state under retiring governor deval patrick. now, we want to end on a lone bright spot for democrats. businessman tom wolf is the new governor of pennsylvania. the democrat defeating republican incumbent tom corbett in his bid for his re-election. one race that's undecided so far. colorado democratic incumbent john hickenlooper is neck and neck with hisle challenger bob beauprez, you can count on cnn to bring you the results. as we're looking ahead to 2016, governors do well on the national level. some have higher aspirations. we'll keep those names in the back of our mind. >>> this morning is a day of reckoning for democrats. angry voters turn the political landscape in red. big names have been upset or even unseeded. >> unseated. we don't like your face, looking at 2016, who's out there that can reenergize people and get us back caring about who our leaders are? we'll talk about it. shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn't it be g

let's go to massachusetts governor charlie baker, martha coakley second attempt. turned away, and the bay state, the commonwealth of massachusetts, you've got a republican governor-elect. jerry brown versus the former treasury official, neel kashkari who put on one of the most controversial ads, by the way, featuring a drowning child. jerry brown tonight in what became an easy re-election for him. sam brownback is returning. the incumbent governor of kansas reelected. not by much, a closer fight than he thought oregon governor, the projected winner, the incumbent. there on to idaho. where governor otter is -- butch otter is the incumbent. in idaho, we have a bunch of too close to call. in colorado, hickenlooper has been hanging on, back and forth. right now, trending against him. but still officially too close. connecticut, this will be something if the incumbent, democratic incumbent dan malloy, former mayor of the city of stanford loses to the republican tom foley. but it would be keeping with what we've seen tonight. 6,000 votes separating the two of those. and

this thing did not go through until scott brown beat martha coakley in the senate race and then we lost votes. and that really damaged our ability to make the kind of changes that needed to be changed. now you were stuck with a bill that was essentially written by the insurance company. >> again, the point, though, from schumer is, look, 85% of people already had health insurance that they were happy with. so he's saying the middle class -- >> first of all, they weren't happen with it. that is revisionist history. the costs were out of control and nobody was doing anything about it. you cannot say that. it was true that chuck was in the leadership of getting this done. chuck schumer did a great job getting this bill through in my opinion. >> but do you think -- do you think that the average voter who was in there in the voting booth in november, 2010, looked at the last two years and said president obama was elected with the economy collapsing. the unemployment rate reached up to 10% there. everybody i know around me has been affected so acutely by this. do you think the average voter l

that martha coakley and in massachusetts anthony brown lost in maryland. in connecticut, it looks like from the latest numbers, my governor is reelected. that is a bright spot for me. host: daymond is an independent in georgia. caller: please let me say this whole thing. let me piggyback on what the guy just said. this is a referendum against the president -- it's more about how they jerryrigged the system. me. is insane to we have republicans who did not do this or did not do that, taking this away, taking that away and you are going to put more of them in office? to pave the way for a republican president next year -- in 2016. .hey have too much at stake host: how do you think the system was jerryrigged? caller: they happened gerrymandering the thing for years and nobody is saying anything. host: patricia is a republican in fort worth, texas. caller: hi. now that the republicans have , theynate and the house need to represent the people and no more business as usual. we the american people are fed up to here with political correctness. they've got the po

we talked about maryland, then in massachusetts with martha coakley screwing up her second and presumably final statewide bid. and pennsylvania with governor corbett, you know, it goes to show how, we could watch from washington or anywhere. we can watch senate races, house races, and the dynamic in these races are -- there some linkage across state lines and regions and things, and i think we did pretty good, not perfect but pretty good at figuring out what's generally likely to happen. but the governors races are so difficult because they are just sort of indigenous issues, local issues. and even if you know what they all are, you don't know how to weigh them. you know, a lot of times governors of a new governor will come in and they will do some tough, unpopular things to their numbers go in the toilet, and presumably in year two, three, starts coming back up, curls up and they get reelected. that happens a lot. but with corbett they just sort of went down, stay down. i've had friends from pennsylvania say, well, maybe it was the penn state thing, where the penn state loyalists thought

out pat quinn in favor of bruce rounders, and charlie baker won a massachusetts race against martha coakley. and florida, governor rick scott held onto his job for another four-year term. georgia where ren republican nathan deal won over jason carter. the senate is now finally in g.o.p. hands. we have more on the american people. >> very interesting night. voters did not just pick who they were sending to congress. they're speaking up on a number of fiercely debated issues. republicans may have ruled the night but several liberal ballot initiatives shared center strange with a spotlight shining brightly on pot. voting to legalize marijuana for recreational use. >> part of it is connecting to younger voters. showing them that they have a stake, and showing them that their vote will matter and it will matter on issues that they truly care about. >> despite another effort in florida, voters there failed to make it the 23rd state to legalize marijuana for medical reasons. another hot issue, raising the minimum wage above the level of 7:25. four red states all voted to raise the minimum wage by

and where martha coakley lost again. >> yeah, we can show you quickly in the results here, the examination the last week of this race. eliot cutler who basically said, if you don't think i can win, vote your conscience. they thought they had momentum in the ebola thing that you're talking about, it seems at the end to have given le page a boost. maine is a divided state in terms of the rural, northern maine. that's le page's base and southern maine which is more of a bedroom community to boston in a lot of cases. the surprise last nikt is how well le page did in southern maine. and it does seem -- and at the end, the ebola thing was working in his favor. we can quickly show you, massachusetts, as well. charlie baker, the republican winning in massachusetts. how did he do that last night? first of all, i should point out, we say it's such a shock, a republican winning in massachusetts, this becomes the fifth time in the last seven gubernatorial elections in massachusetts that the state's elected a republican. this becomes a common occurrence in massachusetts because a lot of times republica

the republicans elected a new governor in massachusetts, defeati defeating martha coakley.ryland nobody thought this was on the map even a week or so ago. larry hogan the republican with a convincing win over maryland's lieutenant governor anthony brown there, two blue states there and you move across and you look also out in michigan they held it, in ohio they held it. this is the president's home state. how many times did michelle obama go out to campaign for the democratic incumbent pat quinn. he loses and it's not even close, 51-46. so you look at the map and you have three big blue state pickups for the republicans, what democrats had hoped is the counter argument would be this is an anti-incumbent sentiment, but what happens? michigan's republican governor wins re-election, and comfortably. wisconsin's governor, this was a huge democratic target, scott walker wins and again, this race was close in the polls. scott walker wins convincingly. there are more and more, ohios, john kasich, rick scott hanging on. some prized pickups for the republicans, carol. they held thei

martha coakley has been an unsuccessful candidate twice. i don't see her running again. >> democrats picked up gubernatorial office in pennsylvania last night because the incumbent was tied to a sex abuse scandal. they won in rhode island, california, jerry brown has got a fourth term. >> jerry brown, he capped off his acceptance last night by saying now i got to wake up tomorrow and figure out what the heck you do with a fourth term. >> california is a very pretty goodive state. >> it elects democrats statewide. the republicans have not been since pete wilson able to get into the -- break the mold of democrats, the hold that they have. >> let's run the sound bite of jerry brown. >> i've already reviewed some of the more significant events of my second term and i'm committed to avoiding all those mistakes. i am not going to reveal them tonight. >> there he is, saying that look, i made mistakes but i'm not going to review them. easy funny and very glib. >> jerry brown is an institution, a dynasty there, pat brown was governor. it's a name pe

gop picked up governorships across the nation in massachusetts this hour, democratic candidate martha coakley is set to concede to republican charlie baker. the republicans also expanded their majority in the house. the map of the congressional districts now shows a sea of red. >> our candy crowley breaks down the red tide that swept america. >> reporter: it was both quicker and broader than they dared hope, so the grand old party was big will have time giddy over their big old victory. >> we are fixing to retake the senate and to retire harry reid as majority leader. [ cheers and applause ] i heard a rumor that there was a capital maintenance man headed to harry reid's office now with a screwdriver and a new sign for the door. >> reporter: from the great smokey mountains of north carolina -- >> we have swept this nation with a compelling senate majority. >> reporter: -- to the rockies in colorado and the farm fields of iowa. >> we are heading to washington and we are going to make them squeal! [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: republicans not only took control of the senate, they strength

and republican charlie baker beat democratic martha coakley in massachusetts. even the head of the democratic governor's association was not guaranteed success. in vermont, governor peter shumlin didn't clear the 50% mark. his race will be decided by legislature. the last time they selected a governor was 1853. according to our nbc news exit polls, three significant factors produced this republican wave. number one, anger towards the president at 44%. his job rating was down ten points from where he won re-election just two years ago. number two, clearly, was distrust of government. 54% of americans saying that government is doing too much, taking on things better left to business and individuals. and finally economic dissatisfaction. perceptions in the economy have improved only marginally in the eye, s of americans since the recession ended. with 74% saying the economy is simply not in good shape. so, what happens now? over the next two years as capitol hill and the white house seem to be at opposite ends of political spectrum. we meet the moderator of chuck

you may remember that martha coakley lost to scott brown who lost his own senate seat in neighboring governor has its first female governor as jena raimondo won 40% to 36%. and dan malloy the incumbent democratic governor is ahead 50.3% to tom foley's 48.7%. and in colorado, the race still to be decided where bob beauprez is now moving ahead 48% to governor john hickenlooper at 47.6%. all of the results on our website at c-span.org. and earlier in the evening, rince priebus the chair of the republican national committee spoke on capitol hill. >> well, good evening, everybody. obviously we're all here to talk about the midterm election and where we're at so far. this evening. i'm joined by senator moran and congressman walden from the nrsc and nrcc. we feel pretty good right now. it's been a good night so far. we are excited about cory gardner coming in and a lot of house races coming in. we feel like getting to six tonight is clearly -- clearly in the view. and we couldn't be happier with what's been happening around the country. we feel good about where our candidates were at. recru

and democrat martha coakley biting the dust in massachusetts.r and democrat ted strickland to look at the gubernatorial side of this. thank you, sir. first of all, i want to look at illinois, 122 years since the president lost his home state to an opposing party. how big of a blow is this to president obama? and what happened there? >> well, governor quinn in my judgment's a great man and a good governor. but, you know, let's just face it. democrats across the country in numerous races took a whipping last night. and we can't minimize that. it's serious, but we'll recover and we'll move on. and in terms of illinois, illinois had some really difficult problems that governor quinn addressed. and as a result of his addressing, you know, the pension problem and other problems, it made him a little more unpopular than he otherwise would have been. but maryland's a difficult one to explain, quite frankly. i think maybe, you know, the campaign that the democrat run there was, you know, an inferior campaign. massachusetts in the past has had a history o

martha coakley, she was a successful attorney general but lost two high-profile races in massachusetts, lost a kid -- ted kennedy is senate seat, now she lost again. karen answer to so many questions like whether illegal immigrants should get driver's licenses or build a casino in springfield to get saying i am open to it. she didn't really say anything. charlie baker came across, talking about his brother being a gay man living a married life in massachusetts, he didn't seem fran noon. the democratic messages were just these republicans are so awful, they cut education their extreme on social issues and the big stunning race is maryland's and again anthony brown was not an incumbent, he was lieutenant governor but he ran a kind of taking for granted incumbent campaign where he didn't have any positive message and didn't get his voters out and when you talk to the five biggest restrictions, baltimore city, baltimore county, montgomery, prince george county, those are all major population centers. he got 190,000 fewer votes from those five counties than o'malley got four years ago. some

martha coakley, right? she was a successful attorney general but these she's lost these two high-profile races. lost to ted kennedy in the senate race. her answers to so many questions whether illegal immigrants should get licenses, she kept saying, "i'm open to it. i'm open to it." she didn't really say anything. and then her opponent talked about his brother being a gay man living in massachusetts. he didn't seem threatening. some of the democratic messages, these republicans are so awful they cut education, they pr extreme on social issues. of course the big stunning race is maryland. again, anthony brown was not incumbent. he ran a kind of taking it for granted incumbent campaign. he didn't have any kind of positive message. he didn't get his voters out. if you look at baltimore city, altimore county, ann arundel, prince george's county, montgomery, he got 190,000 fewer votes from those five counties than o'malley got five years ago. some of the democrats were good on offense. malloy kept on his opponen

martha coakley lost again. >> she ran a terrible campaign. >> she's a really nice person.as we talked earlier about state senator from texas would lost. >> wendy davis. >> to see them brutalized for losing an election is morefully unfair. >> it's not unusual for republicans to win the -- >> i've always asked bill, why is everybody democratic in there? he go, because if he wasn't there, we would still go off the top of the dome. we need one person to keep us alive. >> the death of the former mayor of boston disrupted the campaign. martha coakley, she may have pulled it out. >> tom brokaw, thank you so much. >> thank you, tom. >> your phone didn't win. i'm disappointed. still ahead, steve schmidt, andrea mitchell join the conversation. kacie hunt bring us the never before seen moments. and later, monty python fame. join us on set. we'll be right back. >>> a lot of this is how they get to 2014, mitch mcconnell -- >> could that be me? >> no, it's something ambient. >> no, i'm afraid it is. the alarm goes off and there you go. >> i thought you were -- i thought you were a fire.

in massachusetts martha coakley has to be stunned this morning. that liberal state has turned to a republican to replace deval patrick. in a squeaker baker prevails in massachusetts. >> one of the number one targets in the united states governor-wise, the democrats with scott walker, they wanted to knock him off. they thought mary burke was the woman to do it. sorry, mary, scott walker a win today in wisconsin. in maryland, as you can see, this is stunning, larry hogan -- keep in mind the president of the united states about ten days ago went to stump for anthony brown at the event where people were walking out. larry hogan wins a very blue state of maryland. >> let's look at florida. this was a big race. it was charlie crist versus rick scott. rick scott beat him just barely beat out charlie crist, the republican turned democrat down there. voters rejecting the use of medical marijuana in that state. we'll be talking about that later. >> they needed 60 to pass it. governor rick scott trailing by three points as late as friday finds a way to win b

brown is the former senator from massachusetts who gained national fame when he bet democrat martha coakley in a special election. following that loss in massachusetts he moved north to new hampshire. bill: you talked to a lot of party leaders. how did they characterize this race on the last day? >> reporter: republican leaders feel scott brown has been a strong candidate for the state. >> i'm pretty sure scott is going to win unless there is a huge surprise on the democratic turnout. he has run a fantastic race. he talked about the concern voters have or obamacare and national security. he talked about isis and he talked about ebola. >> jeanne shaheen has been part of the new hampshire community for four decade. she served as governor and she raised her family here. the people of new hampshire know her and trust her. whatever scott brown has tried to do we don't think will be successful at all. >> we have some live pictures to show you of scott brown casting his ballot. just beginning to get started. we are expecting jeanne shaheen to cast her vote thissing morning. all the voters are the

for democrats, massachusetts, republican charlie baker wins the governors race over democrat martha coakleyt easy to do. it comes after eight years of democratic rule in massachusetts. under governor duvall patrick. >>> in wisconsin, republican scott walk certificate a name to watch. easily won re-election to a second term. double-digit margin over the democrat. this victory keeps him in the mix for a possible presidential run in 2016. why are we talking about? that's where we go next. the loan bright spot for democrats, businessman tom wolf, new governor of pennsylvania, defeats the incumbent republican tom corbett. still has the sandusky investigation hanging over his head. does no the get re-election. making negative history in that state. michaela has a look at some of the ballot referendums that brought voters to the polls. >> i find these interesting, these ballot initiatives, let's start with minimum wage historically a progressive cause embraced by conservatives, conservative-leaning states this election cycle. based on results that have come in so far. this is what cnn can report.

republican charlie baker defeating democrat martha coakley and win the governor's seat. governor's office back in republican control after eight years. coakley was beaten by governor scott brown during the 2010 special election. numbers were so close with that race, that baker did not cone seed last night but expected to do so shortly here in massachusetts. on to key battleground states, florida, republican governor rick scott won re-election in florida, narrowly taking that victory over republican turned democrat charlie crist. that race also a squeaker. just a percentage point between the two men. a big win in ohio last night for governor kasich. lots to look at across the country. those governors races interesting development. bill: molly thanks. molly line out of boston this morning. thank you, martha. martha: president obama will hold a news conference this afternoon. he will react to really the drubbing that democrats took across the country yesterday. we'll see what the president thinks about it and what he thinks about what happens next when we come back. (recept

we talked about marilyn, , martha coakley screwing up her second and presumably final bid. in pennsylvania with governor corbett, it goes to show how, we can lock from washington or anywhere. we can watch senate races, house races, and the dynamics in these races, there is some linkage across state lines, regions and things. i think we did pretty good at figuring out what is generally likely to happen. the governor races are so difficult because of indigenous, local issues. all aret know what they or how to weigh them. a lot of times governors, a new governor will come in and there will be some -- they will do some tough, unpopular things. the numbers go in the toilet, and then starts going back up and they get reelected. that happens a lot. sortith corbett, they just of went down and stay down. friends from pennsylvania say maybe it was the penn state hang. -- thing. thought he didn't do enough early enough as attorney general. outthe heck do you figure how much to weigh these things? i've gotten e-mails from the republican legislative leadership group. it was a really, re

strong message and the page by the way seemed so combative he tried toning it down quite a bit and martha coakley was a successful attorney general and walked into the high-profile races and the ted kennedy seat in the special and now she lost again. her answer to so many questions like whether illegal immigrants should get driver's licenses or build a casino, i am open to it. charlie baker came across and talked about his brother living in areas of life in massachusetts. he didn't seem threatening. these republicans were so awful they cut education. he was lieutenant governor, that he ran the taking for granted campaign where he didn't have any kind of positive message and he didn't get his voters out and if you look at the five biggest restrictions and prince george county they are major populations they got fewer votes from those five counties. some of the democrats kept at his opponent he doesn't care about you and pat quinn tried the same thing against bruce. he kept up in the game with that. was tenacious and smart about going after suburban counties. to make a big year for the candidates t

republican charlie baker he is claiming victory in a close race over democratic attorney general martha coakley. >> she wants to wait until the morning to see the final results. hey, that's fine. that's fine. in politics, in elections, every vo iteouelections, every vote counts. >> this morning, in connecticut, governor dan malloy is saying that he's claiming victory, but his opponent still has not conceded. also in colorado, that race way too close to call this morning between democratic governor and republican challenger. >> another high profile democratic, governor pat quinn also is not conceding defeat to his republican challenger in illinois. what's happening there? >> president obama's home state and governor pat quinn saying that he is not going to concede until all the votes are in, but not atypical of illinois politics, hard-nosed, hard-head politicians in the state of illinois in a very democratic state that has chosen to go gop this time around this mid term election in 2014. >> robert, thank you. >> we are hearing right now that senator mitch mcconnell is schedule would to speak thi

dramatic seeing her before hillary clinton in massachusetts kak pa massachusetts campaigning for martha coakley. it did not end great. one, i think the media primary. where we are all writing versions of who is up and who is down. i'm sorry that mitt romney is not running and i can't keep pretending that he is nor can i pretend that hillary clinton is more responsible or mitt romney is responsible for them and republicans won and democrats lot of. the entire debate shifted to the right and the thing i think will be a major issue and we haven't talked about it tonight is immigration. and you did see that play out in the primaries when it comes to the -- what paul describes as a big void that has weak written on it. that's the obama vessel as voters were treating it. you had a catch all of stuff. the border crisis and the weakened economy and ebola for a moment. you see a lot of those go sideways. and on immigration. i expect the president will do something on executive action that will please neither side of his own party. i think it will be where republicans stake out their ground. >> thank you

you also will have republicans winning in massachusetts, where charlie baker is favored against martha coakley. connecticut -- tom foley against malloy. we could spend a whole hour on this. number that are extraordinarily close, and we will have to see how they break tonight. from montrose, virginia, democrats line. caller: good morning. there is so much to talk about. my main thing is the political pundits that sit around on tv and badmouth the president, and then they have the radio talkshow hosts like rush limbaugh, mark live-in -- mark levine, that man savage. they still hate him, and they make profits. if you look at everything bad that ever happened to this country, it happened on the republicans' watch. think about it -- everything. assassinations. make aublicans try to big deal out of the four people that got killed in benghazi. -- 4000 people got killed right here in the united states. it is ridiculous. you have to be mentally challenged to vote republican. host: mr. gonzales, any take away from that? guest: i think partisanship in the media is a key point. it can be easy to blame the

you also will have republicans winning in massachusetts, where charlie baker is favored against martha coakleyconnecticut -- tom foley against malloy. we could spend a whole hour on this. number that are extraordinarily close, and we will have to see how they break tonight. from montrose, virginia, democrats line. caller: good morning. there is so much to talk about. my main thing is the political pundits that sit around on tv and badmouth the president, and then they have the radio talkshow hosts like rush limbaugh, mark live-in -- mark levine, that man savage. they still hate him, and they make profits. if you look at everything bad that ever happened to this country, it happened on the republicans' watch. think about it -- everything. assassinations. make aublicans try to big deal out of the four people that got killed in benghazi. -- 4000 people got killed right here in the united states. it is ridiculous. you have to be mentally challenged to vote republican. host: mr. gonzales, any take away from that? guest: i think partisanship in the media is a key point. it can be easy to blame the p

in massachusetts i might have some impact because i hope charlie baker can beat martha coakley. >> here'suote and i wonder whether you agree. it's that the gop heads into tuesday's balloting with a breeze but not a strong wind at its back. what do you think? it seems like things have started breaking -- >> i don't know any more than you all know. i love the joni ernst poll in iowa by the des moines register. but if the republicans don't win, we ought to get new pollsters. >> that would be a huge upset at this point if they don't take the senate. >> i've seen 95% somewhere. but i think both that they'll take the senate. but i think both t"the huffingtn post" and "new york times" are at 75%. that means it's at least 150% chances. >> i don't trust anything at this point. i was excited about romney and i missed by a mile. the get out and vote thing is so important. >> you know what's great -- i love mainstream media. i can't pick which one i like the best in terms of the networks. i love them all equally. the thing they keep telling me again and again and again and again is that people are ju

what by charlie e wind over martha coakley? >> i am an independent and parties in the past. sed the democrats even gave martha a second chance after disastrous campaign a few years ago against scott brown. shoot another horrible campaign here. i think she over d her incompetence kind of again. i'm shocked that she was able to stay in office for so long. but i think charlie baker one ran a calmer, cooler, collected campaign. i'm a young voter and i know that a people have gotten excited about his candidacy. he pretty well in boston as opposed to some of the more conservative parts of massachusetts, so i think it's massachusetts r if martha coakley would have it is a ould if disaster. >> thank you for the call john. about vious caller asked the minimum wage. here is how played out in alaska. --paula is pablo on the republican line. we have is that we have a republican governor who cannot work with the rest of the government and that is are not getting done. now we have a government coming in that is republican and today i want to say about new republicans coming in, i think we

god help you all. .ost: a quick question why did martha coakley lose in the governor's race?caller: well, i think the koch brothers came out and helped back it. plus, you also have the paper, the boston globe. committed crimes. money. and she's investigating him still. the woman is clean as far as i know. she did everything possible to help the american people. host: i'm going to move on. i appreciate your analysis. this is from laura, who talked about another surprise state, a blue state, maryland, where the lieutenant governor lost in his bid to succeed martin o'malley. laura says, anthony brown ran a terrible campaign and o'malley impose too many new taxes and fees. that's what happened in maryland. and this from the washington times -- here are a couple of quotes from her piece. have one races across the nation this week, they lost but a few. randy is joining us from millington, michigan. is election results, what the message to washington? caller: good morning. i would like to start by thanking you and all the folks behind the scenes for bringing up the -- bringing us th

chapman is running against martha coakley -- not against public, but , buty -- against coakley anyway -- i think you giant reset in this country in the way that it is going, in the way of some type of hope and future for the middle class, it has been estimated. decimated.ment -- you have government programs that push the middle class the other way. i want to see an upper middle-class, don't cut the rungs on the latter, give it to them so they can climb. i think we need change and a giant reset going forward, and bsity -- not talk and government figures that come , weand lie all the time need a government that won't lie to the people dream wouldn't that be great? how does your enthusiasm compared to the last midterm? i think people are fed up and have had enough of government lies, the theployment reports that the government tells you but people feel and know that it is a giant lie because they are living it. the government throws out false propaganda and people are like, are you kidding? i think we have had enough of this administration. i think we can get some good people in the sena

march martha coakley, another democratic loe iic loss in a bl.ill be reelectriced. ultimately he will pull it out. in idaho, no surprise here, the man with the best name in republican politics, butch otter will be re-elected the governor of idaho. the incumbent governor, 47% against scott milne. that will go to the democratic-controlled legislature to decide. he is ultimately ahead, and so probably he will be elected governor, but we have to wait and see what the legislature does. now, let's take in some of the vote counts coming in from dn kn. we are not making a projection. tom foley, the republican, just 6,908 votes ahead of the democrat incumbent governor dan malloy. in colorado, we're not making a projection. bob beauprez ahead of john hickenlooper. and 48% against the democrat and the independent elliott cutler. let's take a look at the maps, what's still outstanding in this country in terms of governor's races we have not called. we're still waiting for maine, vermont, colorado. so there's still a lot going on. anderson, i have to say, thi

neil: massachusets, first time since mitt romney has a republican governor, mar martha coakley lost ann she should have won, scott brown tea party candidate at the time. and today, in a race that was hers to lose she lost it, what do you think of that? >> well, you know this is also state that had governor weld, wom ni, and a -- romney, and a democratic congress they are a very independent. neil: you can minimize the bloody daa that democrats are having, i admire that. >> there are great shifts, and 2016 is another year, hillary clinton i believe will be heading the democratic ticket, there will be a different landscape, i think it will shift back, i believe it will. neil: thank you very much. jolene ha has been monitoring highway and why this is happening. >> it is late in east but poll are still open in la alaska. sullivan is challenges bas begi. he has said there are problem with the law and promised in ad last month to change parts of it, 63% of voter say that country headed in the wrong direction in alaska, and 31% say we're headed to right direct there. let's now flip over, look