ago. but, first, the battle for president obama s former illinois senate seat. it s a huge one. it s been one of the roughest ones in this election with republicans calling june i can t say a mob banker and mark kirk of lying about military service it could come down to character as the contest comes down to the wire. steve in wheaton, illinois. we are expected to hear from here in wheaton illinois. big republican turn out here. they are going to need big turn out in these republican distribution. kirk leads in the latest fox news poll by 4 percentage points that s a statistical tie. polling also shows that independents are breaking his way and the state party reports that it s made 4.4 million contacts of voters in this state enough to deliver that seat to kirk. more election coverage straight ahead on fox report when we continue. [ upbeat instrumental ]
37 senate election also be held across the nation tomorrow. of those we will be closely monitoring 20 races of great interest tomorrow night. fox news has reporters covering these races from every corner of the country. we have asked a few of those reporters to check in with updates tonight. david miller live in allen town, p.a. you know if the polls are to be believed pat toomey could very well win this seat of retiring pennsylvania senator arlen specter. his opponent in this race, the democrat joe sestak is trailing by some five percentage points. both men are saying it ain t over until its over. both of them campaigning today. toomey throughout the state. sestak staying primarily in the philadelphia area where tonight is he at a rally being attended by first lady michelle obama. and now for the latest of the political scene in colorado. here s my colleague leland vitter. in these final days, colorado may be turning red once again
partisan i would like to see politicians talk about what the solutions of the problems are not standing pointing fingers appear each other while nothing is being done. typical of the election mood in nevada a state crippled by the recession. just driving around town, you see how many businesses are closed. you see a casino that just recently closed. restaurants. drive down by record street, over half the people that are down there today in those tent cities at record street owned homes from two years ago. whether it s worries about the economy or frustrations with career politicians. charlene and paul speak the same language. we can look at the slate of candidates today and i think our founding fathers would roll over in their graves looking at them today. because they don t represent the mainstream of america. i m just shocked and amazed and frightened how many things they blatantly do because they can do without regard, it s like a freight train and it s heading down hill
all of them. do you believe we ll all wake up november 3rd to a brighter future or a darker future? unless we can figure out how to work together, where the rules of the senate change, we re going to have a dark future. i have got sons 22 and 26 years old for their future. i mean, i don t want to saddle them. we already have saddled them with debt, with a future that s pretty dismal because of what we are doing right now. so we have got to make those changes for my kids and for my future grand kids. you ll have noticed how strikingly similar the language used by both those voters was. you might therefore be surprised to know they are a totally opposite ends of the political spectrum. charlene is a tea party activist, paul mackenzie is a union rep and a lifelong democrat. they are emblematic of the split in this state and they are the reason why the race between
unemployment rate. home to the senate majority leader harry reid. a new fox news poll shows senator reid trailing the republican tea party backed candidate sharron angle. the results of that poll we conducted over the weekend are still within the margin of error. jonathan hunt live in vegas this afternoon. jonathan, the economy is crucial in this race. it is, shep. and it is one specific part of the economy, jobs, jobs, jobs. again and again as we have traveled through this state from reno down here north in las vegas. voters have told us they are angry about jobs already lost and fearful about possible future job losses. there is also one other issue that is making them equally angry. that is their view that politicians in washington simply cannot get anything done. like two children that are fighting and they both keep blaming each other. we are tired of it we want them to do the right thing. we don t want them to do something just because it s