mr. independent. his records in the exact center. he challenged his own party to fight for stem cell research to find new cures and cut wasteful spending in washington. he worked with democrats to increase the minimum wage to help families. help illinois parents and students pay for college. and protect lake michigan from bp s pollution. someone who puts us first. mr. independent, mark kirk. sean: that is not something we see a lot of. a republican that has out stage numbers with democratic people dialing below numbers with his own base. mr. independent doesn t appeal to republicans because they want him to stand up to barack obama. they want him to stand up to the democrats. he appeals to those people in illinois. illinois is clearly a blue state. it say democratic state. when the kirk campaign focuses on the fact that they will do it differently, than what other republicans have done, there s a reason why kirk went from a couple points down to three points up.
mr. independent. his records in the exact center. he challenged his own party to fight for stem cell research to find new cures and cut wasteful spending in washington. he worked with democrats to increase the minimum wage to help families. help illinois parents and students pay for college. and protect lake michigan from bp s pollution. someone who puts us first. mr. independent, mark kirk. sean: that is not something we see a lot of. a republican that has out stage numbers with democratic people dialing below numbers with his own base. mr. independent doesn t appeal to republicans because they want him to stand up to barack obama. they want him to stand up to the democrats. he appeals to those people in illinois. illinois is clearly a blue state. it say democratic state. when the kirk campaign focuses on the fact that they will do it differently, than what other republicans have done, there s a reason why kirk went from a couple points down to three points up.
can happen? sean: low numbers from democrats and republicans. looks like a jon stewart bit the way it is sliced together, people didn t buy it. it is not that they didn t buy it. compared her to schwarzenegger showing there are two republicans it didn t connect with people. there s a message in california the meg whitman campaign is not doing well. some polls show her down by eight, 12 points. she has not connected. californians want a second act. they don t want you to say the same words you say in october that you said in april. they want to know what you are going to do. meg whitman has not told california voters what she will do in the first 100 days. one of the reason why is she falling further behind jerry brown. sean: illinois following the senate seat to replace barack obama. kirk ran this ad against democrat giannoulias. announcer: he s called
what are we going to do about it? we are doing something about it. the president started us down that road. look at the state of illinois, high-speed rail coming to our state, creating thousands of jobs. clean-coal technology grants coming into our state, the largest clean coal technology in our history to build a pipeline to reduce pollution, $250 million to bring high-speed internet across the state of illinois. president obama knows this is the way to build america and he couldn t get a republican, including congressman mark kirk, to even stand behind him and cast a vote to move us forward with good-paying american jobs. i couldn t agree with you more, chris, let s build the infrastructure for the 21st century so that we can make america number one again. well, i don t mind the virtual world but i like the real world, too, not likely to get fastest rapid interstate and interconnectedness and all that, i would like to see trains going by again. thank you, dick dirbin of illinois.
fight about it i didn t get into it. kirk seems to be confusing how he presents his battle in the war. he says well at least i fought. is the issue whether you fought or whether you get the facts straight? no, i think, let s say this. if you look at mark kirk s service to this country, it is something to be admired and respected, and i do. i just don t understand why he wanted to go a step further and add things to his military record that didn t exist. to suggest that he had a background as a teacher, when in fact, he had a very limited background as a person working at a day care center and working at a prep school in england. i mean, these sorts of things are embellishing a record, they go beyond the simple question of whether he served in the military. of course he did. it is a more important question about whether or not he is going to be straight with the people in his answers. well, let me get the two issues i care about. one is this foreign money thing. and the whole questi