smart decision by not getting on the sunday shows this week. shouldn t have accepted in the first place. she needs to talk to the people of delaware. it is delaware voters not conservatives around the country. it will be delaware voters who determine it and there is as i say resistance. when she wins a stunning upset and incidentally i didn t predict we wouldn t win. she won a stunning upset and she should be yanking the imagination of the people of grabbing the imagination of democrats. roy blunt has a ten-point lead building upon the momentum he got from winning the republican prime air in missouri. chris: i just want to ask you quickly the new tape in which she said on the tv show politically incorrect in 1999 that she dabbled in witchcraft, how damaging is that?
that steals and beats up and threatens his ex-wife and kids, a guy that is hit in the face with a baseball and a granny who takes it in the ribs, proving once and for all that is,hivalry is dead in america. that s not even news you can t use. we need the week in review to lift the spirits. that s coming up. we will. trust me. that s coming up. we re living under a black sun here. it is dark. up next, the debate gives delaware voters their first look at one of the nation s most talked about senate races. we get to watch christine o donnell go toe to toe with her opponent for the first time. details next. mika s must-read opinion pages. you re watching morning joe approved by starbucks. hey what s going on? doing the shipping. man, it would be a lot easier if we didn t have to weigh em all.
even in the bathroom of air force 1. he did right before taking this picture. chris coons, matterbaiting for delaware. [ laughter ]. that s too much. i m not going to be able to do it. sam, can you start the show. why am i taking this show? that poor guy. that poor, poor guy. willie, you know, i knew politics in delaware was strange. this takes the cakes. the race could swing on that central issue, very important to delaware voters and voters, i dare say, across this great country. they had a debate there last night. i wonder if this topic came up. she is against that. she has said she s against that. sam stein who is digging up all
are you surprised some of these preliminary polls show that you are ahead? i m encouraging. i m not popping any champagne corks because the final results aren t in but i m very encouraged because we ve been working very hard all summer and the spring to get our message directly to the voters, to earn their trust, to let them into my proposal to get private sector jobs back to delaware. what is it about your message, christine, that has gotten the attention and support of the tea party of sarah palin? well, i think it s because they ve seen the ground swell of grassroots support. really, it s i think the delaware voters because as i ve gone up and down the state, i ve shared with them, i ve struggled, i ve been there. i can relate to what they re going through. that s why i want to go to washington and propose solutions that help the average american, not increase the debt. and common sense men and women here in delaware know that the proposal coming from washington that my oppone
left-leaning delaware voters that they as you point out she is definitely to the right of mike castle. how do you support them? you need enough independents and democrats to get behind her to winhis generation. how do you do that? this tea party movement that s grown leaps and bounds over the last year and a half is a direct result of people being fed up with both parties, both the democrat and republican party. this movement was born out of concern over the fiscal issues the excessive out of control spending that is going on in our country at the local, state and federal level, especially at the federal level. democrats, along with republicans and independents are concerned about out of control spending. and this crosses all party lines and that s how scott brown was able to be elected in january. when people go to the ballot box they are voting on the economy. that is the number one issue affecting all americans right