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$9500 her first quarter this year? almost nothing. that jumped up to -- not even a minute of a speech. >> right. it jumped up to $87,000 now. >> here are some troubling numbers this year for the democrats. we'll look at some democratic big races this year. some democrats might be in trouble when it comes to the big senate races. the national journal hotline reports in the second quarter republicans out raised democrats in six key races for open senate seats, new hampshire, pennsylvania, ohio, florida, illinois. those are all big targets and in 2006 when you looked at the big races the democrat...

Politics quite well. j.c. watts and anita dunn, a former colleague of robert gibbs at the white house. anita, you know robert very well. when you go out on sunday talk shows and say the republicans could take back control of congress, why would he say that? >> maybe because it's true. also because i think it's important for people to understand what the stakes are in the election. i think the white house is making sure that people understand there are real things at stake here. i think that when robert goes out on a sunday show, what he says has a great deal of meaning as you pointed out. he d...

And the democrats, especially in presidential politics -- and especially schwarzenegger, who won it in a recall election, republicans haven't done well statewide in a long time. changing? >> we're seeing real signs there. what this poll doesn't tell you is -- what's not said about this poll is it's all voters, it's not likely voters. we're seeing this intensity gap continue. we saw it in the battleground in april that it was 14 points. gallop showed it was 16 points. you can look at any of those numbers and kind of assume that's worst case scenario. very competitive. >> if california's competi...

Mollohnan. >> only two ways to run, political consultants, scared and unopposed. even if you are unopposed, you should be scared. it is more than anti-incumbent. democrats face greater peril. start the radar with breaking news. this is important. blunt talk from the commander in u.s. forces in afghanistan, listen here, general stanley mcchrystal talking a short time ago on the pbs news hour. >> i think i would be prepared to say nobody is wing at this point. where the insurgents, i think, felt they had momentum a year ago, felt that they were making clear progress i think that's stopped. >> ge...

Intensity gap out there now and you saw a canary in the coal mine with the off-year elections in virginia and new jersey and the governor's races there. the turnout was dominate by conservatives and right wing independents and if the trend continues, in the 2010 midterms, democrats are going to get really punished. rick: time for one more quick question, jason, again, there is information out there, that a lot of people who say they are for republicans are not necessarily for them, because they are overwhelmed by how wonderful the republican ideas are, but, because they are very upset with the...