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twisting within politics in the liberal party. a lot of obama maniacs have to ask themselves if this is the hope and change they thought they were going to get politically from a president who was a candidate who swore off lobbyists, said i'll never do opposition research against the people i'm going to run against because i'm going to have a positive message and clean american politics. martha: what about the gop races, the senate in particular, as they try to wrestle out a majority? >> there's a series of senate seats that are basically gone, republicans acknowledge they have four in the bank, arkansas, indiana, north dakota -- north dakota and wisconsin. north dakota and indiana are gone, because the incumbent democrats chose to step aside and the democrats who were running for those states aren't able to defend them against republican candidates, but arkansas and wisconsin are very signche lincoln, democrat incumbent being knocked off as it looks like she will is a big deal, she's been around a long time, a
ultimately? what is your sense. >> both candidates say they'll caucus with the republicans in the senate. if joe miller loses it will be a blow to the tea party and will show they cannot really carry their strengths into a general election. against the moderate sitting senator. if murkowski loses, i think that will really shake up the earmark and pork-barrel culture in washington because she was a senior member of the appropriations committee and if alaska which gets a lot of federal largess does not elect a senator, though she brought home lots of slabs of bacon it may be a change in the cultural politics of alaska. bill: that is interesting. i have to run. you have written a lot about voter fraud. do you see that at the -- as a possibility in alaska, given the dynamics of the race, on a widespread scale or not. >> there is traditionally not a major problem outside of a couple of indian villages and i would say voter confusion will be a problem, sometimes you cannot tell where the bureaucratic incompetence ends
to be here on sunday campaigning for strickland making the 12th visit to the state and cass search meeting with a number of republican governors coming into rally the troops, including tim pawlenty and chris christie and haley barbour and has, big names from caress the country as well. bill: what challenge is the two candidates? i'm assuming it is the economy. >> reporter: you are right, it is the song, people are concerned about jobs and the economy. ohio, is kind of unique in a sense it has particularly high unemployment ands ha had double-digit unemployment -- has had double-digit unemployment, quite a long time, 10% and have been shedding jobs and the republicans are quick to point out 400,000 jobs were lost the last four years since the stimulus bill was signed, about 166,000 jobs have been lost and a very tough economy here, and, that is what they are concerned
children's incomes from the next generation. i don't believe any of that, no one in the grassroots movement believes any of that. bill: but you got to compromise somewhere because if you don't it's going to be continued gridlock or we're going to dig a deeper hole. >> we've had compromise. republicans have been compromising. i think too ph. in health care, there was no compromise. you had the gop issue for us a patient's bill of rights, paul lion was a big champion of this, patient's bill of rights, fantastic, not a single shred of it was heard, not a single sled was included in the bill that was passed. there has been -- shred was included in the bill that was passed. for anyone to say that, that republicans haven't been willing to compromise, i think that is sort of a false premise because they've been trying. at the same time, you have a majority of americans who they want less spending, there's no compromise on less spending, there's no compromise on restoring peoples' individual liberty in terms of health care. bill: three days ago, rasmussen did a survey, he
listen: >> a voter who, perhaps brushes the screen or touches it with their sample ballot does not realize they did that and has been hearing the drum beat of fraud, might misperceive what they see. >> reporter: now, he told us his employees, most of them have worked for him for over a decade and he was quite sure there wasn't any funny business going on and nonetheless, the republican party here in clark county, is not wasting any time, hiring lawyers already, just in case there might be shenanigans going on on election day. martha: here come the lawyers! thank you very much. anita vogel in nevada. bill: martha, on tuesday night one of the bigger questions will be balance of power, not just the house but the senate and this is something that may be answered on tuesday night and maybe not, depending on how close things go in the senate, today, here is where we are. you need 51 for a majority and democrats at 57. and republicans, at 41. if the g.o.p. wants to pick up the 51 majority, simple math
when some of these tea party folks get to washington and are up against the machine again, we're going to see the scenarios play out. >> you know i've spoken at many tea party events and spoke into the rank-and-file and leadership and interviewed virtually every major tea party candidate and i believe these people are true to their beliefs in sound money, and a small government and i do not think they'll be big government republicans, i think they'll be like chris christie and say, no. martha: fascinating. really is, thank you so much, judge, always good to have you with us. >> a pleasure. martha: bill. bill: breaking news now, the story broke, 9:00 a.m. this morning, the fbi is urging a gunman who fired repeatedly into a marine museum, outside of washington, d.c., urging him to surrender. fbi spokeswoman saying they believe the shooter is disturbed, and says they do not believe the person, he or she wants to harm anyone, so far no one has been hurt and this is the fourth incident in the washington, d.c. area, over the
>> he was caught in a political storm, that he had no control over, okay? >> he had control over. >> he had no choice, he's not a king and because he goes on television and relates to the average person doesn't mean he's doing anything wrong, he's not our king, he's our president. >> why did he take the health care bill and make it up across the street and ram it down our throat, where is the partisanship there and the republicans were not allowed to discuss it and we have debt upon debt and 1400 pages -- >> he's trying to deal with what was handed to him. >> no. no. no. bill: and it went from there. back and forth. and, round and round, frank luntz, a few voices, anyway, from ohio. martha: fascinating. people are so engaged, in all of this and that connect to the next story as well. because now there is a new investigation that has been launched, into the motives behind scrapping what would have been the entire country's
in north carolina, the secretary of state is filing a complaint about touch screen voting in that state, they say when people cast votes for republicans the computer screen shows votes for democrats. >> the voter's vote is defaulted to the top line which in most of the instances is the democratic line on the ballot. >> it's ain incompetent situation with the state board of elections. >> the state board of elections says the machines are not programmed to favor democrats, but they admit there can be problems with the technology. in pennsylvania today, we'll be hearing on hundreds of allegedly fraudulent absentee ballot applications there. that's happening in buck's county. nearly 900 of them have been tossed out already. republicans say the democrats are committing voter fraud, the democrats accuse the republicans of voter suppression. of course, if you have problems where you live, we want to know about it. here's our address, voter fraud at foxnews.com. we're hearing lots of complaints from across the country. we hear you, we are investigating these, we are getting hundreds and hundreds of these type of
which was made in the context of florida, has national significance. i been on election day, you're going to see broad change, and a change of control in the house and probably not the senate, but a move for republicans there because of the sentiment that meek was speaking -- or rubio was speaking to, i'm sorry. martha: gentlemen, thank you very much. brad blakeman, doug schoen, always interest good to have you. this is what came in from twitter, here's a quote, clinton represents to many dems the best times remembered by the party and katrina e-mailed us and she said this, he is laying ground work for hillary to run for president in 2012. there are some things to think about there, coming in on twitter this morning. a lot to think about. bill: indeed there is, including this, new details breaking near washington, d.c. this is in virginia. shots fired at the marine corps national museum, the fbi, we know, is on the scene, collecting evidence and looking to see whether or not the incident is
already over, you know, the western senators, for example, who face nominal opposition from democrats. bill: do you think, you canvassed the country, you're in colorado today. can the g.o.p. realistically speaking pick up ten seats on tuesday night? >> it could. it is a long shot. there are 12 democrat seats up for re-election, and in a wave election year like this the out of power party can gain between 66 and 80% of the seats that are considered at risk, so, it's on -- they could, because, ruptures republicans will hold their own and will have 41 after the election and pennsylvania, west virginia, and indiana, and illinois, wisconsin, north dakota, arkansas, colorado, nevada, and then, either washington state or california, gets you to the magic number. bill: i need a white board for that. karl, thank you, live in denver, colorado. don't go far, okay? martha has stuff coming up, too. martha: in fact if joe miller and the other tea party candidates do get into office,