join us tonight for kendrick meek and dr. john. >> all leno is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> james? >> yes. >> everyone making a difference. you help us live better. >> nationwide supports tavis in working to improve financial literacy and removing obstacles to financial empowerment one conversation at time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: perhaps nowhere is there more attention paid in the senate race in florida. kendrick meek is the four term congressman who recently won the nomination for the senate seat. he joins us from miami. first of all, congratulations. it is an honor to have you on the program. >> thank you. i am honored to be here. tavis: usually it is the big election where you have to come out with the big guns blazing. it must feel like you have been through the main part of the campaign because this primary was not a joke. >> you have that right. we have a billionaire who said

and kendrick meek. charles, about this race? i think we're now in the early elimination round. which is who is going to endbe up as essentially the liberal, the democratic challenger against rubio who now is really way ahead. what is interesting is how the normally nominated meek who is a democrat, member of congress, he is not that known outside of south of florida is rising. the split between -- crist had a 15-point spread between him and meek a week or two ago. now a trunk, it's a five-point spread. which means that before crist had the idea if he becomes the one who is the challenger, he is the quasi liberal, he's moved heavily left in this, in the early days here. he could end up as the one that democrats abandon. and he's their nominee. however, the party, florida, has now put out as we showed earlier on the show an extremely strong ad against crist where he says how much of a republican he is, pro-life, pro-drilling, pro-everything. guns, that is sacred in the republican world. and it calls him essentially a hypocrite. it

. >> take a look at this ad that kendrick meek is now running directly aimed at charlie crist and trying to convince democrats don't cross over and vote for the independent. listen to this. >> i'm as about as conservative as you can get. >> jeb bush republican. >> president bush. he's a leader of courage and conviction. >> i was impressed with governor palin being picked. i watched her speech, i was very impressed. >> get your opinion on whether we should be drilling off of the coast of florida. >> it's something we ought to explore. >> pro life, pro gun, anti-tax republican. >> it's important for people to understand who the true conservative is in this race, and it's charlie crist. >> that's a kendrick meek ad trying to convince democrats and moderates not to be misled, don't vote for charlie crist. is that going to work? >> that's the cross fire that's occurring. the way marco rubio went after him on the rep pub side when crist was a republican, he went out to say you ear too close to barack obama. a famous picture of crist embracing obama on the trip to florida. now the democrat is c

kendrick scores and the angels win 7-4. >>> the u.s. open had one upset. murray bites the dust. for the women, kim christ sir -- clijsters moves on as does venus williams. match point for ven venus who didn't play that well. but she uncorks a forehander that peer can't handle. venus has a straight set victory. men's third round action, nadal taking on simone. look at this. whips the forehand cross-court winner. not fair. nadal's serve has not been broken in the tournament. rafa advances to the fourth round with a straight set victory. >>> pga playoffs, third round, deutsche bank championships in transportation boston. start with tiger, the third. the pretty flop shot leads to a birdie. minus-7. top 70 advance next week. phil mickelson, back in contention. on the par-4 15th. his third. told his caddie he was going to chip it in. and he does. 67 for lefty. 12-under. to 18. brandt snedeker. hitting into a hazard and needing to chip in for par. and the delivers a clutch shot. one back of jason day. cards a 66. a one-stroke lead. >> see you at 6:00 with andy murray's highlights. >> a

kendrick scores to make it 6 #-rb, and the angels win 7-4. >> make better pitches, good hitter, havehe base open, put them on. >> always nice to win the series, but we always want to sweep, and they played well. >> mike: u.s. open, ladies first, kim clijsters moves as, as does venus. venus -- play that well but watch her uncork this winner. second set, venus trying to fend off a break point. does it from the other side. venus will by in the quarter finals. >> measure are was a popular pick to win his first major this year. but watch this shot here. backhand winner, murray loses in four sits. top see, nadal, taking on simone. nadal cruising. check out this point. the great give by nadal. nobody runs as well as he does. the then a forehand cross-court winner. match point, nadal, ace. his serve has not been broken. advances to the fourth round with a straight sets victory. >> pga playoff, the deutsche bank championship tpc boston. start with tiger, par-5 18th. a pretty flop shot. leads to a birdie and 2-under 9. only the top 70 advance to next week others event. phil mickelson back in c

congressman kendrick meeks, a democratic nominee for the senate down in florida.eeks, thanks so much for joining us. i've got show you something that's fairly disheartening. dale peterson, he's a republican from alabama. and he's running an ad -- well, let's talk about some of the tough ads running -- about losing. here he is on saturday the values voters summit. let's listen to this character. >> until we get rid of berry or barack or i haven't seen the feet on the birth certificate, so i don't know what is he. i may get arrows or bullets shot at me, but we got a guy that hates america. i'm just going to go ahead and say it. okay? >> what do you make of that? your fellow american there destroying the reputation, if he can, of the president. calling him barry, any name that he can to put him down. suggesting that he's not born in america. suggesting that he's an illegitimate president. you get the works. you know what they're up to. >> well, i think the best thing we can do, chris, is not pay attention to that kind of language. folks are losing their jobs. we have

congressman kendrick meeks running for the u.s.orida. >>> up next what's newt gingrich up to? i don't know, we're going to talk about. we're not going to be nice. he says president obama's leading a secular socialist machine. he's talking about sharia taking over this country. it's the latest outrageous statement from newt. is he okay? is he just trying to act a little weird, you know like joaquin phoenix putting on an act? what is is story of this guy? high used to be speaker of the house. twice a year, every year you don't have an accident. the safe driving bonus® check. dollar for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. >>> if you bought into that idea there was a rift between president clinton and california gubernatorial candidate jerry brown, forget about it. . former president's not only endorsed brown for governor but he's coming to california in mid-october to campaign for him. brown recent low apologized to clinton for making a joke about the monica lewinsky scandal during a campaign event. former president clinton's v

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the kendrick meek also needs to consolidate the republican vote. independence made break the vote here. -- independents may break the vote here. you have obviously the most popular incumbent in harry reid, with the senate majority leader, but he is running against someone who has a not a lot of experience on the campaign trail and is prone to engage in her mouth before her brain. but the thing about nevada, there is another option on the ballot. it is called "none of the above." if you do not like your candidate, you can vote for no one. that might actually save leader reid. independents are not breaking strongly in the new direction. this will be closed until a election day. host: let's go to libby in nantucket on the independent line. do you have a specific race that you are watching? caller: we are here for the summer. the we reside in connecticut. are you doing all of this behind a desk in washington? and on to chris matthews become operative dean april that the democrats were going to lose, we are here -- and on to chris matthews, predicting i

>> look, if you do a negative ad like the one we showed last night with kendrick meek quoting charlie extensively, charlie crist's own words like he was conservative and liked sarah palin speech. things that wouldn't appeal to democrats in florida. it's a great ad. accurate ad. it's fantastic. >> chris: i think everybody would agree that is a fair ad, except for charlie crist. how about when it gets into somebody's business dealings? somebody's personal life? things that are a matter of record. >> i think you have to make some distinctions. i think if anyone attacking a spouse or a kid, that is over the line. on the other hand if somebody has done thing in their business past, that are unseemly or got them in trouble, of course that's fair game. it reflects i think on the character of the person running for office. >> chris: how do you feel about the question a.b. talked about? public has a lot of doubts right now about the obama agenda. how can they counteract them on republicans with the personal or business issues? >> i think they will try. i say as a general rule, there will be ex

quote, it's clear that's just another thing he was willing to say to get elected and the democratic kendricks spokesman says he prefers to run for office rather than sitting in one. and a fellow democrat and former president bill clinton, even joked about the monica lewinsky affair, the scandal, he was responding to this ad by republican challenger meg whitman who used an old clip from 1992 debate between brown and clinton. >> jerry i brown went out there and took credit for the fact that the people of california voted for proposition 13 which lowered taxes which he opposed and now he's going around and taking credit for it. >> bret: brown told the crowd over the weekend, quote, i mean, clinton is a nice guy who who ever said he always told the truth. you remember, right? there's that whole story there about did he or didn't he? okay, i did, i did not have taxes with this state. so, let's be clear about that. no response from the clinton camp about that, but breaking right now, the wires saying that brown has apologized to the former president. and a maine newspaper also apologized for giving

kendrick meek has 21%.be benefiting from voter unease over president obama. 54% of respondents say they want to repeal the president's healthcare reform program. in nevada, senate democratic majority leader harry reid is in a nail biter with republican and tea party backed challenger sharron angle. 45% of voters say they believe president obama's policies have hurt the state's economy. >>> another nail biter is in california. usually a very blue state. democratic incumbent senator barbara boxer in a statistical dead heat with carly fiorian. a state where president obama won by a landslide but now nearly half of the voters 46% do not think he deserves to be reelected. the gap between republicans and democrats is a bit wider in ohio and pennsylvania. in ohio, republican rob portman a 7-point lead over democrat lee fisher. shep? >> thanks. as we countdown to the all important mid term elections fox news has a brand new iphone app to track the information. get up-to-date information on the races in your area an

both crist and kendrick meek. we'll continue to check the "hardball" scorecard through the races coming up to election day on november 2nd. the democrats' strategy. let's talk about this final strategy. the "washington post" eugene robin. msnbc political analyst. and charles with the politico, the hot charging news organ these days. here are clips from ads that house democrats are running. ohio's betty sutton, arizona's harry mitchell and florida's alan grayson. he's a wild character at times. let's listen to all three of them. >> you've heard the old saying buyer beware. be ware of car salesman tom ganley, sued over 400 times for fraud and more. >> as treasurer he had ethics problems and record of mismanaging our money. now he's a predatory real estate speculator. >> he wants to force raped women to bear the child. >> submit to me. >> taliban dan webster. hands off our bodies and our laws. >> submit to me. i don't know -- interesting editing there. he's obviously against abortion rights even for victims of rape a

colleagues looks it turns out the $39,000 boehner has is chump change there are many more including kendrickmeek was getting $154,000. i got a list of people who got far more lobby money that the "new york times" didn't include when they wrote about boehner. gibbs trashes boehner so he's the only one, that's not a substantive discussion. >> it is not. what they are trying to do is go back to the days of 1994 when the democrats were in trouble the last time it looked like a republican wave was coming. they try to demon -- demonize in your case it is newt gingrich and my friend. they tried to make him into this dangerous figure that -- >> greta: except congressman delay was nasty too. your party has a couple. you aren't so pure either, your party on this. and the american people gets hurt on this >> i'm not arguing that either side should be doing this. i'm saying the last time this happened, that's what they did. you are right tom delay was another guy that was taken up. i can remember in 1992, we tried to do the same to tom foley. foley was speaker of the house back then not necessarily a fi

kendrick meeks, thanks so much for joining us. here's the guy named dale peterson. ad, let's talk about some of the tough ads running. here he is on saturday's values voters summit. >> until we get rid of berry or barack or i haven't seen the birth certificate, i don't know what he is. i may get arrows or bullets shot at me, but we got a guy that hates america. i'm just going to go ahead and say it. >> what do you make of that? your fellow american destroying the reputation of the president. calling him barry, suggesting he's not born in america. you get the works. you know what they're up to. >> well, i think the best thing we can do, chris, is not pay attention to that kind of language. folks are losing their jobs. we have the threat of folks running for office that are willing to give tax breaks to the super wealthy that will send us into a $700 billion deficit spending over the next several years. it's important we focus on getting people back to work. it's very unfortunate that kind of discourse is taking place and in florida, we feel standing up for the middle

skipping ahead to thursday, vice president al gore will be in tampa, florida, campaigning on behalf of kendrick meek, the democratic senate nominee in that state. on friday, former massachusetts governor mitt romney goes to florida. he'll be campaigning for the republican gubernatorial nominee down there, mr. rick scot, and moving on to saturday, indiana republican congressman mike pence is in iowa. he is going to deliver a speech to the iowa faith and freedom coalition not to be outdown. tim pawlenty this week, the minnesota governor, will also be in new hampshire for john steven, so for my count, don, you're talking four potential republican candidates going to some very important states campaigning as we head into the 2010 mid terms. >> hey, mark, i hear you have poll numbers and it's about how americans view the tea party. i'm interested in that. what did they show? >> we talk a lot about the tea party and its effect on american politics, but let's look at these numbers right here. this is from the most recent cnn opinion poll released, we asked do you think the tea party is too extreme, ma

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opposition to rubio is running at 51% but is split between governor crist and democratic congressman kendrickcrist in an interview taped earlier tonight. governor crist, thanks for joining us tonight. >> well, it's great to be with you. let me publicly congratulate you on the new show. i think it's great and it's an honor to be on in your first week. >> thank you, governor. you said running as an independent now has liberated you. you feel it has been a liberated feeling from being a republican. what positions do you hold now that you could not hold when you were a republican candidate? >> well, nothing's really changed in that regard. it's a lot more quick to be able to give the response when you're talking about things of supporting education, supporting teachers, making sure that we protect the environment, these were always issues that have been important to me, but it is so liberating in terms of the context of this year particularly because, as you know, the republican party or i should say some in the republican party have taken a very hard turn to the right, like my opponent, marco ru

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he's going to be campaigning on behalf of kendrick meek. meek is the senate democratic nominee trying to win that seat down there currently held by a republican, a very interesting three-way race now down there. marco rubio is the republican nominee. and of course charlie crist is the former republican, very popular governor, who's now running an independent bid. all eyes are on florida. then let's go back to new hampshire on friday. another potential presidential candidate in tim polyenty campaigning, as well. then on saturday, mike pence is going to be in iowa. seriously considering a run for president in 2012. mike penn ce is speaking for th iowa coalition. the three all potential 2012 candidates on the campaign trail this week. drew? >> mark, thanks. >>> mitt romney sounding more and more like he is going to run for president in 2012. romney gave the keynote speech at the new hampshire republican party convention. it's a high-profile spot in an important presidential state. romney says president obama just doesn't understand american va

democrat kendrick meek who has gotten strong support from president obama and former president bill clinton. the gap between republicans and democrats is a bit wiser in pennsylvania and ohio. in pennsylvania, republican pat toomey is leading democratic joe sestak 47% to 41%. and in ohio, republican rob portman has a 7 point lead over democrat lee fisher. portman with 4%. fisher with 41%. fox news is going to be releasing new poll results every tuesday some of these key blases. some of these battleground states will be covered all the way up until the midterm elections. >> shepard: molly line, thanks. polls today close 7 and a half minutes from now. bret baier will have special election coverage throughout the night on the fox news channel. the factor follows us. bret will come in from time to time. also keep tabs on the results at fox news radio and at foxnews.com or with our america's election headquarters app. on your iphone, ipad, android or blackberry. harley davidson agreeing to keep open its production facilities in the state its called home for more than a century. that's our top sto

senate candidate kendrick meek.rs will unveil their party's 21 page pledge to america. among the promises, a freeze on most federal hiring and imposing federal spending caps and repealing and replace president obama's health care law. so obviously, john, it's been compared to the contract with america. in some ways, though, it's scaled down, even though it's 21 pages long. >> even though we've obtained a copy tonight, they'll release it tomorrow. it's controversial already. joining the conversation, joe johns. dana bash still with us, erick erickson as well. they go through these bullet points largely focused on fiscal issues. they haven't released it yet but you don't like it. >> it's just -- it's designed to woo independents, admittedly, to shy away of being the party of no, which worked successfully for pelosi in '06, and it really does nothing. for xaem, example, saying we're not going to grow the federal workforce? the federal workforce has not grown since world war ii. everything we expected them to do is in t

former house speaker mark arubio, kendrick meek and charlie crist.e hoped to have that senate debate. marco rubio's father sadly passed away. that's a tightly fought contest. in kentucky, you have rand paul, the tea party candidate and attorney general jack conway. rand paul away head here in a poll out this morning. what do you see? >> republicans have to almost run the table. the thing about it is that's pretty common in three of the last six elections one party has won over 80% of the final tossup races that are out there so there's a cascading effect that tends to happen. florida, you called it interesting. i call it bizarre. early on democrats thought we get two bites at the apple. democratic nominee and then we'll have charlie crist who turned away from the republican party. instead what you've got is marco arubio, the republican, consolidated the right of center vote to you have two candidates, a former republican, and a real democrat that are splitting the nonconservative vote and i think it gives an edge to arubio. >> these are incumbents th

the 30-some-odd day will give kendrick an opportunity to rise significantly in the polls. if people don't have a choice they'll go to meek. i think governor crist will not be but kendrick meek is. >> mark rubio is pulling away in that three-way race. the primary that kennedy reich meek was nominated and democrats will come home. republicans and independents i think will move to mark rubio and leave governor crist without much support. this is one of those races that i think as each day goes by is getting better for republicans. i think mark rubio will be sworn in as next u.s. senator from florida. >> is america declining as a world leader, and if so, what should we do about it? >> well, i think that, you know, i look at the -- i look at both the election and the future with hope. i look at it with the admiration of a country that in its most difficult challenging times i never forget this country went to two world wars to beat fascism and nazism and succeeded. this country put a man on the moon. this country eliminated a series of diseases that were one time thought to be

kendrick meek the democrat, is trailing at 18%. >> i've got megan mccain tonight.that. >>ion how to talk to republican women better than i do. >> i talk to democratic women more. i recently sat down with the former governor of florida, jeb bush. in our wide-ranging interview, we talked about charlie crist, the future of the republican party, and his own presidential aspirations. >> i can't tell you how many republicans i hear, wherever i go across the country, talking about how they want you to run, they need you to run. they believe not only that the republican party's future depends on it, but america's future depends on it. how do you say no to that? >> well, i have enough humility to know that that's not the case. that already going to be good candidates. look, i'm troubled about the future of our country. i think we're stuck when we need to be explosively moving forward to transform how to do things. and i'm going to be involved, but i'm not going to be involved as a candidate in 2012. >> how frustrating is that for you on the sidelines to see america losing i

he's going to be campaigning on behalf of kendrick meek.rying to win that seat down there currently held by a republican. a very interesting three-way race down there. marco rubio is the republican nominee, and charlie crist is the former republican, very popular governor who's now running an independent bid. all eyes are on florida. and let's go back to new hampshire on friday. another potential presidential candidate in tim pawlenty is going to be up there campaigning for stephen as well. and on saturday, mike pence is going to be in iowa. the indiana congressman seriously considering a run for president in 2012. mike pence is going to be speaking to the iowa for faith and freedom coalition. so pence, barbour, romney, and pawlenty, all potential 2012 candidates on the campaign trail this week. >> thanks, mark. as always, you can get all your political headlines at cnnpolitics.com. >>> youtube videos aren't just for internet amusement anymore. some of the people who post them are making serious money. we ought up with one college grad who

there's a new ad by the democrat kendrick meek.s taking a shot at charlie crist, the former republican governor who has turned independent. charlie crist is trying to reach out to democratic voters. he thinks that could help him in his path to victory in november. this new ad strings together a bunch of different statements charlie crist has made touting coffin tiv ties. it's so popular that the republican nominee mark yoe rubio is shopping it around. a very competitive race down in florida. new poll numbers and new cnn corporation research poll numbers out in just a few hours. don't forget on october 24th, down in florida on "state of the union," candy crowley will debate a 3-way debate between the three candidates. >> all right, guys. i know it's cnn equals politics. we know you have the political ticker but you're sitting at a desk cnn.com. it's confusing. can i just say my guys paul and mark have an update for us? >> does that work for you? >> sure. it's us. >> it's a good thing it's a shaipd shaped show because we'll redo the

kendrick meek is up to 23%. still a distant third.e white house because the had been hoping if meek did not win, that maybe charlie crist would win and then align himself with democrats after the election. vote for some of the president's programs et cetera, but right now, it's looking break for crist. >> and rahm emanuel jumping in early. everyone thought he would wait. everyone's trying to be the mayor of chicago. lot of people thought you're right, he could wait until after the election. problem is he's staring at a lot of elections. first of all, november the 22nd. he's got the get the right number of signatures. all of this is moving so rapidly that you should expect an announcement in days. >> your next political update in an hour. for the latest, you know where to to go. cnnpolitics.com. [ male announcer ] this rock has never stood still. since our beginning, we've been there for clients through good times and bad, when our clients' needs changed we changed to meet them. through the years, when some lost their way, we led the w

. >> democratic side, contested primary, hot, kendrick meeks, 936,000 people, very close, he came fromde, the race was over, marco rubio got 34%. 9.4 republicans came out. 34,000 more. the reason the wave is big is because of the reagan effect. reagan said, look, we don't have faith in washington, washington is broken, but the american people can do anything, and that's the message this election -- the president is on the wrong side ofa. >> can the president change the game between now and november? >> he can do some things, but it's really not his job. the question is when it comes to the democratic senatorial campaign committee, how much are they putting into the ground game as it relates to african-americans and his spannics and women and young voters? how are they driving there? they're looking at their pdas saying we'll -- you need to drag them out of houses and say if you don't come out to vote, this is going to be the net effect. >> the president is stuck in a royalist elite message that says washington has all the answers. send us all your money. i have never seen anything as f

rubio is many a three-way contest against charlie crist and democrat kendrick meek. be turning into a race really for second place. in a mason dixon poll of likely voters, 40% favor rubio. crist is losing ground, his support fading to 28% down to 33. you can see meek is baning ground. gaining ground. jon right now in the middle east some major developments that could stall the chance for peace. an israeli freeze on construction on the west bank is over now. now, this is a huge sticking point between israeli and palestinian leaders. what happens now? our jerusalem bureau with an update. reland? >> reporter: jon, the peace talks are hanging by a threat here, both the israelis and palestinians under tremendous pressure to stay at the negotiating table. i talked with a source inside the israeli prime minister's office, and he told me they view this as a road block on the way to peace. but the world has sided with the palestinians here, and the french president today has said the settlements have to stop. this is the picture the international community has been trying to

kendrick meek at 18%. that florida race, t.j., one of the many fascinating.here, we're hitting the final month of the campaign. a lot of things to see on the ticker and a lot of things to think about if you're a voter. >> all right. john, we appreciate you as always, buddy. we'll see you plenty throughout the day. >>> your next political update coming up in one hour. of course, you know where to find the latest political news. cnnpolitics.com. to accommodate their family. matt was a star from start to end. he took care of us. he'll take care of you. we always like to follow up with clients and make sure that they know we're tracking their loan for them, and if there's something that makes more sense for them, we can present that as an option. the surprise was that there were no surprises. they have great technology, but they have people like matt. that's what makes the difference. it's an opportunity to help clients achieve the american dream. that's why i love quicken loans! ♪ like medicare. this year, like always, we'll have our guaranteed benefits, and wit

results are interesting, for florida, marco rubio pulling ahead, at 43% now over charlie crist and, kendrick lot of people wonder if one of those sides throws support to the other and what might happen and that looks like rubio, at this stage of the game, and, the golden state, barbara boxer, long time senator, from california, of course, is in a very tight race with carly fiorina. that one is one to watch as well and let's go back to pennsylvania, joe sestak, 16 points behind pat toomey now, arlen specter's old spot, and tomorrow at a 47, sestak, 41, everybody from bill clinton and the like has been trying to help sestak with the race, that is a really important one to watch as well, political irony, we might say in one of the nation's most pivotal primary, as, a 47 year veteran, past meets presents, charlie rangel embroiled in an ethics scandal, facing up against adam clayton powell, iv, the man he mentored from the abage of 19, and son of this man he unseated, adam clayton powell, and, this is an interesting family setup here, eric sean is live in harlem with the latest on this, eric, how

senate as an independent is facing off november 2nd against marco rubio and kendrick meek. jon: fox news is your election headquarters across all platforms. you can get breaking news, 24 hours a day, as we count down to the midterm elections. log on to foxnews.com/aehq, america's election head areas. it's your front row to politics. jenna: you know something is coming when you see that, right? hurricane igor is swirling through the particular and taking aim at bermuda, could hit the island late sunday or maybe even early monday morning. igor is now a huge category three storm, the government of bermuda posting a hurricane watch for that island. meteorologist janice dean joins us and j.d., that's not the only extreme weather we've seen over the last few hours, huh? >> are you talking about what happened in new york city? jenna: that was scary! >> reporter: we're not used to storms like that, guys, so if you hear a lot of new new yorkers complaining about trees and power lines down, it's because we don't normally see things like that. some people are talking about a tornado m

democrat kendrick meek has gotten strong support from president obama and former president bill clinton and is trailing 21 percent. rubio may be benefiting from voter unease over president obama, 54 percent of respondents say they want to repeal the president's health care program and 57 percent don't think the president should be reelected. >>> the republican candidate also is leading in senate races in pennsylvania and ohio. first to pennsylvania. republican pat toomy is leading joe sestak 47-41 percent, with 11 percent undecided. some say they want their vote to register opposition to president obama's policy. >>> and in ohio, republican rob portman what's a seven-point lead over lee fisher, 70 percent of respondents say the votes will be based on national issues than the candidates themselves. >>> going to nevada, majority leader harry reid is in a nail biter in his reelection bid. it's a statistical dead heat with republican and tea party backed challenger sharron angle. nevada has the nation's worst unemployment rate and 46 percent of voters say they believe president obama's poli

caller: during the recent campaign we had here, we had kendrick meek. at i had someone to it to the citizens' private fund, using organizations like the popular organizations where clients go in and file lawsuits, because they take money and use it for their campaign and basically leave the person that is lucky plan to -- that is the plaintiff in this particular situation penniless, and nobody does anything about it. and those that are members of the local church -- they go from church to church, to help fund the organization. i find that robbing people, legally doing it, and ignoring it when making a complaint -- we have to find where the money comes from and i think we are doing a poor job on that. thank you, and have a great day. guest: i am not sure i totally understand the question, but in terms of disclosure, that is a very important part of the process now, because there is more ability to spend money. i think that a lot of voters would be interested in knowing as much as they can about where the support for a particular candidate is coming from.

>> you know, a lot of folks said after the primary in august that kendrick meek would pull away somets his way and that's what we're seeing. >> as i understand he was charlie crist, was doing well in the wake of the oil spill for keeping it out there and trying to show leadership in a crisis. >> he was, kiran. he was acting very governor torial. he was acting like a lead are but now it's all about campaigning. and republicans are very upset that charlie crist left his party so he's bleeding them and democrats, not going to support somebody who was a republican at one time. >> all right. mark preston, great to talk to you. thanks. by the way, you can check out the latest political news going to cnnpolitics.com. >> filmmaker david guggenheim has a documentary out, "waiting for super man." they try to get a quality education. lessons learned, america's education system is in desperate need of a rescue. davis joins us coming up. right . or eat green giant beans at home... ...frozen within 8 hours to lock in nutrients. up to you. [ green giant ] ho ho ho ♪ green giant. let's see how low w