the most senior representative of the house, john dingle of michigan. a democrat first elected when ike was in the white house now running for his 28th term in congress. our report tonight from nbc's john yang in ann arbor. >> reporter: john dingle brought in the big guns, former president, bill clinton. >> reporter: dingell doesn't usually need help on the closing days of the campaign, but when the year of incumbent being a dirty word, dingell, the longest-serving house member in history is the ultimate target. >> he's not had to face anything like that. >> i'm not a politician. >> reporter: the republican challenger is a wealthy cardiologist and first-time candidate and he wants to curb out of control federal spending, cut taxes and repeal health care reform and he rarely misses a chance to contrast himself with dingell. >> elected to the congress 55 years ago in 1955. i'm no spring chicken but i wasn't even born yet. >> reporter: and his long congressional career he's helped to craft landmark legislation like medicare and the clean air act and wrote k

barney , steny hoyer, john dingle. >> sean: i was wrong, angle, i said that's a race that i thought was much closer. interesting, the last three polls had her up by two, three, now six points. you predicted -- let me ask new. now that they make this scurrilous charge, karl rove is going to join us, i'll let him respond on his own. to make this charge the end of the ad says and we'll show it later, stop stealing democracy somebody getting mugged at the end of the ad. to make that type of charge, go on cbs and say, do you have any evidence that it is not true? >> you know, the obama campaign -- >> sean: what do you think of that? >> the obama campaign refused to release its dough authorities under $100. >> sean: under $250. >> mccain campaign like the bush campaign released them. there's a threshold in the law i think it is $100, below that you are not required to release them many obama didn't. when he talks about foreign money there are persistent rumors of extensive foreign money that came into obama's campaign. i have no proof of that and i wouldn't make the charge except for the fact

john dingle and also in battle creek before heading off to minnesota. >> hurricane richard is traveling up the central america. barreling toward belize and southeastern mexico. death toll in haiti from cholera outbreak, workers fear the disease could spread to homeless camps where hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims now live. more than 3,000 people in all infected. >> julie: nation's top military officer blasting wikileaks for releasing 400,000 secret documents. admiral mike mullen is accusing the website of giving, quote, val uib information to enemies of the u.s. wikileaks follower julian assange brushing off criticism that the documents will endanger the lives of soldiers or allies in iraq. what can we do to stop a whistleblower that is not even an american and on the run? here now is pete hoekstra the ranking member of the permanent select committee on intelligence. thank you soap for talking to us. when are we going to see this man prosecuted or can we considering he is a foreign blown whistleblower who is all over the globe and we can't get our hands on him? >> number one,

barney frank, steny hoyer, john dingle, the guy that wrote the health care bill, those guys are in districtshat we might be able to win if we make the effort. >> you think that we are -- >> but interestingly enough, barney frank will be on the show today. so stay tuned for that. >> ok. well, maybe you have a former congressman on your show. >> let me ask you this. it seems incongruous, that the democrats on the far left they won't lose in the midterms even though there seems to be a referendum on the far left in this country right now. >> yeah. because the game the democrats play is they have this radical liberal leadership elected by conservative members. in other words, you have members from swing states that give them the majority. and say, oh, i'm pro gun, and pro life and anti-government and then they go in and stroet for barney frank and dingle and rangel and pelosi. it's their votes that elect them. what's happening now is the blue dogs are getting obliterated and getting wiped off the face of the earth in terms of the congress. i think you may have as many especially with this new ef

anne arbor, michigan, campaigning for john dingell, long-time congressman, democratic congressman in michigan who often wins his elections by huge numbers. if dingle is needing the help of former president, that's sign of the times. a little later tonight, former bill clinton heads up to minnesota, going to mix football and politics to help out a state lawmaker who is challenging the michele bachmann, a congressman who is a big favorite of the tea party movement. >> a lot of people know what's happening nationwide because we've been covering it. a lot of people don't know, paul, a lot about their local election. we're going to help them out. thank you for that. for the latest news, go to cnnpolitics.com. more political news at the top of the hour with our folks at the political desk. this is cnn.com/politics. you can go here to find out about the races not making national headlines or what's going on in are 82 area. once you get to that home page, what you do is go here to "more from election center," click on the "election center" button and here is what it will look like. i'm sure you know your zip code. punch it in and it will tell you exactly