he has an ad in which he takes up a rifle and shoots at a copy of the cap and trade bill. anything that nationalizes hurts him. that s why he is trying to run a local election. i m not sure it will succeed. bret: let s talk about another race, a house race that s getting nationalized this week. the virginia fifth district, that s congressman, democratic congressman tom perryilo going against robert hurt. stop to charlottesville friday. many folks are looking at this in a fairly republican district as not a help. this is a really, really interesting trip. i don t think he has ever made a dedicated this is his only dedicated trip for an individual house race. tom perriello he is every democrat s favorite conviction politician. in other words, he supported the obama agenda straight through a to z. he is in a very tough district. i think he won by 721 votes last
him? my impression is that he wanted to carry out this terrorist plot. and the f.b.i. moved in and presented him with what he believed to be accomplices to help him carry out the plight. if convicted, he faces up to 50 years in prison. thank you. that brings us to tonight s poll question. which best describes you? type 36288 for already voted. sr2 for will vote before november 2. sr3 for will vote on november 2. or sr4, will not vote. we ll bring you the results later in the program. still ahead, long-time democratic senator tries to milk every last vote from the dairy state.
time. he has really stuck to the obama agenda. the president is rewarding him though i don t think anybody any thinks he has a chance to win. what the president wants to say is look, if you stand by me, i m going to go and try to help you. the other thing that s interesting though is when you look and costs and benefits of this, you mention gee, maybe it s a risk. it s worse to go and campaign for him. at this point i don t think for tom perriello anything would be worse there is a congressman in the neighboring district glen nigh, also a democrat who is taking the complete opposite strategy to win which is that he is running ads against obama saying how many times he broke with nancy pelosi. he didn t vote for health care. he didn t vote for cap and trade. he is doing a little bit better. and to the extent the president can energize the african-american vote in that part of virginia, he might be helped, too. bret: interesting. one district over. let s turn to the senate again. calif
the campaign about his opponent s house in florida. so he is talking about these houses. is he talking about taxes, but he is not talking about the issues. bret: the popularity of manchin as governor showed up in a raese ad saying we want to keep joe here and not make him pa platomic joe. it s a smart idea if you are the opponent of a popular governor. a classic example of how the democrats are trying to make every race a local one and republicans are trying to nationalize it. if you nationalize it, the democrats are going to lose. and what raese is arguing, this is a guy who may be okay in the state, but if you put him in the senate, he is a guy who said originally he supported obama care. and, in fact, manchin is so scared about the idea of cap and trade, this is a coal state. the democratic administration is really trying to kill through e.p.a. regulation. that s what the state hinges on.
are a diverse party. sandoval is hispanic. bret: a close race that we have covered numerous times as we see democrat joe manchin still within he is up 4. according to real clear politics over republican john reasy. there have been new polls that suggest raese may be up a couple. this is the average of polls here. this one looks like it s going down to the wire. i think it likely to be one of the closest races we will see next tuesday night. you are seeing what s happening in west virginia happen around the country. joe manchin talking about everything and anything but issues at this point. he doesn t want to talk about the stimulus. he doesn t want to talk about president obama. he doesn t want to talk about democrats in washington. and he certainly doesn t want to talk about obama care. he is has not answered the question to whether he favors the good parts and wants to repeal the bad parts. he still won t say whether he wants the tax hikes that you have to have in order to pa