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room." happening now, breaking news. influential democratic senator joe manchin reveals he's not seeking re-election. delivering a major blow potentially to his party's chances of keeping control of the u.s. senate next year. we're getting new reaction from a key senator to this bombshell announcement. also tonight, a break in israel's bombardment of gaza. the white house says israeli forces are moving forward with daily four-hour pauses in northern areas of the territory to allow palestinian civilians to get out and humanitarian aid to get in. and cnn has exclusive new details o...

A pat thetic campaign. >> goldie mitt romney has been running for the highest office in the atlanta for six years. he's now got 42 days. he's been running for six years. is he going to surprise us in the next four five weeks with something spectacular that's going to turn this around? stop laughy, jimmy. >> in order for mitt romney to surprise us, he would have to literally sweep, you know the battleground field. that just isn't going to happen. you know, i'll take it back to missouri for a minute. you know, we really thought that missouri would be in play because of someone like akin. but as ...

So, seemingly, as if he was planning on that one. why it may sting the obama white house a little bit more this morning. finally, both campaigns may be happy that the edwards' verdict came in. with all its frenzy drowning out cheap political theater on both sides, we saw that edwards ended up dominating everything else and, again, if yesterday is what the next 60 days are going to be like, we're going to see a lot of the middle of the road voters maybe feeling a liltal tuned out. we're unveiling a brand-new battleground field and obama maintains his lelect toral vote now. 191 electoral vot...