you be in the driver s seat and he will be there working for you. raese s opponent manchin getting star-studded help. president clinton will be in m mortonton. and you can see storms moving through portions of new england and the north plains and all the way from the pacific northwest down through central portions of the golden state of california. currently, it is cold. you step out, gretch in the home town of minneapolis and 30 s across the northern tier and then 40 s and 50 s elsewhere, right now in caribou, maine, it s 24 and a chilly spot on this map. later on today, as you send your goblins off for trick-or-treating, it s going to be 56. 74 in raleigh and also in atlanta. and 60 through the central plains and 80 s in the
nevada, you have to give the republicans an advantage because they have been ahead in virtually every poll so far with almost no exception. scott, is the same thing true in another critical state that both sides are watching, west virginia? you know, west virginia is a key race, partly because we will learn about it early in the evening. and the basic story line there is that joe mansion, the democrat, is very popular, but president obama is very unpopular in the state. if john raese comes from behind and pulls it off, it s likely the democrats will get control of the senate. if john racy wins you are saying it is likely the republicans will get control of the senate? that s right right. the republic likely to end up about 48, 49 seats. if raese wins, that s a seat we don t expect him to get at the moment, that means a turnout is stronger for the republican side, and it gives you the confidence they might win a race
and again, with gusto, america s election headquarters and we re following a neck and neck race in west virginia. joe manchin against john raese. it s an interesting race to watch and here is why. the governor is very popular and even his opponents admit he s done a very good job and raese backed by sarah palin and it s meant to even things out in the polls in a large part painting manchin as a yesman for the obama administration and shannon bream is live in virginia. will that strategy be enough for raese to win on tuesday. reporter: he s going to stick with it and standing by the argument governor manchin will be nothing, but a rubber stm for the obama administration and here is his take on the campaign trail. our governor believes with mr. obama that your health care should be run by
elections, again and again. bill clinton, when he was up for re-election in 1996, was benefiting from a very strong economy at the time. and, it helped him get reelected despite the debacle that happened for democrats two years earlier and jimmy carter was not so fortunate. the economy again, and again and again. and, for democrats, it is not perceived as good. and, the perception among many is that, it is actually perceived in some cases as worse, again, for them. bill: i want to show you a couple specific races, joe manchin the governor of west virginia and the popularity rating is 70%, approval. pull up the chart. bill: and he s neck and neck with john raese and, if you look at the unemployment rate in west virginia, two years ago, it was well below the national average. today, look where it is, at 9.2%. 22 months, it is up 3.4%.
what the republicans did over the previous 8 years, and, she says it will be different business done in the g.o.p. caucus. martha: when you look at these races, race by race and the people that she has backed, she has a lot riding on, you know, the success of what she laid out there. i mean, you have john raese in a tight race and christine o donnell, not doing well. joe miller is now looking a little bit more questionable, in alaska. all, very big people and sharron angle, rand paul. martha: or she wasn t i was going to say, you have rand paul and sharron angle and others and a lot of house races. look, it will we ll have to see what happens on tuesday night. if the republicans don t get the senate because christine o donnell turns out to have been a weak candidate in delaware, people will say, gee, should you have endorsed her? she doesn t have any second thoughts about this and she said, look, if i had to make a choice today between mealymouthed moderate republican