that business is done in washington. no more business as usual. we have to get there and shake it up. we have to send joe miller to the united states senate, he who will not just embrace the status quo, ronald reagan used to say, stat is quo is latin for the mess that we re in. bill: miller talked, too do you recall the rally and look at the real clear politics average today. he s 35.7, murkowski, at 34.7, and mcadams, in third at just over 23 points and we ll talk to john fund in about 20 anyone else from the wall street journal, and, can murkowski make history as a write-in candidate? and what if you don t spell her name right? does that counted? john fu count? john fund is coming up on that. martha: a new king poll out for the senate race shows both republican dino ross is and democrat incumbent pate murray, look, 47% apiece, folks.
because her daughter with cystic fibrosis won t be denied coverage for her health care. reporter: rossi tried to standpoint into voter anger over the economy, blasting murray for the $13 trillion national debt, and her party s spending. unlike some democrats, in tight races the senator is not distancing herself from her party s leadership. she s the fourth most powerful democrat in the senate and is making the election as local as possible. i work to make sure our main street businesses, like my dad s business when i was growing up have the credit they need to be able to expand. they need modest taxation and fair and predictable regulation and let them chase the american dream and when they are successful, you don t punish them for the success, like senator murray wants to with high tax rates. reporter: the polls afb all over the place and a fox news poll had rossi up by one and a time poll had murray up by 8 and it comes down to who is energized and comes out and mails in th
rossi in a televised debate last night and the rivals sparring over extending the bush tax cuts and the role of the government, was the debate a game-changer? dan springer, live in spokane, washington. dan, any winners here. reporter: gregg, there was no major gaffe or a knockout punch thrown by either candidate in spokane, and that could be bad news for dino rossi, who trails in the latest poll and who, some say, has to win for republicans to take control of the senate. changed patty murray? reporter: after weeks of hard-hitting attacks on the airwaves, democratic senator murray and republican challen challenger rossi, went after each other. jobs will be lost or not created because of the senator murray s deciding vote on this piece of legislation. he wants to repeal health care reform and tem it to the woman who told me, for the first time she can sleep at night,
doocy. no, but because doocy is walking off. what! don t worry about it. you don t care, you get as many prizes. leaves me holding all the cards, right? martha: that is obviously peter doocy and the joy behar role. gregg: shame on you! martha: stormed off the set and before all of that happened on the view, bill owe riley said to joy behar, you should listen to me and you might learn something and you could tell, she was not a happy camper, after that comments and from that moment on, she was like, this close to blowing every second and it was, interesting stuff. gregg: do you think it was real or. martha: i think it was real, she was ticked off, no doubt. yeah. yeah. bill: i ll take your word for it. bill: and washington state, democratic incumbent, senator pate murray is fighting to hold on to her seat and faced dino