but delaware republican senate candidate christine o donnell was getting a lot of attention for admitting she dabbled in witchcraft as a young person and felt she needed to let people know she is done with all that. john, christine o donnell, i mean, delaware poll of likely voters has her really trailing chris coons. an ad she says i m not a witch going to help her? contessa, that s a great question. i don t know. i think christine o donnell is putting the spotlight on that comment of hers, on that talk show with bill maher is probably not where she should have the focus for her campaign. her campaign should be on chris coons and his record of raising taxes and spending and leading his county to bankruptcy almost. that would be a better message for her. she needs to pivot off this i m not a witch message into chris coons is a tax raiser and she ll be better off.
nah. republican businessman john racy is running for senate against joe mansion but there s some question when whether he lives there. the law says you have to be a permanent resident of the state,
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you ve got john racy, although it s not clear and possibly misleading he ran an ad campaign in that he supports the president s cap and trade. very close, 48-46%. is it enough for raese to come up with it? there is simple story in west virginia. joe is a popular governor. in west virginia, barack obama is very unpopular president, his disapproval ratings are pushing close to 70%. if it s national issue, raeese wins. let s go to feingold, democrat reaching across the entirely, what is going on there? feingold has been losing ground.
tightened and some pundits are now saying the race is a toss-up. our dana bash joining us live from milton, west virginia. where does this race stand right now? reporter: it is very, very tight and as you said, don, it is actually surprising that we have any interest in this race at all because governor joe mansion was supposed to be a shoo-in. he is somebody who s very, very popular in the state. he s actually one of the most popular garcia, democrat or republican, in the country. he has reduced the deficit, the unemployment realty is lower here. rate is lower than the national average. he s gotten endorsements from both business groups and unions. you might wonder, what s the problem. the problem is he s a democrat. the people here, even democrats registered democrats, say they are concerned about democratic control in washington. that is exactly what his republican opponent, john racy, is seizing on as he campaigns and in the television ads that are running nonstop here. take a lo