even her own political party doesn t pass the legislation. she is an individual that believes far left. a taxer an spender. add out this week, o thompson ripped for her vote on resolution remembering those killekilled in the september 11 attacks. tammy bald world cup had the opportunity to vote to honor the victims of 9/11. she voted against it. baldwin s campaign called thompson s ad a disgrace, saying the bill contained elements of the g.o.p. agenda. the truth, time and again, tammy baldwin supported honoring victims of 9/11. real clear politics calls the race a tossup and has baldwin up by less than a point averaging recent polls the. latest marquette university law school poll has thompson leading amongst likely voters by one point, 46 to 45. and the director of that poll says the tough tone of the race has had an impact. to me the most important thing is the way the negativity of the race has affected both candidates. and how both have been
murdoch democratic opponent joe donnelly believes that life begins at conception and murdoch says he regrets the way the comments were interpreted and he abhors rape, the obama camp sees this as an opportunity. he says murdoch is the only senate candidate that romney has a tv ad for. conception doesn t change definition of life. look at the two numbers just out among likely female voters in the state of virginia. latest fox news poll. president had 12-point edge in the poll among women last month. tonight is down to six points. this is clearly a trouble spot in the final days. bret: all right, ed. thank you. more on that with the panel. as you can tell, we re pouring plenty of resources in state of ohio in the final two weeks of the campaign. steve brown is in columbus. he takes another look at another of the president s go-to groups. and why it probably should not be taken for granted either.
the republicans surprised everybody and won repeatedly. that could be the big surprise. if romney did that assuming that ohio is in jeopardy he could win. what is interesting here is what you saw in the virginia involving women. i don t believe a national poll where there is no gap. there has been a gap for 30 years so i m not sure it disappears. what is accurate what happened in virginia where the gap was cut in half from from 12 to 6. which sounds right. that is a huge shift toward romney. bret: bill, a couple things happened today. general colin powell come out on the morning show. reembrace president obama. he endorsed him in 2008. he is now endorsing him again. in 2012. the obama campaign ou touted tht highly today. you can learn a lot looking a it both campaigns where they think the race is. they have the best polling and
bret: as you look live at the white house, we have new fox polls out tonight. and while everybody focuses sometimes on the national polls, it s really the battleground states that really, really matter in this race. here is one of them. virginia. this is a big change. from september until now. here you see romney-ryan up 2%. that s within the margin of error here. with plus or minus three in the new fox poll. take a look at the independents also in the fox poll. and there you see a big shift for independents in virginia. among likely voters. from september until now. another shift with women voters. this is nationally. this is likely voters. another big shift. and a change. that is significant. men battleground states in colorado where the president
the permanent select committee for the intelligence and the house of representatives. and i know that s odd and probably an oxy moron to say house of representatives and intelligence in the same sentence she said it. that s the running gag people like to do intelligence and the house anyway. michael steele is of course former chairman of the rnc and anita dunn, and the correspondent at the washington post. anti-washington fever, everybody s reading the polls. let me throw up a couple more. here s obama s approval on the economy, congress s, 12%, gallup has a new poll out ranked 25 out of 25 sectors ranked. this is the toxic atmosphere that i get the sense that folks here in washington, they read the polls, but i don t think they believe how bad it is out