minnesota sixth congressional district in the seat currently held by republican congresswoman michele bachmann what was once thought to be a shoo in victory for bachmann has suddenly turned into a very close race card to a new poll conducted by greenberg quinlan rosner rosin or democratic challenger jim graves is trailing bachmann by just two points in bachmann's favor ability rating has fallen four points and her unfavorable rating has risen seven points so it looks like a progressive may have a good chance of taking back minnesota's sixth congressional district joining me now to talk more about this race is jim graves democratic candidate for. congress from minnesota six district jim great to see it thanks for joining us. thank you for having me on are you surprised that the races become so close. we're not really we kind of did some preliminary work before we got into it and we had all the data down pretty well and if the people know what's going on if they know what we stand for and you know michele bachmann stands for getting nothing done taking care of herself they're going to her own be

michele bachmann, joe walsh, allen west. with polls moving their way, democrats are daring to dream of delivering them from evil. >>> finally, let me finish tonight with my favorite teachers wife and how much she wants to vote and how the new pennsylvania voter photo law is stopping her from voting. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> back to "hardball." >>> back to "hardball." what do you do when your candidate is trailing in the polls? well, you blame the pollsters. over the past several days right wing radio and television pundits have gone wild with the new republican talking thought, the polls are wrong. pay no attention to what you're seeing or what you're hearing, that obama is up. according to some on fox and elsewhere, the pollsters are all in the president's back pocket and they can't be trusted, including fox's polls apparently. here is dick morris staggering even sean hannity on fox news this week. >> as he's at the moment in a very strong position. i believe if the election were held today, romney wo

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why -- how are you going to beat michele bachmann and why should okay. well, that's a good question. >> jennifer: quick. >> they need to vote for the truth. they're going to vote for somebody who's actually done it. they're going to vote for somebody who knows how to get things done on the ground. knows how to bring people together, not divide people. knows how to message to the folks, not message to you why her fund-raising people. somebody that actually understands what is needed on the ground in the sixth district. the people are ready for a change. they're sick and tired of bending truth and making the crazy statements. so they're ready for somebody like me that actually came from the district. understands the district. understands the people. >> jennifer: jim, do people in the district see her as being a bit loopy? >> yeah. people have said she's gone a little bit too far. these latest comments about the muslim brotherhood, attacking the president while we're -- in a time of risk when we have people over in egypt and libya you know, their lives are

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that book hits shelves october 1st. >>> now, let's shift to minnesota where congresswoman michele bachmannuite a treasure chest for the re-election bid for the house seat there. as of july 25th, bachmann has raised and spent nearly $16 million according to the fcc report reports and that is more of any member of the house, and second to only john boehner, the speaker who has raised $18 million this election cycle. since her election to congress in 2006, the tea party star has been making an aggressive push for more tea party representation in the house. bachmann is now in a very close race with democrat jim graves, her first significant challenger since running for that seat back in 2006. joining me now to talk about it, in minneapolis, jennifer brooks of the "minnesota star tribune." jennif jennifer, good afternoon to you. >> hi. >> and congresswoman bachmann does not have trouble getting people to write cheshgs but there was an internal poll that notes that she has a pretty small lead that is well within the margin of error. why is bachmann facing such a strong challenge there in minneso

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. >> who is behind the attacks, intelligence committee member, michele bachmann has the latest. >> and federal chairman ben bernanke launching another stimulus. >> because what we're about here is trying to get jobs, trying to create more employment. >> is it really an effort to save one man's job. >> plus. >> what if i told you jesus came to abolish religion. >> he's a christian who loves jesus, what about organized religion? >> and religion, hate it, in fact, i literally recent it. and youtube sensation joins the governor tonight. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause]. >> thank you. now, what a great audience we have here tonight and welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. you know, every week we hear the latest jobs numbers, and they aren't good. in fact, they're dismal. an estimated 23 million americans don't have jobs. and beyond those numbers, there are real people, and some of them are in a world of hurt. i've got a special friend who lives in iowa, i got to know her and her family during the presidential campaign in 2008. her

we will check in with congresswoman michele bachmann.'s live in the studio with a message she wants to deliver to the president tonight on hannity. ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. sowhy let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. >> welcome back to "hannity." we continue with our panel. let's assess the race at this point. penny, what do you see? >> i think that

jim drinkard, who represents the associated press said, quote, we had to have a self-imposed michele bachmannta in some of those debates. often she was just more prone to statements that just didn't add up. well, the bachmann quota, drinkard said the quota didn't have a numeric value, but focusing on all bachmann's murky statements would overload the debate story. >>> take a look at this headline from the iranian news organization fars, f-a-r-s. gallup poll, rural whites prefer ahmadinejad to obama. a quote from a west virginia resident, i like him better. >> the one poll that republicans might accept as legitimate. guess where that headline originated? "the onion," america's favorite source for fake news. another "onion" news item today, florida to experiment with new 600 lever voting machine. >>> finally, the latest music and dance tribute to president obama. this is all over the place literally. >> i'm barack obama and i party. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that guy behind the mask is one hell of a dancer. the performance is suitably entitled "obama works it." that's "hardball" for now. coming up next, your bu

congresswoman michele bachmann is here next. ...neil: in press conferences from the president but he spoke at a campaign rally in colorado. >>reporter: one day after the president used the interview with cbs to say that mitt romney shoots first and aims later, today, he got into trouble because the president had done an interview with a spanish magazine saying that egypt is in longer an ally which sounded like a solicit in u.s. policy because it has been officially an ally by u.s. law going back to the 1980's. carney today told reporters and this is a term of art, whether you are an ally or not and since we do not have a mutual defense treaty with egypt it is not an ally not sitting well at the state department briefing where officials were pressed on this because israel is in the same position. does that mean israel is not an ally? the state department spokeswoman said, yes, egypt is a non-nato ally with the united states so this mixed message today put the president a little bit on defense after he had mitt romney on defense on th

and that explains why, for instance, the koch brothers were early funders of michele bachmann, who is a darling of the religious right. they don't care particularly, i would assume, about her religious foibles. what they care about is the bottom line. and these religious right candidates, many of them believing in the health and wealth, name it and claim it prosperity gospel, believe that the rich are sanctified and the poor punished. >> many of those people on the right would tell you that the fall in the income of middle-class people and others has been because of obama's economic policies. >> i think they're suffering from selective amnesia. they also don't understand that george bush doubled the national debt, that the original meltdown on wall street occurred during george bush's watch, and by the time obama became president in 2009, we were already well into the recession. now i don't defend him in every way. i don't say that everything he's done is right by any means. i have all kinds of issues with him on the health care legislation. for instance, his willingness to play ball

michele bachmann, jim demint. everybody should pay something. but of those 47% he is citing that jonathan just brought up, i ring 40% of them are romney voters? >> i would agree. >> minimum. >> the problem that you have is this gaffe -- gaffe, misstatement, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't just, to jonathan's point, he is right, doesn't reinforce what people like about romney or think they don't like about romney, it place perfectly into the barack obama messaging which is i'm a president for all of america, i'm a president for the middle class, he is a president for the rich. he is basically writing off 53% of the american public. i'm not gonna do that. i'm going to be a president for everyone. >> i want the vote of every single american period? period? >> of course. you don't have to agree with me on every issue. >> obama the first time. you get this sense with some of these guys that successfully win that first time, the president circumstance they ache to be liked by everybody. at least 65%. >>harlie crist syndrome, want 85% approval

. >>> which tea p cda d crats most like to beat, michelle bachmann, joe walsh, allen west? reasons to be hopeful. the democrats might knock a couple of them off. this is "hardball," the place for politics. ask me what it's like when my tempur-pedic moves. [ male announcer ] why not talk to someone who owns an adjustable version of the most highly recommended bed in america? a me about my tempurdvanced ergo. goes up. goes up. ask me whatt'sike to get a massage anytime yowant. goes down. goes down. [ male announcer ] tempur-pedic brand owners are more satisfied than owners of any traditional mattress brand. ergonomics. [ male announcer ] tempur-pedic. the most highly recommended bed in america. [ female announcer ] for more information or to find a retailer near you, visitempurpec.com >>> we've got two new polls in that voter i.d. law in pennsylvania. the people in the keystone state say they like it, a majority do. 62% of pennsylvanians support e law. % oppos it. same story in a new franklin and marshall poll. 59% say they support it, 39% against it. but the law may be block

but michele bachmann has raised and spent $16 million during this campaign. more than any house member than the speaker boehner. she's had a huge fund-raising advantage. same thing with alan west down in florida. $10 million. are they targets, good for fund-raising for democrats? but when it comes down to it in the house races when you're raising that kind of money presidential campaign money. obviously she was a candidate. i still think she's going to be tough to beat. >> eliot: democratic party should love the tea party. it has destroyed the republican party and has given the white house back to president obama. that's a conversation for another day. national political reporter for politico, david catanese. as always, thanks for your great analysis. >> sure. thanks a lot. >> eliot: for the nfl replacement refs, in memorial. viewfinder is coming up next. >> eliot: coming up, reading between the lines of the united states constitution. but first late last night the nfl and the nfl referees association finally reached a settlement. so let's take a moment to lo

. >> cenk: one more thing michelle bachmann. b-16.hear what she said about the president. >> my belief and my opinion that barack obama has been the most dangerous president we have ever had on american foreign policy. >> cenk: come on i mean, they're so over the top i don't think they are believable any more. people see that and say what an idiot. >> michelle bachmann is in a lot of trouble. in her polls out of her election race graves down by two points. that's major. that's a toss up. that's within the margin of error. >> cenk: michelle loses her own congressional seat. that is awesome. >> it could very well happen. >> cenk: it could happen. thank you michael. great analysis, let me just tell you guys something. we're going to talk about the embay isembassies, but that clip about mitt romney saying that middle class is $200,000 to $250,000, i would say the most important thing is that clip. because it's not anywhere near true and it turns everybody off when they see it. huge news this week. now when we come back, who is the ideolog

republicans and the party establishment including those in congress and about candidates like michele bachmann or rick perry and the long history of the gifted remarks. it seemed to me that many of them, that is the republican establishment, was simply a phrase to condemn such rhetoric to speak in favor of social tolerance. b's leaders were not just uninformed about gay issues i think but frankly scared to death of any discussion of them and i think that plays into the hands of organized bigotry. what most analysts expected was going to be another election about economic issues and replacing much of the legislation passed by the obama administration like the election in 2010, was suddenly hijacked or the so-called values voters crowds and social issues were suddenly at the top of the republican list of priorities often getting the lion's share of attention during those endless number of debates and 2011. such as when a gay servicemember when asked a question during one of the republican debates. so in spite of the fact that in the race there were pro-gay writes candidates like congressman ron

do you hear that michele bachmann, tone it down! nation, it's about time somebody said what we were all not thinking. just because people know things doesn't mean we should listen to them. sorry, elite, but we've given your pro knowledge wisdom-pushing policies a chance and they have failed. f-a-l-7 d-failed. and this is a wake-up call to all anti-intellectual americans. i'm not talking just about the dumb people. i'm talking to the droolers. the mouth breathers, those struggling to finish the kid's maze on a long john's silvers placement. stand up, shake that bucket off your head and be counted. unfortunately to do that you'll have to find someone who can count. and folks if you want more evidence that the elite smarty crap media are against us, well, look no further than last week. while i was conveniently not on the air, news happened. oh, and the free masons don't control the world government, right. evidently, in response to an anti-muslim film, riots broke out at american embassies worldwide, most tragically in benghazi, libya

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. >> how can you say that when you have republicans like michele bachmann and mitch mcconnell and paul ryans of the world, the people in the minutes basically that the president was sworn in that their goal the office make him a one term president. they never had any intention of working with president obama on anything. so how can you say that he needs be the one to walk across the aisle when they are the ones going out on talk shows saying we need to make him a one term president, we'll do everything to stand in his way. >> we had republicans in the past four wears to do everything they can which is rein in the size of the market and allow free market principles work. >> how do you defend the statements from someone like michele bachmann who you worked for during this year, how do you defend a statement when she said she wanted to make him a one term president and would do everything to make that happen? >> well, what every republican in congress wants to do is to make policies that will instill confidence in the economy and create jobs for this country, no matter what that takes. an

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this is somebody who does make michele bachmann look like a hippy. he is that far on the fringe.ing those things out, i'm not sure that he was prepared for that. but i was polite and calm and i think that saying i was unladylike is a code word for that women shouldn't be strong and we should be more denks and i think that's probably what he was getting at. >> i wish you would get a little tougher. look at the things he stands for. he wants to basically get rid of medicare. he's proud of that vote. and he wants to abolish the minimum wage. there's a lot of people out there who got their first job with the minimum wage. he wants to get rid of student loans. i had student loans all through college. i got a fellowship i was offered in grad school. a lot of us couldn't go to quality schools if we didn't have that kind of help. what's he talking about saying we've got to get rid of student loans calling it stage 3 cancer? what's he talking about? >> well, that's just it. it's not what he has said that is the problem. it's what he believes that is the problem. i don't think government i