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

. >> the dirty secret massachusetts in the feds case for our bill, in massachusetts we had a very powerful senator you may know known as ted kennedy. ted kennedy figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million a year. >> this just the latest in a string of videos surfacing where gruber gloats about how the law was written to take advantage of the stupidity of the american voter. the lack of transparency helps the law pass. josh earnest said the president disagrees and the bill was written in a transparent way. that brings us to look who is talking and how democratic leaders are reacting to the videos. nancy pelosi saying she never heard of gruber. >> i don't know who he is. he didn't help write our bill. you have a person who wasn't writing our bill commenting on what was going on when we were writing the bill who has withdrawn some of the statements that he made. let's put him aside. >> wait, she sited him on her web site in 2010 and even mentioned him by name during a press conference back in 2009. >> i don't know if you have seen jonathan gruber mit's analysis to the

a quarter of his business comes from massachusetts and he's hoping the database on locals help fight off the big boys from vegas. >> we have the advantage of knowing who those patrons are, knowing what they want, knowing their likes and dislikes and getting them back on the property. >> massachusetts voters walked the casino, but that might mean voting no on 3 and that might confuse people. >> no means yes on the casino, correct? >> that's correct. no means yes and yes means no. got it? >> yes. >> reporter: betting that voters on tuesday can figure out that yes means no and no means yes could be the biggest gamble of all. springfield, massachusetts. >>> wall street cheered in its earnings sending shares higher and that's how we begin tonight's market focus. three top investment firms all hiked their price targets on linkedin after the company's profits and revenue b estimates. shares surged to $222.96. >>> the construction plan may be paying off and that gave a boost to its stock. the company posted an operating loss in its second quarter driven by strong sales of its playstation 4 c

in maryland, massachusetts and illinois. even the president's home state where he campaigned vigorously, elected a republican, and that's how big this victory really is. finally, state houses. republicans captured many of the state legislative chambers, including the nevada senate and the assembly, the west virginia house, the minnesota house, the new mexico house, the colorado senate, and the new hampshire house. we'll have the largest number of republican chambers and state legislative seats held in history. so it was a historic night at every single level. this was all about a direct rejection of the obama agenda. as all of you know, president obama said very clearly that his policies were on the ballot and voters were very clear in return. they want nothing to do with the policies of barack obama and hillary clinton. up and down the ballot, these were the presidents' candidates. these were the clintons' candidates, and they lost. remember hillary clinton campaigned in kentucky, grimes lost by over 15 points. then hillary

so we with started to mete with senator scott brown from massachusetts. and unfortunately, he lost his election a couple of months after that that to elizabeth warren who became our senator and for a variety of reasons, we did not pursue this with senator warren. we kind of suffered in silence up in lynne and did the best we could with these students. now from september of 2013 to june of 2014, this trend showed no signs of abating, ninth grade admissions for children from guatemala societotaled 101 from school year 2013, to 2014, that's almost double what we had gotten the year before. as you recall, that number was 56. at the same time, they were starting to be some national exposure about this issue. so the superintendent and i decided we were no longer going to sit back and just take these students, but speak out and let the federal government know, that all of the places they were housing these unaccompanied children, you mean, places like ft. sill and places like marietta that were getting -- marietta, california that were getting a lot of these stu

>> you broke ground in massachusetts where president obama injected himself in massachusetts in a race issue. i wanted to get your thought how that compares. >> obviously i think it's a little different here. you can see -- >> far more tragic, of course, the loss of life. >> but the fact the president stepped into it and said oh, we're going to have a beer. everything will be okay. people kind of see through that and that starts that lack of trust between the american people and this administration and the president in particular, whether you're talking about obamacare, fast and furious, i.r.s. standal, drawing a red line in the sand and doing nothing. it's a continuous chipping away at that relationship between the american people and that trust level which is so important when you're the leader of the greatest country of the world and it's non existent. >> the problem is those most polarizing get all the attention. they rev everybody up and the people that try to bring everybody together and try to come in the middle and maybe usher in compromise, they're the ones that always get a b

i am in central massachusetts which is sort of a small urban area. what are we talking about this week? trying to get how to bring advanced manufacturing because as part of our cities begin an part of our country's agenda to get how to bring that back. we are talking directly to each other. i'm sure obama and angela merkel are also talking with these kinds of things but they are not communicating to us much. we can get on the plane, on the phone come on skype and we are exchanging of ideas. most recently cleef germany was able to build a holy university regarding advanced manufacturing to work on utilize those skills is can workforce training and bring those who. this is a good thing that happens every single day with mayors. >> want to ask for almost a one word answer from the three mayors. was the most vexing problem local problem to deal with everyday? spent i was attacking the inequality issue. >> crime. spent any quality education. it's one issue, mr. chairman. but inequality, crime, education, they are tied together and we know you can't let id

in massachusetts we had powerful senator named ted kennedy. ted kennedy basically figured out and smart people of massachusetts basically way to rip off the feds for $400 million a year. >> reporter: gruber on many occasions talked about that $400 million of federal money that helped pay for the massachusetts health care plan. he once called it ripping off the feds you heard in that comment. on another occasion he called it a slush fund. listen up. >> ted kennedy, who had been delivering $400 million of slush funds to the safety-net hospitals that the bush administration was threatening to take away. romney administration to their credit went to washington and said, can we keep this money if we use it to cover unensured? the bush administration to their credit said yes. >> reporter: that money was the key to paying for the successful massachusetts plan or was it successful? just today in fact massachusetts is relaunching its health connector because of cost overruns and other problems. gruber sits on the board of the health connector. he was a

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massachusetts a few years ago tied their gas tax increases to inflation. every year essentially the gas taxes would automatically increase without the legislature having to vote on it. a bout a dozen states have found ways to automatically increase their gas tax. some are tying it to inflation and some are using other policies, but voters repealed the automatic increase in massachusetts on tuesday which means the gas tax will still raise but it won't keep up with inflation. with states struggling to find money for transportation, it could send a message to lawmakers and other states and could make them a little more hesitant to consider policies, to consider time the gas tax hike to inflation. it is going to be a struggle for massachusetts and other states this year as it is every year to find money for transportation, especially with the uncertainty come may. >> i want to move on to what has happened at the local level. there are two other state ballot initiatives that i want to touch on because i think they set up interesting fights and potentially court

massachusetts was successful because it got 400-million-dollar grant from the federal government. obamacare, this nationwide healthcare isn't getting a grant from anybody. >> right. i saw that today. i mean, he was bragging about essentially getting the rest of the country to pay for the massachusetts healthcare plan. >> and then that's sort of the successful model. >> right. well, there is no place our country can go to dupe somebody into giving us $400 million. >> which is why he probably thinks we are stupid if we bought that. >> you know what? i think people show that they were pretty smart a couple weeks ago. and i think any time you base any piece of legislation on the fact that your voters aren't going to read the bill, or aren't going -- you believe they are not going to understand the intricacies of the bill, that's dangerous for a participatory republic. >> what happens, whether you like obamacare or not. you have to hate the way this went down. nobody read the bill it was incomprehensible. i tried to read it myself. then you have got them admitting lack of transparency

had one of these students drop out four times already and that affects the city's standing with the massachusetts department of education. so we see a lot of problems coming down the road, beyond the ones that we're dealing with that are primarily financial right now. i'm glad you all have taken a interest in this, but i'm acting in a way as a beaconor a warning that this is result of the policies that the federal government has pursued. >> does this impact prospects of economic development in lynne? and what do the government officials tell you? what words do they use wlahen y come up and say, i can't check their age, what are you doing to us? >> well, like i said, the i.c.e. officials that i have met with have told me that they're doing a really good job resettling these people, but i don't think they're really keeping track of where they're resettling them. we're not getting any finances, we're getting reassurances that feel more like pats on the head that are like just go about your business, and in fact i have talked about the numbers, unaccompany aed minors that have been resettled here in

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in most states, including massachusetts, there's no proof or explanation required. it's as easy as signing a piece of paper. >> if a parent says that that's a religious belief, that's what we need to go with, and we need to keep our fingers crossed that there isn't going to be an outbreak during the school year. otherwise, those students would be held out of school until the period of communicability has passed, and then unfortunately other students and staff members could be subject to illness.ç >> reporter: the vast majority of american children get all of their recommended vaccinations. only about one and a half percent are unvaccinated.ç but in some areas, the rate is significantly higher. in this part of western massachusetts, for example, it's 6%, and that raises the risk of outbreaks. a community with a vaccination rate that low loses what's called "herd immunity" to contagious diseases, so anyone who hasn't been vaccinated can get sick. that includes babies too young ç to be immunized and people with certain health conditions who can't be vaccinated. >>

poll in maryland or massachusetts. i would like to know what the asian percentage was in the close senate race in virginia. again, we don't have numbers on that. hispanics, we mentioned hispanics briefly. 63-35 democratic nationwide, down from 71% from obama against mitt romney but they're very different in different states. california, where there were no serious statewide contests except nonpartisan rails for summit of public instruction. 76% democratic, 69% in new york and those two states although to about 1/3 of voters registered in the country. down in texas, john cornyn won hispanics. 49-48. greg abbott run for governor, 44% hispanics. that was a state where a lot of liberals hoped that the "non-white" vote was going to put them over the top. the hispanics there are not behaving like black voters in texas or other states. you see them getting 41% for david purdue in georgia. 52% for pat roberts in kansas and i did a little interpolation from the exit poll in colorado that suggested to me that mark udall, the dem

charlie baker in massachusetts is someone to keep an eye on some of the boston globe endorsed. he understands how government works. he had time in the private sector in health care industry where he did the big turnaround with health care. he has business experience. he understands innovation and he is running in the away that is a republican reformer. believing in government focusing on how to make it work better rather than just trying to tear it apart. >> here is baker's challenge. he still has to deal with romney-care and obamacare. it would like to him as someone to talk about health care, but what does he say going forward about the affordable care act? an individual mandate when he is in office? he's a bright guy, a northeastern governor. he will be a player for sure. >> he has a cost-containment issue to deal with that plan in massachusetts. something like universal coverage in a market-friendly way within that state and he gets the costs down, he would be looking awfully like a guy who could pick the lock on health care and that could be huge potential going forward. p

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

of all until massachusetts won back the presidency in 1960. eddie mccormack, the nephew of the most powerful legislature in america had trouble making connections seem like a bad thing in that campaign. especially for an irish politician in boston who were in those days for ench having connections was everything. no one thought having connections was a bad thing. what we're hearing now from team bush is a rewrite of what eddie mccormack said about teddy kennedy. george w. bush's former white house chief of staff andy card said this today. i'm convinced if his name was john ellis and he had the same resu resume, everybody would say he should be president of the united states. the fact that he's john ellis bush, jeb, means he is carrying biases of the past. so he may be the first wh ofinds being related to a president is negative. ted kennedy couldn't have possibly won the senate seat at age 30 in 1962 if the president wasn't his big brother. hillary clinton never would have run for senate in new york if her husband had not been president. georg

plan to combat tobacco. >> reporter: the town of westminster, massachusetts, population 7,300, is a small, quiet community about an hour west of boston. when the local board of health holds meetings, it usually happens here in this room, where you can get advice about things like septic tanks and mosquito control. but not on this day. this meeting wednesday night had to be moved to the local elementary school because the town is up in arms. >> you people make me sick! >> reporter: why so mad? that board of health is proposing to make westminster the first town in the entire country to completely ban the sale of tobacco. >> it can be argued that the board of health permitting these establishments to sell these dangerous products that, when used as directed, kills 50% of its users, ethically goes against our public health mission. >> reporter: the town's proposal would make it illegal to sell any product containing nicotine within city limits. so, no cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars, vaporizers. you'd still be able to smoke or use tobacco in town, just not buy it. >> if we can prev

in a state like massachusetts, why is that governor ship potentially in a state as blue as massachusetts is. mar thae cokley has lost a big lead over charlie baker. yes, in mae ma. and new england, maybe tomorrow, could go from just having one republican governor to having five? new england? really? joining us now for the interview is massachusetts governor devall patrick. >> rachel, i was looking forward to being on. before your gloomy introduction. >> i'll look at the races tonight. i see five of them, five out of six, in reach for the republicans. why is this happening in such a democratic part of the country. >> i think it may be with due respect, you're paying more atex to tension to polls than what's happening on the ground. we've got a really strong grass roots organization and have been working them really hard for the last weeks and months. and we have to execute tourm. we're not taking anything for granted. but people beat money and advertising and pollser time. in terms of the mae ma race, fliert one of them has won in the past. what acounts for the democrats starting off this

so we with started to mete with senator scott brown from massachusetts. and unfortunately, he lost his election a couple of months after that that to elizabeth warren who became our senator and for a variety of reasons, we did not pursue this with senator warren. we kind of suffered in silence up in lynne and did the best we could with these students. now from september of 2013 to june of 2014, this trend showed no signs of abating, ninth grade admissions for children from guatemala societotaled 101 from school year 2013, to 2014, that's almost double what we had gotten the year before. as you recall, that number was 56. at the same time, they were starting to be some national exposure about this issue. so the superintendent and i decided we were no longer going to sit back and just take these students, but speak out and let the federal government know, that all of the places they were housing these unaccompanied children, you mean, places like ft. sill and places like marietta that were getting -- marietta, california that were getting a lot of these stu

massachusetts a few years ago tied their gas tax increases to inflation. every year essentially the gas taxes would automatically increase without the legislature having to vote on it. about a dozen states have found ways to automatically increase their gas tax. some are tying it to inflation and some are using other policies, but voters repealed the automatic increase in massachusetts on tuesday which means the gas tax will still raise but it won't keep up with inflation. so that is going to be a problem in the future when states struggling to find money for transportation and it could send a message to lawmakers and other states and could make them a little more hesitant to consider policies, to consider tying the gas tax hike to inflation. it is going to be a struggle for massachusetts and other states this year as it is every year to find money for transportation, especially with the uncertainty come may. >> i want to move on to what has happened at the local level. there are two other state ballot initiatives that i want to touch on because i think th

the call right now from nbc on massachusetts, no call on these other three. >> i'll start on massachusetts. i think there's a pretty good reason they did this. what you can see is that charlie baker now has climbed ahead by 30,000 votes. when you look at what's outstanding, there just aren't really any democratic areas that are left. the two biggest places left on the map are haverhill and attleboro, they're strong republican towns. i think what the coakley people were waiting on here is the massachusetts state law says if you're within half a point, you then can request a recount. you have ten days to do that. baker, though, in the last however has seen the lead climb from a fraction to a point to over a point. it also looks like he's above that point threshold. when you look in maine, you have rural areas and outlying areas. we don't have the map but i can explain quickly what happened why this has happened tonight. in maine there's a very clear sort of cultural geographic divide between the rural northern part of the state and southern maine, southern maine which can be a boston suburb.

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from massachusetts to florida and from west virginia to colorado, the republicans won key senate, house and gubernatorial races. >> we had to hold our elected officials accountable. i wanted tell you right now, with your help and god's will, we will change the direction of our country. >> we will break down what happened in this, the most expensive midterm election in history, and look ahead to what it means for the 2016 race. >> president obama starts making grand bargains with his republican senate in the next two years, he creates a situation where democratic hardy that still has many advantages going into presidential cycle, could lose some of those advantages. and we will look at ballot initiatives including increasing the minimum wage which one in every state it was put before voters. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. republicans have emerged from tuesday's midterm elections with control of congress for the first time in eight years. in the most expensive midterm in election history, the republican

in massachusetts we have a very powerful senator you may know named ted kennedy. ted kennedy basically figured out, and smart people of massachusetts, basically figured out how to rip off the feds for about $400 million a year. >> he's a charmer, isn't he? the white house is having to respond to a week of gems like that. ed henry is traveling with the president in burma and just filed this report. >> president obama posed in asia today in front of a buddhist statue that looked like a massive gold throne as republicans back home stepped up their attacks over jonathan gruber's comments charging it's a glaring example of an executive branch out of control. >> what this insider's saying confirms that they were spinning tails from beginning to end because they knew they couldn't tell the truth about obamacare and have a chance of it passing even with a democratic senate with 60 votes. >> reporter: from capitol hill to burma, democrats today struggled to push back on the fire storm with the president spokesman actually trying to shift blame to the gop. >> it is republic

massachusetts will be particularly interesting because. connecticut's law has sony carveouts for manufacturers. only about 50% of the states workers ended up being covered by this law. 15% of the states workers ended up being covered by this law. a way higher percentage of the states workers. both of those states will be a truer test of the impact of paid sick leave on businesses and employers and whether or not it has negative impacts on businesses and their budget. we see layoffs or whether or not as positive impact on employee retention. >> massachusetts is actually the first aid that did this the of the ballot measure, right? >> massachusetts passed into the ballot measure. >> what are the measures we are seeing in terms of more progressive wins for ballot measures? >> there is also abortion which is not surprising because there were two initiatives in north the coda and colorado -- dakota and califonia. they were initiatives that would of criminalized abortion. in both states, voters rejected it. it is surprising because of the republ

and i was particularly surprised by what happened in the governor races in maryland, illinois, and massachusetts. >> so now we look ahead and what can voters expect to happen in washington? are we going to see more gridlock, less gridlock? what's the next two years for the president going to be like? >> it could be more, it could be less. at the moment a lot of the political leaders on both sides of the aisles in congress are talking about working together but their track record thus far hasn't been very good. in addition to that the fact that the republicans did so well in this election might motivate many of them to push harder for more conservative policies which the democrats in the senate would try to prevent filibustering. >> i'm sure everyone has an eye of 2016. how do last night's results actually impact what may happen in a presidential race? >> well, to me it looks -- this election looks a lot like what happened to the republicans in 2006. that suggested that they would have an uphill battle for the presidency in 2008, and i think the democrats have much more of an uphill battle than t

in massachusetts is the fed pays our bill. we had a powerful senator, ted kennedy. they basically have figured out a way to rip off the feds for about $400 million a year. >> when he signed that into law he thanked jonathan gruber. >> jonathan gruber at m.i.t. devoted hours and hours. >> how does a nerd get in a game like this? through numbers. >> reporter: having designed a program. susan connecticut, delaware, kansas, and oregon came calling. >> almost immediately i was called by governor schwarzenegger in california. >> among his fans, a young senator named barack obama. one meeting led to another. before long he was elected president and gruber was summoned to the oval office. >> he realized he had to take on health care costs and that this law could be a vehicle for doing so. >> reporter: but gruber knew just as mitt rollny did that the massachusetts model wouldn't work nationally. massachusetts had extra money to pay for it secured by its influential senator ted kennedy. >> ted kennedy who had been delivering $400 millio

supreme court after the massachusetts court, but they, i think they -- no, it wasn't the massachusetts case. it was another case that did go all the way up to the supreme court. they got rid of it on a procedural issue, that the person didn't have standing -- >> oh, interesting. >> but the massachusetts case did decide it. the supreme court, at the lower level. the supreme court has held that prayer at the beginning of a governmental meaning is just irrelevant to the separation of church and state. >> what about in a school room though? >> here's well -- they're making this argument, because they have lost this argument at the federal supreme court, at the u.s. supreme court level, at the federal level -- >> sure. >> the u.s. constitution, they've lost the argument that it is a violation of the establishment clause. the first amendment says congress shall pass no law reflecting establishment of religion. it's been raised, and they have not succeeded. so what they've done now is raise it under the new jersey constitution and say it's an equal protection violation. >> oh. can they win? >

he says he did it successfully in massachusetts and he's proud of it. >> it's the emblematic of the remember ralls in washington. they think they are the ruling class, and it's up to them, and the federal government because the american people are too stupid, they have to tell them what kind of healthcare to buy, what kind of food to eat, what kind of schools for their children. it's emblematic of the nanny state. i think it's what the american people pushed back from in house and senate and why people are so taken aback by the liberalism of the obama administration. martha: the bigger part of all of this is not that he seems smug as he's talking about how the wool is pulled over the eyes

>>> and leaders in a massachusetts town trying to ban tobacco may have gotten more than they bargained for. >> we have to close down. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, november 13th, 2014. good morning. i'm lauren lyster in for anne-marie green. the latest earthquake to hit kansas turned out to be the largest in a series that has rattled the state over the past year. the 4.8 magnitude quake hit yesterday afternoon. it was centered about 25 miles southwest of wichita. it was the second day in a row that an earthquake was recorded in kansas. no significant damage or injury was reported, but the rumbling got folks' attention. >> after probably i want to say like ten seconds, we heard like this big boom and then we came in here and everything was toppled over and we looked up here and the ceiling had actually fallen through. >> so far this year kansas has experienced more than 90 earthquakes. >>> the arctic chill that brought bitter cold temperatures to the center of the country hits the east coast today. ground rules at denver international airport

we are live in massachusetts with more. cathed rin? >> good morning. west of the city this is one of the areas where this nor' easter is knocking on the door. it will be here in a few hours. we are expecting a lot of rain and wind. they are expecting a lot of snow some areas could get 6-10 inches. what you will probably see right now is different picture later. the department of transportation here in massachusetts they have been urging drivers to get out there early even leave the day before. a lot of drivers did in fact do that. the drivers watch for clouds they are saying they are going to have extra personnel on the roads the service disabled vehicles get them out of the way more quickly. also stop the road workthe stor travelers to get out of the state with the thanksgiving problem. could be a little chaos here later on today. we are live. back over to you. >> a new taste of home grown terror in minnesota. two men indicted for isis stopped in an airport before you travel to the middle east. now fighting for isis and syria. a dozen residents travel

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massachusetts on tuesday became just the third state to pass a statewide paid sick leave law. connecticut was the first in california totaled them a couple of months ago. massachusetts and also california's law would be particularly interesting though because connecticut's law had so many carveouts for nonprofits, temporary workers, manufacturers that only about 15% of the states workers ended up being covered by this law. california and massachusetts both are covering a wide -- away higher percentage of state workers. both of those states would be kind of a true test of the impact of paid sick leave on businesses and employers and whether or not it has negative impact on businesses in the budget. if we see last one that has a positive impact on employee retention. >> to underscore that, massachusetts is the first date that i has done this via ballot measure, write a? >> yes. connecticut passed it to the state legislature spent what are some of these other areas we've been seeing in terms of more progressive wins i guess for ballot measures? >> there's also abortion which in a

let's point out republicans won in maryland, massachusetts, and illinois. the president's home state. we have a team of the best analysts and reporters standing by. our chief washington correspondent jake tapper is here. our chief political analyst, gloria borger, our cnn commentators are here as well. up on capitol hill, dana bash. let's start with you, jake. give us your analysis right now. a, what we're likely to hear from mitch mcconnell and then a few minutes later what we're likely to hear from the president of the united states. >> i think you're going to hear a conciliatory tone and mitch mcconnell talking about wanting to work with president obama and working with democrats in the senate. make no mistake. republicans feel as though they were handed this and they have a mandate that they were elected to stop some of the obama administration's policies, to show leadership where they feel president obama has not shown leadership especially when it comes to the economy. so while i do think it's going to be an expression of a desire to work together, it

in maryland in illinois and in massachusetts, a lot of what they did was raise fees. these fees are regressive and hit lower middle class pocketbooks right across the top. that became a big issue in all of the states. middle class and lower middle class people felt they were now being asked to pay for these programs. >> and the symbol of that in maryland, the rain tax. it accepts -- to pay for sewer runoff, so they tax the heavens. >> massachusetts has a fee on tips in restaurants. >> kim, why the exceptions and democratic model for california, new york and connecticut, which has had some of the worst growth figures across the country? why can malloy eek out a victory, because jerry brown raised taxes p big in california but won comfortably. >> in california it always helps to have silicon valley and the money surrounding you. where you saw in some places, democrats still managed to use effectively some tactics against republicans complaining that the other side were people who were going to make severe cuts and do terrible things to education. the connecticut race wa