beyond the u.s. elections, europe also brought fresh worries for investors with concerns in greece, and germany. here's how the numbers stacked up on wall street. the dow lost 312 points, at it's worst point of the day, the blue chip index was down 369 points. the nasdaq tumbled nearly 75 points and the s&p 500 off 33. suzanne pratt takes a look at where the market goes from here. >> reporter: let's be candid. this is not the election outcome that wall street wanted to see. after all many investors believe president obama's tax policies will hurt corporate profits. on top of that there's the likelihood of more regulation in the president's second term. coe os those concerns were evident in selling today of energy, banking and healthcare stocks. a quick look at the price board at the new york stock exchange is a good barometer for the worrywarts out there. wall street veteran teddy weissberg says many investors are just plain upset. >> there was an expectation that we would have some change and a change in the

romney actually won the election. the campaign did not wait. they presumably accidentally put it up, a transition website for president-elect romney, how to apply for a job with the new romney administration. looks like because they screen shot it before they finally did take it down, looks like the romney folks had a transition motto all ready to go, a slogan, repeated slogan on the website is smaller, simpler, smarter. when republican speaker of the house john boehner gave his first post election press conference what he thought should happen in this country given the results of the election almost like he thought he was speaking in the context of president-elect romney and smaller simpler smaller branded transition. >> by working together and creating a fairer simpler cleaner tax code, moving to fairer simpler system energized by a simpler cleaner fairer tax code -- >> simpler fairer simpler, john boehner at that press conference congratulated president obama for beating mitt romney said as a consequence of this election and to reflect the wi

in the last presidential election, almost half of the people who voted voted early. s really a problem. >> this is a problem and this is a problem not looking ahead to election day. it's a problem already in the way that it's affecting people who are trying to early vote. i feel like i'm not the dredge report and i'm not a website, but if i could put a siren over my head, i would. >> i'd wear one too. >> we'll have to get them. joy, it's great to have you here. thank you. >> thank you. >>> one more big story for you tonight about something that is essentially trying to be disappeared down the memory hole. this is that's refusing to go down the memory hole even though they are trying to shove it there. that's coming up. >>> a flurry of new polling from the swing states today. all these polls are just released today. in colorado president obama up by four. in iowa, president obama up by four. in wisconsin president obama up by seven points. in new hampshire the president leading in six points. in ohio president obama leading in three points. in virginia president obama

so, this was perhaps the biggest election involving social media. has the impact been overstated. >> i noted on the show before the disparity between barack obama and mitt romney were orders of making any tied like ten times. i was speculate go. who knows for sure because there is subculture a lot of the social media is fake and bots and groans. however, now we know we know that president obama took a two million vote lead and turned it into a lead of electoral college spread meaning he did a better job. >> jon: obama campaign sent out seven times as many tweets during the course of the campaign as the romney campaign. >> exactly. the economist mainstream magazine took that tweeted picture and made the cover showing the impact of the social media. the way it is picked up by mainstream media. 20% of the people that sent out those tweets set they had used it to try to influence their friends to vote a certain way. we have a double effect here. >> jon: perfect time to bring a pew stewed. voters 18-29 and 30-49, look at the numbers there. they have been

an estimated 6 billion dollars has been spent on the election. a look at what that money means for the results. forget party lines. why one trader says what really matters is the bottom line. and, why you may feel better about filling up your gas tank in the days ahead. first business starts now. you're watching first business: financial news, analysis, and today's investment ideas. good morning. it's tuesday, november 6th, election day 2012. in today's first look: muted market action on monday. stocks made modest gains while gold added $10 and edged up less than one dollar. gas gouging. disturbing reports are surfacing about people trying to profit on superstorm sandy by selling gas for as much as $20 per gallon including on craigslist. and finance ministers and central bankers of the g-20 are commiting to stregthen efforts to hold up the sluggish global economy. let's get the feeling from the trading floor with john brady of rj o'brien. happy election day to you. what do you anticipate will happen in market action? > > i think today will probabl

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once he gets this losing the election with mitt romney thing out of the way on tuesday. have seen this sort of leaking from one wing of a presidential ticket before, in 2008 with election day just a week away, conservative leaders apined to "the new york times" about what they wanted for sarah palin's future if/when she and john mccain were to win. if mccain loses she could emerge as a bearer. her prospects in and out of government are among conversations with conservative leaders. the aides insist winning this time around is her sole objective, but there are signs she is making sure she is well positioned for the future if she and mr. mccain lose. zen days before the '08 election it became clear whatever they were saying about how confident they were that they definitely were going to win, the plans republicans were making and the way they were positioning themselves, including to the press, indicated otherwise. that was october 28th, 2008. seven days before election day. now this past week it's anonymous paul ryan loyalists speculating about all the wonderful things pa

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he won the special election with 72% of the vote. elson, an at large counc councilmember filled in for five months. he took over as chairman after kwame brown pleaded guilty of theft and resigned in june. there will be a special election to fill mendelson's old seat on the council. >>> michael brown lost his seat on the d.c. council. an independent won. derrick ward spoke with him. he joins us live in northeast d.c. >> how are you, keith? we are in northeast. this is a neighborhood where dave lives. he will become the newest member of the d.c. council after being elected last night. in being elected, he unseated incumbent michael brown, an independent who already conceded his personal financial problems didn't help his chances of being reele reelected. as voters, look at the voting record. he was able to strike a resident cord with voters in the district. those who are reform minded. he now joins the council and the government who has their own share of issues, past and present. we spoke with him about how he feels he fits into the wh

a lot of people were worried it may impact the election. we were -- talking about how seven% of the population, they decided in who they were going to vote for. do you think sandy had any impact? >> it may have and this is the president at his finest. the moments where he was stand with the governor in new jersey, active anden caged and looking presidential. it was his best closing argument with how he handled the hurricane. since things have started to fall apart and the last couple days the reports have focused on the communities left out but as -- the timing of the election was falling, this was -- the best closing argument he could have had. >> we will keep you here all night. talk to you throughout the evening. really a very interesting race that's still way to close to call. razor thin margins. we will be back with a lot more after this. >> and as we leave you we want to show you arizona, its been called for romney. 57%, president's 43% in the state of arizona. travel advisories to small business loans. government car auctions to findi

a big external event imposing itself on the election in a way that distracts the country's attention, i don't think there's many things like this. because there's such a small sample size, do we know how these things are expected to affect an election? >> no, we don't know. the scale is totally different, but think back to 2000 when in the final days of the election you had the dui revelation about george w. bush. if you remember in that campaign, bush had actually been leading in the popular vote poll and had his electoral college problem then he ended up losing the popular vote and winning electoral college. there's a lot of -- the research that's been done has said the dui thing didn't have that much impact. it might have been the kind of thing in the last minute people who had kind of gone along with bush who had reservations about his maturity, maybe it brought that back in the final days. that's the only other one i can think of. no, we've never seen anything like this. >> in terms of what has happened since the onset of the storm, it was not just the storm arriving. it was the

that you will see the election not end the election. e for years after. the polarization in the country is somewhat frightening. i hope whoever wins, it's not close. >> it's stuck in my craw that major rich people like warren buffett are paying a lower rate than me and romney. i don't blame him for taking advantage of the tax code but it's fundamentally unfair. >> good tuesday morning. happy election day. we are live here at post 9 of the new york stock exchange with a check on the markets we were told this morning that the markets tend to be kind ahead of an election, even on election day. we are seeing a rally up 83 points on the dow. almost six points on the s&p. 5 points on the nasdaq. 79 cents for caremark raising guidance for the year citing an uptick in drugstore chain sales and next reporting better than expected earnings for the third quarter. revenues short. world's largest stock exchange operator citing weaker trading in the u.s. and europe. let's get to the road map for the next hour. on this election day 2012 former presiden

in the last presidential election, almost half of the people who voted voted early. roblem. >> this is a problem and this is a problem not looking ahead to election day. it's a problem already in the way that it's affecting people who are trying to early vote. i feel like i'm not the dredge report and i'm not a website, but if i could put a siren over my head, i would. >> i'd wear one too. >> we'll have to get them. joy, it's great to have you here. thank you. >> thank you. >>> one more big story for you tonight about something that is essentially trying to be disappeared down the memory hole. this is that's refusing to go down the memory hole even though they are trying to shove it there. that's coming up. [ male announcer ] kids grow up in no time... marie callender's turkey breast with stuffing is a great reason to slow down. creamy mash potatoes, homestyle gravy and 320 calories. marie callender's. it's time to savor. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll

get the news the mainstream missives without clothes election rage the two his election up close. and on t.v. dot com. usually the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but in atlanta they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately ms barbara lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction which she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and occupiers the thing is the cruel economic practices can affect us all even retired police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for and here the police have to do something about them but they shouldn't throw you out of your home that you've paid for for years just for getting cancer no one should have to live with the constant fear that their home will be taken away after years and years of payme

one day away from the election. the markets are looking timid. if they are not talking about hurricane sandy's, they are looking forward to tomorrow's election. something they have been looking forward to for some time. let's take a look at the dow, nasdaq and s&p. they have been pretty close to the unchanged line. the s&p and dow not too far off from the unchanged line. some names showing promise. hewlett-packard, chevron, pfizer and caterpillar. you talk about energy. we talk a lot about entergy. they came out with a quarterly profit of 46%. that was off. that was weaker demand. that is why you are seeing the down arrow there. cheryl: thank you very much. we will see you 40 minutes from now. the election may be just one day away. dan mcmahon, director of equity trading joining me now. dan, you are not buying this rucksack. >> i think it will remove a little bit of uncertainty. markets do not like uncertainty. >> i think that will be the case if mitt romney actually wins. the market will view that as a business friendly market. the fiscal cliff w

it's tradition that the winners of an election claim to have the american people on their side. but if this election is as close as the polls predict, there will be no mandate for either side. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: unless all those polls are wrong and tomorrow brings a big surprise one way or another, this election will be the remembered as one of the closest in history. it could also end with both parties convinced the folks back home don't want them to compromise on key issues like taxes and fairness and the size of government. >> there is going to be enough room for both sides to claim that they have the mantle from the american public or that nobody does and i think that hurts the issues on the fiscal cliff. >> reporter: if the president prevails tomorrow, he will be one of the only incumbents to win re-election with fewer votes than he got in his first campaign for the white house. if romney wins, it's possible democrats will keep control of the senate. either way, the winner's claim to a mandate will look very thin this year. and that will make it hard to move

at least they paid attention to the election. today bobby jindal scolded the entire party for the approach to the economy. hold it right there. this comment, he sewer sounds like a democrat. we've got to make sure that weren't the party of big business, big banks, big wall street bailouts, big corporate loophole, big anything. we cannot be, we must not be the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys. bobby, come on over to the good side, dude. you're talking like a conservative democrat. momentum is on the president's side. he just needs to know how motivated his allies are. the hard work didn't end last tuesday. democrats scored big, but they need to finish this game. the labor leaders who met with the president of the united states today made it very clear. they will stay engaged, and they will do whatever it takes to go to the public to tell the story. the campaign of last year is not over. >> we're united in a campaign throughout this country. >> we're going into another campaign. we won the election,

the "ed show." he'll be here with special election coverage. the rachel maddow show starts now. >> on a personal note, i want to say one thing about this crisis. as for myself and those of us who work here on this show, we have been very lucky and very blessed this week as this disaster has unfolded in the communities we all live in. everyone on our staff is safe. nobody has been injured. our families are okay. a lot of us have property damage. almost all of us have been living out of suitcases, but we are all safe and that's what's important. i want to thank everybody who has been asking, you're all nice. i want to show you one thing though. look at this video. this was taken this morning by our friend jessica rodriguez who is a producer on this show. most of these nights, she would be responsible for making sure this video made it on air, but today she was at home in new york on long island because this is the street where jessica lives. this is what her neighborhood looks like as of today. four days after the storm made landfall. she was at h

the day. unusual for an election day. nded during the commercial that it was in 2000 when george bush was elected we had no idea who was elected at that time. it was another month before the supreme court decided that one. just so we're clear for the record. more evidence we're in a risk-on mode today, price of oil very strong. this has been one of the leaders, a 3% gain. it was just on monday we were at 84.34. gold also in rally mode today. a gain of almost 2% or $33, well back above $1700. when you buy all that, you're selling treasuries. the ten-year note has gone up seven basis points today. we're at 1.75%. the fear is coming out of this market here. the vix today down 3.6%, almost 3.7%. we're at 1774, backing away from yellow flag territory. my friend warren myers on the floor of the stock exchange. what do you make of this rally on election day? >> i'll tell you, it's a little confusing. definitely it's risk-on. the commoditiecommodities, ener strong. one of the confusing issues, is i look at transportations. up very

>> i think the election changes that. it is pretty clear that the president was re-elected and obama care is the law of the land. >> that was boehner less than two weeks ago. it was pretty clear that mission repeal obama care had failed. the voters had spoken and obama care as speaker boehner said is the law of the land. republicans weren't super happy about that message. they thought boehner was getting a little squishy, giving up a fight. that election we just had. the one where voters re-elected the obama care guy, the one that had obama in his name, that was but a flesh wound. today boehner wrote an op-ed to the cincinnati inquirer which begins with, quote, president obama has won re-election but as was the case before the election, obama care has to go. if you read on in his op-ed, things get a little strange. boehner went on to share the big plan which is, quote, over the past couple of years i have noted there are essentially three major routes to repeal of the president's law. the courts, the presidential election

a week after the election. i'm ed schultz. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> i'm so happy you had her on. we'll be talking about that later on in this show too. and that t-shirt is one for the smithsonian. >> it certainly is. there's no doubt. >> thank you, ed. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. in his first press conference after being re-elected to a second term as president, then president ronald reagan was asked if he had anything to say to the people in the country who did not vote for him and who did not feel that they were part of the reagan revolution. he was also asked about nancy reagan falling down and bumping her head right before the election. he said that she had a tender lump on the side of her head, but that she would be fine. in president clinton's first press conference, after he was re-elected to a second term, the president started to answer a question about the role of first lady hillary clinton in the second clinton term, before he sort of diverted himself into ta

really the best place to track the election is with us. log on to abc2news.com for all the latest updates. as soon as the polls shut down at 8:00, we'll have the results, and have it for you right here on abc 2 and abc2news.com. >> and we're a lot more entertaining. >> yes, we are. >> here is what is coming up tonight on abc 2: >>> wow, there have been countless polls leading up to the election, and what would sway voters. this is a poll i would really like to be a part of. >> restaurants in d.c. are are trying to base the outcome of the election on what voters are eating. cupcakes and cookies are decorated for the election, and they have a tally goes on facebook. both places trying to compare their own polls with the actual election results. that could be fattening. >> that's right. right there. here we come. >> between that and the redskins, all kinds of predictions here. >> and 7-eleven, too. >> i'll tell you this much, guys, you still have 90 minutes to get out there and go vote real quick. weather still looks pretty good. it will get c

it didn't mean that he'll win the election. but if it just comes down to the economy, i think mitt romney has the edge. >> chris, do you want to respond to that and to the sense that maybe the average -- that romney goes over well with the average american? are you aichling more at the international business community? >> i think we're aiming at the community in the word, who we would think would be better. we're saying who he we think would best serve america and the world. so we need to look at the deficit, foreign policy, also opinions on social policy. >> one of the things that i found troubling about the economist's endorsement was they cited this stimuluses as a strength of the president. all the studies that have looked at the impact of this failed stimulus policy in my view is that it did very little to on have any sustaining impact on the u.s. economy. it largely funded more government spending. and that is fundamentally the problem with barack obama looks to government to solve problems and that is the fundamental choi

day influenced the election? don't know about that. i'm guessing on elections. i'm not an election near guy. but i do know it's patently unfair just to a good human being. the election, listen, i think this is where this country is at right now. you know, i don't know everybody else's political predlictions. yesterday some people think this was the day america has ever had. its proudest moment. i don't agree. i'm sorry. i know that's going to make me demonized. i know i'm going to be the object of revenge now. i'm not going to back off of it. i like a country where people bust their tukas. i think this country has gone a long way towards becoming more of a european model. i would say, once again, read the book amity slaz epps book the forgotten man. if you are out there right now making $45,000 a year busting your hump, being away from your family because it's in your hard drive to do the right thing, the right thing changed in this country yesterday. you can get close to that from the government. and i'm telling

voters outside the miami-dade election office after the county announced it would open its doors to provide and accept absentee ballots, but so many voters showed up and election officials were overwhelmed. they shut their doors and then decided to reopen. the democratic party sued to extend early voters after some were stuck in lines for hours. >> i'm a little upset about the lines, like five hours now. >> reporter: they are embracing for lots of problems on tuesday, especially in the battleground states. in ohio, experts say because of confusion over absentee ballot rules, more than 200,000 voters may be forced to cast provisional ballots that won't be counted until ten days after election day. >> there's a realistic chance that we will not know which candidate won the presidential election in ohio. >> reporter: another big wild card, citizen groups like true the vote that says it is training nearly a million poll watchers to be on the lookout for voter fraud. >> we will also be watching the poll watchers to make sure that they are not acting as bullies. >> reporter: meanwhile, hur

president was elected on the basis he was not romney and romney was a poopy head and you should elect romney. >> he said he won not on policy, but because democrats painted romney as a poopy head. desperate times call for desperate measures with the looming fiscal cliff. even bill crystal is calling for a serious call. tonight in our survey, i asked you will republicans in congress finally work for the american people? 28% said yes, so optimistic, 72% of you said no. i hate to see it, but i'm a 72%er tonight. >>> coming up the ceo of papa johns is complaining about the cost of obama care. you might believe just how much money this guy makes. sam stein of "the huffington post" is here with the latest. >>> the founder and ceo of papa johns says obama care is is so costly his employees will pay the price. papa johns ceo was a big time romney supporter and fundraiser. he says he's impartial to obama care, but his actions suggest otherwise. day after the election, he told a group of college students the affordable care act in his employee's hours being cut. it would cost his business. comp

a state the president didn't even have to win in order to win the election. ory about how and why they lost, the surprise urban turnout might make him feel better about what happened, but it doesn't explain why. okay. now it's time for round two. things people are saying about the election but it makes them feel better to say it any way. round two. mitt romney in 2012 versus john mccain in 2008. among liberals who are happy that mitt romney lost and among conservatives who are trying to say i told you so about the reasons mitt romney lost, there's been a fair amount of bipartisan anti-mitt romney glee over the idea that mr. romney received even fewer votes for president than john mccain did back in 2008. turns out that is not true. it may have looked like that on election night or on the day after the election. but millions of votes aren't counted right after the election. it takes days and even weeks after the election until you get all the vote in. the fact is that president obama did beat both of these candidates pretty easily. neither was a close election.

we'll have the latest on election 2012. the presidential race is in a dead heat, but one thing is certain, the election big winner this year-- the advertising industry. the two presidential campaigns, the political parties and their supporters have spent over $1 billion on advertising, funding more than one million ads. and if you think you've been bombarded with commercials, you're right. this year, there was a 40% jump in the number of ads versus the last presidential campaign. team obama spent nearly half a billion dollars on ads; for romney, $624 million. that's "nightly business report" for tuesday, november 6, election day. have a great evening. we'll see you online at nbr.com, and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions

the election was over. ne months later, a year later, we had a balanced budget agreement that created the children's health insurance program, doubled the size of our national parks and created middle class tax credits for sending their kids to college. this time given the voters have spoken, the president won the election with a middle class agenda with a pro growth economic strategy based on the middle class, it's incumbent the parties work together to avoid the fiscal issue but lay a path for economic growth. >> work closely with the speaker newt gingrich. do you think john boehner and you know john boehner, the speaker of the house, do you think he can do with this present what gingrich and clinton did back in the '90s after the president was re-elected? >> well, i do. i think it's essential that he also understand his own caucus and i think when the election is done, remember they were trying to defeat the president. that has failed. so it's incumbent upon them now to realize there's per i will avoiding

is here to answer that question and later if you think it's crazy that karl rove tried to steal the election this year only to be thwarted by anonymous and you haven't been paying attention for the last fifty years of american history i'll explain that i'd still be to. get the best of the rest of the news down in florida his eighteenth congressional district tea party congressman allen west finally conceded his house raised to democrat patrick murphy further improving the democrats' performance on election day over the weekend in california two republican congressman finally conceded their close races to democrats as well also democrats kept get a different seat in arizona and held on elsewhere around the country to pick up a handful of more seats in the house of representatives all together democrats picked up eight seats to narrow the republican majority heading into negotiations to resolve the so-called fiscal cliff so how do we the people keep pressure on newly empowered democrats in congress to you know act like democrats and protect the interests of working americans with this so-calle

charles wells to look back at the 2000 election result in florida and we'll discuss the history of close presidential elections with presidential historian richard norton smith p. -- smith. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--] >> from this location of fairfax high school in fairfax, pretty busy so far. closed at 7:00. florida closing at 8:00 tonight. ohio also closing later after that. the first tally of votes coming in from dixville knocks, new hampshire. -- knox, new hampshire. by the way, c-span's coverage of election day 2012 starts at 8:00 this evening with the interactive result on the house and governor's races. you can see a real-time display of the balance of powers. live video from both the obama and romney headquarters. plus, you can get reaction as well. again, join us tonight. we invite you to join us at 8:00 starting on c-span. listen to it on c-span radio. also tune into c-span.org for more information and other information concern

in wisconsin, the first woman elected to the senate and the first openly gay member anywhere elected aldwin defeated tommy thompson there 51% to 46%. she spoke to cnn earlier. >> what i would say in terms of crashing through that glass ceiling is, you know, if you're not in the room, the conversation is about you. if you're in the room, the conversation is with you. and that does transform things. but as i said last night, i didn't run to make history. i ran to make a difference. and my campaign was about the struggle of the middle class, retirement security for seniors, doing right by our veterans when they return home from war. that wisconsin selected me to face those challenges is historic, but i think it was much more about confronting the very significant challenges that our nation faces right now. >> that was senator elect tammy baldwin. she and tommy thompson raised more than $20 million combined in that race. >>> president obama can credit the latino vote for helping him win a second term. he captured 7 of every 10 hispanic voters. juan carlos lopez is following the story but

romney has momentum heading into the election day. so you shouldn't just look at the raw numbers, you should appreciate that there's momentum movement in the numbers that indicate that he's going to win. how do you assess that? >> today was emphatic proof that he does not have momentum. there were 19 polls released today in battleground states. and mitt romney led in zero of those polls. there were two ties and obama led in 17. that's not what we were seeing two weeks ago where romney pulled ahead in virginia and colorado and florida and had drawn ohio down to maybe a one-point lead for obama. if anything, obama has momentum. he was declared the winner by voters in the final two debates. i'm not sure how the hurricane is playing for him, but his numbers ticked up. that's why all these states that seem very toss up-y now seem like they're more firmly in the president's favor, at least in the polls. >> nate, let me just ask you, and i didn't warn you that i was going to ask you this so tell me if you don't want to answer it, but you have

good luck in the election. she's a candidate as well but she's not as worried about that. >> i was up there this week along with you. you can really see the town pulling together but a lot of people were wondering, you know, what are they going to do about voting. so how are they getting word out? >> i saw some councilmen going around in canoes and kayaks. >> reporter: as jennifer was telling us, they can use fax, i'm. i don't know exactly how that's going to work, but at least they're going to try. >> yeah. >> reporter: back to you. >> jim clancy for us in belmar. jim, thank you. >>> feminist icon gloria steinem says it could be lost tuesday night. the stakes and the victims next. >>> but first as we head down the home stretch of the presidential campaign, we wanted to look at the closest races in election history. we're not talking vote counts or parjs. just electoral votes since that's what decides presidential elections. here's our top four list. george w. bush and al gore. the closest race. the disputed flo