jerry brown is the candidate to do it. i could not be more proud to be supporting jerry brown. [applause] i could not be more proud to be a democrat and getting california working again. [applause] i have the honor of introducing a man who lini know does not endorse a democrat everyday. he does from time to time. he is a guy who i have known since the 1980's. he has been in law enforcement official here in los angeles county for virtually his entire life. he stood for the idea that real law enforcement is not just about addressing the symptoms of lawlessness. it is about investing in people. whether it has been the issue of gangs or against or prevention or intervention, this is a man who thinks out of the box and who addresses the root causes of crime. he has been one of the more successful law enforcement officials and their city's history. i want you to help me welcome my friend the sheriff of the county of los angeles leroy baca. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to club nokia. thank you for taking time from your busy life to share this moment. if there were a time to start

[applause] failure seems to follow jerry brown everywhere he goes. it is a record of promising much and delivering little, of saying one thing and doing quite another with disastrous results. for jobs, during his last term as governor, california's on employment rate nearly doubled to a then-record 11%. [boos] for spending, while he was governor, state spending went up by 120%. he raised taxes and still left a $1 billion budget deficit. [boos] for education with jerry as mayor, oakland schools deteriorated to the point where the state had to intervene. overall, a record of higher and higher taxes, more and more spending, and near-record unemployment. in other words, a 40-year record of politics as usual. [boos] i say california can do better. [applause] because, while politics is jerry brown's business, my business is creating good new jobs. [applause] it is time for a different style of leadership, a new beginning. not put it, not plumber, not glibness but got. -- a governor with the guts to do the hard work that is required to turn california aroun

god bless you, and god bless california. ♪ >> here is a look at mega wittman's and jerry brown's andstittman's jerry broon's campaignnads since thee won their primaries. >> i think often politicians forget about that, becauss they do not see it every day. i see it every day. i think raising taxes in california is absolutely the wrong thing to do. california needs to lead the nation again, and i think we can do it. ♪ >> jjrry brown is pledging thatt he will not raise taxes unless there is a referendum to force him to raise taxes. >> i guess i do not have enough graced to applauded jerry brown when he says he will not be one it to tax americans. this is what he did when he was governor. he talked about cutting taxes back in the day, back in the the%+but look at what foundation has been built upon there in callfornia. he has been a part of that, and that is spending outside of their money. he is looking to increase taxes, taking more from the producers in the state in order to fund bigger government. he is a part of that foundation. i guess i do not have enough grace to say, hey jeery, i

meg whitman will face off against state attorney general jerry brown for governor. in south carolina's republican gubernatorial primary, nikki haley received 49% of the vote, just shy of the majority she needed to avoid a runoff later this month. her opponent will be congressman gresham barrett. haley overcame allegations of infidelity by two men in recent weeks which she vehemently denied. she says south carolina voters had had enough. >> we said no to inside deal making and backroom politics. and this last two or three weeks we said no to the dark side of politics. >> woodruff: haley, an indian american, would be the first woman and racial minority to be elected governor of south carolina. and to make sense of last night's results, we are joined once game by amy walter, editor and chief of the hotline, national journal's political daley. ask dan balz, senior political reporter for the "washington post." thank you both for being back with us. a lot to cover. dan, i'm going to start with you. any overriding message out of what happened yesterday? >> well, i think in

jerry brown. former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina defeated two republicans -- two other republicans with more political experience. in nevada, tea party candidate -- tea party-backed candidate sharon ankle will face off against senate majority leader harry reid on election day 2010. we will get to all the results during the first hour this morning. we also want to hear from you, how do you read the election results so far during this election cycle. you can start dialing in now. phone number is are on your screen. joining us from hot line is john mercurio, executive editor. he will be with us for the first half hour and then his colleague amy walter will join us for the last half hour of this morning's hour-long segment. john mercurio, let's dig in little deeper. starting with blanche lincoln's win in arkansas. now, what does she face going forward this general election? guest: make no mistake, blanche lincoln is still the most vulnerable senate incumbent up for reelection in 2010. there has n

she is a new person against jerry brown who will be the democratic nominee. >> woodruff: assuming shewins. >> assuming she wins which she is very far ahead of steve poizner, her opponent. in some ways it started off as an outsider, insider jerry brown has been in politics in california forever. the brown name is sin om muss with democratic politics in the state. but remember for many voters in california, especially those under 40, they don't remember that he was the governor and they've sure seen a lot of meg whitman on tv for the last couple of months. unclear who the incumbent is at this point. >> woodruff: i'm going to move on to nevada. republican senate primary harry reid in danger-- endangered incull bent, the senate majority leader and the ground is shifting in this republican primary. >> this has been a post interesting race in nevada. as you say, senator reid is quite vulnerable. his poll numbers have been weak all year and republicans have been itching to take him on and try to defeat him. what has happened in the last few weeks is that the candidate that many in the republ

jerry brown, very familiar figure in american politics, he was the youngest governor in modern california history or since the 20th century began. he served from 1975 to 1983. if elected, he will make his comeback as the oldest governor of california. he's had an interesting career. after he served as governor he ran for president a couple of times. he served as mayor of oebgsd, now state attorney general. and so he has had an enduring career. the question is in an rather where there seems to be a fascination with new, different, whether the republicans can cast him as a retread as the same old business or whether they will be able to -- whether he can say it is a new thing. on the republican side it a shootout between meg whitman former c.e.o. of ebay and steve poisner. he started as a moderate republican and has turned sharply right and has been trying to challenge whitman by saying she is not conservative enough. that is -- she is adamant that she will be tough as nails on, say immigration on border security. the big difference in that race is meg whitman made a lot of money running eb

jerry brown, very familiar figure in american politics, he was the youngest governor in modern california story or since the 20th century began. he served from 1975 to 1983. if elected, he will make his comeback as the oldest governor of california. he's had an interesting career. after he served as governor he ran for president a couple of times. he served as mayor of oebgsd, now state attorney general. and so he has had an enduring career. the question is in an rather where there seems to be a fascination with new, different, whether the republicans can cast him as a retread as the same old business or whether they will be able to -- whether he can say it is aew thing. on the republican side it a shootout between meg whitman former c.e.o. of ebay and steve poisner. he started as a moderate republican and has turned sharply right and has been trying to challenge whitman by saying shes not conservative enough. that is -- she is adamant that she will be tough as nails on, say immigration on border security. the big difference in that race is meg whitman made a lot of money running ebay and