dominated elections yesterday in kentucky. republican outsider matt bevin besting democrat jack conway by a large margin,53 to 44%. an upset victory for bevin. he was trailing in every poll, he promises to ditch obamacare in his state. >> in virginia republicans keeping majority of state senate despite a huge spending onslaught from former new york mayor michael bloomberg gun control group. >> and turning to the investigation of what brought down the russian jetliner over egypt this week. u.k. has hall halted all flights to sharm-el-sheikh, investigators are turning their investigation to who was aboard the flight, ho w.h.o. had access to the -- and who had axsys to the jetliner before take off. >> reporter: u.s. officials are reluctant to say with certainty what brought down the russian jet, there is mounting evidence it was a bomb, not a malfunction, and isis is leading suspect. intelligence officials say that they are looking through flight passenger manifest for possible suspect who might have carried out the attack, great britain is not waiting for any time of confirmation.

as pour 4 guys in the hunt for nomination. >> bevin, matt bevin, kentucky. >> how did that. lou: a stunner of a result, and outsider prevailing, as we witnessed. by far the most part, signal to news those who would divine something nationaly from the kentucky results. >> two things, you might divine that winner of kentucky gubernatorial election the year before, their party has carried white house three consecutive cycles. then i would tell you, people need to quit reading so many terrible polls, my goodness. polling in kentucky was heinous, you knew it was going to be, because it was smartphone on-line, cock mamey poll, it was not good stuff it was not blue grass prime that was junk, people were putting the polls out like it was real thing, it turned out they were 13 points off, trust the good stuff. lou: it is -- and even then maybe you know squint a little closer at the numbers. >> yeah. lou: rick stirewalt thank you. >> you bet. lou: see you in milwaukee. >> oh, yeah. lou: topping the list, russia president vladimir putin. germany's leader merkel is next. falling to third place

street. the new kentucky governor would be matt conway not matt bevin. when everything else has gotten more scientific, why are the polls so off? >> i'll give you a quick technical answer, it's tough to get people to respond. you know, the response rates for national surveys are down below 10%. now i can -- the flip side of that is they still do pretty well. polling is robust. it actually is a scientific enterprise when done correctly. in the kentucky case, you only have six preelection polls, peoplesumed because of the way the first batch looked and because it's an off-year election, there wasn't much going on, there wasn't a lot of polling. so that's an issue. that won't be the case in the presidential. that's for sure, but give you another point of caution, when it comes to primary elections, when you're only interviewing republicans or democrats and there's no party id to anchor preferences, the polls are going to be all over the place because personality issues, gaffes, all that stuff introduces a lot of volatility, right? some of the very because of the polling, some is genuine c

rentals to $75 a night. in kentucky, huge upset. businessman matt bevin, elected governor. becoming the second republican to govern the state in four decades. houston, texas, ordinance that guaranteed equal rights to gay, lesbian, transgender people also struck down. so, tamara, i will start with you. why were so many, so-called, liberal causes defeated? >> well, i think you have to look at each one separately. with the marijuana one, which i'm proponent of marijuana as you said i'm liberal or democrat i would have voted against this as well. it was monopoly measure. only 10 people in the entire state of ohio could have grown marijuana. that is ridiculous. whether you're proponent of it or not just simply not fair. so i wouldn't call it a liberal cause. as much as i would say it is a bad law. with regard to the republican in kentucky, it is interesting because the right was so scared about him, they were worried that he was too far right. he is tea party guy. and he was elected. so, there is definitely some messaging here. air bn. about, i think that's a pro-business measure. people

of big victories last night. in a huge upset, republican businessman matt bevin won kentucky's gubernatorial race by commanding 9% lead. late as yesterday he was considered a long shot. he vowed to roll back expansion of obamacare in the state. democrats held the governor's seat for all but four of the past 44 years there. >>> voters in houston rejected measure banned discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. many saw the bill as attack on their christian beliefs and would allow gendered men to use women's bathroom. >>> marijuana use was soundly defeated in ohio. 65% of voters rejecting bill, with everyone of the 88 counties voting no. melissa. melissa: schocking new report of big business profiting off the death of our american troops. you don't want to miss this one. is college worth the cost? the expensive investment may not pay out with the job that you want. ♪ you can't predict... the market. but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your investments through good times and bad. for over 75 years, our clients have relied on us to bring our best thinkin

matt bevin taking the governor's mention. >> this is our opportunity. we will seek a future together but do it as one kentucky, republican and democrat alike. maria: meanwhile history will remain, the president of china and the head of taiwan before the first time since the communist revolution of 1949. this meeting hosted by singapore focusing on developing relations across the taiwan strait. turning to markets features indicate a higher open of broader averages, dow industrials expected to open 3 points, nasdaq and the s&p looking iron. in europe early action showing gains across the board with the exception of the dax index in germany. the s&p 100 up 1% in the u.k. stocks in paris also higher. overnight gains in asia as well across the board. shanghai composite a lot better than 4% as was the korean kospi. more bad news for volkswagen, stock plunging after the german automaker conceded the mission scandal could affect a million more vehicles than originally thought. they include gasoline powered cars. porche announcing it will stop selling certain models of its wildly popular suv

there is election in kentucky, democrat jack conway is funding off republican attacks from matt bevin as issue of obamacare. that is microcosm of what we could see in 2016. trish: we're talking about the economy in this election. bottom line when they go to the voting booth, they most often vote their pocketbook. they want to know if neighbor has a job. want to know if kid will have a job. how hard will it be the lack of wage inflation we have, lack of good jobs out there? you couple that with the obamacare premiums going up, how hard, is it going to be, bret, to run on his record? >> it will be tough. if you look at economy now, you know it better than most, i think most families feel the pinch. the wage issue stagnation is really the question. i think this obamacare question goes to a different level of frustration. and we hear it anecdotally throughout the country people not being able to find right doctors and right network. some states obviously worse than others. the flip side, you do have more people who are insured who were not insured before, but you still have 30 million plus,