a lot of finger pointing and the former republican governor, bob earlic -- ehrlich in an early appoint. >> reporter: yes, absolutely. the double digit poll numbers have been out there. obviously he felt like he had to at least try to score a knockout so he came out swinging. o'malley, of course, taking those chances still. we did get to see the fire because let's face it, there are just a lot of things that they do not see eye to eye on. >> and they disagree on raising taxes. the incumbent admitted that it could happen as the final resort. but bob ehrlich, no matter what happens, he's got the furlough workers for ten weeks. i'm not going to raise taxes. does that make sense? >> the $32 million budget. we don't raise taxes. and both insist that he will be the man to create more jobs. but that really began to show through when we got to immigration. o'malley, the champions of the citizenship. >> satly, a political football. and there is this nativism rising up and this desire to blame the americans, for the problems in our economy. >> and it is not the nativism. it's not nativism. excuse