bobby schillings owns a pizza store and restaurant in rock island.st recent polls announced bobby schillings is ahead 43-38. it's devastating for incumbent jerry manneder for his party. >> comments about the constitution in the healthcare debate he made a similar comment in california. we polled on that. 86 percent of people disagree with the comment. i am sure the same is true in hairs district that's a devastating type of comment. it's captured on videotape it helps explain why they are polling 48 percent. >>> we will give you the opportunity to respond. number one is the minnesota aids interesting outside of duluth and includes duluth as a matter of fact. they have held this since 1946 the north carolina 7th race which is a pretty interesti sto. it has been there since 1990. this was another district redistracted for a democrat. these are three interesting races. again nobody a year ago would have thought they would be in play. >> the minnesota aid district representative jim oberstar since 1974 only elected democrat since 1946. so that's amazing

pizza man bobby schilling wants to deliver for illinois. get it?senate candidate christine o'donnell is not a lot of things. >> i'm not a witch. >> reporter: and not a career politician. of course, that might be just because she's run twice before and lost. >> give me some fives. >> reporter: chris dudley played 16 years in the nba. he now wants to be governor of oregon. how can you tell a basketball player might make a good governor? >> i think you will see it by their work ethic, determination, discipline and team work, how they work with the team. >> reporter: so ball hogs -- >> well, yeah, that's -- i go with the team player. >> reporter: what about free their percentage? >> irrelevant. >> reporter: he shot less than 50% from the line. but that blip aside, isn't nba career the right experience to run a state? >> here in oregon, our last two governors have had over 60 years of experience between two of them. yet here we sit, 42nd in unemployment, 43rd in education. hunger, homelessness. the verdict's in. it hasn't worked. so i think the point is

bobby schilling is the republican candidate for congress in the 17th district of illinois and we alsoman phil hair but his office declined. thank you for joining us. >> hey, thanks for having me. >> let's talk about this -- what happened in st. claire county, the county clerk there admits that about 1300 overseas military ballots missed the september 18th deadline. they weren't sent out until october 4th. how did this happen? >> you know, this has been going on for far too long. our boys and girls are over there fighting to defend our freedoms here and, you know, this is a problem across the land but i mean, here in illinois, i think what we need to do is people need to be held accountable for these actions and, you know, every election it seems like we go through this and our boys and girls are already defending us and fighting for our freedoms. this is just completely wrong. >> the st. claire county clerk says that the reason they didn't send them out on time is because they were waiting for a decision as to whether or not the constitution party candidate was going to be included on