the president is waiting in two of the highest profile campaigns in the country, first up, rallying supports for barbara boxer and off to vegas with harry reid and he s locked in a tight race with tea party favorite sharron angle and that race is being called the most closely watched senate match-up this year. so will the president make a difference? is the question, more in a moment. bill: speaking of net, he has been to ohio, more times than any other state in the country, 11 visits since taking office and willed make the 12th on halloween, why is ohio so critical? and the balance for power in the house, you can see so many races shape up, as it stands, we showed you the senate yesterday and today in the house democrats have a majority, republicans 179, democrats, 256, and to take the majority republicans need to win 39 seats, on november 2nd and we key down on so many different races across the country. ohio, there are countless battles there. on the governor s level, sena
against radical arizona immigration law that was been a big topic of conversation this year. the four-term congressman is also face the ugliest, racist side of the republican party. now this is the arizona gop. they are running with this mailer for their candidate, ruth mcclung, showing grijalva with this mustache. now, you be the judge s that racist in the republicans will stop at absolutely nothing scare old, white, low-information voters. joining us now is the arizona congressman, raul grijalva and co-chairman of the progressive caucus. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. i m almost embarrassed to ask you for your reaction to this, but that is the story. what is your reaction to being depicted as a bandito that s being shipped around the state of arizona? it is a pattern and i m not
state, boxer in california, murray in washington state, feingold in wisconsin, manchin in west virginia, sestak in pennsylvania, all of these democrats are moving up, they are in the lead and they have got momentum on their side. and that s what happens. feingold is not in the lead. look at these races individually and match them up and figure who they are going to deal with. feingold is not in the lead and murray is not in the lead. come back there is a new poll out today. there is a new poll out today. feingold out today. he is behind and has been behind. he is closing it is now a tie race. he has made up 7 point notice last week. so you re saying that the poll numbers don t mean anything, todd that running with the president is still good medicine for the democrats who are out there? i m saying this each of these races is will be decided not by barack obama but by the candidates on the ballot, republican and a democrat. this is a comment from the town hall, t
that s coming up. but this is the story that has me fired up tonight. we are two weeks out from election day in this country and many people think it is the most important election in the history of the country and basically this is the landscape, 99 seat of the house are iplayn you 15 seats in the senate are in play and the corporate money, without transparency, is guiding the force for the predicted republican takeover. it is pouring n americans, we are getting gamed by the chamber of commerce and karl rove and i think we are fool it is we stand here silent. in the process, some folks in the media claim the unions, they are doing the same thing. that is nothing but garbage. every dime, hear merck every dime is accounted for on behalf of the workers in this country who are in organized labor. so i think maybe the best way to explain this is let s just take this to a personal level. if you get audited by the irs, you can t be generic. you have to account for every expenditu
town hall, the infamous town hall meeting with senate candidate joe miller up in anchorage, alaska, talking about border security. he says the first thing that has to be done is secure the border. east germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. now, obviously, other things were involved. we have the capacity, too, as a great nation secure the border, if east germany could, we could. now we all know, history tells us that they were pretty radical about shooting people trying to get across the border. what do you make of this, karen hanretty? ed, last weeks, i was on your show and i told republicans they didn t need to talk about the minimum wage. this week, i m here to say they don t need to talk about east germany. this is just this is just a bizarre statement. it was a bad analogy. what he needs to stick to is stick to the size of the federal government, stick to this increase in taxes, stick to the economy and these messages that are what helped him written wynn that primary