as a result, as a practitioner in campaigns, we gauge much of our early direct mail an voter turnout and contact and tv to try to stimulate and the early turnout or early voting and it s not really understood, technologically, how best to do that, and the party that figures that out first and is still, again up for grabs will have a decisive advantage in this and future elections. bill: that is an interesting point, doug, thanks for coming on. this time next week we ll bring you back. good. bill: and gauge what we have learned over the past 7 days. welcome it. bill: doug schoen, thank you, what s coming up. martha: nancy pelosi is taking fire from within her own party. listen to this: jim marshall is a long away from nancy pelosi, he doesn t support nancy pelosi and voted the same as republican leaders 65% of the time, how about that for a democratic candidate,
texans, texas is open for business. we created 850,000 jobs, more than all the other states combined and cut taxes for small business and balanced our budget, and set aside $8 billion for a rainy day. limiting government lets our families keep more of what they earn and encourages more texas jobs, it is no wonder texas is home to more fortune 1,000 companies than any other state. securing our future, governor rick perry. martha: looking at those lines, no wonder, i looked at the real clear politics, he s up 9.3%, the governor in that race now. and when the ads began to air he had a 4 or 5 point lead and it increased and just an example, that you can do a positive campaign. martha: let s look at pennsylvania and the governor s race there, frank. again, once again, both ads are positive and both focused on the candidate, let s look: it is really quite tragic. today, one in three graduates from pennsylvania colleges move
reporter: that has been called by the new republic, a liberal magazine one of the most despicable ads of this election season. it has all been denied by rand paul. it goes back to stuff that may or may not have happened as a result of fraternity activity in college. rand paul and his wife have been members after christian church and she is a deacon for the better part of the last 10 years. bill: carl, it will be interesting. maybe 25 minutes from now we see him and we see how he addresses it. you could produce comedy central . reporter: kentucky politic is always rich. this one is getting richer than we have seen in a while. martha: kentucky is one of six key senate races with thin margins right now.
thank you. martha: blazing a new trial in oregon, 24 years, the democrats held the governor s office and now it appears the office is up for grabs in the election according to the numbers, real clear politics average has the democratic governor a point ahead now and the republican, and former portland trailblazer, chris dudley, you see him at 46%, and dan springer is live with more. so what would a dudley win mean for the republican party, of oregon? reporter: well, the difference between being in the wilderness four more years or relevancy, i have to tell you the republican party in oregon is hammered. it has been 28 years since they won a race for governor in the state and are on a losing streak, epic in proportion and on 27 statewide partisan races the republican party won three times and now they have a candidate they believe has a real shot at it, a moderate, chris dudley, has star power and played 16 years in the nba and
latest. reporter: another day of violence, protests, blockades, martha and you noted all over government efforts to hike the retirement age, and reform and in debt pension system and a couple of hot spots we are tracking, first the air hub in southern france and police had to come in and break that up and then had to move into leone, and students there participating in a lot of violence and students across the country, shutting down schools and, a refinery remained blocked, big trouble for french drivers, a quarter of the gas station are without gas and another quarter are running out of gas, even lady gaga had to call off her concert, she was afraid there would not be enough fuel for her roadies, martha. martha: an unbelievable situation we are watching play out here and where you are, in london, they ve also announced huge budget cuts, any similar response in england, so far? reporter: it is pretty low