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As you know, not polling well and finally youve got cain. twitter leader board, newt gingrich at the top. ship say this number may not be real people. the rest no major leaders, going through romney. the third, cain. finally on the fourth level, also other groups involved here. i want to go old school finally views. gingrich, cain and perry. big number, chris, and if pundits are right here, ones that arent just chatter. theyll affect who voters pick for president come november. >> thank you so m...

Kaine to defeat tim webb? >> as far as im concerned, the race in the country that starts off tied will probably end up tied. if i saw a poll the whole time that showed either one of them with more than a three-point lead i wouldnt believe it. this is going to be wire-to-wire and sloclosely linked to the presidents race, also likely to be extremely close. >> talk about nevada in the southwest where so many contested battles are being wage pd one of the democrats best chances for picking up a sena...

Reid, im not sure senator reid got as much votes from the hispanics as sharoron angle los votes. people dont see movement in main street. they see wall street but not in main street. those are issues that will permeate this campaign for the next year. >> one more state we want to check out is colorado. colorado is the state with, again, lower than average unemployment rate at 8.3%. huge support for barack obama in 2008. only the sectsd democratic presidential candidate to win colorado in 40 year...

Tell us about what kind of relationship you have with him and if this can help from some of the intractability plaguing congress? >> my relationship having been in congress just ten months is not much in terms of dealing with brown but certainly bill daley ive worked with in the past. as he peels back, i dont care who you ask in the congress, how do we jump-start the economy and get more people back to work? >> there was good news today. mitch mcconnell saying on the senate floor there is some a...

Were in washington to deal with. >> let me ask to you respond to that because weve heard that from a lot of republicans, that theyre doing their job over in the house. its the democrats in the senate that arent making this move forward. is that fair? >> no. in fact, bob sounds just like the democrats for the two years we sent hundreds of bills over to the senate and harry reid tried and mitch mcconnell used the filibuster used more times than ever used in this country to stop things. he ran the ...

My home state. very important labor issue on the ballot. >> reporter: absolutely. this initiative is something that really has been pushed by governor kasich, this law, its been on the books that theyre not going to vote to see if they want to repeal. if they do that, a huge blow to governor kasich. its a bit of a referendum billed on his governorship and with his first year and a half and you know, if thats the case, then that would be a huge win for democrats. a big win for the national party ...

Breath of fresh air when appointed. his relationship the withes democratic and republican leadership in congress fell short of many peoples expectations. do you feel that, and if so, what happened? >> i think he was brought in to make some changes, and theres always people who dont like the changes, but what is really exciting is what the presidents now doing. the presidents been out on the stump working on foreclosures and working on student loans and working on veterans jobs. whoevers making t...

Slight majority of democrats control the senate. well, in state senate races across the state today, that could change. and that could mean a turning poi point for the governor. somebody who a lot of people think could be one of the people considered on a short list for vice presidential pick. if this were -- if republicans were able to get enough senate seats turned over, which the smart money, by the way, is on that happening. republicans will be able to push through a lot of things that they ...

Exists, this is somebody mitt romney would probably win the michigan primary. in a general election, could make it competitive because of that and demming need to win michigan if president obama will win re-election, but he was against the auto bailout. thats a huge issue in this state going forward in a general election if he makes it there. >> always good to see you. have fun there in michigan. thank you. >> thanks, chris. now to get control of the senate, republicans need a seat gain of 4%....

To be a very good race. basically a democrat, elizabeth warren, is the likely democratic nominee. a democrat starts off with 45% off the top. she or any other democratic nominee would need, just need five more points to win, but at the same time, scott brown has really, i think he has carved out a fairly independent niche for himself. i think hes much stronger than a conventional republican candidate. i think its going to be a very good race and one thing to be remembered is that candidates ofte...