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Senate is on a pace. And also, what are the ebola darts . We have outsourced this to the tiny fraction of 1 . More and more, the outsourcing of politics. And what if children talked back to their parents like politicians. Did you eat the cookies . I am deeply disturbed by that question. Joining me is niamalika henderson, carolyn ryan, dan balz and luke russert. Im chuck todd and this is meet the press. Just nine days to go until the elections, and we have results from six states which will tell us about which way the wind is blowing and who might control the senate, and as for me, im on the road meeting the voters on the road trip and spending the week in the trip west and cover iing three state out there, we dropped in on the unpredictable race in kansas and neck and neck race in iowa and also the battle in wisconsin that i feel like it has been going on continuously for four years, but before we get to the polls and the races, two big races caused major concern for many and also, the homegrown spark of terror in ottawa. And of course, there is the doctor who contracted ebola when he returned from west africa where he was treating ebola patients. So lets start with ebola. Reporter this week, ebola came to new york city when craig spencer, the new york city doctor who had been treating patients with Doctors Without Borders in guinea. The situation in west africa is dire though with the World Health Organization announcing that the number of ebola cases has now passed 10,000. But there was encouraging news with nina pham becoming the latest american to recover from the disease and receiving a hug from the president. Many are calling the affected travel ban for the country, and now, many politicians are calling for a quarantine for those returning from the affected countries who have had direct contact with the patients. And those quarantines have been been criticized by people such as Casey Hitchcock who was held for several hours before testing negative for the virus. She said it is frightening and said others will be deterred from helping with the treatment in west africa. Im joined by sophie dellenaise with Doctors Without Borders. Start with the cases in illinois, nng nj and florida, and are you already finding that you have doctors the and other Health Care Workers backing out of volunteer trips to the affect ed areas . Well, you know, frankly speaking, we are frankly confused about the order, because we have been, we have been putting in place over the past few months protocols that are based on well known medical science and accepted and those protocols ha protocols have been strictly followed by our staff. They consist of selfmonitoring, and very strict selfmonitoring, and we ask our volunteers coming back from west africa to monitor their temperature twice a day during 21 days, continue the monitoring of symptoms and also to report symptoms as soon as they realize that they are different. This is the protocol that our colleague craig strictly followed this week. You believe that dr. Spencer did not put any new yorkers in harms way . Well, what we know from medical science is that a person who does not present in some way is not likely to transmit the disease. Even though the disease can only be transmitted through the exchange of body fluids, so it is actually impossible that a person living for example in the same person of an infected person who is not presenting, themselves, could be infected with ebola. Any new protocol to add to simply reassure the american publ public . Well, we are working on strengthening the monitoring, of course, of our field workers, but we also very confused about what are going to be the recommendations by the states. We are strictly following the guidelines of the Public Health institutions in the u. S. And working at increasing of strengthening ours. What we are most concerned about is the Health Condition of the colleague. We are very sensitive, too, and understanding of the anxiety that ebola triggers, but more importantly, we are very much considered about the situation in west africa where the situation is very much out of control. Quarantine measures and corrective measures against a worker could give us a superfluous measure of security while the most important measure is to tackle the virus at the source. Thank you, doctor, for your time this morning. Thank you, chuck. Samantha powers, ambassador to the united nations, is traveling to the affected area, and we asked her yesterday if treating passengers with ebola is necessary . We all value their help, and we need to encourage many more who are going, and we need to treat them when they come back to treat them as heroes and not any other way. And joining us is dr. Anthony fauci who is with the n. I. H. Who successfully treated nina pham. And now, we have quarantines in new york, and illinois and new jersey and three airports who do receive passengers from the three affected countries doing mandatory quarantines, and good idea . Well, the primary goal has to be to protect the American People, but there are ways to do that, that may not have to go that far. So governor christy and cuomo going too far . Well, i dont want to criticize the decision made, but we have to be careful that there are unintended consequences, and the best way to stop this epidemic is to help the people in west africa and we do that by helping people from not only the usa but in other places, and we have to treat the people with respect and make sure that they are really heroes, and the idea that we are being draconian and there are other ways to protect, and monitoring and direct monitoring and active monitor i ing and we dont necessarily have to do that. And the governors of virginia and georgia, where Atlanta Hartsfield and where they are going to be feeling pressured to do the same as new york and new jersey, what would you tell them . Well, go with the science. And the science says . The science says that the people who are not sick, and if you do not come into contact with bodily fluid and if somebody comes back from wherever, liberia, and they are well and they are no danger for anybody. Well, dr. Spencerr was well for a week. He was well for a week. But not leave them off, but m monitor them. Monitor them in multiple ways, and you dont have to put them in a confined place. You monitor them and take their temperature and, remember, dr. Spencer was not sick at the time that he was going around. And we keep saying it over and over again, chuck, you have to come into direct contact with the body fluids, and so the risk to the jep ral public is vanishingly small. Apparently the according to governor cuomo, the federal governor is considering something more, something more astringent and what are you considering . Well a that is certain types of monitoring. You have to strats fi the riss. S some people at high risk, some risk, and low, butt not zero risk and no risk. I am talk thing about the the Health Care Workers. All Health Care Workers, and you fashion what you do with them according to the risk. And one of the ways that you can mitigate against this issue is by monitoring. Different types of monitoring, and you dont necessarily have to how do you make sure it is mandatory, because it is voluntary, and thank goodness that dr. Spencer was doing it. There is ways to ratchet it up. You take the temperature and if anything is wrong, you report it. There is active where you report it to someone and then there is direct active where someone come comes in to take the temperature, and that is all short of quarantine. Dr. Anthony fou chishgs thank you for coming back on the program. Thank you, chuck. Thank you, sir. And now we want to turn to the issue of lone homegrown terror. Officials say that a lone wolf is more difficult to stop than a coordinated 9 11style attack. We have seen examples of it such as in monday in canada when a man hits a car, and then wednesday a recent convert to islam and on the canadian watch list kills a guard on the Ottawa Parliament hill and ends in a gun fight. Thursday in new york, a selfradicalized muslim attacks four nypd officers with a hatchet. The police call it a terror attack. And then of course, in colorado, four young girls get on a plane to go help isis, and they are returned home from germany. And now joining us are our guests to tackle this in two ways. Michael, let me start with you. Are all of these terrorist attacks, islamic terrorism in the way that you would classify them or mentally deranged people gloming on to the ideology seeming to make their ideology more relevant . I am not sure there is a lot of difference in the two. They are substate actors and people doing it in the name of al qaeda or potentially isis, but in the cases of terrorists in the past, these individuals are ones who have had a crisis in the life, and they are mentally ill, and attach to an ideology, and in some cases, that is driven to them, and in some cases, it is a terrorist attack. And look, conspiracies, and these guys are good at breaking up, because once a person talks to somebody, you have got them. It is what we have have built up over ten years and it is great that you have just talked to dr. Anthony fauci, because it is looking at risk in different areas. And the highend, we are good at it, but the selfmotivated lone wolves, it is much, much harder, and we dont have the resources to cover all of it. We have to mitigate it the best we can, but we cant overreact. It is in the scheme of risks of society, it is not a life and death matter for the entire nation. Arselan, what is the role of the Muslim American nation here, because it is some role of the leadership of the islamic communities to identify some of the people who are joining, converting, but not for the right reasons . Well, chuck, it is important to keep in mind when you are ub tag about isis, it is not the xmentor transformers here, and it is not wolverines or optimus primes, but it is loner idiots in the whitey tighties playing call of duty 4 who are disenfranchised are from the rest of the society. If you look at the shooter from ottawa, he was thrown out of a mosque similar to the Boston Marathon bombers who were once thrown out of a boston mosque. So the Canadian Authority has done a remarkable job, and i agree with michael what we will see is a lot of the selfproclaimed terrorist, and the new jihadi cool, and not part of a centralized organization to go on youtube, and i bet you that most of isis had never heard of him. I understand, but is it a media issue or the more attention attacks like this get, does it serve perversely to convince more of the mentally l deranged folks like this to say, i will use this ideology to continue my perverse attack. Yes, the more impugned these folks are, it helps to further the agenda of these folks, but the fact is that there are over 7 million muslims who live here peacefully, and 5 of the last 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners, and so sadly when you look at the narrative mediawise, it is always the negative, extremist narrative and that is what we have to push back against. And michael, the social media the narrative, and it is a helpful tool for you, but now it is a recruitful tool in some form or another, and how do you deal with it . This is the difference of isis, and previous groups. Al qaeda was not. Right. Isis is not as much, but they are going after the jihadi cool. And so what they are not as good at in the government, but we have to monitor and the partnerships of the state and the local relationships have to change than we have in the last ten years with the Muslim Community and the government. Well, it is all about building trust, and the surveillance and whether it is the fbi or the other agencies in the american muslim communities. And there is a little distrust . There is a lot of distrust. And again, to build the trust, and let the people know that Community Policing is sacrosanct part of law enforcement, and the Muslim Community is part of the solution and not the problem. And do we have enough muslim agents . No, we dont have enough agents who understand muslim law, and enough to understand 15 to 29yearolds. They are disengaged to vote, nda they are the group likely to be voting, and it has to be more than nancy reagan just say no to drug drugs. Thank you both so much. You gave us a lot to think about. And the panel is here sh, niamalika henderson, carolyn ryan, dan balz and luke russert. Dan balz, you and i have been on the road and how much did you find the ebola threat coming up . Well, these are back of the mind issues, and they are not playing significantly in the races, and yet, it is adding to the unease out, there and yet, it add s s to the the question why are things working and not working and is my family safe . That is how it fits into the larger narrative of the campaign. And when it comes to the ebola quarantines, carolyn, when you saw the governors of florida and illinois both in tight races, they see what Christine Cuomo did, and they say see what christie and cuomo did, and they say, oh, no, we cant be outebolaed. Right. You saw him come out with mayor de blasio and be quite confident of what is going on in new york, and then hastily, it was governor christie saying, not enough. So it generates more anxiety and it creates more and more space and a patchwork of different protocols, and it is confusing to the public and certainly Health Care Workers. And nia, politics is obviously impacting the way that the guys are acting, and you cant help but wonder if they are going to be acting this way if the election were not under way. Right. And particularly with a certain segment of the voters and thinking women, this is playing quite a bit. There was a focus group down in charlotte, North Carolina, and down in new orleans, the walmart moms, and they are very worried about ebola, and much more so than isis, and the idea that ebola is here, and isis is over there, and certainly, i think that these folks who are thinking about politics now, and thinking about politics in 2016, a move to swiftly allay the fears and president obama is criticized for not acting quickly enough. And they are saying, hey, look at a us. And, so, luke, it is with what dan and i saw, they are engaged in the what the issues are, but you look at the democrats, and it is going to delay the chance for the democrats to make the localized Closing Argument that they want to make, while the republicans who are trying to make a national argument, they can fit it in. And i would argue that it ties the argument to president obama more directly, and one thing that we have seen through the midterms and really the strategy of the Congressional Republicans is to create a culture of incompetence around the barack Obama Administration, and system of the polling showing that the incompetence of bush around katrina, and so you are seeing it playing out around the midterms and delays the local can arguments and puts the democrats in the same boat as obama, and it is a tough thing for them to be at. You saw the cdc response a lot better than dallas. And when you see that, it is a lot more competency of the world is going to be a question of this, and it is going to be looking like a silly debate that is happening nine days before the election. We will be back in a moment, and the voters who are hoping to give the incumbents a black eye. Report one from our bus trip, and we have around statements. Well be right bac [ male announcer ] we know theyre out there. 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Whether its kansas, iowa or wisconsin, its becoming clear that the close races are going to be decided by how volters come down on the question of this, punishing one Party Without rewarding the other. On the first day of our meet the voters tour, we rolled through the heartland, kansas city. Home of world series baseball and a senate race across the state line in kansas that could shake the nation. 46yearold independent greg orman has made himself into a credible alternative against pat roberts. We declare our independence. Independence from both Political Parties. He hasnt closed the deal yet with voters. Its a sentiment we heard over and over again at vfw posts. In some cases i would like to get rid of all the incumbents. I think that would do more to harm what we have going on. Im of the mentality if they have been there a couple years, theyre career petitions. You are the im done with everybody. If they dont have the guts to put term limits in, i will do it myself at the voting booth. Heard your speech. I did not hear specifics, anything about immigration, healthcare, tax reform. I think we have spent a lot of time in this Campaign Defining what we think is wrong with america and what we think we need to do to solve the problems. To get to that spot, we have to fix the dysfunction in washington. In iowa, another race, the party that wins this race will likely control the u. S. Senate next year. Republican joni earnst is trying to become the first woman elected to congress there. I feel more of a duty as a female. A fact not lost on some of the students at iowa state we sat down with. A lot of times its hard for older men to understand what is important to women. If you can find the word republican, i will pay you five bucks. I dont see it. That tells you something. Its a reminder of what kind of state this is. Mother, soldier, conservative. She hopes to benefit from the fact her first name isnt congressman. What could be holding her back is some of her very conservative positions, including support for something called personhood which in some cases would grant all unborn human beings with equal protections. The personhood thing was a mistake . Its not. I do believe in life. I will never say thats a mistake because, again, i am someone who is always going to promote life. Her opponent is trying to convince voters shes too conservative. Millennials could be the difference and the millions of dollars spent on the ad war may not reach them. A lot of us arent watching tv. A lot of us are on our phones and online. Heading north, wisconsin. Four years of a hard core political battle. Republican Governor Scott walker is fighting for his job for the third time in four years. Democrat mary burke is hoping voters are wornout from being the most polarized state in the nation. Unfair . I think its fair. Unfortunately, but its not who we are here in wisconsin. Mary burke is trying to capitalize on that sentiment. Former president clinton campaigned with burke the day we talked to her. Shes one of the few democrats who wants the current president by her side. Why are you comfortable having president obama here. Its going to be tight. Turnout is important. I welcome the president here. Reach out wisconsin, a group bitterly divided over walker, meet every month to move past the washingtonstyle dysfunction. Conservatives listening to liberals. You understand the person and why they believe that as opposed to just demonizing for the political belief. And liberals listening to conservatives. Make friends with the person you are most afraid to make friends with. There you have it. A fascinating way for that man to p end. Let me bring in senators chuck shumer from new york, rob portman from ohio. You guys are obviously knee deep in the election. You are part of the nsrt. Number two in the leadership. Lets start with south dakota we will start with iowa, bruce braley at 46 , the republican there, at 49 , joni. Colorado, a close race. Mark udall, 45 . Look at this one in kansas. The independent Still Holding the lead. A month ago a tenpoint lead now its down to one. Some surprised in the south, closer races in places going in different directions. North carolina, okay hagan in a dead heat with thom til li s. They believe hagan holds the lead. Things are closing in arkansas giving tom cotton just a twopoint edge over mark pryor, 45, 43. Some people thought this would be put away by now. Then there is south dakota. There was chatter that maybe the race was making an unusual result. Thats not the case. Mike rounds is way out in front, double digit lead there. You guys are the ones on the defensive here. We are nine days out. How do you hole the senate . I think we will hold the senate. I know all the pundits are days republicans will take the senate, democrats will prove the pundits wrong on election day when we keep the senate. Three reasons. First and foremost, Economic Issues predominate. Ebola is in the news, isis is in the news. But the average voter, every poll shows far and away cares most about Economic Issues. They tend to be for democrats when Economic Issues like minimum wage, equal pay for women, not sending jobs overseas dominate. We have a better ground game. You can add two to three points minute number . For each of those races, every one of the races. If its 44, 43, were probably ahead. Third, as the race gets down to the final moments, the voters focus on the two candidates, not on a national referendum. When the two candidates are compared, almost inevitably we do better. Economic issues, better ground game, better candidates will put us over the top november. Why is he wrong . Why do you believe hes wrong . Its not the pundits saying the republicans are going to get the majority, its the voters. Your polls show it. Its tight. Its tight but the voter intensity is on our side. Saw with early voting in iowa, republicans are winning. Thats never happened before. All the polls show that this is going to be a good year for republicans. Its a Good Environment for us. Luke talked about the incompetence that some people feel about the Obama Administration. Thats catching up to them. People are asked what do you think about the president. You know what they said . He gets less than 40 approval in all those states. When the president goes on national tv and says, this is about me, these are my policies, all my policies are on the ballot, when he further says, all the candidates trying to distance themselves, they vote with me and they want to vote with me, its a national election. Republicans have great candidates. We have the enthusiasm on our side. People are being looking for a change. A change is i let you go long on the first question. Keep it tighter here when we go over these things. Why do 51 democrats matter more than 51 republicans . What will matter in the next four years . Is it does matter. Two words, Supreme Court. Its about judges . Not all. But you asked one reason. Supreme court. The money thats cascading into our system. If the Supreme Court continues to be the way it is and theres a vacancy and they buttress that, we will be subject to these few people just dominating the elections for decades to come. The Supreme Court on Voting Rights make a huge difference. The Supreme Court on womens issues make a huge difference. Supreme court. Whats the real difference for the last two years of the Obama Administration with 51 republican snz getting stuff done. Really . I just theres a lot of skepticism that anything will get done. The only way things get done is we change the majority. If you do what we are doing, we will have discuss function that we have now. Nothing is getting done. We arent doing budgets. We arent helping people get jobs. I had a jobs fair in ohio and ran into people who are working parttime two or three jobs, been out of work for months. John kasic claims you are doing well right now. Washington needs to pass stuff. If you get a republican majority, it wim get the president to the table and we will begin to solve some of these big problems. Thats what people want to see. I want number one issue in your polling is the gridlock in washington. If you want to change things, vote for republicans. Created by republicans in the senate and house. They create gridlock then blame the president for it. Let me stop you there. You can everything we do hang on. Guys. Senators. Speaking of who is in charge, i want to play you something here about how candidates feel about Mitch Mcconnell and harry reid. Take a listen. If you were elected and if he is reelected, will you support Mitch Mcconnell as the leader of the republicans in the u. S. Senate . That was a question or no. My answer is no. Is harry reid the best person to lead the Senate Democrats, yes or no . I think we can perhaps do better in both parties moving forward. I have nearly a dozen democrats a dozen democrats who are saying, you know what, i would like somebody else different than harry reid. Is harry reid bigger than the majority . Greg orman says he will not be with the democrats if mary reed is the Senate Majority leader. What say you . I say that harry reid will run for majority leader and he will win with an overwhelming probably very close to a majority vote. Senator mcconnell, im hearing the same thing from republicans, hes not out of the woods. He cant put his race away. There are greg orman will not sit with the republicans if Mitch Mcconnell is in charge. Is one man bigger than the potential majority for the republican snz. No. But i think mitch will win in kentucky. You said that she had disqualified herself, her opponent by saying she wouldnt tell people whether she voted for president obama or not. I think he will i meant that voters might think that at the time. But to go back change in leadership is important. I think mitch will win. He will be the leader. Should he be the leader . I think he should. Here did. The two of them shut down the senate. You done believe that in. Here is the important point. By changing the majority, having the house and Senate Working together and working with the president , we can solve problems. The biggest problem is jobs and the economy. We need to give it a shot in the arm. Lets do tax reform. Lets do something on energy. Lets improapprove the keystone pipeline. These things could happen. On the issues that matter the most to American People on jobs, racing minimum rage, equal pay, stop sending jobs overseas, helping kids pay for college, the republicans have said no on each of those. That why we are going to win the election. Thats why if they win, there will be gridlock. I have to leave it here. We want the voters here think its going to be gridlock no matter what. Thats your real change there. Time for change. Senators, thank you both. Is or democracy for sale . What are those billions on the big money on the campaigns get for t it begins with anticipation. Its built on preparation. For the city of barcelona, throwing one of the worlds biggest parties starts with the cloud. Powered by microsoft dynamic crm, azure, and sql server this cloud helps ensure all voices are heard and the festival goes off without a hitch. This cloud turns chaos into clockwork. fireworks this is the microsoft cloud. Weve always been] at the forefrontumman, of advanced electronics. 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We are america and it would be fair to say we do things bigger in this country. Thats true when it comes to elections and campaign spending. Luke russert is here to talk about this. You have been crunching numbers. This stat is unbelievable. Remarkably, you could pay for 80 british general election campaigns with whats being spent on this years midterms alone. Theres concern about the roll money is playing in our politics with some even going as far as to argue our democracy is being bought and sold. 16 years ago the 1998 midterms cost 1. 6. This year, 4 billion. Outside groups spent 15 million on the 98. This time its 67 times higher, over 1 billion. This year it will be just as high. That doesnt count socalled dark money whose sources and donors never have to be disclosed or wont be disclosed until well after the election. In the Senate Battleground states, outside groups are spending more on adds than campaigns and Political Parties combined. Funding the financial arms race, a group of modern day owe la gashgs. On fathers day, i was with my family and Mitch Mcconnell was with his, the coch brothers. The coch brothers. Senate republicans are addicted to coch. On the right, charles and david coch, the brothers who run koch industries, the secondest largest largest company, net worth, 41. 9 billion each. Americans for press period, just one several kochbacked groups has pledged to spend 125 million. They have offices in more than 30 states. On the left, newcomer tom styer, net worth 1. 6 billion. He has donated 58 million in support of candidates can sprong records on climate state. Extreme. He had a wooden arc where he is focusing on retiring rick scott. The Koch Brothers through outside groups with mundane if not agreeable sounding names like americans for prosperity, freedom partners, concerned veterans for america, and again opportunity are outspend gs him by five to one on ads in the battleground states. In the center, michael bloomberg, net worth 34 billion. He pledged to spend 50 million to support gun control legislation. And became a punching bag for red state democrats. Mayor bloomberg of new york city ran ads in arkansas criticizing me for standing up for your second amenment rights. Now he will spend 25 million more backing ining centerists. Add others, and we could see an election that costs about 44 a vote. The financial arments race has become so crate sdi that one Campaign Reform advocate decide to fight fire with fire. He formed the anti super pac super pac. We launched the may day pac to rally people to the idea of changing the way elections were funded. We have have had more than 50,000 people contribute. Sglm the question is, do voters even care . In 2012 billions spend didnt move the needle that much. Let me show you this chart. They listed all the different outside groups that have spent on behalf of bruce braley. I have to scroll it. Theres a dozen groups on each side. Did you find any voters they hate the ads. Do they care about the outside money . Do they vote on it in. No. They dont vote on it. They hate the ads, the amount of money being spent. But its not a voting issue. The interesting thing is, im sure you have had the same experience, you talk to the people who are helping to produce the ads and they are as sick as many of the people who are watching them. Why are you doing it . For the reason you said, we cant afford not to because the other side is doing it. Its totally it feels like the cold war. Its going to destroy the twoparty system. One of the most interesting statistics that came out of this, a story showing that most of the money, most of the spending is from groups that dont disclose their donors. The original free speech argument was, lets lift the caps but lets have conta contemporaneous disclosure but thats not the case. Its going to drive good candidates from running. Yeah. The tlush hold for getting in there is so high now. You had democrats that are complaining about it. But democrats are good at raising this money and coordinating this group on the ground in the different states. Unbelievable. Luke, nice and scary work. Right . In a moment, sometimes kids say darnedest things. What if ching talked back to us like politicians . Did you eat the dozen chocolate chip cookies i left on the counter to cool . Im deeply upset by this question. Im and drou ross sorkin. Wall street will reaction to the European Central bank stress test. The tests are designed to gauge the Overall Health of europes financial system. They come at a time with intense uncertainty. Wednesday, we will find out whether or not the Federal Reserve will end its Bond Buying Program when the central bank wraps its twoday meeting. Thats your cnbc executive edge. Hey matt, whats up . Im just looking over the company bills. Is that what we pay for internet . Yup. 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You cant always see them. But its our job to find them. The answers. The solutions. The innovations. All waiting to help us build Something Better. Something more amazing. A safer, cleaner, brighter future. At boeing, thats what building Something Better is all about. You have seen the horse race results in the key Senate States which remain close. Lets go inside the numbers, because they paint a more complex picture of this campaign and perhaps this will help explain why things havent broken decisively in either partys direction. First lets start with why Senate Democrats are in the position that they are in in the first place. President obama is very unpopular. In each of the six states we polled, the president job rating is below his national average, never stopping 40 in any of the states we polled. If there were the lone factor affecting this years midterms we would see a republican advantage in all of the battleground states almost guaranteeing the gop winning back the senate. But its not. Here is why. We asked voters what the most important issue was to them in deciding how they would vote next week. What did we find . Two things that arent going to help any incouple bents, republican or democrat. First is more than an issue, its an atmosphere. Voters are most concerned about breaking the partisan gridlock in washington to get things done. What was one of the top two issues in four of the six states, including two big ones, iowa and kansas, where it was the top issue. Even in North Carolina and arkansas, breaking the gridlock was a close third. Folks, take a look at this. In all of these polls, if your name begins with senator or congressman, you arent popular. Out the seven sitting senators and congressmen running for the senate this year in the states we polled, only two two have a favorable rating barely above water, barely. Tom cotton and corey gardner. Breaking the dig function in washington is trumping the economy in some states, it trumps healthcare in just about every state. This is sure to be the wild card with just ten days to go until this years elections. They want to punish the democrats without regarding the republicans. They are sitting there wondering what to do. We will be back after this. As parents we hold our kids hands when crossing the street so think of the internet as the worlds busiest street. Teach your kids to surf and post responsibly. Theyll be safer with a dedicated crossing guard. The more you know. Ive got the panel back here. You just saw all those poll numbers. I want to show we know what the republican partys Closing Argument is. If you dont know, wait until you see these two ads, one in arkansas, one in nsorth carolin. Theres one person who is the star. Take a look. Make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them. President obama is right about something, his policies are on the ballot. Voting 92 of the time with the president. Whether you support him or not, doesnt work here in North Carolina. It is time for someone to Reach Across Party Lines and finally get something done in this country. Boy, that second ad there, that was her voice narrating an nrsc ad on that same issue. Thats a powerful ad. The question of the relationship between democrats in the senate and the president right now is fascinating, especially because he seems to be kind of inserting himself and creating more problems for them. I find you had a great story, the finger pointing has begun. Democrats blaming the white house for the problems. I find the psychology of this most fascinating. Because you have president obama who is this politicians, wanted to be a transcendent politician. Now hes unable to absorb the fact that hes unpopular. He keeps pushing himself out there. All president s have egos. They tend to be oversized but surprisingly fragile. Thats part of what we are seeing. The problems republicans are having closing the sale you found this on the road is that they are not trusted as change agents. They have sold the argument that, president obama and democrats, they are gumming things up. But they are not buying the republicans the republicans know it. The ad was not paid for not about the the national they changed their name to nrsc. Their name had three words that are very unpopular, national, republican and senatorial. They realized they couldnt have that. How do republicans close the gap . They close it with the ad that you just put on the air, which is to bring it back to president obama. We have talked about this all year long, that the National Atmosphere in a midterm election, the president s on line. He has been a drag on democrats all through this campaign. There have been things that have gotten in the way of that for republicans that has made it more difficult, one is their bad brand and questions about them. In the end, they will want to try to nationalize this around obama. Luke, Closing Argument for the democrats. Did they mess up by distancing themselves too much from obama where they made this even too effective . I think in the individual state races, its probably better to try and be as independent as you can. Looking into the poll, what i found fascinating, the two issues, job creation and breaking the gridlock. Republicans overwhelmingly do better on job creation. Democrats do better on breaking the gridlock. They are in trouble. Washington dysfunction voters, they have a shot. In terms of playing the up the independence, if you want to break the gridlock, thats what you do. I want to sort of have a little lighter moment here. Its a little depressing. I want you to see this. Yesterday they asked what if kids started using political talking points politicians use to talk back to their parents . That got us thinking. We took the liberty of borrowing the idea, added pictures and sound. Here now is our version of what kids would sound like if they talked like politicians, script courtesy of the des moines register. Good morning mother. Let me say how great it is to be in the kitchen. Am i to understand you have have a question in is. I do. Did you eat the cookie snz. Im sorry. Could you repeat that question . Did you eat the dozen chocolate chip cookies i left on the counter to cool . Im deeply upset by this question. I would like to think that we had built the kind of relationship where such questions would not be necessary. Well, it is. When i left the kitchen there was a dozen cookies. Now they are gone. Did you eat them . Thats not the question. You know who is behind this, dont you . Koch brothers. The brothers who run Koch Brothers . No, jimmy and jumbo rogers. Twin brothers who live on koch street. Did you eat the cookies . I have answered that question. You didnt say anything. That is my answer. Your answer is no answer . I have no control how you choose to interpret my answers. Isnt it high time we put the past behind us and looked forward to the future . Whats for supper . We did it in an absurd way because thats what do the Elections Officials know thats how they sound when they do these crazy evasions . You make us all ask the same question four or five times. Its like that bad skit out of austin powers, ask me three times and finally will farrells character will answer the question. Whoever wins, come november or january, whenever this will be decided, they are going to be facing a very frustrated public, a public that doesnt really believe that they can make a difference and break the gridlock. How they are able to convince the public otherwise will be a big task. Dan, that sets the environment for 2016. Thats what is here is distrust of politicians. Its we made fun of it and mocked it, but thats the environment. It is. One of the Big Questions is, which of these candidates who want to run for president in 2016 has a way to get past where we are today. They will talk about it. But is anybody really going to be able to do it in. I dont know. Thats all for today. I will get back on my bus. We will be in new york in our election studio with three days to go until the midterms. For now, if its sunday, its meet the press. In nine days, pennsylvania voters will head to the polls and choose either republican governor tock corbit or his challeng challenger. Both sides are fighting hard for your vote. Good morning. Im keith jones. Last week we heard from pennsylvania governor tom corbit. This mornings tom wolfs turn. Wolf speaks frankly about taxes and philadelphias underfunded school system. But first, he explains why he wants to win. You have said that im not the kind of candidate youve seen befo