the white house insists that over the long term, costs will come down, but apparentlyot until lo after costs go up some more. here s a question the white house says health care form will become more popular? do you agree with that? go to pomecnn..com/caffertyfile. post a comment on my blog. not a good sign. the president s signature issue, not a single democrat running for election in the midterms is featuring the health care law in their campaign ads. a lot of the democrats are trying to ruvon away from their vote right now. that s a good point you re making, jack. those who votedgainst i are bragging about it. it s a good subject for discussion. there you go. hrs to go before another primary day, the u.s. senate race in delaware is getting uglier. establishment republican candidate mike cassel is feeling more threatened than ever by his conservative challenger, christine o donnell. ell donns the tea party movement support and sarah palin on her side. brian todd went to dela
actually, received a call from lisa after the election saying, you know, mike, you need to be preped. they re going to come at you hard. reporter: and have they? god bless america reporter: in a week, the tea party express has blitzed delaware, pledging to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost cassel s opponent in this primary. good to see you. . reporter: christine o donnell charms the lunch crowd in a senior center in dover. personal, dynamic, their injection of cash has given her insurgent campaign real momentum. it s sparked some of the most vicious internal warfare the republican party has seen this year. do you recognize this delaware politician? reporter: gop politicians who backed cassel are attacking o doell for defaulting on her personal bills, for not paying income taxes, which she denies. called her delusional, said she couldn t get elected dogcatcher.
columbus go tohe polls. tea party on the eastern sea board. in delaware, moderate congressman republican mike cassel once looked like a shoe in. now, the senate race is tightening and with only about 11% delaware voters expected to turn out, as few 20,000 votes could produce a win. the last minute jockeying gave us a smamdown over the weekend. chris christie put in a letter for mike cassel. both by the way, are university of delaware blue hen alums. that puts christie at odds with sarah palin who recorded this for o donnell. hihi, this is governor sarah palin and i m calling to ask you to vote for christine o donnell for u.s. senate this tuesday. i can relate to the vicious personal attacks on christine and it s sad to see the
wisconsin, california, washington, even the most sort of optimtic republican strategists say we d love to win two ouof three, but two out of three and losing delaware okay. i think that you re so smart. the majority. let me go t gaviny. a fellow irishman. i have to ask you this do you think it could be the like guys like joe biden and guys like me who were smart enough to make the r? i m lookg at this situation. it s a crapshoot. you cannot predict this year they recognize your name and say, i knew that name three months ago. they don t like you. isn t that true? it is true. isbow biden should have gotten this yr. could he have beatenither of these candidates. beaten cassel or o donnell? i think that he could have. really? biden, absolutely. chris, can i make one quick point that matters.
the war. and there s such a wind of anticassel, you know there s an anti-cassel wind in the air, and even when presented with the fact that cassel has a better chance at beating the democratic koons many people don t care anyway. they want to vote him out any way. that sounds like the democratic left sometimes. alled ndc. cillizza, you re shaking your head. the one thing about a polarized electorate is that it doesn t care about practical electoral consequence. yep. by the way i want to gi a salute if not a positive salute a reality check to the far right. bob bennett was knocked off. the guy who beat him, lee, who is going to win the general. chris has been bumped out, but rubio could win that. he s ahead in the polls down there. specter was knocked out of his party, but, too, he s well ahead by seven points in p.a. and who am i missing? murkows murkowski? well i have to bet what s his name up there, joe miller s going to win that. or if he gets in that thing