you heard jim demint doing it and christine o donnell, no, no, no, i don t want to talk about fiscal stuff. how long can they get away with that and will that alienate some suburban swing voters. and interesting the point that they re trying to sell fiscal responsibility as moral responsibility. this summit comes at exactly the wrong time for the republicans because they want to be talking about fiscal issues. this summit was designed to talk about social issues. anyway, christine o donnell makes that appearance at the values voters summit fresh off another star turn last night at her first forum as a general election candidate in delaware. nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell joins us now. she s been following this story and watched that town hall. kelly, it seems that she was asked about some of these controversial past statements that, let s face it, democrats have been flying around putting it through e-mails, inboxes of reporters everywhere, really trying to call a
has said, things that might be eye-popping or controversial, old tv clips because she did make so many appearances over the years working as a kind of a media consultant, a public face for some nonprofit, socially oriented groups. so she was at this forum with all kinds of statewide candidates in delaware and yet, of course, there was a lot of attention focused on her and the senate race. now, there had not been a great deal of vetting. the usual examination of her background because she was considered such a long shot so a lot of this is happening now. we ve heard about comments that she s made. some of it was religiously based with views on abstinence, on abortion, on things like that. she was asked about this at the forum. most of the talk was about jobs, taxes, general questions. this was put directly to her. you have taken a strong stance in the past about people s private sexual behavior. what do you think is the role of government in regulating these
going to make fun of your handwriting and then you re nice. it s hard. this isn t the easiest thing but it s better than be doing this. we re into the gadget re. coming up, a stunning confession from the woman who claimed a stranger attacked her with acid. why she s now telling police she made the whole thing up. plus how did natalee holloway s mother sneak in to see joran van der sloot in prison, and why? plus delaware s christine o donnell set to make her washington debut at the nation s biggest gathering of conservative voters. and, yes, there s an elephant in the room in more ways than one. first today s trivia question from the almanac of american politics. which senator once dated actress carrie fisher and bianca jagger, the ex-wife of mick jagger. the answer and more straight ahead on the daily rundown. hey. what are you doing up? i thought i d take a drive before work. want to come? [ female announcer ] or make his day. yeah.
d.c. establishment? well, as my father liked to say hindsight is always 20/20. let me just explain. you remember january, 2009. prospects for republicans were very, very dismal and we encouraged people to run and some jumped in the race and later as prospects improved, other people got in the race. it didn t mean we were picking sides, we were just trying to get a viable candidate to run. and in delaware, for example, mike castle was clearly the strongest candidate leading into the november election. primary voters have a right to make their choice, we respect that choice and we re supporting christine o donnell and every other republican nominee going forward. but, sir, take the truth serum. are you concerned that republican primary voters have in some cases picked nominees who are less electable and, frankly, breathed some life in democratic campaigns in delaware or some say that s the case in nevada. are you worried about this? well, i have to tell you that a lot of these cand
one, arkansas two, indiana three. that s not a surprise to folks. we ve got pennsylvania at four and we have illinois at five, at six is nevada. this is where we start getting to our toss-up races that are pure toss-ups. colorado at seven, wisconsin at eight and then the last two here, california at nine. actually washington state at ten. as you can see, what we don t have in our top ten are the other three, delaware is a big drop here, the tiny little state here, dropped out of our top ten. and then yesterday you saw president obama was in little connecticut over there. we ll see if that inches into the top ten. not quite sold there. and then there s the very red state of west virginia. democrats of course have a very, very popular governor running in joe manshun. will they put the money in that they need to win those races.