you are a highly interested person, and you have voted before are or you are a younger voter expressing you a high level of interest, we count you as likely voter. sometimes you might look at a different poll and see what is going on. but to me it is more notable that we are assuming a better likely voter landscape for democrats than among just the broader swathe of registered voters. congressman, get in here. i would have taken those numbers any hour in a tough cycle. every midterm election is a referendum on the president and the president s party. a seven point lead in the generic is enough for the democrats to win the house. that is indisputable. the question is will they win it by taking in 26 or adding a net of 26, 27 or the mid-30s. i think that it will be closer to the mid-30s. it is also a referendum on the president s job afternoon approval. and when you are looking at low to mid 340% job approval for the
iowa s first in the nation g.o.p. contest. tomorrow night fox hosts the final debate before the caucusing begins in iowa. many making stops in the hawkeye state where it seems the voter landscape is changing. western iowa has traditionally been friendlier to the g.o.p. but the percentage of registered republicans has actually dropped in those counties over the last 10 years and gone up in eastern iowa. now folks in the western part of the state say they are getting a lot less attention from presidential cap democrats compared to earlier. steve brown is in western iowa. sux city tonight. how much less attention steve some say a third of the visits happened in 2007. consider the visit by rick santorum the only visit in sioux city over the course of the last three weeks. no one here can remember when that happened last. far less attention than republicans out here are used to having. four years ago it just