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. >> conservative businessman john raese is the g.o.p. best hope in decades to win a west virginia senate seat. >> when you look two years down the road we'll look like france in this country if we don't stop obama. >> raese knows president obama unpopularly and liberal agenda are his best weapon against popular democratic governor joe manchin. manchin knows it, too. among democratic senate candidates, manchin is one of the harshest obama critics in the country. >> when you're wrong, you're wrong. he is wrong on issues we believe dearly in west virginia. and we will fight, and continue to fight to bring common sense values back to this great nation. >> reporter: manchin opposes the president cap and trade climate bill as an attack on west virginia coal industry. he's criticized the president for wasteful spending and said parts of healthcare reform should be repealed. raese has won for statewide office unsuccessfully three times has a colorful way to say manchin supported most of obama agenda in the past and shouldn't be trusted now. >> y

race z bad for mine workers. 600 safety violations. >> john raese puts profitseople. i don't trust him to look out for these minors. and neither should you. >> listen to joe manchin supporting obama care. >> i am totally behind health care reform and -- [applause] >> say it ain't so, joe? you are totally behind the medicare cuts that will affect our seniors? you want bigger government and higher taxes to pay for it? sorry, joe, seniors can't afford you to be a rubberstamp for barack obama. >> reporter: megyn, manchin is not just running from the obama agenda, aggressively complaining against it. complaining parts of health care need to be repealed. that the cap-and-trade bill is bad. very aggressively distancing himself perhaps more anywhere else in the country. for mr. raese, it is a question letting voters make a decision on the president as so much on the democrat. megyn: carl, thank you. heartbreaking details on a triple murder in connecticut. we'll bring you details shortly and update on the union workers story we brought you next. [music playing] when you

popular governor joe mansion, a democrat, now trailing in the race for senate republican, john raese.en though most voters in west virginia approve, a majority say they want republicans controlling congress. now to wisconsin where the news isn't good for senator russ feingold. the ppp shows feingold trailing ron johnson by 11 points. and an update on the big governor's race in california. jerry brown has a five-point lead over meg whitman and she's obviously trying perhaps unsuccessfully to buy that race. muslim bashing right now is one of the themes of the value voters summit this past weekend and newt gingrich leads the way in whipping it in this country. here he is stoking fear in what he calls the threat of sharia law. >> i have no problem with the mosques in new york city that are peaceful and obey american law, but i am opposed to any effort to impose sharia on the united states and we should have -- we should have a federal law that says under no circumstances in any jurisdiction in the united states, will sharia be used in any court to apply to any judgment made about american

pat toomey in pennsylvania, john raese in west virginia. in ohio, roy blunt in missouri, ron johnson in wisconsin. all running on privatizing social security. and this debbie halverson add is what it looks like when democrats run against that. you know what issue republicans are even more vulnerable on than they are on social security? abortion. you have to whisper the word because people get very nervous when you say the word abortion in an election year. but in a year when there is a huge gender gap in who is expected to vote and vote republican. and democrats can only compete if democratic women come out in november. you know want to know where republicans are most vulnerable on an oh my god look at the republican agenda ad, it's on the issue of abortion. the roster of republicans who have adopted this once unelectable now standard position of no abortion ever not even in cases of rape or insist continues to grow. nevada republican candidate sharron angle, alaskan republican candidate joe miller, rand paul, colorado republican candidate

. >> reporter: now, john raese is a well known political entity in this state, he owns a statewide network of radio stations and has campaigned and worked very hard here. he is a conservative republican who is trying to essentially hang health care and the obama agenda around manchin's neck. no matter how hard that democratic governor tries to run from it, even he recognizes that his biggest problem is not john rases, it's in fact barack obama and his agenda and rases's ads essentially take issue and point out that joe manchin didn't try to oppose health care reform, he didn't urge jay rockefeller, the other senator in this state to, vote against it. now he's criticizing it but at the time, he was a support. that alone may be enough to bring him down. bill: it's quite remarkable when you consider joe manchin comes from a coal mining family and how popular he has been there for some time. carl cameron, live in the western part of west virginia, thank you carl. >>> to our viewers, all the hot political developments, head going november, are at your fingertips, wherever you are, download the