this time and all of the polling numbers look very positive and people appreciate the work that i ve done for the district so we re all happy. reporter: bachmann s fame makes her a prolific fundraiser and she is spending millions on hard hitting ads against her opponent. big spending jim graves is no different. reporter: she hopes this will turn out her base. i think she cares about minnesota and what is going on here. reporter: and be enough to overcome what could be a vote for change. she s probably been in, lining up to give somebody else a chance. chuck, i spoke to the graves campaign and they acknowledge they face an uphill battle to unseat michele bachmann. she is getting about 50% in the polls. he is within the margin of error in his own polling. the star trib has a little wider than that. what he needs is folks that vote romney, vote for klobuchar, and vote for jim graves. talking to a lot of republicans in minnesota who tend to be more moderate than the ones we s
iowa this morning. reporter: now she is in a tight race to keep her house seat. though she represents minnesota s most republican district one recent poll shows her getting just 50% against wealthy democratic businessman and hotel owner jim graves. he is convinced bachmann s failed presidential run is helping him. i definitely think people feel left out here. she hasn t been in the district or on the floor in congress. she just hasn t been representing the people. she hasn t been a voice for the people. reporter: a run that didn t sit well with some of her constituents. i think it hurt her because she really wasn t doing anything for the voters in her district. i think that was a waste of time and she wasn t maybe doing her job and i was paying for that? sure. i do. reporter: bachmann admits there s been fallout but remains confident. do you think your presidential run hurt you or helped you in the district? oh, i think that it i think there s both. i think there s a lo
i mean just to give you an idea, ed, there s four or five counties here, lee county, escambia county, bre yard county that s almost double digit or double-digit republican registration advantages, and there are many democrat that have turned out to early vote than republicans. and that we ve eclipsed them in early voting. we ve run circles around them in the ground game. so let them swimming in the kitchen sink and we re going to keep turns out voters. that s what s going to re-elect president obama the president of the united states. so does president obama win florida? president obama is going to win florida, i am confident. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz with us tonight, thanks so much. thank you. coming up, congresswoman michele bachmann faced democratic challenger jim graves in their first debate last night. i ll show you the bachmann claim that had the whole audience in stitches laughing. stay tuned.
for 10 years and one of the most dedicate hard working conservatives we have in congress and i believe she will prevail in that race. gretchen: she s up against tom graves. we have mitchell bachmann, republican 51 percent . jim graves 45 percent. and so that s outside of the margin of error . they had a recent debate i believe. did they not? they did. liberal media puts up the liberal e polls. michele has had a target on her back from the liberal media since she first went to congress. gretchen: thank you for getting up early. . gretchen: our veterans ripped off on car insurance, should they be charged more because they were not covered
president obama, the president of the united states. so does president obama win florida? president obama is going to win florida, i am confident. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz with us tonight, thanks so much. thank you. coming up, congresswoman michele bachmann faced democratic challenger jim graves in their first debate last night. i ll show you the bachmann claim that had the whole audience in stitches, laughing. stay tuned. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news