it is hurting kentucky. i'm in this race to hopefully help give hard-working kentuckians fighting chance of actually earning a good wage and having a good quality of life, making sure that we grow the middle class, something that hasn't been a priority for senator mcconnell, whether you call him senator gridlock, senator no-show, our center shut down. >> we will talk about those issues tonight. senator mcconnell, what will convince kentucky burgers that you will not side with washington over kentucky issues, and that this race is not about your ascension to blocking the obama agenda, but you have kentucky issues first? >> let me just say my opponent has been most for time trying to deceive everybody about her own views. she has been a delegate to the 2008 and 2012 democratic conventions when some democrats chose not to go. congressman chandler didn't go to the convention in 2012. senator manchin didn't go. senator mccaskill didn't go. she has made major efforts to try to deceive the people of kentucky about

whitfield of kentucky. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 756, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. whitfield, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. whitfield: as i have said repeatedly, the intent of this bill is to ensure that when the e.p.a. issues new air quality standards, the agency provides timely guidance about how to comply with the new standards in the permitting process. now, at the hearings that we have had and in discussion -- individual discussion with other members, people have argued that section 3-b of this bill would prevent a state or local permitting authority that wanted to impose the new standards even in the absence of e.p.a. implementing regulations and guidance from doing so. that was not the intent of the bill, and this amendment clarifies that. so if you have a state like california or even delaware, which are two that i can think of, that would like to go on and impose the new standard without the guidance, th

health care is the issue in kentucky. if there was an example to the state of democrats, that they could have controlled, it was kentucky. connect has brought down the lel, the numbers of uninsured in the state. mitch mcconnell had his work cut out. they are first going against the health care law, trying to repeal obama care, and seeing the fact hey, it's working, i'm not going to dismantle it. it was a lost opportunity. alison lundergan grimes should have answered the question as to who she voted for in the 2012 election. >> is that part of it, the issue, alison lundergan grimes, she should have owned it, owned her vote if it was, in fact for president obama, and owned connect. >> absolutely, i think she owned connect, but did not hammer that issue enough. the challenge for her was, yes, the affordable care act, when you call it that, it's popular, when you call it kentucky connect, it's popular. when you call it obama care, which is what mitch mcconnell did over and over and over again. it is not popular. that was a ch

let's go to kentucky and georgia. first to joe johns in lexington, kentucky. joe, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, looking at what we've got right here, you can see a large crowd of people coming -- a large crowd of people coming into the lexington, kentucky precincts. they have the votes in these boxes. the most important thing here is this -- it is just a computer card. but we're told right now by the county folks, is that about 35 precincts have been counted so far and so far allison grimes is ahead, 58% to 40%. but this is allison grimes' home town and there are a lot of those that haven't been counted. back to you. >> and let's go to nick. >> reporter: this is the first step in the battol counting process. the poll workers were here getting ready for the process to happen. all 156 presyncs around gwinnett county will show up here and they'll start to get tabulated. we'll see them show up here around 8:00 p.m. and this is the georgia board election results and virtually in realtime we'll see the results show up and with the close senate race betwee

particularly western kentucky. the story goes that the gaseous diffusion plant was placed in paducah because of alben barkley. dottie barkley, granddaughter of the senator, explained how the plant was selected to be in paducah. granddaddy just muscled it through, she said. he was best friends with speaker of the house sam rayburn. most believe without barkley's leadership that has long-standing relationships, the plant would never have been selected to be placed in kentucky. other stories about barkley's hidden hand, assistance to kentucky, abound. in september, 1942, for example, barkley reportedly encourage the official location of fort campbell to be in kentucky. even though 2/3 of the installation was located in tennessee. barkley's influence apparently helped determine that the official location of fort campbell would be forever where the post office was, which just happened to be a few miles on our side of the border. although fort campbell straddles the kentucky and tennessee state line to this day, we in th

is this actually a thing kentucky republicans can do? how psyched will kentucky be to abolish its means so they can help one of those candidates who is apparently thinking about running but losing because he wants to have a back-up job for when he loses? joining us now is joe gerth. a political reporter for the journal in kentucky. how would this work, exactly. would republicans just be changing the presidential nomination system for themselves? or would they be changing it for the whole sing? >> i'm not sure if it can work, to be perfectly honest with you. just a little bit before i came on the air here, i looked up the state law. and the state law says that political parties shall state all their candidates by primary. >> it may be that they ooertsd just spit balling the way it's getting into the national political press imcreasing frequency about rand paul's political process. does it seem like to you that this is a technical matter? >> it is a problem, but, at the same time, there may be some work arounds. this has been some top of h

this is known all over kentucky. this is what i did. in 1977, february the 18th, i was sent here to this prison because the other prison system couldn't control me. >> another inmate with a notorious past is fleece johnson. released after 31 years at ksp, he returned in 2003 on parole violations. >> they had a lot of gangs in here. there was random stabbings and killings, and there was violence in here unheard of. but that was right up my alley, you know. >> fleece johnson held probably the reputation of being the most violent inmate in the state. he has been known to tear sinks off the wall, toilets from the floor. you name it, he's probably torn it up. >> the prison locks up inmates like fleece johnson in solitary confinement, known as the segregation cell or the hole. >> i stayed in segregation, solitary confinement, for 12 years. and a lot of the officers that i fought, some of them quit. i assaulted one of the officers one day. i put him in the hospital for 30 days in serious condition. almost killed him. they gave me 15 years for

kentucky's primary is very late in the year. if he would do that, he could run for senate, he could run for president and he wouldn't be harmed if he lost. the problem with that is kentucky also has a law that says if you're somehow disabled, incapacitated and can't finish out the election, then if you drop off the election, or off the ballot, your party can't replace you. so if you were to do that, candidates would be high and dry and unable to place him on the ballot. >> that's amazing. even if it worked the prospect that you have to run for president without running at home because home won't let you, i mean, it's been interesting to see the public's reaction to this. a poll conducted earlier this year by your newspaper on the subject showed that 66% of kentucky voters would oppose changing the state law to allow rand paul to run for both offices. are they not -- is that the ground conversation in kentucky about this? are people talking about it yet, or is it trivia at this point? >> i think it's more trivia at this point. th

a group of terrific history of kentucky coming out of confederate kentucky. and the dean of kentucky studies said kentucky waited to secede until after appomattox. cultural affiliation with the south. the terms of that and the oddty that a state where more people fought for the united states than for the confederacy only elected confederate officers to statewide office in elections of the 1860's and 1870's and in many ways until the end of the century is something that puzzled people for a long time. there are all kinds of different ways of connecting it especially to the problem, the association of emancipation with the northern war aim. kentuckyians were hemmed in. that is partly why lincoln waits to do the proclamation to make sure kentucky won't be in a position to create problems. and it is too late to fight for the confederacy. i think many people their sympathies start to shift to the confederacy. luke harlow has written a really interesting book just out which is about the role of religion in this and that oddty that along with these cultural affiliat

kentucky's interesting to watch. where is the momentum in this race tonight, amy? what are you watching? >> the momentum seems to be shifting to republicans especially in the last week and we're even seeing movement in state like georgia where it's been a very tight race. some new polls out suggesting republican david perdue may be opening a digger lead, getting closer to 50%, the the magic number you need to avoid runoff in that state. i still think it's close. you still see in the polling and talking to folks on the ground, the feeling is this momentum is moving now to republicans. >> ifill: what are you seeing? agree. i think judy's piece is excellent because it focused on a race where early on it was a candidate who wanted to nationalize and another who wanted to localize and the whole argument about alison lundergan grimes is no legislative record, candidate for change, good contrast with an older washington figure, somebody associated with congress and d.c. and, for a while, was running ahead of them. but as voters focused on the general election, they focuse

the gentleman from kentucky reserves. mr. whitfield: i would like to yield to the distinguished the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fits pat rick -- fitzpatrick, two minutes. mr. fitzpatrick: i have come to the floor in support of the keystone pipeline project asking for the senate and the white house to put politics aside in favor of this critical project. with bipartisan support, the house has passed eight separate pieces of legislation to clear the way for approval of the most studied pipeline in american history. each time these measures were blocked in the senate and condemned by a president crippled by indecision that would put tens of thousands of americans to work. i rise in support of the keystone pipeline, joining my parties, which would certify the secretary of state's final environmental impact statement from a year ago and put our country on independence. while the house has taken definitive action to advance this critical goal, the senate has waited until only politically advantageous to do so even though it ep

he has low voter rates here in kentucky. but those who are voting for allison grimes, they don't want to send mitch mcconnell back to what they see as a dysfunctional town. everyone is looking for change. a lot of people are casting ballots against someone. many are saying i'm intentional casting a ballot that is against president obama. and others are telling me i'm ready to ditch mitch. polls are an issue in kentucky but in louisville, it's really jobs and the economy, and what the future holds. healthcare is on the radar as well, but i got to tell you, tony, people are looking at big picture. they want to see something different. >> appreciate it. libby casey for us in louisville, kentucky. we'll closely be watching the results in kansas where pat roberts stands to lose his seat to greg orman who has not said which party he'll align himself with if he wins. vice president joe biden said that greg orman will caucus with the democrats if he wins the seat. has or rman responded to that? >> yes, the orman campaign sent out a

moving on to kentucky, i'll hold it up here, the grimes campaign in kentucky is complaining about this mailer from the republican party of kentucky, inside on the right of your screen is nothing unusual, it's a letter that says allison grimes is lying, and saying things about mitch mcconnell aren't true. that on the right is nothing interesting. on the nfl says "election violence notice" and talks about if you disrupt the mail it's a federal crime. what does that have to do with an election on tuesday? the democrats in kentucky are complaining this was sent predominantly to african-american households in kentucky trying to scare people from voting. is this politics as usual, below the belt, maybe both? >> a little bit of both. certainly both of those things apply to most of mitch mcconnells complaints. the democrats filed suit in jefferson county, louisville, where democrats, accusing them of doing something sinister, voter suppression but that is the same mail vendor mcconnell used in the primary and dropped some piece that was similar to that against matt bevin, it was yellow, ominou

we began our show in kentucky. phillip bailey is a freelance journalist in louisville, a former political editor at the local npr affiliate radio station wfpl. this extremely significant race, not only for kentucky, but for the nation since the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, could now become the senate majority leader if republicans decide to choose him. talk about this race, phillip bailey. >> this is what mitch mcconnell has always wanted. the coveted position since he was first elected back in 1984 was to be senate majority leader. he has all but guaranteed to get position. there seems to be no one else who wants the job that republicans are galvanizing around, even though a few say they don't want to vote for mcconnell. can almost assure he will be sit majority leader. during this campaign, reporters who were not clear on asking the senator what the agenda was, if you took over the senate, mcconnell would say, well, i don't want to show my hand too early, let's not measure the drapes. we're interested

west virginia, kentucky, and arkansas. and you would think in all these states, the law is working as it's intended to. it's getting lots of people health insurance. it's reducing the uninsured rate, and it produced no tangible political benefits to the democratic party it, it seems. >> well, i think the problem is the democrats haven't tried to claim it. you know, i did some clicking around and certainly it's not my area and i don't follow politics that closely, but if you look at allison grimes, the democratic candidate for the senate's website in kentucky, you wouldn't find anything about obamacare. however put. i mean, she wasn't willing to say, look, you know, we, the democrats over the complete opposition of the republican party, they put through a program that's giving hundreds of thousands of people in the state of kentucky insurance and also providing these other benefits, including if you lose your job now in kentucky. and you had health insurance through your job, now you can get it through kentucky kinect. you

the senator from kentucky who will be the majority leader but has not left his partisanship in kentucky because you just saw it on display here, he can't help himself. i mean, he cannot speak for three minutes without mentioning the president. he had his back turned the whole time. would not even acknowledge anyone over here. he does a lot of talking about bipartisanship. but his statement just yesterday was i'm confident dr. cassidy will use his position to succeed where senator landrieu failed. i don't necessarily think this is failure to get a vote on the keystone pipeline. i think this is a great victory, and i want to share this victory with senator hoeven who is a leader. i also want to put into the record the senator from kentucky had a lot to say about everybody else not doing their job. i want to just say that on at least one occasion, he didn't do his either. on march 16, there were -- there were 15 senators march 16 in 2011. not 2012. not 2014. not 2013. not 2012, but 2011. i think that's before you were here. you weren't even here, the senator that's presiding. on march 16,

kentucky has given my husband mitch mcconnell, so much and kentucky has placed its trust in him for so many years. and mitch feels the weight of that responsibility every single day. your trust humbles him. take it from the kentucky women who knows mitch mcconnell the best, it motivates him, and he's going to make you so proud over the next six years. [cheers and applause] >> and if mitch is given the chance to lead the united states senate, he is going to make our country proud as well. and now, i hope that you'll enjoy this video about mitch. thanks so much again. ♪ >> we know a few things about horseracing. >> at churchill downs. >> endurance, tradition. commitment. >> as the mcconnell campaign looks at that video, we expect to hear from mitch mcconnell shortly. here's some of the results called shortly after 7:00 eastern time where senator mitch mcconnell easily defeating alison grimes with 56% of the vote compared to 41% for the democratic secretary of state. in michigan, keeping an eye on the race where the democrats hope to hold on, right now gary peters the democrat, 54 exerc

now you can get through kentucky kinect. you wouldn't know that. >> i think the question is does the policy out, which is to say if these benefits are durable enough, do they come to obamacare or does it sort of seep into the background and there is never a political benefit realized? >> michael jordan trash talks the president. the president trash talks back. equally enjoyable. plus, your guide to the man named james moin tanhoff. the republican probably will be the new head of senate environment works committee. he has the view that i think you're supposed to call eccentric when you're senator, but you would call paranoid and daft if it were anyone else. that's all coming up. g?góéj÷ç÷ç >>> you said in the rose garden, the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous dem stralgs. is that what you're saying? >> please proceed. >> get the transcript. >> he did, in fact, sir. so let me call it an act of terror. >> can you say that a little louder? >> he did call it an act of terror. >> all tal

kentucky needs mcconnell. that was a line that he rolled out for the first time at the fancy farm festival in southwestern kentucky back in early august. and he just beat it into the ground over and over again. and in so many parts of kentucky, president obama is really unpopular. the coal country in eastern kentucky, which has been ravaged by thousands and thousands of job losses, mcconnell is winning by margins that he's never won before there, and he's winning some counties that he has never won before because those are really old, old, democratic counties and the sort of last part of the south that really hadn't flipped, well, those counties flipped tonight and largely because mcconnell ran against obama. >> sreenivasan: so was he able to make that case that there is this opportunity here, if the republicans take the senate, that one of the most powerful people in all of washington would be from kentucky? >> yeah. that was the other thing that he really did. democrats like to say that the last three or fou

. >> tonight kentucky said we can do better as a nation. tonight they said we can have real change in washington, real change. >> i'm not president obama. i disagree with him. >> with a price tag of $4 billion, this was the most expensive midterm election ever. it was also seen as a verdict on president obama with his approval rating at a record low. many of his own party distance add themselves from him. even that didn't help democrats on the night. >> 12 years ago the people of arkansas gave me the greatest privilege of my life to represent them in the united states senate. those years were filled with some hardships and some difficult decisions. two wars, the most severe economic downturn in my lifetime, and an exploding national debt. >> as well as deciding which politicians will turn up to work, these elections determine what policies are passed in the next two years. it's been tough for president obama to back key reforms. it looks like his final years in office and the chance for him to shape his legacy will be even tougher. bbc news

we saw it in louisiana and in kentucky. this is what the president is doing with his day, trying to help the folks he can behind the scenes and on radio, but not right out in front of the camera. >> athena, thanks very much. do the democrats have any leverage to make a last-minute appeal to voters? let's bring in new york congressman, steve israel. among his jobs is to get democrats elected to the house of representatives. thanks for joining us. you expect any last-minute surprises tonight or does it look like the democrats aren't going to do well in the senate, certainly not going to regain the majority in the house of representatives? >> i do expect some surprises. it's very uncertain and turbulent. but the takeaway from this cycle, where we are now, only a few hours away from the polls closing. and still we have 20 districts that are too close to call. >> in the house? >> in the house. not one single democratic incumbent is down and out, in contrast to 2010 where most of our democratic incumbents were down and out in lat

renee shaw of kentucky educational television joins us from lexington. so the big story, the big race that everyone in the country seems to be focused on is between mitch mcconnell and alison lundergan grimes. what was that race like today? >> reporter: well, they have been doing the ground game, as you say, these last 72 hours, hari. they have been out, both of them, in force. there has been a flyer round with the junior senator from kentucky, rand paul. of course, secretary grimes hases had president clinton in and also hillary rodham clinton in on her behalf. it's been a busy last 72 hours. i think mcconnell says his folkfolks have knocked on theire millionth door, and secretary grimes has been going around the state by the dozens in the last few hours. >> sreenivasan: is it all paying off? where do the polls have the candidates standing tonight? >> well, latest polls show that mcconnell was easing away, that he was enjoying a lead. now, it was within with the statistical margin of error, and one poll, the survey u.s.a. poll. but others show him enjoy

he's a republican senator from kentucky. if mitch mcconnell wins his slugfest in kentucky and the g.o.p. romps home to victory, he'll be the leader of the republican majority. peter cook went to mcconnell's hometown of louisville, kentucky, for a look at the man who might be king. >> where is his plan? >> to democrats, mitch mcconnell is gridlock personified, the lawmaker single-handedly standing in the way of the obama agenda. >> the top political policy should be to deny president obama a second term. >> to some conservatives, mcconnell is a sellout, a established republican still too willing to cut deals with democrats. >> we're certainly not going to send a signal to the markets and to the american people that default is an option. >> but even mcconnell's critics concede he's a master political strategist, a survivor, now poised to become majority leader if republicans can gain a net of six seats in the senate and if he can overcome a spirited challenge from a democrat less than half his age. >> he's a senator that's out

almost 1 in 4 african-americans in kentucky cannot vote. it's not an unheard of idea in kentucky you might be violating some kind of election law. >> there's already this sort of pre-existing notion that it might be illegal for you to vote if you have been convicted of certain crimes. and then you put -- to me, what is sort of the congressman used the word despicable. what is gross about this mailer is the font and the citing of statute. you can send out a total hit job as alison lundergan grimes and it wouldn't raise an eyebrow. >> it cited a statute about tampering with the mail that cited six months in prison that is particularly terrifying and the fact it's in the context that grimes needs african-american voters to win. it's already an issue that so many african-american votes are counted out by these felon disenfranchisement laws which she opposes. it creates an environment of fear. >> is the law with them on this? >> i talked to one law expert so far and she thinks the judges are highly reluctant to give temporary restraining orders

in kentucky the house is still held by democrats. kentucky state law right now says you can't run for two federal offices at the same time. rand paul was first elected to the senate in 2010, that means his seat will be up in 2016. 2016 is also the year he wants to run for another federal office. he also wants to run for president of the united states. under kentucky law, he cannot do both. can't run for both at once. the democrats in charge of the kentucky state house have said they have no intention of changing that state law just so rand paul can have the job security of keeping his senate seat while he also runs for president. republicans thought they would win that last state legislative chamber in the house they thought they would take the kentucky house away from the democrats. they want to do that for a million reasons. but rand paul needs them to take the house. but last night the kentucky house stayed democratic. part of the makeup was unchanged overall in last night's elections. the democrats are still in charge of that cha

eastern, and again kentucky will be among the first results of the night. now the reason the odds favor republicans is because democrats are having to defend far more seats. take a look at the map, you can see in blue, the seats that democrats are trying to hold on to tonight, and in red, you can see the senate seats that republicans are defending. so take control, they need a net gain of six, but we have already identified three races are the republicans should coast tonight, so really the magic number should very quickly go down from six to three all right, governors races you looking at key ones there? >> the great one to watch will be 8:00 o'clock the most expensive race in history. also perhaps the nastiest race in the gubernatorial season, then you also have illinois, and an incumbent governor who is in trouble you have a governor who is in trouble in pennsylvania, and keep in mind, that if there are probably 11 governors tonight who are in danger of losing their job. if just half of them, if just five lose of the election tonight, that will be the bi

in kentucky the house is still held by democrats. kentucky state law right now says you can't run for two federal offices at the same time. rand paul was first elected to the senate in 2010, that means his seat will be up in 2016. 2016 is also the year he wants to run for another federal office. he also wants to run for president of the united states. under kentucky law, he cannot do both. can't run for both at once. the democrats in charge of the kentucky state house have said they have no intention of changing that state law just so rand paul can have the job security of keeping his senate seat while he also runs for president. republicans thought they would win that last state legislative chamber in the house they thought they would take the kentucky house away from the democrats. they want to do that fr a million reasons. but rand paul needs them to take the house. but last night the kentucky house stayed democratic. part of the makeup was unchanged overall in last night's elections. the democrats are still in charge of that cham

now you can get through kentucky kinect. you wouldn't know that. >> i think the question is does the policy out, which is to say if these benefits are durable enough, do they come to obamacare or does it sort of seep into the background and there is never a political benefit realized? >> michael jordan trash talks the president. the president trash talks back. equally enjoyable. plus, your guide to the man named james moin tanhoff. the republican probably will be the new head of senate environment works committee. he has the view that i think you're supposed to call eccentric when you're senator, but you would call paranoid and daft if it were anyone else. that's all coming up. king system will get you to the loading dock. ♪ there should be a truck leaving now. i got it. now jump off the bridge. what? in 3...2...1... are you kidding me? go. right on time. right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably. we call that predictable. thrillingly predictable. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you're

she's the secretary of state here in kentucky. and both of them giving it their all here this last day of campaigning. seven events today for mitch mcconnell, nine for grimes who just last night gave us a glimpse of just how tough a battle this has been. >> you are the messenger that mitch mcconnell can't buy. he can buy the air waves but not the hearts and minds of each and every one of you. you know that after three decades of mitch mcconnell, we deserve better. we're coming down the home stretch. and let me tell you, this strong, independent kentucky woman, i've got kick left still in me. i'm not giving up. >> reporter: of course, though, jake, this is not over until all of the ballots are counted. this is a tough political environment for democrats but it's also tough for incumbents and kentuckians first voted to send mitch mcconnell to washington all the way back in 1984. >> 1984. brianna keilar. let's go to suzanne malveaux who's live in her hometown of new orleans. suzanne, in louisiana, this is one of the races that could

also, kentucky governor. between the crack down and welcoming of the mary jane, he's come under criticism. actually, michelle malkin had a film on how democrats had a plan to turn colorado moo a blue state. and this worked on up. not according to plan. >> no. >> marijuana passed. connecticut governor. take a look at this race, also a dead heat. 49%. republican tom foley with a slight lead. but dodged. 62% in. another governor's race could go down to the wire. you could have colorado and connecticut adding to this list. >> and i'm aflad to take a look. >> i am, too. >> this is just partners oor they really? >> yes. >> we're going to go on this way. so we're doing it. republican party. mish mcconnell said we've got to make obama a one-term president. so what should the republican majority now they control the house and senate what should they do? >> there have been three arguments laid out. one is go big or go small? there is a consensus, go big. should it be comprised? that is a false choice. what republicans

. >> tonight kentucky said we can do better as a nation. tonight they said we can have real change in washington. real change. >>> i'm not barack obama. >> with a price tag of $4 billion, this was the most expensive midterm election ever. it was seen as a verdict on president obama. with approval ratings at a record low, many of his own party distanced themselves from him. even that didn't help democrats. >> 12 years ago people of arkansas gave me the greatest privilege of my life to represent the senate. those years were filled with hardships and difficult decisions. two wars, most severe economic downturn in my lifetime, and exploding national debt. >> as far as ziegd which politicians will turn up to work here, these elections determine what a policies are passed in the next two years. it's already been tough for president obama to get congress to back some of his key reforms. looks like his final years in office and chance to shape his legacy will be even tougher. bbc news at capitol hill in washington. >> here are the big winners indiv

>> carol, this cafe is in lexington, kentucky. we came here to talk to people about what they're thinking and saying after reelecting mitch mcconnell to another term. he, of course, stands to become the next majority leader. important also to say that lexington, kentucky, is the home of allison lundergan grimes who happens to be the person who runs against mcconnell in that election. she was just here in this cafe yesterday. reactions from people we talked to sort of track with the polling. a lot of people telling cnn here today that the thing that put mcconnell over the top was his experience and political skill in washington. listen. why do you think people voted the way they did in kentucky? >> because he's been senator for 30 years and he's like i can do a lot more for the community, lexington, kentucky, and -- >> and a new person could snot. >> right. >> are you glad to see it over one way or the other, though? >> yes, i am. >> why is that? >> because i've had enough. a year is too long for all of this. >> it is election time

bbc news, kentucky. >> other critical state tomorrow night will be iowa. i spoke to the bbc a short time ago. >> there you are in the middle of the agriculture heartland of america. is it too much to say iowa could decide whether it's republicans or democrats who control the enate? >> all of the opinion polls are saying it's neck and neck and it will be an extraordinary race. it's for a senate seat that has been occupied for the last 30 years. and i glue up castrating on an iowa farm. she did turn around this race. she got a lot of people thinking about values. she doesn't talk about policies. a lot things that she's got quite uncomfortable views. with that type of campaign, she's won over a lot of voters here as we say in rural iowa. there have been mistakes from the democrats -- democratic candidate bruce fraley, who comes from this area in brooklyn where i am now. but another er farm land animal that could have been done in for him. big news across iowa he complained about his neighbor's chickens, not directly to his ighbor but made a formal complaint a

it >> we have new video in the state of kentucky. the senate race there has been a spirited contest to say the least. alisyn grimes running hard to unseat mitch mcconnell. and chief correspondent is live forinous louisville. hour things looking? >> turn out of 60 percent or more here in kentucky that would be close to records. >> reporter: it is certainly more than was anticipated. hundred million plus was spent here. and mitch mcconnell the current seen the minority leader went to vote in louisville. and he was accompanied by his wife. listen. we are going to have a good day here in kentucky and hopefully around the country. >> i home we have a new majority and take america in a different direction. >> reporter: the capitol hill, first vote they cast who will be the leader of both parties. and he would be the leader. and alisyn grimes who has been challenging and chasing him all year long in a competitive race. there is a certain respect between the rivals for the candidates and she cast a vote for herself in lexington, kentucky and

the latest polls gives kentucky, georgia, and louisiana a boost. with so much at stake and so close, everyone brought out the surrogates. among those, bill and hillary clinton and new jersey governor chris christie. joe biden had a weekend swing through florida for gubernatorial candidate charlie crist. biden has been showing confidence that democrats will remain in power after tomorrow. gloria borger sat down with the vice president and ask why he's so confident that his party can defy the odd makers? >> first of all, i don't agree with the odd makers. i predict we're going to be in 67 races all told and i don't get the feeling that the odds makers are given. >> but what if that were to be the case? >> i don't think it will change anything in terms of what we're about. we know we have to get done the last two years and, quite frankly, going into 2016, the republicans have to make a decision whether they are in control or not in control or they are going to begin for things to happen or become obstructionists and i think they are going to choose to

look at kentucky. president obama two-thirds of the voters in kentucky had a negative view, did not like president obama. that was an enormous headwind for alison grimes. we were wondering why she refused to say she voted for president obama, that's why. even though people don't like congress and mitch mcconnell, the incumbent republican leader and potentially if the republicans take over the next majority leader, even though 52% of the people on the exit poll said that they didn't like him and they don't like congress, he was able to overcome that because obama was such a drag on grimes. so obama is a really negative factor and this is also the case in colorado and other places that we're seeing. the fact that jeanne shaheen was able to win in new hampshire. she had bill clinton and hillary clinton campaigning. she did not want obama campaigning for her. she told me in fact when i asked her on television, on live television why don't have president obama there and she said he's too busy with isis and

. >> the biggest winner in the mid-term elections may be it senator mitch mcconnell reflected kentucky and in line to become the senator majority leader. more from headquarters in louisville. >> mitch mcconal beat by wad margins. he was accused of being the ultimate washington insider but in his victory speech, he said that will work to his advantage as he goes back for his sixth term representing kentucky. he promised to relentlessly push agenda. >> for too long, for too long, this as minstration has tried to tell the american people what's good for them and then blame somebody else when their policies fail. tornth kentucky rejected that approach. >> senator mcconnell told the crowds gathered to cheer him 0 over the past weeks and months, he has heard a lot frf kentuckians about jobs, the comet, and healthcare. allison grimes said she heard a lot about those issues too, and vowed to keep fightingly for the commonwealth of kentucky my hope is that the message has been sent to congress that we need to work to increase the minimum wage, to close the gender pay gap and to bring good payin

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. >> another two states to watch tonight are kentucky and iowa. we start with louisville, kentucky. he is at the headquarters of republican senator of mitch mcconnell, not only hoping to win the seat and the title of majority leader. mitch mcconnell is a senior leader in the republican party. why is this close at all? >> he has had a tough year, no doubt about it. you remember in the republican primaries he faced a stiff challenge from the tea party. he is facing a challenge now from a young man. she is the secretary of state in kentucky. she comes from quite a well-known political family in kentucky, and she has fought a pretty strong campaign, although the polls recently are suggesting that mcconnell will win a sixth term in the senate. what he has tried to dough is what candidates have tried to do across the country, to nationalize the selection. if you don't like the president, then return a republican senate. the strategy has worked so effectively here that they won't even admit to voting for barack obama in the 2008 or 2012 election. she has run from the president and placed h

lexington, kentucky. every year, buyers and sellers. millionaires and billionaires, come here to a picturesque place for the largest thoroughbred auction on earth. >> i'm shell shocked. >> this is $1,600,000. >> reporter: mandy just spent $1.6 million on a horse that's never race eraced, never been r. >> he's big, he's strong. he's sensible. >> reporter: and expensive. >> he's expensive. if you want to be at the top, that's what you do. and then you pray a lot. >> reporter: she's praying her new horse will win day win racing's holy grail. the triple crown. she runs the business from her home in ocala, florida. >> very sweet. he's a good boy. hopefully he'll make it as a stallion and he's going to be worth $20 million, $30 million in a couple of years. >> reporter: make no mistake. this is not her first rodeo. mandy paid a record $10 million for breeding mare two years ago. >> they're off in the kentucky derby! >> reporter: in the past nine years, graduates here have gone on to win half of all triple crown races. se animal kingdom won th