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Guest host: Katty Kay
Morning-after analysis of election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and upstate New York.
Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of some 20 books.
Geoff Garin, Democratic pollster, Peter D. Hart Research Associates
John Harris, editor in chief, politico.com author of "The Survivor" and co-author of "The Way to Win."
Whit Ayres, Republican pollster at Ayres, McHenry & Associates, Inc.
Guest host: Katty Kay
It may be best known as the land of Olympic gymnasts, bleak orphanages, and Dracula, but Romania today is a flourishing democracy. A former U-S ambassador on why Romania thrived after the fall of communism and lessons for other budding democracies.
Jim Rosapepe, U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 1998 to 2001. He currently heads an investment firm. He has written about economic and security issues for the Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and the Harvard International Review.