Stay updated with breaking news from John raese. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Performance there. megyn: stand by. you are going to hear these races we are about to call. mr. bill o reilly, thank you. a couple of big races just coming. in first of all, the senate race in west virginia fox news is now projecting that the west virginia democratic governor joe manchin has prevailed in that race over his republican challenger john arrestee. manchin is the governor. he wanted to be senator. fox news is projecting he will be. bret: this is a big deal. megyn: they had been neck and neck. raese had a lead a couple of weeks ago. manchin had been dominating 77% approval rating in the state of west virginia. barack obama has an approval rating in the state of west virginia of around 29%. that was dragging manchin down in this race. and john raese was doing an effective job of tieing the two together, manchin and president obama. then manchin fought back once his poll numbers really started to fall. put out an ad showing him literally shooting a rifle at president obam ....
Get update charles bremen. on paper it would look like this would be nothing but a cake walk for democrats. 28% of voters here registered as a republican. 54% are registered as democrats. blue state. this state is one of the president lost in 2008, lost by 13 points. that s something republicans. something republicans capitalize here. they repeatedly tried to tie the very popular democratic governor joe manchin to president obama. especially on the issue of cap and trade. very, very sensitive topic. again and again the republican challenger john raese talked about president obama. push for cap and trade how he alleges that joe manchin would be just another vote in the pocket of the president and democratic leaders. the governor has fought back and said i m not going to do anything that s bad for west virginia. i think the current cap and trade bill is bad for west virginia. there has been a sea saw here in the polls. at one point the governor led by double digits and john raese was ....
With a third party candidate pulling 6% of the vote. in washington state, new fox polling shows incumbent democrat patty murray with a two-point advantage over dino rossi, that is one of the handful of seats that democrats need to keep to stem any possibility of a g.o.p. takeover. if democrats hold on to california, west virginia, connecticut, washington, if they can just hold three of those. then they have it locked up. the real clear politics average puts joe manchin 4-1/2 ahead of challenger john raese who has been working hard to portray the governor as nothing more than a yes man for president obama who has a 29% approval rating in the mountain state. i just watch what he does and not what he says. the rubber stamp fits joe well. no one can be a rubber stamp and do what we had to do. in california, incumbent ....
Candidates 40% for the democrats, 5% still undecided. new 60 minutes vanity fair poll says 26% of americans believe the president has performed well enough to be reelected. 39% say he has not 33% are not sure. as far as the key senate races are concerned. let s run them down for you. in nevada sharron angle suspect by 3 over senate majority leader harry reid according to a new fox news poll among likely voters. colorado republican ken buck has rallied now ahead of michael bennet by four points. illinois also seems to be leaning republican as mike kirk leads by 4 in the race for barack obama s old seat. washington state is a split decision in the late polls. fox news has democrat patty murray up by 2 but ppp, a democratic polling firm has republican dino rossi up by 2. who the heck knows out there. in west virginia joe manchin leads by four over john raese ....
Will still have west virginia as his number one priority, shep. shepard: no doubt coal country and the president s energy policy has been a huge issue there. it s something the republican in this case john raese a businessman has been hammering on cap and trade would be devastating to west virginia. he has tried to link the governor with the president, although the governor has repeatedly said i don t like the current bill in washington. i will break with the president if i think it is bad for west virginia. as you mentioned this could be a bellwether for other states tonight because it could give us a look at whether link ago very popular democrat to a very unpopular president. he has just a 29% approval rating here, will pay off for republicans. we should know and not too long from now. the polls closed just a few minutes ago, shep. shepard: all right. shannon bream live for us. charleston, west virginia we are watching that closely. what does this mean so far? one pickup for t ....