atlantic coast. when these are the terms of the debate, which party is more pro- drilling when that s the fight, i m more pro-drilling. no, i m more pro-drilling. when that s the terms of the political debate, it s not like we re progressing in leaps and bounds toward making things more safe. you can see that in the total lack of action by congress on this issue. and frankly you can see it in the behavior of this administration. about a year after the bp oil spill, we had the top offshore drilling regulator from the obama administers as a guest on this show. that interview did not go well. he appeared on the show in order to defend new rules that his agency put into place in theรง wake of the bp disaster. among the new rules a requirement that the oil companies now state which containment systems they will have ready in the event of a blow out. this is an emergency system to
phil, thank you very much. now taking a look at the u.s. house races we re watching. we will stay down in florida. there is another race down there that is getting very nasty. it s right here in the 18th congressional district. there you see the incumbent democratic congressman alan grayson, running an add against republican opponent daniel webster, linking webster s religious beliefs to those of the taliban. he wants to force raped women to bear the child. submit to me. taliban webster, hands off our bodies and our laws. bret: well, that ad was released on final day of a sunshine state poll. that poll was taken saturday through monday. it has webster leading by seven points over grayson. as you see here, 43-36%. webster says he has taken in about $70,000 in donations since that ad came out. so we ll be using the big fox board throughout the next 34 days. that brings us, however, to
politics average, the current governor charlie crist elected as a republican, running as an independent. real clear has this one in rubio s favor with a lead of about 10.5 points. as you can see over crist and around 17 over meek. now, florida has an 11.4% unemployment rate. that is above the national average. it went to barack obama two years ago, as you see here 51-48%. tonight, correspondent phil keating is down here in miami. he is reporting live wh more on this contest. good evening, phil. reporter: good evening, bret. riding a fresh five-point uptick in the polls, democratic congressman kendrick meek unveiling a novel and creative political ad today. also revealing his new strategy in the waning weeks in the tightening race for florida senate seat. up until now, meek s political ads which aired across florida tv statewide have really basically highlighted his own political positions. he is pro-choice.
and higher taxes. i have mean that is just her record in brief. boxer who spent ten years in the house before 18 in the senate is seldom seen on the california campaign trail, because she s legislating in washington. from whence she fired back. the people are going to judge would they rather have me there, who worked all these years to make their lives better, fighting for jobs, or my opponent who when she had a chance laid off 30,000 workers and shipped their jobs to china and india? reporter: fiorina was one of the nation s first female ceos in major corporation and made tough and controversial decisions. boxer launched the first attack ad and made it about the business record, too. while californians lost their jobs, fiorina tripled her salary, bought a million dollar yacht and five corporate jets. reporter: initially slow to respond, fiorina made her first ad a counter attack using boxer s own word. do me a favor. could you say senator instead of ma am ? it s just a
had a 15-point spread between him and meek a week or two ago. now a trunk, it s a five-point spread. which means that before crist had the idea if he becomes the one who is the challenger, he is the quasi liberal, he s moved heavily left in this, in the early days here. he could end up as the one that democrats abandon. and he s their nominee. however, the party, florida, has now put out as we showed earlier on the show an extremely strong ad against crist where he says how much of a republican he is, pro-life, pro-drilling, pro-everything. guns, that is sacred in the republican world. and it calls him essentially a hypocrite. it looks as if the regular democrats will go with meek not crist. bret: he is getting a bit