and private-sector jobs. because the stimulus money has dried up, because governments have had to lay off workers, because the census workers have been laid off, the economy has lost jobs. he s focusing on the bright side of the equation, just private-sector job gains and losses. he s taking a piece of the data that makes their case and highlighting it here about the private sector. if you look at the total picture, you see it s a bit more negative. nothing wrong with what he s doing here. this is just the total picture of the economy, which has gone down when you count government jobs. go to our website. you can get the link to this entire presentation. nice to hear what their saying. and when we come back, a candidate from a political party you ve probably never heard of just made a big splash. will it get him any votes? lower rent? we ll be right back. [ commentator ] lindsey vonn! she stays tough!
ballot and determining for themselves which candidate is on my side and which candidate is pushing for more tax cults for millionaires sand that going to actually karen what do you think? the san no. president obama is not on the ballot, but if you listen to democratic pollsters, they will tell you that the president s approval ratings are actually dragging down their candidates. an example just this evening, one of the democratic pollsters, ppp, story, i don t recall what it stands for, you know who they are, they just have a poll right out on the washington senate race, dino rossi and patty murray. those numbers are stuck. patty murray is down and democratic pollsters are saying that president obama is upside down in the state and dragging down these numbers. and don t here is how i would look at the numbers of president obama. don t look he at the nation national approval rating, look at his approval rating in all of the senate seat he is and the highly contested house s
wire, things looking a little bit shaky for democrats there and according to the latest fox news state poll, john raese is still leading and the lead has been narrowed since the last time we looked at the numbers, and he is leading over the popular second term democratic governor there, joe manchin. close race, and in the only debate before election day, they duked it out, talking about hot button issues. we have to start lifting jobs and manufacturing where they should be. not like joe manchin and obama, they enjoy people working for $7.25. quite frankly, i don t. i hate to inform my opponent, but, mr. obama s name will not be on the ballot for the u.s. senate in west virginia, it will be me. and i record has been very clear. martha: both men vying to serve the two remaining years of the late senator robert byrd s term and will take effect the day after election day, they ll be
maybe to some extent. to i think moderates, democrats, independents who are still undecided, this should chill you to the bone. this is reflective of a lot of the tea party candidates in terms of how they are approaching these races. that is, when you challenge these candidates, whether it is sharron angle in nevada, john raese in west virginia or joe miller in alaska, you challenge them about their extreme positions, or paul rand in kentucky. another good example. they become very defensive in almost hostile, the notion that somehow you dare question them. when you look at their position, they re entirely out of main stream. that is really i think the heart of the problem. that they don t want to defend their position. they don t want to talk about their position. when they do, they end up alienating those voters. so maybe it mobilizes some on the right so to speak. i think in alaska when you have three candidates between murkowski, the current incumbent, swell scott mcadams,
welcome back to the ed show and thanks for watching tonight. multimillionaire john raese is trying to launch his political career by becoming the next senator from west virginia n a debate with democrat joe manchin, the government of that state, raese slammed the health care bill as pure, unadult rated socialism. i disagree with the fact that you re going to see insurance companies and doctors come under the penmanship of the federal government. i disagree with all of that. what aid like to do, ai d like o repeal every part of it because it is pure, unadulterated socialism, the worst bill that has ever come out of the united states senate and house. raese doesn t know a damn thing about paying an insurance bill, does he? this guy made his money the old fashioned way that is what he said, by inheriting it he spends much of his time living not in west virginia but with the super rich in palm beach florida hanging out at the local country