People on food stamps. a very smart man who was once speaker of the house is telling republicans to close this year s campaign by drawing a sharp contrast between, and i quote, the democratic party of food stamps and the republican party of paychecks. you deserve better. i m not here to pick a fight with newt gingrich. democrats are full of foolish diversions and misleading ads to. in 28 days, it will be over. but if the debate is so nasty and at times so foolish, will we have a good sense of what we voted for or just who you voted against? joining us, cnn contributor and senior political columnist of the daily beast.com john avlon. here in republican, former newt gingrich aide rich gailon. and democratic pollster cornell belcher. gloria borger. i don t like the idea when you said it annoys me, you looked at me. he s a very smart guy but he likes to throw flames sometimes.
Sea change. the sad part is the serious part, which is new york state has some serious challenges to face. we ve got candidates that have made themselves caricatures, running as howard beale, then trying to turn into a serious profess professor. it doesn t work that way. the people who get lost in the shuffle are the people in new york who need serious solutions to the problems the state is facing now. we ll keep an eye on those races. trust me, rich, we ll have some democratic outrages very soon. rich, gloria, cornell, john, thanks. a lot more to go, including a conversation with bob woodward. he s just written a new book about obama s wars. and also his thoughts, obama/clinton 2012, really? that s in a minute. then we ll talk to eliot spitzer about the new program at 8:00 tonight. their take on the i m not a witch ad in the delaware senate