poll that is the least of his worries. his running mate pulled out earlier this month. he s under investigation he and his staff, there are allegations that he used his position as treasurer to run taxpayer funded lottery ads to boost his run towards the governor s office. the attorney general looking into that. this race closely watched because in is a place where political analysts believe president obama may be help to help governor patrick tied with him politically and supports a lot of his positions. there aren t a lot of states that barack obama can go to and be helpful to democrats. massachusetts is one. for duvall patrick to win november 2nd, he needs all the base democrats to turn out. barack obama with base democrats in massachusetts, is very popular. reporter: the last time president obama was here headlining a big rally in massachusetts it was for martha coakley. that turned out with a brown
years before the event. jamie: unbelievable story. and early voting is kicking off in nevada where a bruising neck-in-neck race is underway and giving folks a chance to vote at their convenience. convenience could forever change how campaigns are run. and speaking of campaigns, campaign carl cameron live is live at a polling site in las vegas where people are already lined up. to cast their votes and carl, great to see you. tell us, does either party benefit from any of the early voting we re seeing? in the past there s been a hurricane advantage with democrats taking better advantage, but republicans are trying to pick up. but in a state like nevada where you ve got a combative, close race, probably the most consequential in the country because democratic majority leader harry reid is on the ballot, facing a tossup channel from sharron angle.
that they probably learned and i think it is a good lesson for democrats, talking to the new york times is not necessarily the solution to every problem. but, i think that what we see as far as what the story says, about how they are looking back at lessons learned. the biggest mistake they ve made is that they outsourced whole parts of their public poll see to nancy pelosi and harry reid. and that true the administration to the left and they are paying the price for. chris: i don t know if you todd can see it up on the screen you can see the motorcade the president heading to andrews air force base flying up to massachusetts today to campaign for governor patrick who is in a tough race there. let me pick up on that. one of the things, the subtext in the article is obama 2.0. they say he s started talking to his top aides about that.
somebody who campaigned as a conservative but guess to washington ends up voting with business lows , obama, 94% of the time. chris: both republicans in the big statewide race pat toomey running for senate, corbet running for governor. they both have healthy leads. i know the way guys like you like to think of it. are you going to be riding their coattails? i think it shows there s a broader concern in this district and in this state. people think that washington has us going in the wrong direction. they are tired out out of control spending. they know if you and i have to balance our budgets in our households, why not washington? it goes across the country, people are looking for a more of a conservative governing of this country. chris: along those lines with toomey enjoying a lead in the senate race and corbet a lead in the gubernatorial race
that president clinton doesn t always tell the truth and referring to a campaign commercial, meg whitman was running and he was heard talking about jerry brown s record of raising taxes and jerry brown quickly apologized for that and now you see clinton stumping for jerry brown. i am so grateful to jerry brown, that you know, we re not very far apart in age and we ve been doing this a long time. he still cares about your future and that is important. reporter: and that was from a rally last night in ucla. president clinton saying glowing things, earlier in the week he was stumping for harry reid, who we know is locked in a tight race there. kelly: and bill clinton is extremely popular, so what does the appearance for president clinton do for someone like jerry brown? right, well, it can do a lot. he is very popular, and