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Debate charlie crist and the fan. the cool thing was that rick scott will to explain something that no one in the history of tv debates had to explain before. hey, why didnt you come out on the stage when the debate began? lets listen. >> we figured out if he was going to show up. he said he wasnt going to come to the debate. so why come out until hes ready? >> and florida reelected that guy. i mean -- my former state, go figure. florida. >> the thing about politics is it is very predictable. ev...

Chamber of the commerce and the tea party express, they dont get together on every candidate, she united the republican party and has brace braly, a democrat, on the run. >> what about the new ad this week? >> im going to let the ladies talk at that. thats not my place to say, but dont -- >> it seems that hes doing unforced errors. >> there are a couple unforced errors. she had an ad about hog castration. she did. it was a very effective ad. he wanted to respond to it and just said she was makin...

Party was one in the bag and the other still steeping. too close to call. promises of hog castration and guns led state legislator joanie ernst to victory in the iowa gop senate primary. >> i grew up walking beans, canning food and feeding hogs on our family farm. and yes, some of you may know that i did more than just feed the hogs. >> only because they keep reminding us, in mississippi a race between thad cochran and tea party challenger chris mcdaniel, they look like theyre headed to a runoff...

Look, it is tough for a woman to get elected in iowa. in fact, iowa is one of only two states, carol, never to have elected a woman to either the house of representatives or the u.s. senate. guess what the other one is? mississippi on the ballot today. what ernst has done is run a tough as nails campaign. its the first time in american history that hog castration may be the deciding issue in a senate race. i think its because shes trying to demonstrate to iowans and republicans in iowa that she ...

If she is the prototype of the new kind of sort of consensus republican, the sort of hog castrating census republican, gun toting, whatever, how do they sell that nationally in a presidential -- >> is hog castration the new litmus test? >> it certainly could be at least in iowa. chuck grassley wasnt known for that behavior. he was a plain old farmer. >> to that point of having conservative hog castrating marco rubio has endorsed joni ernst because he has issues. this is someone trying to get clo...

Follow republican primaries that much. >> this is one democrats are keeping a bit of an eye on because they see a chance if mcdaniel wins on tuesday. >> but in terms of the democrats being able to support across the way, hes not with the movement. >> democrat strategist, do you look at her and say ken buck, all these tea party candidates who have blown winnable races. when you look at joni ernst, how do you size her up? >> she shows the power of advertising. she had the two most iconic ads. one ...

For decades. it swung hard to the gop in the 2010 midterms when terry branstad. the magic number for republicans is six nationally, thats the number of democratic seeds they need to pick up. if they pick off this iowa race, their path is going to become a lot easier. but will nominating joni make it harder? well take a look at this. >> joni will take aim at was wasteful spending and once she sets her sights on obamacare shes going to unload. >> that follow-up ad to the hog castration ad is the k...

Spring and is done? >> no, its absolutely going to keep haunting bruce in the fall. he has apologized for that and said that he and chuck grassley have a great relationship and he really didnt mean to disparage farmers. there was another problem that it highlighted his trial lawyer background and also it showed him kind of snickering to special interests behind the backs of iowans who sent him to washington. so he has -- he recognizes that was a really bad image for him and he has apologized for...

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