he s the one i would follow. he s been throughee 0 hrebgs cycles like this and been successful. i don t think necessarily what joe biden said was the way to go. i think the way to go is what bill clinton said, make this election a choice. bill: go ahead, rich. this you look at the strategy in the middle of the country, washington state and california are very liberal states. look at ohio. they are doing exactly what mary ann is saying to do against john kay sick casic who worked on wall straoefplt he is running away with that race for governor in what everyone recognizes as smack-dab the middle of the country geographically and phreut tee. same thing rob portman, they are running against them as a former bush person. that s not working either. bill: you ll see the bit later the results of our latest battleground poll in ohio.
question. gregg: and the count down is on, five weeks, can you believe it, until the midterm elections? we ll take a much closer look at two key voting groups, women and young people. plus. threats from venezuela, teaming up now, with tehran, is that possible and new leadership in north korea and the nuclear threat there, and, finally, new declassified documents on ufos, jenna, and the high ranking u.s. military personnel, who say, stop your snickering, it is no joke, coming up on happening now. bill: get back to university of texas on the phone with us, a man who runs security on campus, sir, can you hear me okay. caller: yes. bill: how are things down there? is there a second suspect on campus? caller: right now, actually, we are based out of philadelphia at the national organization, the news we are hearing is that pretty much the same we hear from austin, there may be a second suspect but, we ll likely find out in many incidents like this, it will take a while to
and you see it played out on campuses all over the country and you have an emergency alert system in place that notifies students like the gentleman here, pcl, by the way, on the map stands for the perry castanata library, smack-dab in the middle of campus. ut, in austin. martha: and we are waiting for more information on what happened when the gunman went into the library and the earlier reports we heard from the spokesperson for the university of texas, said he fired shots in the the library and whether or not it was his intention to hurt other students and then to harm himself, we don t know but that is part of the story that is still playing out. and, whether or not he was with somebody else, is one of the big factors that is causing a lot of concern. obviously, still on campus, and the students, for the students and the administration and the parents of all of those students as well. bill: you hope it is over but it may not be, and it is unfortunate, you hope it was only a suicide
reporter: there is a great deal more at stake than the 2008 midterm elections. the ideology and party affiliations that the young students embrace now will likely stay with them later in life. what we re saying is what happens here now could influence what happens in 2012 and beyond. bill: what are republicans doing to rally the youth, though, david lee? reporter: i m sorry, bill i didn t hear your question. bill: what are republicans doing specifically to rally the youth vote? reporter: well, the republican college national committee has launched a nation-wide effort that they call operation red november. they have 25 field representatives that have now been deployed in five battleground states. let s take a look now at those five states that they have identified where they are spending most of their money, time and energy. florida, pennsylvania, michigan, ohio and nevada, and these are states where there are key
creates a system that the president can be very proud of and that isn t a drop out factory as he also referred to yesterday. thank you, gentlemen, good to talk to you both today. thank you. thank you, martha. bill: all right, elections now, president obama and other top democrats head back to school today hope to fire up young voters and get them back to the polls in novemberment they were a big influence in 08. they may have their work cut out for them. big enthusiasm is among republicans. david, what are you hearing from the young american students that you talked to on campus? reporter: bill, a definite shift is now underway, as you mentioned in 2008 barack obama was nothing less than a rock star among young voters, and by that i mean those who were under 30. but there is a shift that is now taking place. take a look over my shoulder here on the campus of penn state