talk about the strategy for dga.what is the strategy for the next 60 days, what is the focus, and had you not just expand the field, but in states where is going to be a tough race? >> well, it is a great question. it's almost like we planned it that way. just yesterday, dga unveiled a strategy for the fall, project extreme gop takeover. -- makeover. we can only play in states where we can make a difference. we will invest in states where we think we can affect the outcome and conserve our resources and use them wisely and strategically. number two, keep a local. governors are here to create jobs and invest in schools and deliver health care and services efficiently. they don't go in d.c. and a vote on federal issues. republicans will try to trap them into getting involved on federal issues, and it is a trap. governors deal with local issues. no. 3 is a rallying the base. paul mentioned it earlier, at this is something we can do and we have to do. just last week we raised $1 million from on-line supporters the parent

talk about the strategy for dga. what is the strategy for the next 60 days, what is the focus, and had you not just expand the field, but in states where is going to be a tough race? >> well, it is a great question. it's almost like we planned it that way. just yesterday, dga unveiled a strategy for the fall, project extreme gop takeover. -- makeover. we can only play in states where we can make a difference. we will invest in states where we think we can affect the outcome and conserve our resources and use them wisely and strategically. number two, keep a local. governors are here to create jobs and invest in schools and deliver health care and services efficiently. they don't go in d.c. and a vote on federal issues. republicans will try to trap them into getting involved on federal issues, and it is a trap. governors deal with local issues. no. 3 is a rallying the base. paul mentioned it earlier, at this is something we can do and we have to do. just last week we raised $1 million from on-line supporters the paren

talk about the strategy for dga. what is the strategy for the next 60 days, what is the focus, and had you not just expand the field, but in states where is going to be a tough race? >> well, it is a great question. it's almost like we planned it that way. just yesterday, dga unveiled a strategy for the fall, project extreme gop takeover. -- makeover. we can only play in states where we can make a difference. we will invest in states where we think we can affect the outcome and conserve our resources and use them wisely and strategically. number two, keep a local. governors are here to create jobs and invest in schools and deliver health care and services efficiently. they don't go in d.c. and a vote on federal issues. republicans will try to trap them into getting involved on federal issues, and it is a trap. governors deal with local issues. no. 3 is a rallying the base. paul mentioned it earlier, at this is something we can do and we have to do. just last week we raised $1 million from on-line supporters the paren

talk about the strategy for dga. what is the strategy for the next 60 days, what is the focus, and had you not just expand the field, but in states where is going to be a tough race? >> well, it is a great question. it's almost like we planned it that way. just yesterday, dga unveilea strategy for the fall, project extreme gop taover. -- makeover. we can only play in states where we can make a difference. we will invest in states where we think we can affect the outcome and conserve our resources and use them wisely and strategically. number two, keep a local. governors are here to create jobs and invest in schools and deliver health care and services efficiently. they don't go in d.c. and a vote on federal issues. republicans will try to trap them into getting involved on federal issues, and it is a trap. governors deal with local issues. no. 3 is a raying the base. paul mentioned it earlier, at this is something we can do and we have to do. just last week we raised $1 million from on-line supporters the parent comp

>> the dga has been very active. they went in early there.ing on behalf of brown. also, brown's campaign not spending a whole heck of a lot, but there are numerous groups in california, some bringing unions together, some bringing democratic groups together, california is very kind of lenient in a lot of -- on that kind of thing that are supporting brown. they're not matching her fund raising. but when you use jerry brown's funds plus kind of the big pot of democratic money in california, they're coming close to matching at least in part what meg whitman has been able to do. >> what about what she's spending compared to carly fiorina, the other republican on that ticket, how does that relate? is fiorina spending this kind of big bucks? >> she's spending but not in the same way. the big question is how much of a big check she's going to write herself. she doesn't have as much money as whitman, but whitman was dropping $10 million checks it seemed like every quarter going back to a year before the primary. so early on she was committed to self-

>> joe mansion is head of the dga, he has favorable ratings from 65-75% of the people in the state think he's done a good job as their governor. he decided to run for the u.s. senate. he's losing now 46% to 45% to successful businessman john racy who is an outsider. and what happens is it's all about barack obama. you're seeing that all over america. it's like this race is a microcosm of what is happening in america. if you watch this thing, the issue is joe mansion is going to washington and he's going to be a runner -- a rubber stamp for barack obama and voters in west virginia don't want that and so i think that's interesting and i think, frankly, john will win it. i have to tell you -- >> here is my -- jim is doing a good job for him. he's made this race close. my sense -- let me make my point. my sense of this, jim, is that the democrats have caught on and realized they had a race. i think initially mansion thought his numbers were so good it looked like an easy one. now they have five weeks. my sense is that mansion will pull this out, despite jim's brilliance. >> we have to end it