sean: this is a fox news alert. the g.o.p. picked up another seat in the house of representatives. the ballots have been counted in illinois in the eighth congressional district and fox news learned that democratic congresswoman melissa bean called and conceded to her republican opponent joe walsh. now the republicans have been given a second chance by voters. party leaders are beginning to take the steps necessary to fulfill the pledge to america. one way is stop out of control spending banning process of earmarking. a short time ago we got word that the senate republicans adopted a voluntary ban on the controversial spending projects. minority leader mitch mcconnell helped pave the way after making this statement on the senate floor yesterday. every day that is senate has been in session, i have
if the trend continues. the question here is does it spell the beginning of the end of miller s plight? based on the body language behind me among the supporters, it seems they re getting warn down. thank you. melissa bean will await results and she told supporters it would be benz before the count is done. she is trailing joe walsh by 350 votes. a former university of tennessee student that hacked to palin s e-mail in the presidential campaign was sentenced to serve a year and a day in halfway house possibly instead of prison. palin preparing to promote her book with a stomp in the key presidential caucus state of
i ve got a great group of advisors who are helping me step up right now. watlsh has a scant 347-vote lead over melissa bean. since election night, three-term congresswoman in her words considers this race too close to call. and these votes might decide the contest. in republican leaning lake, mchenry county, absentee and provisional ballots are being checked and held for november 15, the deadline for all ballots to arrive by mail. they will be opened and counted on that day. based on the accounted absentees in suburban cook county, bean team likes its chances of erasing the gap. the spokesperson noted 70% of the absentee ballots were cast in support of congresswoman bean. how many absentees are left to count? 182 ballots received with a
i ve got a great group of advisors who are helping me step up right now. watlsh has a scant 347-vote lead over melissa bean. since election night, three-term congresswoman in her words considers this race too close to call. and these votes might decide the contest. in republican leaning lake, mchenry county, absentee and provisional ballots are being checked and held for november 15, the deadline for all ballots to arrive by mail. they will be opened and counted on that day. based on the accounted absentees in suburban cook county, bean team likes its chances of erasing the gap. the spokesperson noted 70% of the absentee ballots were cast in support of congresswoman bean. how many absentees are left to count? 182 ballots received with a
provisionals and absentees are there, lake county we are looking at 560 votes. and, cook county, there is a block of something in the neighborhood of 2 to 300 and mchenry county, far fewer and probably the neighborhood of 200, and why do we say probably? well, in that county they have two congressional districts that run through there and it is going to be a narrow margin with votes still to be tacked on a week from today. martha: who is bill waljoe wals reporter: i third time around candidate and ran for congress and the state house in the 90s and did not win either race and put his hat out there, if you will, for the 2010 republican primary in this district, was not the favored candidate, endorsed candidate and won any way and ran a campaign with something in the neighborhood of 3 or $400,000, worst of donation, versus his opponents, melissa bean who had millions.