pushed-back flights. plus, bank of america today announcing it lost more than $6.7 billion in the third quarter blaming the loss on the new requirements of the cred and debit card reform legislation. and shane bauer and josh fattal in iran reportedly facing a november 6th trial date. their families say they hope these two men will be released soon after that. they are being accused of crossing over the border into iran. well, the battle over the late west virginia senator robert byrd s old seat turning into a three-man race pitting republican john racy against democrat joe mansion, and like it or not, president obama. take a listen. we have to start lifting jobs and manufacturing where they should be. not like mansion and obama, they enjoy people working for $7.25. quite frankly, i don t. well, i hate to inform my
these are the races to watch across the country. we may add to the list over the next 14 days. we begin in west virginia. showing democrats gaining ground in several places, west virginia among them. democratic governor joe mansion now trails republican businessman john racy by just three points. that john raese by just three points. down from five two weeks guy. the races to watch, we will further west. things tightening in the important state of missouri and that is where we find democrat robin carnahan now six points down to republican roy blunt. h his lead had been 8. now, if there we go back to the now, if there we go back to the colorado. michael bennett is now just one point behind republican ken buck who had a four-point advantage last month.
governor manchin, the democrat and republican businessman john racy for a long time, it seemed as if racy had marched off to a surprisingly large lead. but recent polls indicate that manchin is coming from behind. chris, this is a great example of what happens when you have a figure who ha very well known and popular, joe manchin and one who in john raese has lost three elections. your past matters in the state. the reason manchin fell behind for a while was to summarize barack obama. obama s ratings are so low, rock bottom in west virginia , 20s or low 30s. but, joe manchin is remerging. he has popularity, 60 to 70%. they ve gotten their campaign in gear. i think he took it for granted for too long. he woke up, just in time. i want to add, if the
there have been seven dead wrestlers since she started campaigning. it s a sport. people die in all sports. is that over the top, laura? it s the same thing. i agree with john. this is an election that shouldn t be about dead wrestlers. it could be about the dead mr. net. he s against a woman that doesn t in global warming and we re talking about w. e. there s something to be pointed out here about the mcmahon as a businesswoman and it s a bizarre thing that the case that people make that because you re a successful business person you necessarily will be a successful public person, deserves to be pierced. they have to look after. everybody i hate to do this but i agree with laura, which makes me nervous. something fascinating is going on. two very strong female business executives running against two career politicians. and actually i think that they re the once creating jobs and trying to create jobs and we have these career politicians trying to stop them.
campaign in which somebody in your campaign referred to ms. whitman as a whore. this is a five-week old private conversation picked up on a cell phone with a garbled transmission. the campaign apologized promptly and i affirm that apology. the fact that you re defending your campaign for a slur and a personal attack on me, i think it s it s not befitting of california. it s not befitting of the office you re running for. john, what do you think? affirm that apology. that wasn t good enough? i think meg whitman is right. i also think laura flanders is right. this isn t what it s about. california is going completely bankrupt. businesses are fleeing california because it s a terrible place to do business because of all the taxes and regulations and what california needs is somebody to come in there and shake up the political establishment. and actually, clean out things. i don t think that jerry brown