so even if someone starts digging in yard signs saying bob thompson for mayor, and for bob thompson to actually appear on the ballot and be elected at some point, mr. thompson would need to declare. while that is not necessarily spelled out on the yard sign. >> this is not actually if they can achieve the elected os. we're aiming at people who are spending money in support of a candidate, in september of someone who is not a candidate for elected office and we want to close that loophole. i don't see the advantage of lipting it to people who are encouraging or urging -- i mean why not just leave a1 as-is. i mean, i have another slight amendment to it. what are we worried about that required us to define what "support" means? >> i think that is a fair point. he think what you are generally saying is that if we define "support," or possibly excluding things in the definition. i think that is a very fair point. i would also just point out subsection 4 does allow the ethics commission to propose regulations and i think the reason that we put that in there, we know that to the extent there

tommy thompson, wisconsin, bob allen, in each case, the voters rejected them. >> brian, back over to. >> a lot of people aren't watching these election results alone. many are hanging out at the local bars or watering holes in their own neighborhood. public bar d.c. scott, what's the word there. >> reporter: a good crowd here at public here. nobody is watching the game. they're all watching election night coverage, and i cover sports for a living. i'm reminded on nights like tonight that sports and politics around that much different. trying to figure out the one big question, who's going to win? representing president obama, and said going to be representing. >> governor romney. >> reporter: come january, who has a better chance of having their job? >> barack obama. >> reporter: if rob griffin would you vote for him? >> yes. >> as president, i would vote for barack obama. >> reporter: over robert griffin iii. has anybody told you you look like mitt romney? >> i would love to be that first guy to have a beer with mitt. >> reporter: early polling that mitt is kind of leading this thin

thompson 47. in pennsylvania senator bob casey has a nine-point lead over republican tom smith. be right back. >>> wow. we're back. the dirty angry money pouring into republican congressman joe walsh's race against tammy duckworth is soaring in the call >>> wow. we're back. the dirty angry money pouring into republican congressman joe walsh's race against tammy duckworth is soaring in the call pain's final week. walsh famously accused president obama of lying about the effects of not raising the debt ceiling back in 2011. let's watch that. >> president obama, quit lying. you know darn well that if august 2nd comes and goes there's plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of our social security obligations. have you no shame, sir? in three short years, you've bankrupted this country and destroyed job creation. you're either in over your head, you don't understand what makes this country great, or you're hellbent in turning us into some european big government wasteland. >> well, whatever you think of that, "chicago tribune"/wgn poll last week shows tammy duckworth leadin

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we'll be joined live by cbs news' bob schieffer coming up next. keely and bianca thompson. keely, keely, keely and bianca thompson. accokeek. keely's district boxing and youth center. accokeek. >>> we are coming down to the wire, and on the presidential campaign trail, president obama and mitt romney are both targeting undecided voters who may be influenced by today's unemployment report. the jobless rate rose a 10th of a point from 7.8 to 7.9%. it is the highest number an incumbent president has faced on election day since franklin roosevelt. employers added 171,000 new jobs in october. 45,000 more than many analysts anticipated. and the labor department says hiring over the summer was better than previously thought. both president obama and mitt romney campaigned today in the battleground state of ohio. >>> with election day just days away the final push in the presidential race will be the focus of this week's cbs news "face the nation." joining us from new york is the host, bob schieffer. bob, does today's unemployment report in your mind favor the president more or gov

thompson, 51% to 46%. the lone pickup was in nebraska where deb fischer defeated bob kerrey to grab a seat vacated by retiringrat ben nelson. let's take a look at where things stand. two uncalled races here. this is for an open seat in north dakota would be if heidi . we have not called it. let me run through both of those just to show you the raw vote totals where we are now 0. there's still a lot of vote to count here. leads by 17,000 votes. that is everything that seems to be out. a lot of folks believe that will hold. i have a feeling this will take a little while longer. congressman rick bird only trailing by 994 votes. that's pretty good math for lack of sleep. democrats may pick up anywhere at least as many as eight seats. there it went. whoop. th camera wept down. hey look, better that it went down today than before. it looks like we have -- it's going to be as many as a net gain of eight seats, at worst four seats. joining me now is the man in charge of trying to pick up house seats. it was a tough night for house democrats when you consider everything else on the board. congressman israel, how democ

. >> mary thompson is in for bob this morning with more on what is moving. >> we have a mixed picture in the markets right now. dow coming off the lows of the day, down 26. nasdaq is higher, up 1 1/2 points, rebounding from a lower open help by strength in semiconductors. you can credit that with invideo raised dividends. traders concerned about two things. what's happening in the eurozone and what will happen with the fiscal cliff. let's start with the eurozone first. take a look at the chart of the euro. 7:30, another leg down, added pressure on the futures. recent concerns about france going into a recession. what happens with greece? there is a vote on the budget on sunday. of course, traders are focused on what the president will have to say at 1:00 eastern time when he talks about the economy and fiscal cliff. i asked him, what are you hoping to hear? what do you think he can say to actually help the markets? one trader says any sign he's willing to compromise or suggest something, that would be good. another trader saying, you know what, actions speak louder than words. we've h

bob carey in nebraska is making that price potentially tight. a red state. your home state of wisconsin tammy baldwin from madison is hardly a centrist democrat, but she's running as one, and meanwhile, tommy thompson, who was the four term governor of wisconsin, is running a tired campaign and not appealing to voters. my favorite race, paul, is the one in arizona which should not be tight, a very red state and the reason that's important is because jeff flake, a taxpayer hero, made his career in the house as mr. anti-earmark, all, he's being attacked in arizona by some republican business groups for not bringing home the bacon. >> paul: but i've been told that that race has turned toward jeff flake in the last week and a pretty comfortable lead and likely to win. >> i agree. >> what about the problem of candidate talent? todd aiken had-- >> some self-inflicted wounds and you mentioned tommy thompson and jeff flake, primary races left them bloody for the general election, and tommy thompson had no money or negatives and that's hurt as well. not only the candidates sometimes, it's the primary process. >> there's more competition on the republican side, that's what the primaries have suggested. there

bob casey found the need to campaign a little harder. tom smith started closing the gap against the democratic incumbent and the national republican senatorial committee just dumped $500,000 into the campaign. tommy versus tammy. tommy thompson neck with tammy baldwin. paul ryan state is democratic and baldwin's lead is within the margin of error. in missouri, republican todd aiken is staying in the senate race. his campaign was thought to be doomed after he made the comments about pregnancies that result from rape. >> it seem toz me, first of all, from what i understand from doctors, that is really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> now, republican leaders, everyone from mitt romney and all the establishment pretty much urged akin to drop out. he refused. he's hoping to take the seat held by clare mccaskill. the polls show him leading on her and a last-minute of cash infusion for his campaign. a lot of races to watch very closely and you can believe we'll be doing that right here for you. >>> men and women dressed in camouflage in an area that looks like a war zone. this is not overseas, folks, this is new jersey looking for survivors left behind in the rubble

bob kerry and for deb fisher in nebraska. martha: let's take a look at the next one we have. this is the wisconsin race, we saw the former governor of wisconsin tommy thompson interest during governor romney in his own state. this one shapes up very tight right now against representative tammy baldwin, michael. >> tommy thompson came back to wisconsin after working in washington as a lobbyist. after he won the late republican primary by a narrow margin, tamee bald within the incumbent congresswoman from mad today son hit him with a barrage of ads calling him a lobbyist. she took the distinct lead in polls for a while. the most recent surveys have been more favorable to tommy thompson. wisconsin is a target state and the polling has been very close there. you're seeing mitt romney is speaking as we speak in west alice, wisconsin. i think that is a race that either romney and thompson will win or barack obama and tamee baldwin. martha: another coattails situation. we'll have to leave it there. we will be following these real closely over the coming days with your help. thanks for being here today. >> thank you. bill: fox news alert as expected the president g

thompson there and in maine independent angus king easily one the senate seat currently held by outgoing republican olimpia snowe. the one notable pickup for the republicans was in nebraska where deb fischer defeated boberrey. democrats hold 51 seats and majority leader harry reid has already called on republicans to end their, quote, strategy of obstruction, gridlock and delay, end quote. still waiting for officials results from other races in nevada and montana. if we go back to the top of the list, elizabeth warren versus scott brown. tight all the way. what did elizabeth warren do in the end to win? >> one thing she did was run as a democrat in a state where the president won by a big margin. she ran a much better race as a first-time candidate, made very few mistakes and will become one of the leading voices in the senate for progress i was around the country. >> andrea, what does she bring to the senate? >> she brings that passion, and from a real liberal left perspective in terms of economic issues, a consumer advocate. she will be aligned with bernie sanders, the independent and several of the others on that side of the spectrum. she may make it very difficult for some of the regulators who ar