and education reform and in particular those republican governors like scott walker in wisconsin, rick snyder in michigan, rick scott in florida, sam brownback in kansas, those who took big risks, they were rewarded for it at the polls. >> so what's the corbett of pent in a rout. why was he the exception? >> you didn't see with him the kind of achievements like in the other governors. walker a huge change in the size and power of government unions in that state. brownback big tax reform. >> that had results in wisconsin, collective bargaining reform delivered results in the sense it freed up local education budgets and reduced local property taxes or stopped the increase in property tax, which are a problem in wisconsin. it reduced teacher layoffs. >> i think this win, second win in a swing state with big reforms on the resume puts scott walker into that victory -- >> into that top tier of presidential candidates, real contenders jeb bush and rand paul in there and walker as well. >> even though corbett went down in pennsylvania, republicans gained seats in the state legislature in pennsylvan

education reform, and in particular those republican governors like scott walker in wisconsin and rick snydermichigan and sam brownback in kansas and those who took the big risks with were rewarded for it at the polls. >> and so what is the exception, james? republican exception here, and tom corbett of pennsylvania, he lost and in a rout. why was he the exception when the other republicans won? >> well, you didn't see with him the achievements that we are talking about with these other governors in terms of education reform, and huge change in the size of power of governments there. >> and that was in the collective bargaining reform, in that it freed up the education budgets, and stopped the increase in property taxes which are a problem in wisconsin, and reduced the teacher layoffs. >> yes, the win, second win in a swing state, and with big reforms on the resume puts scott walker into that top tier in four years. >> yes, into the top tier of the presidential candidates and real contenders with rand paul and jeb bush in, there you add walkerr as well. >> and even though corbett went down, t

you know, i don't think rick snyder needs to take a, you know, victory lap here because, first of allto receivership and bankruptcy and then appointing an undemocratically elected -- or nondemocratically unelected official suggests, again, there are tremendous consequences to this kind of arbitrary exercise of power. that being said, hopefully the people of detroit will begin now to dig out of the enormous rubble of their economic and fiscal, if you will, collapse. but the point is, it's not -- it's not enough to say, well, it was bad management over the last 20 years. no, this is the consequence of 30 and 40 years of denying legitimate opportunities to people locked inside of the city or people who were once vibrant in jobs, in manufacturing industries that have now fled. the shift from manufacturering to service industries have left them depleted. what kind of plan does the governor have, now the mayor, to address those gaping holes and figure out how people can make a living. >> is there a connection between what seems to be the disappearance of the union movement, its inability to

at a rally for rick snyder. christie has been crossing the country in campaign mode. michigan was the 16th state he visited in the last week. >> the republican governor association is a platform running for president later on. >>> in maryland, michelle obama was getting a last-minute boost against larry hogan. the first lady praised brown for work on education. she said the governor's race is close and take nothing for granted. >>> as the mid term unfolds, president obama is expected to be nowhere. no public events on his schedule. his sagging approval rating nationally and in key states is seeing candidates avoiding the president. whether that is affen effectivee will see. >> turnout is crucial. >> we have to avoid the election cliches like the plague. >>> voters in alaska, arkansas, nebraska, south dakota voting on a hike. those states are typically red states. it looks like those hikes will pass. illinois has a non binding vote on the ballot. san francisco already has a minimum wage above the federal level. it is $10.74 in san francisco. vote today is for $15 an ho

at a rally for rick snyder, christie says he has been transformational for michigan.aign mode across the country. michigan was the 16th state christie has campaigned for. >>> and first lady michelle obama was in baltimore at a rally for anthony brown. she says the governor's race is close. she told voters to take nothing for granted. >>> as critical as this mid term is, president obama is expected to be at home today. the president has no public events on his schedule. sagging approval ratings nationally and in key states have seen democratic candidates avoiding the president. where that is a campaign str strategy, we will soon know. >>> voters have contributed $6 billion this campaign cycle. more than a quarter from a slice of the population of 30,000 people. you may recognize former new york city mayor michael bloomberg who donated $12.2 million to democrats. then paul singer donated $5.3 million to republicans. >>> time for an early start on your money. u.s. stock futures are down this morning. john, they are close to record highs. oil prices falling. $77 a barrel.

rick snyder is doing well. it's a close race. but rick snyder will win.s turned michigan around. i think kasich is going to run away with it tonight. his opponent never really got out of the starting block. i think they're just local. but if you look at the senate races across the country, the candidates have done very poorly on the democrat side and they're linked to barack obama. his ratings and approval are all in the ditch. so is the country. that's why i think you're going to see a very big win among the republicans tonight up and down the ticket. >> i don't know if the country's in a ditch right now. the economy, at least the macro picture, as far as unemployment, job growth, stuff like that, seems to be doing okay. i don't know if people in the middle class and the poorer people are feeling those gains. but i don't think it's fair to say the country's in a ditch right now, is it? >> well, wolf, if you peel back the onion a little bit and the layers, what you'll find is the labor participation rate is at some decades-long high. i don't want to put a

overcame strong challenges, including wisconsin's scott walker, florida's rick scott and michigan's rick snyder. in one of the rare democratic upsets on tuesday, tom wolf is projected to have beaten incumbent pennsylvania republican governor tom corbett. republicans also picked up gubernatorial victories in the traditional blue states of massachusetts and illinois. the midterms saw nearly 150 ballot measures nationwide. voters in four traditionally conservative states approved initiatives that will raise the minimum wage in alaska, nebraska and south dakota and arkansas. voters in illinois also backed an increase to $10 an hour, although state lawmakers will have final say. in massachusetts, voters approved a landmark measure that will provide workers with the strongest paid sick leave requirements in the country, up to 40 hours per year. washington, d.c. passed a ballot measure to legalize marijuana, as did oregon. a medical marijuana initiative failed in florida. in a victory for abortion rights, voters in both colorado and north dakota have defeated personhood amendments which would have def

. >> in neighboring michigan rick snyder was re-elected to a second term. republican nathan deal beating jason carter to win a second term in georgia. and incumbent hall of fame pulling out a close win in maine's gubernatorial race. wendy davis lost to greg abbott by nearly 20 points. and the polls were wrong in kansas where sam brownback defeating democrat paul davis to win re-election. hour, there is no winner yet vermont. the legislator will decide the victor next year in january. >>> in alaska the race still too early to call. and still too close to call in colorado. and that is also how nbc is classifying the race between democratic daniel malloy and tom foley in connecticut. a lot to discuss. i want to bring in mark murray. it's great to have you here. you're out with a new piece this morning. it went up at 5:00 a.m. not only is it a wave but more of a right wing typhoon the democrats have to realize. what do you think the big talking strategies are going to be this morning? the republican? >> they're going feel that the anti-obama message worked for

in michigan governor rick snyder was re-elected to a second term. nathan deal beat jason carter. the grandson of former president jimmy carter to win a second term in georgia. in maine paul lepage. wendy davis lost to greg abbott losing by nearly 20 points. sam brownback to defy recent polls defeating paul davis. there's no winner as of yet in vermont. neither candidate reaching the 50% needed. the legislature will now decide the victor in jan january. in alaska the race is too early to call and too early to call in colorado. the same goes for connecticut and democratic governor dan mall loi and tom foley. i want to bring in mike allen a. i want to thank you for getting up early. we want to get to you, mike, fast. the big surprise of the night. your take away? >> no question that ed g gillis pea did so well. these results were more red than the most bullish republican might have told you or the most glum bearish democrat might have told you. the only res piet for democrats was democrats raced jeanne shaheen. when president obama comes out later today he's going strike a tone of a

that's a lot of them, people like scott walker in wisconsin, rick snyder in michigan, rick scott in florida, paula page in maine. they came in on a republican wave. so in a year that's not as favorable to republicans as 2010, there's a lot of democratic governors in peril as well. pat quinn in illinois. dan malloy in connecticut, who is in a very, very tight race, in connecticut, one of the bluest states in the country. so i think that is another symptom of just the mood -- the anti-incumbency mood, people not being satisfied that they have leadership and wanting to kick out whoever is in charge. gwen: well, there is so much to talk about come tuesday night. we'll all be sitting on the edge of our seats. whether people think it's going to affect their lives, these elections always give us an insight into where america is, not necessarily where the candidates are, but where americans are. that's always worth watching and voting, thank you, everybody of the we have to go now, but as always, the conversation will continue online on the "washington week" webcast extra, where we'll keep talking

education reformers like republican governors rick snyder.orgia, despite a huge, huge amount of spending against them prevailed. our next guest says the republicans successfully made a referendum on the republican. randi weingarten is the president of the 1.6 million american federation of teachers. i got to say, they didn't do nearly as good a job as the president himself. did you fall over when the president said my policies are on the ballot all across the country. >> look, i think what happened is, a, there's too much money involved. frankly -- lou: not if you win. >> i think there's too much involved in politics if you win or lose. you talked about $100 million on the intro. the amount of money spent here was about $4 billion. so, you know, think about what you could use that $4 billion for. but having said that, this election should have been about the economy. about how we would build the middle class. and, frankly, what happened was my party -- my party didn't talk about that. and, frankly, what you see, eye wrongically, like places i

the day after the judge has made his decision, michigan governor rick snyder talked to the media and said there is still a lot of work to do. >> i feel like downtown, midto midtown, riverfront, truly exciting things, but we do need continuing focus, we need to redouble our efforts on the neighborhoods to make detroit a place where detroit can raise their families, have their kids grow up and have their kids raise their families right there and have a better and better quality of life. >> there is certainly a sense of optimism drought detroit today. this bankrupt exit will be licht, or this bankruptcy will bbankruptcy will be lifted in the next couple of weeks. >> how soon will the city see improved city services. >> as part of the plan, the city wants to invest $1.4 billion to remove blight. as you know there are quite a few abandoned structures in the city, and they want to improve essential city services such as police and fire. there are some residents who are still upset that the city had to go through this process, but there are those who are hopeful, and they say they're alread

shortly afte after the judge wrapped up, the governor, rick snyder, addressed the media. >> if you goack to july of last year people had many different concerns and very few people believe we could see a successful conclusion in this time frame. it's here today. this is a day we should celebrate and enjoy. but it also marks a day that we have more work to be done. >> and there is a sense of optimism here in the city of detroit tonight. but there is still some residents who say, you know what, they strongly believe the city could have gone down a different path, but overall this bankruptcy, it's a done deal and it should officially lift in the next couple of weeks. >> how soon will the residents feel this and see an improvement in city services? >> that's a good question, tony. as part of this restructuring plan, the city plans to invest $1.4 million. this money will be used for blight removal and improve city services such as fire, police and transportation. this will be done over the course of 10 years, and i've talked again to a lot of residents who say it's only been a year since t

you elected a democratic senator and you reelected rick snyder. caller: yes. i was not surprised about the election. the republicans, the supreme court came down with this decision. this id stuff. i was not surprised. tot: you think it came down having an id or not and voter laws? you've got to have an id to cash her check. my daughter, she can cash my check. she is in college. she goes to school. she can go with a school id and cash my check, but she can't use that to vote. i wasn't really surprised. it is just pick on, pick on, pick on, pick on. when gas prices were sky high, that is all they talked about. do we want to go back when bush was about to run this country right off the map? because of the economic situation. they never say nothing about the deficit. it is not just republicans, it is democrats, too. the supreme court. every decision they decide for. you already know before it goes there. host: thanks for calling in. antonio in oklahoma city. democrat. antonio is gone. north to albany, minnesota. kevin, republican line. caller: hi. it is right smac

rick snyder won in michigan. scott walker won in wisconsin. they like governors to get things done. you're a governor who gets things done, the voters rewarded you. >> do you think it suggests the country is more right-leaning than some pundits would have people believe? >> well, i've always thought that. but i think more importantly there's such anxiety in the country about what's happened in washington and how things just haven't gotten done. and i think what we were doing with governors was rewarding the governors they believe got their job done and don't engage in the partisan bik eckering and uglin. but they work with people. people want to see things get done. they rewarded republican governors because they've been getting things done. >> it's the morning after the midterms. time to talk about 2016. >> yeah, don't even get to breathe, huh? >> no, we don't. it's time to set our sights forward on 2016. i know you get this question all the time. what is your timetable for when you're going to decide? >> sometime next year. there's no rush in making this kind of decision. i think

they said they were going to get rid of rick scott snyder spent $17 million last night. walker or rick snyder. they also said they were going to get rid of them. what it means is when republican governors do their job, they get reelected. >> currently we'veour leader, is a democrat, barak obama, and so everything seems to reflect back on him. one of the other exit questions was do you think things in this country are seriously off track? 65% said yes. 31% said generally going in the right direction. but when you have two-thirds of the country saying we are in the ditch and we need to get somebody else driving or point us in the right direction, that's good for your side. >> of course it is. and it's a reflection of the president's lack of leadership. his lack of leadership abroad, his lack of leadership at home. that's what it's a reflection of. the biggest emotion i saw, i went to 37 states was anxiety. i had one woman in florida say to me, governor, what's happened to our country? we used to control events. now events control us. that is directly reflective of the abso

scott walker being affirmed in wisconsin, rick snyder being n affirmed in michigan. these are folks that went about doing their jobs. that's what american people are so hungry for. i saw it when i traveled to 37 states. there's a lot of anxiety in the country. >> you actually had a tough map facing you. it's not like the democrats were we knew republicans were going to win, we didn't know how big. in the governors' races, it was an uphill battle. >> it certainly was. in nine of the states president obama had won them twice, so, you know, we went into it thinking if we have 26, 27 governors after the evening, not 31, 32 like we're going to have now -- >> we didn't see president obama campaign in many states. he did campaign in the state of maryland. michelle obama was there. that surprised everybody on election night. >> larry hogan ran a great race. they're rejecting marty o'malley and his lieu teenlt governor anthony brown who is a candidate of high taxes and big spending and big government in maryland. even in maryland, that got to be too much. that's quite an acco

because republicans like larry hogan, just elected governor of maryland, scott walker in wisconsin, rick snyderquality of the republican candidates has risen and they are able to articulate these things. more importantly the democrats had no plan b to what they have been doing. they could restructure the government and rationalize the costs to make it affordable. they won't do that. they are thrown back on the fact this will rollovers them. stuart: what a pleasure it is to entertain, while the positive. wall street journal, dan henninger, good to see you. the house vote on the keystone pipeline has been pushed back until tomorrow. why has it been pushed back to tomorrow? is there any significance? any doubt that it will pass? >> it is an issue of having the right debate and discussion. the american people can see the house of representatives is out of that. stuart: you are going to vote tomorrow, and go ahead and build that thing and the senate will vote and say the same thing and the two bills will be rationalized in committee and it will go to the president's desk and the president is hinting

a large part is because he governed in a different way than scott walker or tom corbett or rick snyder. it will tell you about the nature of the party that yesterday john said not only forget about repealing obamacare, but he said it's not just because politically it's infusible, but because we are talking about flesh and blood and people who benefitted from this. that's against the party message. he said i desperately want to repeal obamacare and it's horrible and he backed away from that. i think the idea that casic would take a position on immigration even though he has basically put health care and the expansion of medicaid in religious terms. we are trying to help people. the moral question comes up, that makes it more difficult. i think we are likely to see the stark differences between the parties that will motivate white voters in the south much more than elsewhere unless it's working class whites because the economy is deep in the ditch again. it's likely to turn generations of latino voters if you vote the same way three times in a row, that's it for a lifetime. moving in a d

rick scott in florida or paula paige in maine, or scott walker in wisconsin or rick snyder in michiganall states people said we could not defend and win. remember, of the 36 races, we were on defense 22. we're the opposite of the senate story. we were on defense 22 of 36. and nine of our states, president won twice. so -- and we won eight out of those nine last night. >> you worked with the president on issues including in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. if you were going give him advice, what to do? >> sit down with mitch mcconnell and john boehner and lay out an agenda you can agree on. there's no other way to do it. the president took a beating last night. and the fact is, you have to sit down, then, with the folks on the other side and say, okay, let's see what we can agree on together. and i think the president needs to lead. i have been urging him to do that for years. he needs to lead and work with these folks. >> the executive order on immigration, lifting some deportations on his own. >> the president should look to work with the new republican congress. the people elected a

john kasich, rick snyder, mike.making your way into the mountain west, go to the southwest and look at every place you go. except now for the pacific coast coast,t for the pacific republican governors in every region. with the national media should report is that the democratic party has become a regional party. the northeast and the pacific coast and that's it. and that is because of your effort. [applause] so thank you for helping us do that. >> now that i've noticed the governors sitting there don't have microphones -- there is a microphone. lepage was hiding it. dennis. one, congratulations to you new governors. we are excited to work with you. one of the exciting things for me is to hear the governors talking about competing with one another. that is so healthy for this country when every state does a little better. the competition among the states helps the country in a tremendous way. we look forward to the competition. and know that if you are coming to our state and is shooting fish in the barrel we need to

it helps people like christie, like case i can who you mentioned, like rick walker, conceivably rick snyder, bobby jindal. i still think, and rand paul is certainly trying to be kind of outside of washington while he is part of washington. but, i would think that, also, you know, it is not like the obama experience makes you think a senator who hasn't had executive experience runs very well as president or governs very well as a president. so i would think governors would be feeling pretty good. bill: two more points here. "washington post," big, long, article last night. as returns were still coming in. with the chief of staff for harry reid blaming president and white house for not cooperating during this election. they will have that debate. they will have that out. but on the democratic side, if you look where the clintons campaigned, hillary clinton in particular, there were a lot of losses and defeats on the board. what does she do now? and does someone like elizabeth warren get on the first plane to today mine this weekend? is this the point where warren makes a move? >> look, that's

to continue the policies and take on the policies of conservative republicans like scott walker, rick snyder, bruce rauner, rick scott, larry hogan, they went for the republican. rejection ofst a barack obama. it was an embrace of the values of conservative governing. they think what is really necessary is for the president to come down to capitol hill and look through harry reid's desk and figure out what of the 370 bills that are sitting there he is ready to work on. i don't believe it's incumbent on the republicans to suddenly capitulate on something the american people have been very loud and clear on that they are not buying what the president is selling and they are not buying what the democrats have been selling and i think to do anything otherwise would be wrong. >> to date, the republican party has not passed any immigration reform, partly because of the 2014 electric. expect ahead, can we action on immigration by the end of the year? what is your message to ?epublicans who won last night >> i think you have to take a few steps back. had republicans from marco rubio to rand paul tal

we bring in director of news along with rick snyder and steve liesman with me. great to see you. put the drop of oil already in context for us. it is a pretty big one in what happens in the months ahead. do you think as the one guest suggested that we are flushing things out here or is it the beginning? >> dennis did refer to it. the market is building up substantially in wti and building up more in brent. that gives you pretty big incentive to store. so future prices are out like one year or significantly higher than the current price in wti and brent. i think what might happen is you might get a little boost in demand for the short term as people look to buy oil and store it. that may moderate any kind of decline. when you look at the data for the first quarter, what the opec output is going to be versus demand for opec output if they were trying to keep things balanced it is out of whack. that is a big hit for the market to take. one analyst thought things might not get ugly until the second quarter. i don't know whether they will get ugly on the first quarter. that is an enor

rick snyder survived but he looked like he was in trouble on labor day because he went into the hibernation for the summer and wasn't advertising then he finally got back in the game and it's one of those where everybody thought he would win and then he looked like he would lose but came back into the game. in alaska it looks like he's going to lose. the playing field changed because the independent and the democrat formed the ticket. they thought it would be a three-way three way race and at the same time he got hit with this national guard scandal and he didn't have a quick enough defense. at that point they would define the opposition. in maine he had no program of the independent vote that they have a 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 bake

you know, i was thinking rick snyder survived but he looked like he was in trouble around labor day. he was kind of napping, went into hibernation for the summer. wasn't advertising. he got back in the game. it's one of those ones where everybody thought he would win and he didn't make any effort, then it looked like he would lose and he came back in the game. the republican governor in alaska looks like he'll use, sean parnell. republican in alaska. he thought he would win. he really didn't get his campaign going. then suddenly around labor day the playing field changed because the independent and the democrat formed this unity ticket. parnell thought it would be a three-way race and he'd win easily. that didn't happen. at the same time he got hit with a national guard scandal and didn't have a quick enough defense. by that time, the senate race in alaska was a $50 million race, in a state with so few people system of people were already saturated with ads. there wasn't a way for him to define his new opposition. mike michaud in maine, he sort of had no program really. he had the pr

and i was thinking rick snyder survived, but he looked like he was in trouble around labor day because he went into behinder makes for the summer, wasn't advertising and then he finally in the game. suddenly on labor day the whole playing feel changed because the independent and the democrat formed this unity ticket, you know, he thought would it be a race and would win easily and it didn't happen. and then there was the national guard scandal. and the senate race was a 15 million race in a state with so few people. so there wasn't a way for him at that point to define his new opposition. he hadchaud in maine, problem of the independent taking some of the anti-lepage vote, but didn't have a strong message. lepage, he softened his image, he knew he had a problem seemed so combative and he began toning it down. coakley, poor martha was ay, right, she successful attorney general but she's lost these two high profile races in massachusetts, ted kennedy senate seat in 2009 in the special and now she lost again. to so many questions, illegal immigrant should get drivers licenses or the casin

scott walker and rick snyder look like they may be slight favorites. they are running close races against the democratic counterparts. the battleground state of pennsylvania, a little short of a loss. it will be a democratic victory in pennsylvania. the illinois race is very resonating given how much money has been poured into the state. it is president obama's home state. president obama lost his senator seat in 2010 and he does not want to lose the governor seat. it to go either way. host: would you be willing to say who will win the florida governor race? is a national contest. i think charlie crist has a slight advantage. poor approval ratings and has been struggling to get above the 40% mark. the one thing about florida is that voters don't like either candidate. voters are becoming more undecided as election day comes closer. charlie chris has a slight advantage, but that will be close. host: back to the congressional politics. the house. how many seats pickup do you think will happen? guest: republicans are at a high water mark and the number of

were introduced to a lot of new republicans, scott walker in wisconsin, rick scott in florida, rick snyderin michigan and tom corbett in pennsylvania to name a few. yes, 2010 was all about fresh faces and wave elections. the thing about winning office is the next time you run, you're not the new kid anymore. you have a record to defend. tuesday's gubernatorial races are anything but certain. recent polls show wisconsin is a toss-up between scott walker and mary burke. >>> charlie crist has an edge on incumbent rick scott and rick schneider is vulnerable. most polls show tom corbett on the -- >> they're trying to correct mistakes. now i go to maine, maine. the state that sends centrist, pragmatic politicians like susan collins and angus king to the u.s. senate. maine, after 15 years of either an independent or a democratic governor, in 20 10, maine picked paul lepage in january of this year, politico called paul lepage "america's craziest governor." the material for that title began mounting soon after lepage took office when he declined an invite to the naacp to attend the martin luther ki

news conference just wrapping up with detroit mayor and michigan governor rick snyder who orchestratedly controversial bankruptcy plan here. here's governor snyder. >> if you go back to july of last year, people had many different concerns and very few people believed we could see a successful conclusion that alone a conclusion in this time frame. it's here today. >> reporter: and when's here today is a plan that could get detroit on solid financial footing for the first time in decades. we're talking -- for city improvements, restoring services and new development here downtown. and perhaps most crucial of all, a plan that shores up the city's pension plan with only modest cuts and keeps the art collection so prized by detroiters at the detroit institute of arts and creditors wanted it sold out and rescued. judge rhodes said that the settlement borders on the miraculous and that may be an understatement. kelly? >> all right. scott, thank you very much. there's more details on cnbc.com. with us now is the lead attorney for the city of detroit, david hyman and joining the information is

part of it is because he's governored in a different way than scott walker or tom corbett or even rick snyder, but it will tell you again something about the nature of the party that yesterday john kasich said not only forget about repealing obamacare, but he also said it's not just because politically it's infeasible. it's because we're talking about flesh and blood and real people who benefitted from this which was completely against the party message. so today what does he say? i desperately want to repeal obamacare. it's horrible. we really need to do it and he sort of backed away from that. the idea that kasich would take a position on immigration even though he has basically put health care and the expansion of medicaid, for example, in religious terms. we're trying to help people and the moral question does come up, that makes it a little more difficult. so i think we're likely to see stark differences between the parties and those stark differences between the parties will motivate white voters in the south much more than they will elsewhere unless it's working class whites because th

even arguably one of the most pro immigration governors in the country and that's because governor rick snydernderstands the economic opportunity and is often quoted saying immigrants make jobs, they don't take jobs. when you bring a new lens and just ask the question, what's in it for our economy, what's in it for our public systems you get to all kinds of new solutions. and the reality is that global detroit was founded upon bringing a lot of parties from the city to universities to health care systems to workforce development agencies to businesses together and sort of saying how do we create jobs, how do we poster growth? and so we end up working on issues like trying to create better language access in our city and we just completed a report of our detroit city council will convene its first immigration task force and completed kind of a rough planning document and the city announced itself as the 41st welcoming city in the welcoming cities and welcoming counties program county, which is home to the reagan democrats, working-class whites, union, catholic, fairly socially conservative coun

governor rick snyder really understands the economic opportunity and is often quoted as saying immigrants make jobs, they don't take jobs. so when you bring a new lens and just ask the question, what's in it for our economy? what's in it for our public systems? you get to all kinds of new solutions. and the reality is that global detroit was founded upon bringing a lot of parties from the city to universities to health care systems, to work force development agencies, to businesses together and saying how do we create jobs? how do we foster growth? and so we end up working on issues like trying to create better language access in our city and we just completed a report of our detroit city council immigration first task force and completed a rough planning document and the city announced itself as the 41st welcoming city in the welcoming america's welcoming cities and counties program. in mccomb county, home to the reagan democrats, working class, whites, union, catholic, fairly socially conservative county of little less than 1 million people, they created the one-mccomb initiative that r

then you have republican in the midwest -- walker, rick snyder -- who looks like they may be slight favoritesbut they are running very close races against their democratic counterparts. and in pennsylvania, he is all but assured of a loss. it looks like a democratic victory in that race. in the illinois race, that is how emely fascinating given much money has been poured into that race. lose the sn't want to governorship in his home state, but that raises extremely close could go either way. to say d you be willing who is going to in the florida race? i think charlie crist has a just because age, poor scott has very favorability ratings throughout his tenure. one thing about florida like either n't candidate -- it is one of those races like in kansas where more voters are becoming undecided. >> back to congressional -- the house -- how many seat pickups do think will happen? >> it will be a pretty good republican night. is a wave election -- if this was a nationalized election, there would only be picking up 20 seats. the good thing is that is not to be like 2010 when republicans won 63. be m

david perdue and governor rick snyder in michigan won.vote for them? >> i must tell you, bill clinton was making robos for the other candidates which is interesting, and they lost. it started really with mitt romney where he asked me to do five calls during the primaries. i did five calls on places where he was losing. he won every one of them and they forgot to ask me in the general election because i would have done very well in florida and other places, for whatever reason. scott brown was up and asking for contributions. and i gave him a contribution. i said, do you want know do a robo call for you and he goes okay -- that would be okay, but you don't have to bother. and guess what, he lost. >> the trump magic touch. >> i -- he lost by two points, i think it could have made a difference. but i only like to do them when they want them. i'm not going to convince anybody to do that. but i think he thought i might be too controversial or something. so he decided to lose. >> you had a big personal weekend, i know. it seems eric is now marr

rick snyder has been re-elected in michigan against his democratic challenger mark schauer.ng. cory gardner. wins in colorado unseats mark udall. i want to go right now to senator cory booker democrat from new jersey who was just re-elected in new jersey tonight. although he does not know if he will be in the minority or the majority when he goes back to washington. thank you for joipg us. >> good to be on rachel and chris. thanks for having me for a few moments. >> congratulations on your re-election tonight. it seems like it was never really in dougt. we were all pretty sure you were going to win. but as you look at the landscape right now for the united states senate what do you think is going to be different if the republicans do take control. what do you think democrats will be able to do under leader mitch mcconnell if that's how far it goes? >> we're going to have to find a way, on the issues that matter from immigration reform to corporate tax reform we've got to get some things done. and i'm going down there determined to fight, to find common ground and to move for

reelected governor of michigan, republican rick snyder.the governor a couple weeks ago, we were seeing polls that showed republicans in trouble in wisconsin, the race was closed. obviously, nobody saw the noise coming. i said last night it looked like the republicans won the big 10. >> it worked out great. support was strong from the sids. it's strong support across the political spectrum. we have been really reinventing michigan. recovery is going on. good things are going on. the same thing is happening in the mid-western states. >> chuck todd. >> governor spieder, some people have talked about you as somebody that might have annual big beyond the state of michigan. 2016, what do you think the parties should be thinking about? what type of candidate should the republicans be looking at when it comes to 2016? and are you one of them? >> i appreciate the question. right now, i'm excited to be reelected governor. the election is yesterday. there are so many great things to do in michigan. when you look at nationally, one of the big issues w

night who said a lot of republicans, incumbents were going to lose but rick scott won in florida, rick snydert walker won in withisis with. they like governors who get things done and you saw that across the country. if you're a governor who gets things done, the voters rewarded you. >> do you think it suggests that the country is more right leaning than some pundits would have people believe? >> well, i've always thought that, but i think more importantly there's such anxiety in the country about what's happened in washington, and how things just haven't gotten done, and i think what they were doing with governors was rewarding the governors they believe get their job done and don't engage in all this partisan bickering and ugliness but they worked together with their legislatures, whether they're the same party or a different party so the fact is that's what i think is really rewarding. people are so tired of the gridlock anding youiness in washington, they want to see things get done. i think they rewarded republican governors because they've been getting things done. >> so it's the mornin

we are projecting that, incumbent republican governor rick snyder will be re-elected in the state.ent, republican governor, brian sandoval will be re-elected in the state as well. some of the vote counts we have coming in from traditionally democratic blue states where republicans are in the lead. strew blue maryland. larry hogan, republican up over anthony brown. 54% to 45%. with 70% of the vote in. in connecticut. a true blue state. republican tom foley up 51% against democrating governor dan malloy. let's go out to maine if we can. where another blue state. republican paul lepage up 47%. a three-way race. democratic, 44%. independent, elliott cutler. 8%. do not have a run-off. and the one that wins the most votes. wins. beauprez up over hickenlooper. a wave democratic governors were facing. very difficult to find off this tide. look at the, the states where the yell where we are not making a projection. in hawaii, cannot make a projection. in idaho. and in oregon. back to you. and now we are going to go to wolf blitzer. back to you. >> thank you very much. jake. let's bring in a