four of which are in minnesota districts 1, 2, 3 and 8. i know the president will go there three days from now. saturday the president is going to go there and be in the first district, the open seat that walz is vacating. southern part of the state. come on back here to the maps. what we ve done is divided the country in regions. we ll go to the upper midwest in minnesota and you mention the number of districts, 1, 2, 3, 8 are toss-ups. i understand why he is going to minnesota and the house battles. why do you find yourself fighting for a senate seat in tennessee and mississippi? why is that happening? well, the president is traveling the whole country to get out our base and he has endorseed cindy hyde-smith, a jungle primary in november. she wants to make sure she is one of the top two. two republicans are viable and one democrat. in minnesota there are two
sinchts with 28 days to go, it s no surprise the gop is pumping the benjamins into key congressional races. two leading republican groups are spending $13.5 million on house battles across the country. republicans are already in control of the house, and they want to keep it that way. they had a good chance to take the senate until the kink of junk science opened his month. with the senate in the balance, let s talk about favorite senate races and surely what s going on in missouri never ceases to amuse me. the crazy uncle has been let out of the back room and into the party. he keeps talking and he keeps staying alive. he s only 3 points behind. missourians are saying we don t like either people. who do we like least, best, bad, worse. it s problematic both ways, but the gop has refunded to todd akin to supporting him, newt
house advisers keep pointing to results in colorado, for example. the democratic senate primary there. you had an incumbent in michael bennet that a lot of pundits were saying he s going to lose. he had allen romanoff in that primary. former president clinton got behind him. president obama got behind michael bennet. bennet pulled it out. white house advisers believe that s because he had the president behind him saying the situation is bad but do you want to go back to the republicans that they believe led to all this or move forward that will take time and dig out of this. in the end he won but that s just one of many difficult senate and house battles ahead. we re now just a few weeks away from the midterms. you can feel that intensity getting hotter by the day. ed henry in washington. what do you think? is the government doing enough to fix the economy? just go to cnn.com/amfix. if there s any ray of hope