. >> today we are focusing on the senate race and colorado where michael bennett, the democrat who wasointed to fulfill what term for can salazar is facing a challenge on the left from former colorado house speaker mr. romanov. joining us on the phone is the denver post political editor. michael bennett is facing not only a challenge on the left, but if he survives, he has strong candidates on the right. what are the latest polls showing? guest: the latest rasmussen poll continues to show what we have seen across the spectrum, which there is sort of a head wind for democrats or anyone who has a tag that can be viewed as an incumbent. i think most recently the rasmussen poll shows he is trailing district attorney ken buck and also jane norton. we had a poll earlier in june and we showed buck with a narrow lead over william bennett and training jane norton in the margin of error. host: mr. bennett and mr. romanov out what adds to further define themselves. let's take a look. >> while others learn to read, he struggled to make sense of the page and while others moved ahead, and stayed bac

the strong suggestion that we had an amendment that was adapted them -- unanimously, offered by michael bennett of colorado, that offered ending the t.a.r.p. program. it was over a longer period of time. we of our expressed our views on that in one degree or another. the date of determination is there. that is the proposal to my senate colleagues that we will like to send to our colleagues in the other body for an alternative pay for provision which i hope would be warmly received as a better idea. whether you like all of the bill or not, it is a better alternative than the one i debt -- adopted in the wee hours of friday morning when we began this conference. now turn to senator shelby. >> it seems to me that chairman dodd is proposing a budget gimmick to get a better score from the cbo over a limited period of time. deposit insurance, if it is centrally -- if it is surely insurance -- as we saw on the recent crisis, the deposit insurance fund can rapidly depleted any need replenishment. he can quickly become a drain on bonds as opposed to a source of funds. if we can create government resourc