this election, charlie crist exemplifies the down side. a politician that is leading marco rubio by 30 points and rubio trashed him in the republican primaries. instead of accepting that result said i m going to run as an independent. has been clawing and calculating some way to survive and he s not going to. i m not going to be shedding many tears over it. ok. let s go to massachusetts. this would be the stunner of the night. if beilat, the republican unknown could unseat barney frank. this is just amazing that we re even talking about this race. no one would have thought that barney frank would have been vulnerable in the least. he s had to loan his campaign $200,000. he s not a humble man and been forced to admit a little bit, of course, culpability on fannie and freddie. probably not going to lose but there s these class of old school liberals, they re talking about them being vulnerable.
i think there evidence that massachusetts is becoming a little bit more conservative. i also think it s a little bit of a strange district that frank has. it has upscale areas like newton and brookline. it has very economically struggling areas like fall river and new bedford. people are looking for other alternatives. beilat is a management consultant with a lot of ivy league degrees. he goes toe to toe with frank. he s hoping to do well in the upscale areas, which is his hometown. jenna: a big question a lot of our viewers are asking, peter is what is next? what is life like not only after this election but after some of these incumbents stay in office or that they leave, for example senator ted kennedy we saw senator scott brown come in in massachusetts. what happens to barney frank after his reign as part of the house and part of massachusetts
beilat what exactly are we talking about here. the latest polls have frank about 12 points ahead. he s not quite at that 50% threshold. while it s enough to make him the favorite and make it likely that he ll win it s not a perfectly comfortable position for a long-term incumbent to be in. i think the reason is that bielat is an appealing candidate and making a very serious challenge. obviously the economic downturn, which came out of the financial services area i think especially affects frank because he s the financial services chairman in the house. and give us going back into previous races with the congressman, with congressman barney frank he s won by 40 points before, sometimes republican candidates don t even run against him because he s frankly so popular there. when we talk about ideology, talk a little bit about what this is showing us about boston and massachusetts. who is coming over to support the republican who used to support the democrat?
bucks county impounded to prevent any possible voter fraud. one voter said in a sworn statement that she here was told she needed to sign for an absentee ballot so the worker could get enough signatures she was told so he could meet president obama. the investigation continues. jon: keep an eye on that for us. thanks. jenna: election 2010 shaping up to be one for the record books. massachusetts 4th congressional district democrat barney frank a 15-term congressman facing the closes re-election flight of his political career. he s trying to fend off beilat. either tkpwubg to peter, he s an editor for the boston globe. when we talk about a threat from
businessman beilat hoping to unseat the 29 year veteran of congress. mr. beilat joins us today. we ve reached out to congressman frank s campaign but they not spoken. mr. beilat you have given congressman frank the toughest race for reelection than he s had a inn a long time. still leading by 12 points. how are you going to make that up in the final week? first we think that s misleading there s a large enthusiasm gap. based on what we know we believe that the gap is much closer. the other thing we have is momentum his numbers are sinking while ours are rising. wee feel good. there s a lot of issues people care about primarily economic people say barney frank on the wrong side of those issues. chris: as a committee chairman that was involved in