philadelphia. when rendell was running for governor, he lost almost every county in 2002. ran up huge margins. the government still thinks he ll get it by a little bit. he kind of looked down at the paper. he s not the most popular guy in the senate. he s going to lose. but in the stimulus debate when it really counted, what did he hold out for? a doubling of funding for cancer research. maybe because he s a cancer survivor, i m a cancer survivor. this takes on more importance for us a. a lot of viewers will thank senator arlen specter for that in the years ahead. let s talk about arkansas. another tough race for an incumbent. that s blanche lincoln up against the lieutenant governor. she s ahead what looks like to be ten points. the issue here is she s not running at 50%. she needs 50% for a runoff here. as the national journal showed, peggy, on its cover that lincoln
hous house. these are working class democrats who went back. they did go for obama. not in great numbers as they went for john kerry. but they could conceivably trend back to the republican party. something that the democrats have going for them, though, i think we re seeing in blanche lincoln s race where she s moving against wall street. that s also resonating. just beating up on government suspect enough. final thing i want to look at peggy and mike. john mccain in a tough re-election battle. the issue is the politicians of immigration. this is ad that he is running. watch this. drug and human smuggling, home invasions, murder, we re outmanned. with all the illegals in america, more than half come through arizona. have we got the right plan? the plan is perfect. you bring troops, state, county, and local law enforcement together. and complete the dang fence.
i think a lot of us, at least on the democratic side were shocked by the citizens united case. for instance. just remind people. this was the case that said unlimited corporate money could flow into our politics, undisclosed in any way, and it s really i mean the first amendment is important, but so is the sanctity of our political process so the average person has a say. i was shocked at this. maybe a kagan on the court could have persuaded a justice ken dethat the abstract notion of first amendment triumphs and everything has a balance. the balance is the practical effects of that. my hope would be she would do it. that s what i m looking for. there are liberals who are concerned about her view of executive power, that she may be closer to the bush administration, frankly, on what the executive can do with regard to a war on terror. she may hold up views that the obama administration has put forward with regard to a robust
money. what s at issue here? two things. first, it s changed. we learned with the christmas bomber, abdulmutallab and the horrible incident in times square, new york is the number one target. and second, that there s a group. pakistan taliban that has the capability of trying to do something. they came all too close. so the funding should change. should new york get only 12% of the port anti-terrorism security funding? secretary napolitano points out not all the money is spent. that s how washington works. a lot of the money hasn t been spent. fema, an agency under the jurisdiction of homeland security hasn t spent it. if you haven t spent all the money, why don t you need more now. we ve spent it.
produce jobs, 573,000 between january and april, it s a projected 1.72 million jobs created over a full year. if that happens, do you think president obama deserves credit? well, what we know now is 3,000 private sector jobs were lost since the president came to office. they ve added 260,000 government jobs. the only boom town in america is washington because they re exploding government employment. hiring new government workers by borrowing money from our grandchildren. i hope the economy is beginning to come back. it would have to come back a long way for anybody to believe the stimulus plan, which is sold to us, to keep unemployment at 8% has worked. unemployment is at 10%. we re not making much headway so far. we ll leave it there. thank you very much. thank you. a super tuesday of sorts in just two days.