morgantown all day long. republicans, democrats, and independents those who are going to vote and those who admit they are not going to vote yeah we love joe manchin. the problem joe manchin has faced despite approval rates in the high 60 s on governor on national issues when he goes to washington his own folks back home are suspicious that he won t ultimately side with fellow democrats and advance the obama agenda, be that health care, cap and trade, the stimulus. a whole host of things on which he is accused of sort of becoming now increasingly conservative having initially expressed some level of support. in the case of john raese he doesn t fit the bill of sort of national narrative either, shep. john raese is a very successful businessman in west virginia. been criticized for spending a lot of time in recent years in florida not in west virginia itself. more importantly, he has run for senate twice before. he can t call himself an outsider either. this race is going to go down to
enough for abortion and i m pro-life and we are a different type of democrat here in west virginia. martha: seems like a lot of people want to be a different type of democrat in tight races and joe manchin claims the mantle for himself, carl cameron joins now me from morgantown, west virginia, how reflective of the national landscape is what is going on right now between john raese and joe manchin? reporter: it is raining here, good morning, martha. it is reflective but it s not. joe manchin is not reflective of the national democratic party. he s very conservative. both socially and fiscally. he s endorsed by the national rifle association. and endorsed we the chamber of commerce which the democratic party spent a lot of time criticizing this year. he s socially conservative, you heard that he opposes abortion in most cases and does not support many of the ways in which roe vs. wade was decided, he has been critical of these things and he is not a typical
chief political respondent carl cameron reports it s closer as manchin moves farther that president obama and other democrats. reporter: campaigning in the razor close senate race at in his home township of morgantown hometown of morgantown, john raese ask in a race with joe manchin from the seat left open by the late senator robert byrd. people are anry and upset with the way washington is going. my message resonates because they know if i go to washington i won t get potomac fever. the latest battleground shows the obama disapproval in west virginia at 65%. manchin s approval rate as governor is 69%. his problem is convincing voters he ll oppose his own party agenda in the senate. on fox news sunday, manchin went out of his way to achieve
raese, how manchin is backing away from the president, his vote on health care. listen to this: the health care reform is far reaching over things i don t agree with, the mandates, also it s not strong enough to abortion. i m prolife and we re a different type of democrat in west virginia. martha: there you go. how wealth hair health care is playing out in these races with eight days to go. we ll be right back. that would be. really, really bad. [ male announcer ] with banof america s zero liability guarant, you re not reonsible for any frdulent charges on your card. guaranteed. bank of america says they ll credit any fraudulent charges back to my account s soon as the next day. the next day! that makes me feel bet about using these cards. they ve got my back. they ve got my ba. [ male announcer ] the opportity to worry less abt fraud with the zero liility guarantee from bank of ameri.
that is more attractive from the stamp, can help the rest of the world. china is using more coal than ever. chris: i don t want to interrupt but i want to give you an opportunity to talk about john raese. you question whether he s a legal resident of west virginia but his campaign says he pays income and property taxes in your state. chris, what we re talking about is setting priorities. where do you want to be and where have you, you know, really laid your claim and spend your time and try to fix the problems we have? ply opponent and his family have a home in enjoy the homestead exemption in palm beach, florida. that is pretty much known by everybody and all the income produced, by the family, being paid taxes in west virginia, supporting our state are legitimate questions to be asked and i can assure you my wife and i every penny of income we have had, tax were paid in west virginia, people will look at