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Likely to caucus with the democrats, a spectacular winning move. that s why bill clinton was putting the pressure on. clinton has unique standing with the black community and could have been the man to broker the deal. bret: by the way, the wall street journal had the story first at the beginning of october. shot down by all campaigns but this is suggesting that it got really down the road. i am with juan. this is run of the mill cynicism and what you d want to do if you want to win. what is interesting is rubio admitted today that his lead has narrowed. it s down to seven points. while ago it was 15 or perhaps even more. so there already is a natural slippage away in the meek constituency, which is wanting to go with a winner. i suspect had they pulled it off crist might have won, but this is way late in the game. and i think now the cynicism is going to hit, that their constituency a little bit. it may depress the vote. bret: we ll follow the story tomorrow on special report ....
Democrats. this is a blockbuster story if the former president bill clinton tried to persuade him to get out of the senate race in florida. quick round on this. steve? i m stunned. particularly ill-timed for democrats right now as we discussed last night to a certain extent tonight trying to rally the base, including black voters. this is where president spent time trying to get black voters to come to the poll. when you have something like this, orchestrating of the former president with knowledge of the white house trying to get meek out of the race by most account accounts d himself in the debate, better than charlie crist has done to support a former or current republican governor, a governor who was once a republican is really an unbelievable thing. there was a moment in the edebate earlier this week in retrospect proves telling. charlie crist carries around with him a fan where he puts ....
Are crazy. bret: you know there are democrats across the country doing that. joe manchin in west virginia, shooting the cap-and-trade bill. gene taylor saying he voted for john mccain. what about the candidates that are running away from the obama agenda? are they crazy? first, the good news is campaigning with candidates, the overwhelming majority of demes are proud of their party, accomplishment and president. some distance themselves. i don t tell everybody haw to run their race. i don t live in every jurisdiction. people have to do what is right for themselves and the constituents but my point is this. i think democrats thinking they can hold the democratic label at arm s length, that s nuts. you put the label after your name, be proud of it. we knew when we came in 2009 the american public wasn t 59% democratic, 41% republican to use senate margin as an example. it will get closer and it will put pressure on both sides to find common solutions. ....
bret: this panel was going to talk about voter fraud allegation but first breaking news. politico is reporting talking to kendrick meek in florida who is running for the u.s. senate, of course, as the democratic nominee, that he was persuaded by former president bill clinton to drop out of the race for senate last week. and clinton nearly succeeded. meek agreed twice to drop out and endorse governor charlie crist running as an independent. white house democrat said had knowledge of the plans and viewed them as a path to capturing the senate seat but did not initiate the talks. last weekend, however, meek changed his mind. the crist campaign in the past few seconds put out a statement saying this story is accurate. but the governor s focus is uniting the common sense independents, republicans and ....
Common ground and build on them. otherwise the country i m afraid will go more polarized and just be harder and harder for anybody to get things done. reporter: new york has 29 congressional district. democrats control 26. two are republican and one is open to. including district 19, g.o.p. looks to pick up as many as seven from democrats. new york first district in the hampton on long island where tim bishop is in a toss-up against randy altschuler. in 13, democraticing freshman michael mcmahon in a debt heat against former u.s. marshall and f.b.i. agent grimm. scott murphy is in trouble against the republican retired army chris gibson. the 23rd near lake champagne finds bill to owen trailing matt doheny. syracuse has democratic freshman in a nail-biter against the assistant attorney general. the new york northwestern 9, ....