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Democrats helping chris christie. go back to 2000. that's when the former goldman sachs ceo john corazon spent $63 million in a successful effort to win a seat as a democrat. three years later, jim mcgreevey resigned amid revelations of an affair, gruesome poll numbers, and the possibility of a federal indictment. when dick cody assumed the governorship when mcgreevey resigned, but didn't have corzine's deep pockets. instead of backing cody in 2005, new jersey's democrats pretty much let themselves get bought off by corzine. they gave minimum the nomination and he won the election, but corzine...

0 nomination, bush saw virginia as a place where he could sweep in, score a victory, improve, and still bring home a swing state. >> virginia's republican candidate for governor, jerry kilgore is about to make last-minute gamble. he'll be joined by president bush. but it's a high-risk strategy, because with the president's popularity at an all-time low, his appearance could have the opposite effect. >> if the democrats were to win in this republican-leaning southern state, that would indicate that the difficulties of the bush administration and of the republican party are having real implicati...

0 >> reporter: and republicans had reason to be nervous. in the next two election cycles in 2006 and 2008, democrats swept to power, first taking the house and then the whole shebang. and eight years later, it is now obama who heads to virginia with his lowest approval ratings yet, campaigning for terry mcauliffe, the race that the republicans were supposed to win. it's an off year election, it's in a state that has for four decades voted against the party occupying the white house in gubernatorial elections. it's a state where terry mcauliffe was crushed in the democratic primary just four ye...

0 >> all right, joining me now is congressman gerry connolly, a democrat from virginia. congressman, thank you for taking some time tonight. i want to get to that election in virginia and what it says about where the country is and where the country is going, it's only five days away. but first i want to start at the basic issue of the poll numbers for the president today, which made so much news today. you heard that repetition in the package we just played there. george bush territory, the idea that here in his fifth year as president, president obama now falling to a level about where georg...

of george washington and the fight for american freedom. in a couple of hours, dennis kucinich will offer his views on the war in afghanistan, climate change legislation, and health care. "washington journal" is next. . . host: congress is back in session tomorrow. it is sunday morning, october 25. the president will not begun to the copenhagen conference on climate issues. we will begin with some of the news this morning. here are the phone lines to call. a couple of related stories this morning in the papers on the issue of climate change. the senate's crime bill is a bit more ambi...