boy, the type of thing -- many ways, it is typical of bob kerrey. he never sort of went by consultant script when he ran for president, when he ran for office before. so maybe it shun be a surprise not everybody on team kerrey in the house hold is on board this idea of him moving back to omaha and doing all these things. sarah spoke her mind on that one. we will see how much play it gets in nebraska. senator kerrey says it has not so far. we are following the money. taking a deep dive into the latest on where the campaigns and super pacs are spending their millions. folks, this is how you really see where the battleground is. i'm going to do a mac here on what happens if romney loses virginia and ohio. forget the gender gap. we will tell why you it is the marriage gap that could be the real key to who wins the white house. ♪ hello...rings ♪ what the... what the... what the... ♪ are you seein' this? ♪ ♪ uh-huh... uh-huh... uh-huh... ♪ ♪ it kinda makes me miss the days when we ♪ ♪ used to rock the microphone ♪ back when our credit score couldn't get u

other senator, i don't remember who the other was -- in kansas against democrat -- in nebraska, bob kerrey going up against deb fischer. they put out these boilerplate ads. now the democrats are fighting back one by one really quickly. that kind of energy is important. i think also the fact that the democrats are a little bit -- a lot of a financial disadvantage more so than obama. >> i think that's a part of it, too. they figure well, if we're not going to get the money from the bankers, what are we holding back for? it is a little too simplistic. they still get a ton of money from lobbyists. i just see a new toughness here. i think it could make a big difference. i think a lot of people are assuming republicans will have control of congress in 2012. if they continue this path, the democrats and this aggressive attack i'm not sure they will. >> this energy about the senate races shows the democrats are serious and also shows that they think that they can hold on to the senate, very important. >> cenk: all right either way, it is a good sign. michael, thank you man. we appreciate it. when

bob kerrey, a homebuilder in houston, harold simmons, an investor in dallas.hey have both given substantial contributions to karl rove's group american crossroads, the one publicly has to release its super pac -- the super pac has to release the names of its donors. they have also helped romney super pac. there are wall street -- prominent wall street billionaires who have also been active. paul singer is one of the more prominent hedge funds executives who runs the elliott management. these are just a few of the other large names. the koch brothers who are each roughly worth what sheldon adelson is worth, $25 billion each, for many years have been working to boost outside groups on the conservative side of the spectrum. this year, koch groups have talked about spending as much as $400 million in the elections to support republican candidates and to help defeat democrats. >> peter stone and stephen engelberg, thank you for being with us. peter stone is a freelancer with "huffington post" and other publications, has been two decades covering money and politics

[inaudible] he and i co-chair that now the bob kerrey is not running for the senate, a nebraska. csis which historical has focused those securities and on foreign policy, but we believe that this is a security issue. those two groups, and others, including pete domenici, very prominently, and i was comical and have a a set of hearings. will have for hearings, one on fiscal policy, one on entitlement policy, one on taxes and growth, and one on security. now, well, that we don't know but we'll get the best witnesses we can find and we'll try to get the consciousness raised about the country and were going to try to get a little of america as assertive as those on the wings. 's that i think we should also we are not trying to engage in the presidential election at all. what we want is when this election cycle is over, will want to be available as a resource for whoever the next president is to be able to govern well. and congress to govern well, we're going to give them a lot of different ideas so they can accomplish that, and hopefully the american people, who have an inherent comm

concord coalition, bob biggs be is here in the front row, he and i co-chair that now that bob kerrey is out running for the senate in nebraska. csis has this directly focused on security and foreign policy. we believe this is a security issue. those two groups and others, including pete the medici and ellis, will have a set of hearings in september. there will be one on fiscal policy, one an income of policy, one on taxes and growth, and one of security. what will come of that, we don't know. but we will get the best witnesses we can find and try to get the consciousness raised around the country and try to get the middle of america as assertive as those on the wings. >> you should also note that we are not trying to engage on the presidential elections. once this election cycle is over, we want to be available has a resource for whoever the next president is to be able to govern well and for the congress to be able to govern well. we will have a bunch of ideas for -- to help them accomplish that. and the american people has an inherent common sense that quite often exceeds here in w

and for bob kerry running for senate in nebraska told politico, kerrey believes the $250,000 limit is too low but is evaluating how specific proposals would affect the ballot. claire mchaskel said she would look at it to reign in the deficit. by the way, the president made sure to argue that the bush tax cuts never worked. >> we were told that it would lead to more jobs and higher incomes for everybody and prosperity would start at the top and then trickle down. what happened? instead of creating more jobs, we had the slowest job growth in half a century. >> one of the reasons the white house is sticking to the 250 and didn't agree with senate democrats in the effort to push up the threshold to a million dollars is the math doesn't work. you have a deficit gap. you lose about half that deficit reduction revenue that the white house is looking for if you move that threshold up. so it may help on messaging, but it hurts them in the accounting. the obama campaign likes the tax issue, not just because it polls well. it does. but because they believe it allows them to tie together a core c