“While the GOP has effectively locked down the campaign for the House and is in a good place to win control of the Senate, the contours of the midterm election have taken on a decidedly liberal edge as candidates make their closing arguments.

From the Deep South to the frontiers of Alaska, candidates from both parties are one-upping each other in support of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, positioning themselves as populists, and standing up for the minimum wage, renewable fuels and, at least rhetorically, some modicum of reproductive freedom.

In North Carolina, GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis, whose victory in the Republican primary rested on his ardent opposition to expanding Medicaid, is now saying he would “encourage” the Republican-controlled state legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory (R) to consider expanding the program.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola break it down.

*Read more here from Ryan Grim & Dana Liebelson / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/liberal-issues-midterm-elections_n_6065410.html