jason opposed the wall street bailout. i like that jason altmire is not afraid to stand up to the president and nancy pelosi. he fights for folks here. it is a message he also echoes when he talks to us and on the trail his message is i m a democrat but not like them, wolf. some people are raising the logical question i guess, why should he stay as a democrat if he is running against so many of the democratic party issues? reporter: right. i asked him that question and he said he feels that this year there have been some missteps and that the party has got sort of lost its way on some issues. my words not his. he used the word missteps. his key point was health care reform. that is the pride sort of and joy, the thing he is most proud of bragging about that he voted no on health care reform and he says it pays dividends every day. i interviewed him and asked him about it. listen to what he said. for me, i think health care is a factor because i voted against the bill. n
somebody s money spent on the ad. don t forget, it s california. ads are expensive. i m talking about the production value. it s a well done and expensive ad to produce. that ad costs tens of thousands of dollars to produce. not just a quickie you re doing one night. she spent more than anybody else did right now. she has the cash $54 million. let s take a look. there s that noise again. let s take a look at how she s doing in the race and whether or not that s effective. she s ahead of jerry browne 48% to 40%. 6% of the voters in california not sure. let s move to pennsylvania where we have jason altmeyer, a democrat right there. let s watch the ad. too many people in congress vote the party line. he s not like that. jason is independent. no doubt about it. when he voted against health care. when jason opposed the wall street bailout. i like that he s not afraid to stand up for the president. and nancy pelosi. fights for folks here like helping our veterans get the
deflate the grass roots and have them stop doing phones and stop sending in money for ads and phone calls. but that is not working because he has been able to produce five switches and we have been able to produce four going the other way. i believe that what is happening is the excitement that is being generated, the incredible intensity of the tv ads, the phone calls, going on right now, it is intimidating a lot of the members of congress and they are switching back over. jason altmeyer. i was on the o reilly show on wednesday and i talked about his vulnerability and mentioned his name and today he switches from yes to no. oh, it is you! you are responsible! that is having an effect. i think that might have played some role. go to dick morris.com and you can see 30 other targets. we don t have time to get into it but also the deficit reduction claims today by the president were prepostorrous,
luis gutierrez coming at this bill from the left saying it doesn t do enough for illegal immigrants who would like to purchase heist health car purchase private health care. very interesting. nancy pelosi has to go after those no votes from the first time, like jason altmeyer of pennsylvania, guys who are tired, tanner in tennessee and baird out in washington, those are the votes she needs to get. then she needs president obama to really twist arms and do what he did with dennis kucinich. bring people close in, into the oval office, and say, look. do you want me there for you november 2010? if you don t get re-elected maybe i can help you out on some presidential advisory commission, something of that nature. so some real, real inside washington game playing going on, david. nbc news luke russert on capitol hill. i ll ask you to stay with us and react to this next story. one of the biggest political arguments right now involves the process that democrats are considering to pass the
rejecting to what we send them for, i don t believe the supreme court will send them there. is there a reason i wish the outcome could be different. neil: mark will give it a stab. we ll see. speaking of mark, he s going to join us for our around the clock special healthcare coverage live from washington, friday at 4:00 p.m. we ve among many others, democratic congressman elijah cummings. paul rhyme, carlyfy owe reno. jerry thompson. then next day, saturday, 10:00 a.m. to noon, mark back with us because he just can t get enough of us. then we have blue dog democrat, jason altmeyer. jason huckabee to smooth the world over.