the race is definitely on for a key congressional seat in orange county, california. locked in a dead height between incumbent democrat, loretta sanchez and the g.o.p. challenger, van tramp. within voting law could turn the tide for either candidate. both of them are trying to appeal to a growing number of vietnamese american voters. our casey stegall is joining us live from the los angeles bureau, do we have casey? he s going to be coming up for us in a couple of minutes on the story. interesting, that vote could turn the tide. for ten days and counting to the crucial mid term elections and the political guns are out in force. crisscrossing the country and today, we ll hear from president obama and former vice-presidential candidate, sarah palin. live coverage on america s election headquarters, next. my producer is telling me,
transferring about $5.5 million to house and senate committees and some of the state party committees to use that money the last two weeks to beef up the get out the vote efforts. the dnc says they ve transferred about $20 million this election cycle over there. republicans doing similar things. it is crunch time. also happening right now and this is important. west virginia. if the republicans win back the senate and need ten seats to do it one of the states they may do it in is west virginia. this is the seat the late robert byrd held since 1968. first and maybe only debate in west virginia between the democrat joe manchin, the popular government and john raese. there will be two others and that could change the complexion of the debate. finally, with 15 days left as we say it is so important to get the top-named surrogates out there. crisscrossing the country will be barack obama.
oh, man! we re gonna be late for school! get up! come on! - come on! - ( mother smirks ) when do you think she s gonna tell em it s saturday? ( laughter ) for a streak-free shine that lets in the light, use windex. s.c. johnson a family company. sean: if you know any tax cheats you can cash in with the irs. the new whistle-blower office will reward americans who expose cases of tax fraud around the country. the only catch is the fraud has to amount to at least two million dollars and in turn the irs will slash your own taxes by up to 30%. the president could make a bundle off this new law all he has to do is turn in tim geithner and congressman rangel. but don t worry, he ll find someone else. who s that lady? who s that lady?
incumbents where the opposition to the president s plan is 20% the difference is 20% or higher. congressional races across the country. the more we listen to some of these moderate democrats the more afraid they are getting. one wonders whether this is not a suicidal position. sean, the american people do support health care reform. they don t support this health care reform. sean: you ve been doing a lot of focus groups throughout the year. you did a group where you asked people if the democrats should use reconciliation, the nuclear option. set this up for our audience and then we ll show the tape. it was a week ago in philadelphia, they were incensed about the idea that someone would try to use a political trick to get something through congress as important as reconciliation, as important as health care. let s take a look. how many of you believe the democrats should try to get any health care through and
we re talking obama is not wrong on health care. obama is right on health care. the number of people without health care coverage in this country and the cost being imposed upon people for health care and what the insurance companies going wild in my state 39% of people with small businesses [ talking over each other ] let s attack about the state of california. basically the health plan that obama wants and the democrats are pushing, you tried push, democrats tried in california a few years ago, not the democrats. yes, the democrats. no it was willie brown and ken mattie, the late ken mattie. recall that [ talking over each other ] excuse me, think we had enough of health care. we only got a couple minutes. gitmo right here. how about abc news, tv cameras they go up to boston to people s houses cia agents