moment whatever chris matthews feels running up and down his leg, it won't be good. it won't be good. so let's get about the people's business over the next ten days. let's get about the people's business in every community. i need you to be uncomfortable for the next ten days. i need you to think about what else you can do. i need you to think about what else you can do, and then do it. and then do it. victo victory. god bless you. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm ed henry in las vegas. this is cnn's special "ballot bowl" coverage. this is really the final sprint to the midterm elections. we've been talking about them for months now. so much of it will shape the u.s. congress, both the house and the senate. so many governor's mansions up for grabs, as well.

president obama woke up today here in nevada because of this race, harry reid fighting for his political life. air force one just landing in minneapolis. we'll hear from the president live next hour. >> i'm jessica yellin in orlando, florida, where sarah palin is the star attraction coming up at a republican party rally. michael steele just wrapping up. we're going to bring you live events from around the country. we'll take you to minnesota where the president is stumping for the democrat candidate there for governor. we're going to go to the governor race in ohio where the democrat is trying to keep his office, ted strickland. we'll take you to arizona where sarah palin surprised a crowd earlier in the week, and we are going to dip into california, which is i got the admit my home

state, a race i'm particularly interested in. that is where meg whitman has dumped so much money into that race for governor, more than $130 million. and i think we want to pause and bring you the next speaker here, sarah palin is now taking the stage. ♪ >> thank you so much, orlando! thank you! thank you, michael. thank you so much. you look beautiful. thank you so much, leading victory 2010. thank you for all your efforts. orlando, let me ask you, aren't you proud to be an american and don't you love your freedom! [ applause ] all right, then we know who this day is for, freedom for

protecting our constitution. we thank our vets, the united states military. those of you who have served, we salute you, we thank you, united states military. ah, it is so good to be here. and as we recognize and appreciate those who have defended our freedoms, it occurs to me how much alaska and florida have in common. though you may not think a lot of similarities, we do. we do. and going coast to coast, you know, the patriotic hardworking, unpretentious job-creating americans who are here, alaska and everywhere in between, are thinking you're lucky, you're going to get to learn a little more about my state here in the coming weeks, because there's this docu-series thing coming out. okay, we taped these eight episodes about a place that is near and dear to my heart, all about the pioneers and tin dependance and the development

that's needed and resources and a place i've spent my efforts and all my time. it's called "sarah palin's alaska," and the producers are already ready with their sequel. and it's going to be based on a place near and dear to our president's heart, it's called "barack obama's government courses," and it starts taping sometime november 2012. look for that. look for that, because victory 2010 is just the beginning, folks. michael and these folks are going to lead us to victory 2012, too. so he'll have plenty of time for golf then. it is so great to be in the sunshine state, where positive change is just around the corner. as an outsider looking in at florida, i think you all have some simple choices to make, some pretty easy decisions around here. you can either vote for the

status quo, that means more taxes, more unemployment, more regulation, more government overreach. or you can vote for those policies and those people that will put florida back to work and america back to work on november 2nd. [ applause ] choices you have to put florida and all of america back to work. what this great country needs is a little bit of good old reaganism. [ applause ] and michael, as we had to do last week in california, we had to explain a little bit to the media why it is we do quote reagan so often. because there have been some reports lately about, what is all this reagan stuff? and well, you're not going to hear us invoke mao or saul

alynnski. i shall be invoking reagan's name again and again and again. because what obama, pelosi and reid have created for us is a blueprint of things that don't work in this country. they don't work to get our economy roaring back to life. reagan give us a way of thinking that does apply to what is right and what has worked, because his way of thinking, which we need to apply today, was based on some common sense reagan principles that were based on time-tested truths. simple things he believed in because they work. that's lower taxes, less government intrusion and overreach. smaller, smarter government, and remember the national security policy. back then, as michael steele spoke of, that national security policy was lived out by your

native son and his good brother, jeb and g.w. the national security policy of we win, and they lose. now, the momentum is with us. but now is not the time to let up. now is the time where we dig deep. now in these last ten days is where we work extremely hard and we exhaust ourselves. and it feels good to exhaust ourselves to know that we are going to do all that we can to get that vote out, to drop the literature, to make the phone calls. it's up to you as volunteers to get that vote out, doing all that you can for november 2nd to get the vote out. in order to put our government back on the side of the people, to turn things around and get america back growing, thriving, prospering. as michael said too, it ain't over till it's over.

these last ten days, we can't be thinking that we got it in the bag. we can't get cocky about this yet. we got to keep on working extremely hard. we got to leave the dancing to the stars. [ laughter and applause ] soon we'll all be celebrating because i have faith that florida is going to make the right decisions. the simple choices to put america back on the right track by electing the right people, who know those time-tested truths that can be applied. now, this is when we kick it in gear. we have to dig deep. we have to know these candidates have to know that you are there for them, that you're doing all that you can in order to get that vote out. you got to put in those 16, 18, 20-hour days. it does feel good to know, especially on november 3rd, you will have done everything that you can within your power to get

the vote out. and it's in order to restore our republic and to renew america. we have life and death choices coming up on november 2nd. policies that are hinging on who it is that we send to washington, d.c. and that we fill up our statehouses with. this is paramount. this is the election, i think, of our lifetime. it is that important that we do all that we can. [ applause ] we have to do all that we can. >> sarah palin speaking in orlando, championing the republican agenda, slamming president obama and managing to plug her new cable tv show. stay with us. impressive resume. thank you. so, you know what? tell me, what makes peter, peter ? well, i'm an avid catamaran sailor. i can my own homemade jam, apricot. and i really love my bank's raise your rate cd. i'm sorry, did you say you'd love a pay raise asap ?

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away. this is live in minneapolis. president obama will be speaking shortly. we're hearing a lot of democrats warming up the crowd at the university of minnesota. interesting the president has been speaking at a lot of universities to try to fire up young people, the strategy is that basically a lot of young people came out maybe voted for the first time for the president in 2008, first time ever. they may stay home in 2010 if they don't realize what's at stick in this election. the president trying to fire up these university crowds. also, we've got sarah palin down in florida trying to fire up the republican crowd and make sure they keep their eye on the ball. that's where we find me partner, jessica yellin. >> i'm in orlando with sarah palin. he's been on a tear talking about nancy pelosi and trashing what she calls reckless washington spending. let's listen to her. >> and our country, because of government's policies and votes taken recently in these last 21 months of a failed agenda, our government and our country has

really gotten off track. but people also know there is nothing wrong with america, that we can't fix with the good old fashioned election. [ applause ] it's times like these, and we can look for inspiration from someone like ronald reagan, and what it is that he did that he applied to make america prosper. the thing i loved best about him, he didn't waste time looking backwards and pointing fingers and placing blame. he was rock solid, optimistic and unwavering in his acknowledgement of the strength and the goodness of the american people. he understood the power of the individual, and he understood that government is not the answer. it's we, the people, individuals, our families, our small businesses. [ applause ] it's you. he understood that and he

understood this country because he believed in us as individuals. he believed in us, the little guy, and he said it with all due respect when he referred to us as the little guy. reagan said, you can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy. and we little guys, just hard-working, pro family, middle class, job-creating americans, that's who reagan could relate to. so freedom loving little guys, that's who i think of all of us, how about we make november 2nd freedom day and we take it back for the little guy. [ applause ] because you know, really we don't ask for much. we ask for a good job in our own hometown so we can take care of ourselves, secure ourselves and take care of our own families. we ask for a fiscally and a

physically secure nation. we ask for an honest government that is on our side and won't be riding our back. and we ask for leaders with servant's hearts and with ears to hear what the people are saying. we are not asking for much. we're asking for leaders who won't mortgage our kid's future with trillions more in debt. and we ask for leaders who understand that raising federal taxes in a time of economic woe is a recipe for disaster. it's a recipe to bankrupt our country. this is a recipe for disaster, what we're seeing coming out of congress and the white house right now. ultimately what it's going to cause is the people relying on a big centralized government to provide for them. now, this is important. it's why we're calling for that do-over, because some of our current leaders, they do understand that last point, and yet they're doing it to you any way.

so we ask for leaders who will recognize what our foundation is in america. that america is the most generous country on earth. the most prosperous. the safest. and united under god, we are an exceptional country and that is nothing to apologize for. [ applause ] there is no alternative. but we've got a president today, as we talk about no need to apologize, we've got a president today who is getting pretty good at apologizing. the problem, of course, is that he's apologizing to all the wrong people. so mr. president, with all due respect, next time that urge to apologize tingles up the left leg, i have a suggestion who

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welcome back to "ballot bowl." cnn's special coverage of the final sprint to the midterm elections. we're live in minneapolis right now where president obama will be speaking in a few moments. a big rally at the university of minnesota. interesting when he got off air force one, he worked a rope

line, was doing something he doesn't do that much of. he usually pushes through that rather quickly. he's working those rope lines a lot more. these are the final days, he's trying to get out the vote for democrats. he obviously hasn't been doing as much campaigning previous to this. he was busy governing and somebody who is not happy with the way he's governing is sarah palin, who has been ripping into the president down in florida where we find my colleague jessica yellin. >> heshe's been on a tear again him. she's been taking president obama's words and running with them. she's criticizing america's leadership. let's listen to sarah palin. >> we're all about solutions here though, okay? we're all about solutions and here are a couple of things that we can do to get us back on the right track. first, before we spend anymore

of the people's money or print money out of thin air or squander our children's future opportunities, before that happens, adopt the test that president reagan's economic policies had to pass. what he would ask was, will it serve to liberate, and empower the individual? will it encourage us to reach for the stars or will it weaken us and drag us down into submission? pretty good bar to set 28 years later, don't you think? [ applause ] again, we're not asking for much. the american people want a government that stands up for the little guy. and won't just kowtow to union bosses and radical special interests and shortsighted political favors and projects. we want a competent government that knows that overreach and overregulation and overtaxation strangles our small businesses. the feds' overtaxation kills

jobs and kills the american dream. they're forcing americans to outsource jobs and opportunities to foreign countries. it is the left's policies that are forcing our businesses to look elsewhere to conduct business. we want a health care reform system based on common sense, that's not asking for much. we want common sense in health care, not wholesale government takeover of what was the best health care system in the entire world. [ applause ] and we want a government that understands that this isn't free money. somehow, somewhere, every tax dollar that they spend comes from our pocket. hard-working americans, someone, somewhere is producing something for a politician to think that he gets to take that and spend it according to his own

priorities. that's not how america was with the. -- was built. that's not how our private sector will be able to grow and thrive and create jobs for the american people. it's not how our private sector will be able to prosper. obviously, you should be able to keep more of what you earn and produce so you can reinvest in our own businesses. that's how you're able to hire more people, create more jobs. it really isn't that difficult. november 2nd can be a new day where that common sense can start to be applied again. november 2nd, a new way forward with common sense, which grant it, is an endangered species in washington today. but if we take this back, if we turn it around, and if we elect those people with common sense and an understanding of how to run a business, how to balance a budget, how to make payroll, i

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welcome back to "ballot bowl." cnn's special coverage of the final sprint to these midterm elections. the buildup has been there for months. there's so much at stake. control of the u.s. house, the senate, as well. completely up for grabs. i'm in las vegas because that's where president obama woke up this morning, trying to help out harry reid. but now the president has just

landed a short time ago in minneapolis. this is live at a rally that has started going. but we haven't heard from the commander in chief yet. we will go to him live as soon as we see him take the stage. for now, there's some big players in florida on the republican side. they are ripping into the president right now. jessica yellin is down there right now. >> sarah palin is speaking. she's been giving shoutouts to the various republican candidates on stage and she gave a shoutout to candidate marco rubio, but he already left. let's listen in. >> more power to the efforts there. [ applause ] so many candidates around here running for the right reasons. you've got rick scott and allen west. and you've got pam bondy. [ applause ] and steve southerland.

and you've got daniel webster. [ applause ] okay, running against you know who. okay, we've got to stop just for one minute here with this one. the word that comes to mind, jack wagon. for some reason i think of allen grayson and jack wagon. please, for the rest of the country, may that one-term wonder be retired. vote for daniel webster. veterans for webster. you've got good candidates here in florida. thank the lord. but they cannot win without you. are you going to be there for them? scott carol. and i know that i'm missing some of them, folks, and just know that those who have that common

sense, who are running for the right reasons, who have that servant's heart that the states will benefit from, please support them, do all that you can for them. friends, we have important, very, very crucial decisions that are coming up. policies that will be decided by these folks. in addition to the economic policies that we touched on quite a bit this afternoon, remember we have innocent lives. we have those with special needs. we have our esteemed elders that deserve our protection, they deserve security and respect for their lives. will you be there for them? [ applause ] we have america's finest, our men and women in uniform, a force for good throughout this world. nothing to apologize for. will you be there for them? [ applause ] we have the greatest country in

the world and you all deserve much better than what you're getting out of washington. will you be there for america? now is the time we stand up, we stand strong for america. keep the faith. work hard, 2010 victory right around the corner. god bless you. god bless florida. god bless the united states of america! [ applause ] >> sarah palin speaking to beyond enthusiastic, elated crowd. most of the people here came to see her. a lot of them got what they wanted. sarah palin taking on the obama administration, the democratic agenda, talking about national security, trying to get out the vote. and even in the midst of it, managing to make a plug for everyone to watch her new tv show, a reality show about her life in alaska. we'll bring you more "ballot bowl" on the other side of this

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welcome back to "ballot bowl." i'm ed henry in las vegas where the president woke up this morning after a big rally in this city, where he was standing up for the senate majority leader harry reid. he's in a tough race. we reported earlier in the program that senior democratic sources are telling us that the senator's internal poll numbers suggest that he's up as much as six points over sharron angle, a top republican. a source insisted to me it's a dead heat and those poll numbers are wrong. this is a pivotal battle. it may help decide who controls the u.s. senate next year. the president will be taking the stage in a few moments at the university of minnesota. we'll bring you that live as soon as he steps up. we're going coast to coast with all of these live events. we're in the final sprint and the person right in the middle is jessica yellin down in florida.

>> hi, ed. sarah palin just wrapped up speaking here to some very excited republican stalwarts. she was rallying the kind of people who are likely to go out and get other people to vote. the purpose of a rally is to fire up the ground troops, to motivate, and the folks leaving here seem to be excited. she said we need to stop democrats big spending tax agenda. even looking to get some disen chanted democrats to vote republican. she mocked the president for saying earlier this week that people aren't thinking straight because they're so upset. she suggested that was somehow a not flattering to the american people. she mocked the stimulus saying there was a measure in the stimulus package to study the motor skilling of mice when they're drunk and used it as a joke to say i didn't know mickey

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taxpayer dollars by cutting waste and abuse. so you know mark davis. he's got a track record. he's the only candidate in this race who will stand up for the middle class. he's got a plan to balance the budget without sacrificing our children's education. [ applause ] a candidate who has a plan to create jobs and help small business owners grow and to thrive. the point is, mark dayton has spent his life fighting for minnesota. and now i need all of you to fight for mark dayton so we can keep this state moving forward. [ applause ]

>> it looks like you're kind of fired up. [ cheers and applause ] and i need you fired up. because in just ten days, you have the chance not just to set the direction of this state, but also help determine the direction of this country. not just for the next two years, but the next five years, the next ten years. the next 20 years. and just like you did in 2008, you have the chance to define the conventional wisdom. because right now the conventional wisdom is, that you can't overcome the cynicism of politics. that you can't overcome all the special interest money that mark was talking about. that you can't tackle big challenges. that the political system just

can't digest it. the same way that they said in 2008 that you can't elect a skinny guy with a funny name to the presidency of the united states of america. and so in 2008, you said, yes, we can. in 2010, you've got to say, yes, we can. [ applause ] >> yes, we can! yes, we can! yes, we can! >> yes, we can. now, look, there is no doubt that this is going to be a difficult election. and it's because we've been through an incredibly difficult time for our nation. for most of the last decade, the

middle class in america was getting pounded. between 2001 and 2009, when republicans were in charge, the middle class saw their incomes go down by 5% during that period. that's not according to me, that's according to "the wall street journal." between that same period, we had the slowest, most sluggish job growth of any time since world war ii. so this was a lost decade for middle class families. cost of everything from health care to getting a college education were skyrocketing. jobs were disappearing overseas. too many parents had to say to their kids we might not be able to afford to send you to college. too many families had to pass up going to the doctor when they got sick because they couldn't afford it. too many americans haven't two, three jobs and still not being

able to make ends meet. and then all of this culminated in the worst financial crisis and the worst economic crisis since the great depression. i want everybody to think back to when i was first sworn in. we had lost 4 million jobs in the six months before i took office. we lost 750,000 the month i took the oath. 600,000 the month after that. 600,000 more the month after that. we lost almost 8 million jobs, almost all of them lost before any of our economic policies would be put into place. and when i arrived in washington, my hope was that we could put politics aside for a moment to meet this once in a generation challenge. my hope was we could stop the division and the bickering and

the partisanship that had dominated washington, and that we could come together to solve problems because although we are proud democrats, we are prouder to be americans, minnesota. [ applause ] and i believe there are a lot of republicans out there that felt the same way, but when we got to washington, the republican leaders in congress, they had a different idea. their basic theory was, we really screwed up, it's going to take a long time to get those 8 million jobs back. people are going to be angry and frustrated. it's better if we refuse to cooperate. we say no to everything. we try to gum up the works in congress and we may be able to deflect the blame come the next

election. we'll just pretend like we had nothing to do with it and point our fingers at the democrats. in other words, the other side was betting on amnesia. they're betting that you forget who caused this mess in the first place. but minneapolis, it is up to you to show them that you have not forgotten. [ applause ] it's up to you to remember that this election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading us out of this mess. the choice between the past and the future. a choice between hope and fear. a choice between falling backwards and moving forwards. and i don't know about you, but i want to move forward.

i don't want to go backwards. [ applause ] and if you don't think this is a choice, if you think somehow there's a new and improved republican party out there, let me be clear. the chair of the republican campaign committee was asked what are you going to do if you take over congress? he said, we'll pursue the exact same agenda as we did before obama took office. i mean, it's not as if they went off into the desert and realized boy, we really screwed up and they went and meditated for a while and came up with new ideas. all they got is the same old stuff that they were peddling over the last decade. cut taxes mostly for millionaires and billionaires.

cut rules for special interests. and then cut middle class families to fend for themselves. so if you're out of a job, tough luck, you're on your own. you don't have health care? their philosophy says tough luck, you are on your own. you're a young person, trying to afford a college education. too bad. pull yourself up by your own boot straps. you're on your own. this same agenda turned a record surplus into record deficits. allowed wall street to run wild and nearly destroyed our economy. and i make these points not because i want to reargue the past, i just want to relive the past. we can't afford it. [ applause ] >> you're listening live to president obama at the university of minnesota. as we said earlier, he's really trying to frame this midterm election between a choice, a choice between hope and fear, going backward or going forward.

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i'm ed henry. welcome back to "ballot bowl." cnn's really special coverage of this final sprint into the midterm elections. the final ten days. interesting that president obama's message, largely built around the notion of, look, you were with me in 2008.

i need you again in 2010. perhaps running up a little for 2012? we'll have to deal with that on another edition on "ballot bowl." here's the president making his pitch at the university of minnesota. >> and the skills of our workers. we believe in an america in which we look after one another, where i say i am my brother's keeper. i am my sister's keeper. that's our vision. that's the america that i believe in. and that mark believes in, that you believe in. that's the choice in this election. if you give the other side the keys, the other side will keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. mark and i want to give tax breaks to companies investing right here in minnesota, right here in the united states and

small businesses and american manufacturers. we want to invest in clean energy companies because i don't want solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars built in europe or asia. i want them built right here in america with american workers. that's the choice in this election. we give them the keys. here is their big economic idea. this is their big jobs plan is to cut taxes for the top 2%, it will cost $700 billion. lit be an average of $100,000 check for millionaires and billionaires. 98% of folks would not see any of this money from this tax break, and to pay for it, we would have to borrow money from china. and by the way, we don't have to cut education spending by 20%.

now, why -- why on earth do we think that would be good for our future? do you think that china is getting education spending by 20%? is south korea or india or germany, are they cutting education by 20%? >> no! >> they're not playing for second place. they understand that our competitiveness will be determined by how well we educate our workers for tomorrow. and america doesn't play for second place either. we play for first place. that's why amy, that's why ed, that's why we work together, keith and