they won everything. you know where they didn't win? republicans did not win that year where they won everywhere else, but they did not win in west virginia. >> should there be minimum wage or not? >> absolutely not because minimum wage is something that franklin delano roosevelt put in during the depression. >> john raese, republican candidate for senate in west virginia in the very republican year of 2010 explaining to cnn he does not believe in the minimum wage. he did not win. republicans also did not win that year in the state of connecticut. >> since businesses are struggling as you all described would you argue for reducing the minimum wage? >> i think we ought to look at all of those issues in terms of what mandates are being placed on businesses and can they afford them? >> senate candidate linda mcmahon describing the minimum wage as a potentially unaffordable mandate for businesses that we maybe ought