republicans in terms of self-registration. the state gop party says they cut that number in half, down to 55,000. that is still a substantial advantage when you consider the size of the state of iowa. still, there are polls out there that suggest the top of the ticke races here in iowa, both the u.s. senate race a the governo gubernatorial leany towards they say if we have the work we can transform what the polls say into victories coming up on election day. shannon? shannon: steve brown liv in iowa. one of the political hot spots. s so much. if you are an iphone or droid user there is a w to stay on top of all the latest. hqapp is tailor made for political junkes. it is in the power play political news letter. check it out. up next, a congressmdean wo
i believe we can t necessarily wait for the government to do it or the united nations to do it. americans has so much financial strength in the world. we re still the strongest st country in the world financially. if we mobilize people and put pressure on people to stop doing state sponsor of terrorism, they will stop. the important thing is we are putting control, we re givingor investors the opportunity to participate in the financial war on terror. shannon: you will open a lot of eyes today. investors asking questions after seeing this segment. thank you. thank you. shannon: aircraft flying over houston prompted curiosity and concern from a number of texans given that last night marked the ninth anniversary of the september 11 attacks. folks got concerned about a aircraft and alerted the local media. the f.a.a. confirms the plane
the white house i think is probably going to try to get democrats to walk the plank again on this provision and vote against it. what that means is they would have to go home and say well, i voted that you will have to do more paperwork instead of creating jobs. why the white house would want to do that, i m not sure. but i think when i get back there tomorrow and the next day we re going see they will be breaking arms to try to prevent this from passing and i can t believe president obama would want to do that. shannon: let me ask you, senator, too, about your reaction to his comndments abot the economy and plans and tax cuts and things that he says will be a help to small businesses. we hear so much focus on the bush tax cuts and whether or not they will expire. some of them, part of them, all of them. today, house minority leader john boehner saying he may be willing to vote for something that would allow the middle class tax cuts to be extended
governor of the state. he is pretty moderate. so there is a feeling among republican party that elting these republicans in name only hurts party in long run and they are better off backing the true conservative n their view like o donnell. shannon: right now, the latest polling from your site. a pretty big spread, almost 30 points in favor of congressman castle. so we will wat to see how plays out on tuesday. how does it match up in the fall? castle is doing prett well against the assemblyman chris coons. but the problem is he d under 50%. you would expect a ten-term congressman t do better. on the other hand, o donnell gets crushed b coons and it looks like if she were the om nominee we d see something like we typically see in delaware, 60-40% republican/democrat spread. hannon: at s what her opponents say she won t do well in fall. we ll watch that battle on
the $30 billion small c lending program will create $300,000 in new lending. if the small businesses don t want to borrow the money and they worry about the outlook of the economy, don t have e sales and don t know what the costs will be to fire a new employee for health insurance for energy, it could be just pushing on a string. if nobody wan loats the for uncertainty. i will tell you that the small business lending program, the changes are popular with the small businesses and pgram in place. it s easily processed and the fees are low. the last couple of times they ve done, this it s sold out. lipporters say thisill provide another $5 billion in new loans for small businesses in year one. that could work. shannon: all right. peter barnes, thank you for breaking it down for us. following years of speculation, could england s most eligible bachelor be off the market? we tell you about potential plans f a royal wedding up next. u get nothing for driving safely. truth: at allste, you