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Job and is making some mistakes in terms of where it's sending money. that there are democratic seats that -- senate seats that they need to hold like in illinois and new ham shiver, where the party is not spending money, where they might lose those seats. this guy was very concerned about the possibility that democrats could lose the senate almost as easily as they could lose the house. >> wow. that's interesting. willie, what else we got. >> john harris, want to ask you about the next election, 2012. mississippi governor haley barbour says, pubically he says, not thinking about running until...

Tried to run to sam brownback. we've seen these appointed senators struggle for years. >> let's talk about georgia. we have another proxy war between mike huckaby and sarah palin. >> sure. >> and it is fascinating on the republican side. you look at south carolina, you look at sarah palin going in to south carolina, supporting haley, also going in to other states. sarah palin has in the deep south, at least, be a king or in this case queenmaker for republicans. is she going to win again tonight? >> she has been. and you know what's been fascinating, is the folks that run the republican governo...

Against linda mcmahon? >> i don't think so. >> okay. "and the miami herald" florida sees the rise of the independent. the number of no-party voters in florida continues to grow while the big lead registered democrats had over registered republicans is getting smaller. and willie, that's good news for charlie crist. >> good news for mr. crist. "usa today," continue to read every paper in the country this morning, private pages no match for feds. federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. the compensation gap between...

It was outrageous that you'd have financial reform. >> without fannie and freddie. >> and you wouldn't touch fannie mae and freddie mac. >> this is what cost us more money than anything else. we're closing out on $150 billion. i know that was $60 billion. these two companies are supporting frankly virtually the entire mortgage market at the moment, which means that we're supporting them, so, you can't let them go completely at this point, they're kind of holding us hostage which is sort of the problem. but we need to find a way around this. we need to get out of this. we need to split these gu...

Last race. they're not -- they're just not comfortable with the fact that mitt romney can win. >> john harris, thanks so much. we'll check back in with you later in the show. coming up next, defense secretary gates wants to trim the budget, starting with his department in the pentagon. we'll break down those numbers. opponents of the proposed mosque at ground zero taking their fight to the streets in the form of bus ads. it's raising a lot of eyebrows. we'll show it to you. "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow