and physical fitness for kids. her office says he comes to campaigning as a mom. that is the lens as she sees the world. sabato expects she will stick to fixed, nice remarks. she says nice things about the candidate she s with. reporter: still it gives g.o.p. candidates, including carly fiorina a chance to suggest the democratic opponent must need help. the race is in a dead heat in a state by any account is as blue as blue can be. even harry houdini could give illusion that boxer is successful senator. theyry thrilled that mrs. obama will be there to urge americans to go to the polls. molly henneberg. bret: connecticut man has been charged with sending
he says that the democrats barely hold the majority in the senate. bob frank season a columnist for the hurst the new york times news service. good to see you. nice to see you, thomas. this has gotten a lot of attention. what do you make of the predictions about everything that the democrats are going to have to face coming up in the midterm elections? well, a moment ago you played that song take this job and shove it, the anthem. i think the voters are in the mood of taking the democrats and shove them out of congress. this is a big problem for the democrats. i think larry is right on the money. the only question might be whether they re going to hold on to the senate. it s really everybody has there s another cliche out there. two months is a lifetime in politics. unfortunately, the hopes of the democrats to use that two months to recover some traction could also mean that they lose more. and i think with what sabato is saying, that s not a surprise
sabato said republicans will pick up ten seats in the senate. even as politicians continue to have bad days, i m talking to you jan brewer, the republican party in aggregate is getting good news and has been recently. if you are the republican party, how do you come out of what is expected to be a gianormous mid-term election and ride that wave toward taking the presidency in 2012? toward keeping barack obama a one-term president? one approach to it is to employ the patented karl rove approach to elections and hit your president, in this case president obama, not just where he s vulnerable but where he s strong. that s why we re seeing unusual salvos on the issue of civil rights but very conservative figures. this past weekend there was an event that got lots of national
democratic candidate, but we re not sure. so they could hold 59 to start with. here we go with what it looks like. they would have to lose ten to lose control of the senate. we ve got charlie cook right now who says they re going to lose between four and six. stu rothenberg between five and seven. sabato says seven. those are the predictions. now let s look at the states where the tea partiers, i want you to focus on this. five states where the tea party candidates having won the nomination could screw it up in an otherwise easy win. sharron angle in nevada is up against harry reid, she is the nominee. rand paul, the tea partier. he s in kentucky, he has won the primary. marco rubio is the candidate of the republican party in florida. and pat toomey in pennsylvania. and then we ve got colorado, ken buck up against jane norton. ken buck being the tea partier. mark, you first. it seems to me that they have a problem here in that they could lose two or three of these they might have other
will be filled, we assume by the democratic candidate, but we re not sure. so they could hold 59 to start with. here we go with what it looks like. they would have to lose ten to lose control of the senate. we ve got charlie cook right now who says they re going to lose between four and six. stu rothenberg between five and seven. sabato says seven. five states where the tea party candidates could screw it up in an otherwise easy win. sharron angle in nevada is up against harry reid, she is the nominee. rand paul, the tea partier. he s in kentucky, he has won the primary. marco rubio is the candidate of the republican party in florida. and pat toomey in pennsylvania. and then we ve got colorado, ken buck up against jane norton. ken buck being the tea partier. mark, you first. it seems to me that they have a problem here in that they could lose two or three of these they