. >>> a big democrat, tom snyder, environmentalist, allegedly, some investments aren't necessarily environmentally friendly, anyway, spent $74 million on the mid-term elections and loftd resoundingly. in fact, the people he backed almost unequivocally lost across the board. thoughts or stiers $74 million and waste on global warming? >> well, he's entitled to that. listen, he made his money. it's his money. he can spend it however he wants to. even jonathan would agree with that. if he's made his money, wants to squander it, that's his business. how he spends it is his business and you can't automatically deny global warming or deny that it's -- >> thank you. >> a lot of evidence on both sides, and that question is still open. >> but it's not man-made. >> i promisesed you a punchline at the end of the segment. michelle, the punchline, call you michelle macfarlane. >> when does this happen? >> eric -- >> when did it happen? >> when i was in high school. quite young. >> leave it right there. >>> coming up, our "cashin' in" crew, view crew, asking the president and congress for one thing this holiday

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

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 defined fertilized eggs as human beings. but an anti-choice amendment in tennessee that would enable the state le

a large 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

introduced to a lot of new republicans, scott walker in wisconsin, rick scott in florida, rick snyder in michigan and tomcorbett 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 king day breakfast. th

rick snyder in michigan 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 tombett 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, the republicans gained seats in the state legislature, and that is incredible, and even in the blue states like maryland where the democrats control the legislature, the republicans picked

snyder. like a good football game, this one's going to go right down to the wire. >> thanks very much, jim sciutto, in kansas. another crucial senate race, iowa, where the seat of retiring democrat tom harkin is up for grabs. pamela brown is in des moines for us with more on this race. pamela? >> reporter: wolf, this race is so crucial because whoever wins the senate race could tip the balance of power in the senate. it's an extremely tight race, neck and neck and a record number of iowans have voted early this year, more than 400,000 iowans. democrats have a slight advantage over the republicans in early voting but not the kind of advantage that they want heading into tomorrow. they're up 7,000 early votes. but just to put it in perspective, in 2010, they had triple the number of early votes. so there's a last-minute push today to get more people, get more outstanding ballots, get more people to vote tomorrow as well. and look at the polls here. the polls paint two different pictures. there's a quinnipiac poll today showing the race in a deed het. a few days ago, joni ernst, the republican candidate, was shown up by seven points. as one political operative i spoke to here said, i d