negative ad for conway and positive ad for rand paul. >> we've collected all of the ads, two differentbates. i'm going to ask one more time to make it clear for everyone at home many you watched two different debates. who was the more negative candidate? who says rand paul was the more negative candidate, raise your hands. one. who says that jack conway is the more negative candidate? including people voting for conway? >> i wanted to respond to the medicare thing. rand paul said that would not affect anybody on medicare currently that is something in the future. at last he's -- at least he's being proactive. when all the money is gone there is not going to be a debate. >> it will affect people on medicare currently. because it is going to be a $2,000 deductible that affects people on medicare. that is on medicare period. that means people on medicare currently and in the future. >> all we are doing is' scaring seniors. they do this he have reelection cycle. the point is, they are not going to just say $2,000 dub age tomorrow, it's got to be grandfathered in -- it is going to take time

you've got a negative ad for conway and a positive ad for rand paul. >> we've collected ads just as wefferent debates ichl going ask how to make it clear for everyone at home. watch two debates. who is the more negative candidate? who says rand paul was more negative? one. who says that jack conway is the more negative candidate? including people voting for conway? >> i just want to respond to medicare thing. rand paul has said that that would not affect anyone on medicare currently. it's going to be something in the future, at least he's being pro active whismt runs out and money is gone there is not going to be a debate anyway. >> if that doesn't affect people, it will affect people on medicare kusht currently. it's going to be a $2,000 deductible that affects people on medicare period. that is people on medicare currently and going to be on medicare in the future. >> we, all we're doing is scaring senior citizens. they do this every election cycle. but the point is that they're not going to just say $2,000 deductible tomorrow. it's got to be grandfathered n we've got a mess on our h

at wish was a conway ad questioning paul's belief to a group that mocked christianity. paul demanded an apology, calls himself a pro-life christian. paul has a double-digit lead in the polls. >>> negotiations are set to resume in a war of words between two giant tv conglomerates. the issue, as always, is money. millions of tv viewers are paying the price and this morning they're still in the dark. linsey davis has details. >> reporter: many turned on their tv planning to watch this -- >> going deep into the end zone, it's touchdown! >> reporter: -- and instead, saw this. >> but news corp is demanding more money and is willing to hold their own viewers hostage to get it. >> reporter: the battle between cablevision and the news corporation which owns fox isn't as interesting to watch, but it's shaping up to be just as intense as two bitter nfl rivals going head to head on any given sunday. cablevision is saying news c now demanding $150 million. more than double of what they used to charge to air the programming. but programmers such as fox nlyh it's only right that they

he refused to shake conway's hand after the last debate and said he might skip the next one over conway's adioning paul's fate. this new york, incumbent democratic senator kirsten gillibrand and republican challenger joe di guardi held a second debate in troy. polls indicate kirsten gillibrand is ahead. but tom corbett hanging on to five-point lead. he had been up 15 points in september. real clear politics the average in polls has him ahead by eight. ohio is considered a crucial state for democrats in next month's election. president obama visited it more than any other state. chief political correspondent carl cameron reports from eastern ohio. many of the democratic colleagues are shifting positions in order to survive. >> if it's true as goes ohio, so goes the nation. democrats have reason to worry. coffee campaigning with a rightward tilt in the corner of the buckeye state, democratic incumbent ted strickland trails republican rival john kasich in the polls by five points. strickland is touting his and other democrats more centrist views. and has the nra endorsement and a-plus rating. >

. >> conway added there is confusion among commanders how to deal with the cases from the board. >> ihink initially there is going to be an element of uncertainty on the part of the commander in terms of okay, how do i handle cases if they exist on the docket? >> he is only the second comandant to complete the full term. he is often outspoken and often butted heads over the surge with general petraeus. >> petraeus and i disagreed with it on this. so we have said the surge reinforced success we are already having in anbar. >> con canway disagrees with the assessment that the current push to reconcile with the taliban will end the war in afghanistan. >> i don't think there is an awakening event in afghanistan, because the tribal structure is different. in iraq, you had what we call a single belly button, a leading sheikh that influenced thousands or tens of thousands of people. the afghan tribal fabric is much more disparate than that. >> he does not think that the july 2011 deadline that the president announced when he sent 30,000 more troops to afghanistan was helpful. nor does he thi

because jack conway, hard hitting ad against rand paul, questioning religion, past allegations, things that went on in his youth. it backfired. high negative ratings for conway. this is a double edge sword and we'll see a lot of this in the sprint of the finish. >> david, we'll look for you this sunday on "meet the press" the last one before the big election. >>> now tonight a closer look at the race for governor in florida, which jumped into the national spotlight this week when cameras caught the democratic candidate doing something during a debate that was not allowed. for his part, the republican candidate in this race already has a ton of baggage of his own from his previous job. our own ron mott has our report from miami. >> reporter: the nationally televised gubernatorial debate in florida featured something decidedly off script. republican rick scott in a tightly contested race against democrat alex sink accused her of cheating after a makeup artist approached her during a commercial break with a text message from a campaign adviser. the message, the attorney who won the suit s

replaceded the ad denying the thing that was true with a new ad. >> rand paul doesn't support higher medicare deductibles for seniors. conway distracts with negative ads to hide his support for obama-care. >> they changed the ad from saying paul never supported higher medicare deductibles to saying rand paul doesn't today support that thing he's on tape a million times saying. instead of saying jack conway's a liar about this provably thing on tape, they now say jack conway is distracting. distracting with nailing us for our totally indefensible positions we will flip-flop on as soon as we are challenged on them. so distracting when democrats campaign to win. we thought democrats weren't going to do that this year. the amazing ken buck of colorado, another great new example of stop, squirm and run. here's what ken buck of colorado said late last year. again, on camera about taxes. >> i don't think the income tax is a good idea. i think a national sales tax, assumption tax, fair tax is a better idea. >> a national sales tax, a assumption tax, enter senator michael bennett, the democrat who ken buck is trying to unseat. >> bu

ad. in kentucky, democrat jack conway is questioning rand paul's christian faith based on disputed reports from his college days. why are there so many questions about rand paul? >> reporter: the ad sparked a heated exchange sunday night. >> why did he freely join a group known for mocking or making fun of people of faith? >> cast aside these attacks on my personal religion. jack, you should be ashamed of yourself. >> reporter: paul is now threatening not to appear in any more joint appearances with conway, he's very upset. up with a response ad already to that one, but there's a lot of now make you cringe moments of negative tv ads all over the country from alaska to florida to kentucky. >> election day will bring some relief if nothing else. it's getting rough out there. chuck todd, starting us off tonight. thanks. >>> there are big races with big name big money candidates all across this country. one of them is to the north of us in connecticut, a wild contest for senate, pitting former wrestling executive linda mcmahon against state attorney general richard blumenthal. our own kelly o'

ad disavowing her own comments about witchcraft from a dozen years ago -- they now suggest that president obama is the devil. >> beyond political theater, angry voters and angry politicians. in kentucky, democrat, jack conway is running an ad, challenging rand paul's religious views in his college views. >> his god was aqua buddha. and paul responding. >> have you no shame? >> reporter: in alaska a reporter was detained by joe miller's private security guards. >> this is going to work out well when this is said and done. >> reporter: while so many campaigns are decidedly uncivil, for some politicians anger has not been successful. in new york, carl paladino wrote his "i'm mad as hell" mantra to the republican nomination and showed how mad he was about challenging the reporter who asked about a child he fathered out of wedlock. >> i'll take you out. >> you're going to take me out? >> yeah. >> how you going to do that? >> watch. >> reporter: but last night he tried to soften his image. >> i represent this -- >> reporter: just another -- what the heck was that moment in this volatile election cycle. mike taibbi, nbc news, new york. >>> a follow-up from last night. the nfl has fined three players for dangerous

jack conway has created and run probably the most vicious ad of the 2010 election cycle. we had them dial it, let's look to how they reacted. >> why was rand paul a member of a secret society that called the holy bible a hoax? banned from mocking christianity and christ. why did rand paul once tie a woman up, tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his god was aqua buddha? why does rand paul now want to end all federal faith-based initiatives and the he deck down -- the deduction for religious charities. why are there so many questions about rand paul? >> was that ad legitimate? >> absolutely not. he to go as far back as that to get something negative? >> a smear campaign on swhoupb is 40, 50-years-old going back to their college days with all the issues we have now, can't you debate the issues? >> do you agree that? >> yes! -- >> throw it up against the wall see if it sticks. he has a laundry list. >> if you can't talk about what is happening, and you have to go back to somebody's religion. >> it is talking about his character, is it not? >> it talking more abou

ad in the kentucky senate race. the democratic party trying to help jack conway catch rand paul is airing a new ad featuring footage of a campaign supporter getting stepped on by a paul supporter. the ad is only airing after 10 p.m. when children aren't watching. in florida, with democrats desperate to prevent a republican takeover of the senate, bill clinton failed to persuade the florida democratic nominee, kendrick meek, to pull out of the senate race there, which democratic strategists think would make it possible for charlie crist to defeat marco rubio. >> we've never seen anything like the last 18 months. >> i never once said i was going to get out, never once seriously considered getting out of the race. >> reporter: former president bill clinton parsed his words carefully. >> he's my friend and he's the candidate and he wanted us to talk, as we always have. i have to let him say whatever he wants to say about our conversation. it would be wrong for me to discuss it. >> reporter: republican confidence in picking up the house is only growing tonight, brian, as the two leading handicappers, charlie cook and st

conway put up an ad showing college indiscretions. ck conway was questioning his religious beliefs, said he wouldn't debate again. they're going to debate again tonight. this is a race that republicans shouldn't be talking about. kentucky is a conservative state. in a year like this, rand paul should be up eight to ten points. he's not. that means jack conway has a chance. i still this the race is rand paul's to lose. that's telling of the two candidates involves. >> we've been talking about surrogates like joe biden making his 100th appearance today in new hampshire. the real surrogate with the women's vote, so targeted by both sides this year is, of course, michelle obama. the president was out in washington state last week doing a women's event in a backyard for patty murray. the strategy is here. she needs to win independent suburban women. it's the best possible thing for murray. >> then she's in san francisco with nancy pelosi at a fund-raiser and doing an event for barbara boxer tomorrow. a big swing for the first lady out west.

this ad may backfire on conway as well. host: reid, let's show the latest ad put out there by conway and let's talk a little bit more. >> i'm jack conway. >> why was rand paul's college society mocked christianity? why did he once tie a woman up, tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his god was alkway buddha? why does rand paul want to end all faith-based initiatives and even end religious charities? why are there so many questions about rand paul? >> i'm jack conway and i approve this message. >> rand paul's new sales tax. >> 23% more on gas. >> that would include a fair tax change it to a sales tax. >> 23% more on medicine. >> i'd rather have a sales tax. >> on groceries and everything you buy. rand paul, you pay more. host: those were the latest ads by jack conway. you talked a little bit about how rand paul responded, at least, during the last debate, but has he gone to the airwaves? >> well, he hasn't gone to the airwaves specifically on this charge but the national senate committee investing in this race. t

this ad may backfire on conway as well. host: reid, let's show the latest ad put out there by conway and let's talk a little bit more. >> i'm jack conway. >> why was rand paul's college society mocked christianity? why did he once tie a woman up, tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his god was alkway buddha? why does rand paul want to end all faith-based initiatives and even end religious charities? why are there so many questions about rand paul? >> i'm jack conway and i approve this message. >> rand paul's new sales tax. >> 23% more on gas. >> that would include a fair tax change it to a sales tax. >> 23% more on medicine. >> i'd rather have a sales tax. >> on groceries and everything you buy. rand paul, you pay more. host: those were the latest ads by jack conway. you talked a little bit about how rand paul responded, at least, during the last debate, but has he gone to the airwaves? >> well, he hasn't gone to the airwaves specifically on this charge but the national senate committee investing in this race. t

jack conway has created and run probably the most vicious ad of the 2010 election cycle. had them dial it, let's look to how they reacted. >> why was rand paul a member of a secret society that called the holy bible a hoax? banned from mocking christianity and christ. why did rand paul once tie a woman up, tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his god was aqua buddha? why does rand paul now want to end all federal faith-based initiatives and the he deck down -- the deduction for religious charities. why are there so many questions about rand paul? >> was that ad legitimate? >> absolutely not. he to go as far back as that to get something negative? >> a smear campaign on swhoupb is 40, 50-years-old going back to their college days with all the issues we have now, can't you debate the issues? >> do you agree that? >> yes! -- >> throw it up against the wall see if it sticks. he has a laundry list. >> if you can't talk about what is happening, and you have to go back to somebody's religion. >> it is talking about his character, is it not? >> it talking more about t

candidates are going after conservative democrats jack conway by going after rand paul; and rand paul by going after barack obama. he even started airing an ad this week using an obama impersonator. all you can see are his hands. >> conway supported me for now, i need conway in washington because i know i can count on conway to vote for more spending and debt, bigger government and higher taxes. ( phone rings ) there he is now. mr. jack conway, now there's a guy i can work with in washington. >> i'm rand paul and i approve this message. i'd like to thank the one person who made this election juggernaut possible this year. it's the guy in the white house who is wrong on every issue. >> reporter: wrong, paul says, on government programs from disability regulations to education spending, from medicare to medicaid. >> over half of the births in kentucky are to medicaid right now. half the people in kentucky are not poor. we've made it too easy. let's not have intergenerational welfare. and that's what's been going on >> reporter: paul's numbers are off. state statistics show medicaid births at 37% in 2009 and the disabled also qualify for medica

in kentucky democratic senate nominee jack conway is airing this critical ad targeting republican randpaul. >> why was rand paul a member of a secret society that called the holy bible a hoax, that was banned for mocking christianity and christ? >> jack, you should be ashamed. >> ifill: their dispute spilled over on to a debate stage this weekend. >> he still hasn't answered the two fundamental questions. why did he join a group that was known for mocking christianity and christ. why did he join it? >> you just out and out lie because you have nothing to stand on. run a race as a man. stand up and be a man instead of just calling me names. >> ifill: when the debate ended paul walked off the stage without shaking conway's hand. >> san diego.... >> ifill: and arizona senator john mccain campaigning in california for republican senate nominee carly fiorina took a direct shot at her opponent who is also his senate colleague. >> barbara boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the united states senate today. i know that because i've had the unpleasant experience of

the gop unleashed this new ad monday, attacking kentucky's democratic senate candidate jack conway. >> his support for president obama's policies -- >> reporter: rival and tea party favorite rand paul wasn't afraid to bring up the president again last night. >> he's bankrupting us and you sit blindly over there and support his policies. it's a disaster. >> he just made something up. >> president obama is a disaster. >> reporter: most analysts predict republicans will win control of the house next week. but the real disaster for democrats is if they take the senate, too. in these final days, even more money is being put into various campaigns. a republican senate campaign committee says they're going to put $3 million into a california race, hoping to help carly fiorina beat senator barbara boxer. betty? >> all right, preeti arla joining us in washington. thank you, preeti. >>> there was an ugly scuffle outside that debate between rand paul and jack conway in kentucky. >> get the cops! get the police. get the police. >> rand paul supporters grabbed a woman from the liberal organization

paying their memberships into the same account that the chamber uses for attack ads against progressive candidates like jack conway, barbara boxer. technically, what the chamber has done may not be illegal, but you know, let's be honest here. money is money. it's fungible. and when the bahrain petroleum company sends the chamber $10,000, it's money the chamber is going to use for office furniture can now go to a new attack ad for barbara boxer on clean energy. >> the white house weighed in on the issue, calling for the chamber to identify donors. but president obama upped the ante. >> just this week, we learned that one of the largest groups paying for these ads regularly takes in money from foreign corporations. groups that receive foreign money are spending huge sums to influence american elections. and they won't tell you where the money for their ads come from. so this isn't just a threat to democrats. all republicans should be concerned. independents should be concerned. this is a threat to our democracy. the american people deserve to know who's trying to sway their elections. and if we just stand by and all

paul, quite frankly you say very little about attorney general conway on the campaign trail and nothing about him in your ads. now is your chance, sir. >> we are waiting for him to catch up a little bit in the polls and we may refer to him more, but, really, what he needs to do is needs to either defend the president or run away and so far he's running away from president obama and the agenda. he supports obamacare and supported repealing the tax cuts, before he was against it, before he was for it again and cap-and-trade, has been on both sides of the issue and kentuckians will not tolerate someone who's ambivalent on cap-and-trade. it will be a disaster to our economy, and, these they're issues of the day, and these are the things people want to talk about. you know, people are concerned about jobs and the economy and if we pass cap-and-trade, it will be a disaster to kentucky's economy and to kentucky jobs. >> chris: let's talk -- and you kind of led in the direction i wanted to head, in this debate, let's talk about jobs and the economy, which i think you would all agree are the key issues for voters hea

conway on the campaign trail. you say nothing about hill in your ads. now is your chance, sir. >> we're waiting for him to catch up in the polls and then maybe we'll refer to him more. he needs to either defend his president or run away. so far he's running away from president obama and the agenda. he supports obama-care. he supported repealing the tax cuts before he was against it, before he was before it again. cap-and-trade, he has been on both sides of the issue. kentuckians are not going to tolerate someone ambivalent on cap-and-trade. cap-and-trade will be a disaster to our economy. and these are the issues of the day. these are the things that people want to talk about. people are concerned about jobs and the economy. if we pass cap-and-trade, it will be a disaster to kentucky's economy and to kentucky jobs. >> chris: let's talk -- and you kind of led in the direction that i wanted to head in this debate. let's talk about jobs and the economy, which i think we would all agree are the key issues for voters here and across the country. unemployment

. >> reporter: rand paul's latest ad ties democrat attorney general jack conway to the obama administration, a strategy republicans are using in races where administration policies are unpopular but it's hardly keeping the about the off the campaign trail this week. president obama returns to the campaign trail this weekend and will make stops in illinois and ohio where he'll appear with vice president joe biden. craig boswell, fox news, in washington. >>> i don't know if you got a chance to look out behind him, but the sun was out a bit today and it was beautiful. >> even when the clouds came in, it was just a beautiful fall day out there and rather warm, too. >> that's exactly right. as a matter of fact, right now down in culpeper the temperature is 79 degrees. they've had some late afternoon sunshine down there and that's really helping them out. not that warm here, but almost. i mean temperatures have been right up into the 70s. let me take you over to radar to show you what's going on. we did have showers in the forecast for today, but most of the moisture has been trapped down to the

conway. the announcement came after an ad by his opponent claimed paul joined a secret society while in collegemocked christians. paul denies those accusations and says he wants to focus on issues. conway says he still has some questions for paul. >> i remain disappointed that my opponent continues these personal attacks, i do respect the voters of kentucky and i made the decision to go through with the debate >> i just don't ever see why someone would join a secret society that mocks people of faith. i anticipate a good debate monday night. i think is a fight for the gust kentucky. i look forward to the last debate. we asked the question value us are important. the issues are important too. i'm looking forward to monday. >> chris: the race between the two candidates still close. latest real clear politics average puts paul ahead of conway by a little over four points. the two are seeking to replace retiring republican senator. >> with just 10 days to go until election day things are heating up in the race for the house seat held by massachusetts congressman frank. he's up against republican bu

conway is behind in the polls so his team put an ad together.l tied a woman up and told her that his god was aqua buddah. i assume he was kidding. if he wasn't -- i don't know. that became the centerpiece of a heated debate. >> when is it ever a good idea to tie up a woman and ask for her to kneel before a false idol? >> you're accusing me of crimes. how ridiculous are you? >> halt! aqua buddah! ♪ aqua dbuddah ♪ ♪ he talks to tuna ♪ bow down ♪ bow down ♪ to aqua buddah >> aqua buddah. >> rand paul, once you worship me and brought me sexy tied up college girls. now you have betrayed me. aqua buddah aqua power activate. what are you looking at, sleaze bag? i am your god. i demand coeds. bow before me, america. >> aqua buddah. >> give you 15 seconds more. >> he still hasn't answered the two fundamental questions. >> let's have a debate tonight about some national issues. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i -- i have no -- we didn't do that. you're on drugs. meanwhile in delaware, tea party candidate christine o'donnell continues to provide us with a lot of en

ad for the senator who is way behind the polls. a big reason she was able to pavel a victory down and that democratic primary down. clinton's also headed to kentucky to campaign for conways running against rand paul. ????????????? >>> welcome back to "hardball." remember this anti-manchin ad from the nrcsc, the republican campaign committee in the senate races. the one with the working class guy sitting around a diner. it seems like it's down in west virginia somewhere. let's listen. >> obama's messing things up. >> spending money we don't have. >> yeah. >> stimulus, obama care? >> and joe manchin supported it all. >> well, apparently that was filmed somewhere in south philly. it turns out those weren't frustrated west virginia working guys, they were actors. here's part of the casting call for the commercial that came out. quote, we're going for a hicky blue collar look. think coal miner trucker looks, clothing suggestions, jeans, work boots, flannel shirts, john deere hats, governor joe manchin running for the senate took offense earlier today. let's listen to that. >> running for a hicky blue collar look. i don't know where they're coming off of calling

ad in the senate race. >> i know i can count on conway to vote for more spending and debt, bigger government and higher taxesis now. mr. jock conway. >> now, rand's faux obama isn't half bad. but pretending to be somebody you've not in order to influence the public, we don't need actors for that. we've got plenty of politicians who already live that way. just up next, motive behind the mortgage mess. why banks and politicians are complicit not only in an ongoing foreclosure fraud, but why that foreclosure fraud is being perpetrated at the tip of an iceberg, people. a fraud the scale of which is hard to comprehend. we're back after this. [ male announcer ] prilosec otc traveled to fairbanks, alaska. home of one of the coldest, longest nights on the planet. and asked frequent heartburn sufferers, like carl, to put prilosec otc's 24 hour heartburn protection to the test for two weeks. the results? i can concentrate on everything i'm doing, not even think about it anymore. since i've been taking it, i've been heartburn free, which is a big relief for me. [ male announcer ] take your 14-day challenge. ♪ prilosec

until election night, it got so bad between jack conway and rans paul they refused to shake hands and that's before the two sides unleashed negative campaign adsnt, steven hayes convicted of the home invasion killing of a mom and her two daughters he's back in court, lawyers trying to convince a jury to spare his life. what could save him from the death penalty? the courtroom drama ahead. >>> thanks, anderson cooper, at 10:00 eastern. >>> floor are molina. she was enslaved in a dressmaking shop in l.a.x. how? >> i was brought to the united states with promise to have a good job. and i was promised to make money to send money to send to my family. i was a target for the trafficker because i was a mother who had -- i couldn't take care to a hospital and she passed away. i was worried about my other three children because i was working two jobs. i was cooking and cleaning houses and i didn't make enough money to support my children. and at the time i was taking sowing classes. one of the days my sewing teacher offered me an opportunity to go to the united states. when i get there, i will have a place to stay and work. when i got to l.a., i was lo

there's a big battle being fought in kentucky where this ad from democrat jack conway is causing a huge uproar. did it cross the line? does it unfairly question his opponent, rand paul's, religious beliefs. it angered paul so much he refused to shake conway's hand after a recent debate. we'll talk to jack conway about that just ahead. >>> a story ahead that will enrage a lot of people. a firefighter working the scene of a deadly crash allegedly used his cell phone to record graphic video of the victim. and the video ended up being sent to the victim's own parents. they're furious, not only at what they saw, but at what they heard. we will hear from them this morning. >>> is there a way to build homes so they can withstand powerful storms like tornadoes and hurricane hads? coming up, an exclusive look inside a new lab where mother nature's fury is re-created to find out what works and what doesn't. >>> we begin on a tuesday morning with the election now just 14 days away. nbc's kelley o'donnell has the latest on this. >> we're hearing from a lot of candidates and interest groups now that

number of senate ads which are anti-obama ads being run against democrats who are trying to avoid any connection to the white house. let's take a look. >> jack conway a stamp of approval. conway supported me for president, bankrolled my campaign and even fought to pass my health care plan. >> joe manchin will do anything to avoid talking about being a rubber stamp for barack obama. >> michael bennett cast the deciding vote for obama's stimulus. michael bennett is their vote, not colorado's. >> reporter: colorado is a place where another surrogate is going to show up this week, michelle obama is hitting the road on wednesday to be in wisconsin and illinois and in colorado among other places. so she's the other really powerful and important surrogate, popular surrogate this year. >> sure. that's not çuncommon, even whe george w. bush suffered the worst approval ratings, his wife was still popular on the road. you have to move the argument to what are democrats going to do during the next two years. he feels other people are not making the case so he's happy to make it. >> we both remember how he stubbed his toe a little bit in 2008 when there were a

the best example is jack conway, attorney general of kentucky, attack rand paul, republican senate nominee, over his faith in a tv adgesting that rand paul worshiped aqua buda and rand paul had a stropbs defense, saying how dare you question my faith, how dare you make a question of my christian faith and his wife come out and made a powerful statement, this was a big subject in the debate, but sometimes you need to explain why people are throwing these hail mary passes, why are people making these desperate last-minute attacks and in rand paul's case it's easy to say why is conway doing this, he supports the failed stimulus, the spending, the obamacare and if you can't say anything about what you're for, which is the obama agenda, all you're likely is trashing the opponent, which is what he's doing to me. you need to put context around the attacks and flip it on them. jenna: the president is headed on the road again, going to rhode island dark the first lady is out on the campaign trail, we've seen tons of democratic negative ads on the air wave, there seems to be a concerted effort by the president and democratic

ads. >> john raese's ideas are crazy. >> reporter: and in debates like the one in tennessee between conway and paul who are running for senate. >> he's bankrupting us and you sit blithely over there and support the policies. >> in the primary? >> it's a disaster. >> he just made something up. >> reporter: there was an ugly scene outside the debate when a protester was pulled from moveon.org. after wrestling her to the ground, one of them stepped on her head. >> no, no, no. come on. >> reporter: new fund raising numbers show candidates raised more money in the midterm elections than in any in the past. nearly $2 billion. "the washington post" crunched the numbers. that's nearly $4 million per congressional seat, harry. >> good place to start with john mccain. thanks very much, nancy cordes. in washington, arizona senator john mccain who joining us exclusively this morning. good morning, senator. >> good morning, harry. >> almost $2 billion to be spent on the campaigns, $20 million on your primary campaign, alone. another almost half billion dollars from outside sources s. this what you and russ feingold had in mind passing ca