you showed an article in that magazine of pelosi and reid and obama. and then you did a wide shot and then you began to read the article, like that article was going to -- before you showed the wide shot, of just pelosi and reid. and i think that's a bias. when bno was on that same picture. why did you do that? >> i'll pull up the pick tur. because we're talking about speaker pelosi and harry reid. i'm not sure where you're going with it. caller: show it and i'll let you know. before you read the article, they did a tight shot of reid, pelosi, and obama. i think obama was in there, if i remember straight. and then you began to read the article. and then you did a wide shot. and the republican leader was on there. so the story wasn't just about reid and pelosi, that's the assumption you were making from your topic this morning. why did you do that? host: well, we're asking if this is a referendum on the democratic leadership. caller: but bonner was in the picture. host: i have a lot of papers. i promise we'll show it in a moment. caller: thank you for ta

we're working together to defeat obama, reid and pelosi.e're working together to elect van tran, carly fiorina, meg whitman. we're working together as americans, as andrew said, as the song said, and as you feel it in your heart every day, we have not lost sense of who we are as a people, we have not lost sense of our responsibilities as a nation. we understand that constitution says something. it grounds us. and this fight is about restoring that. we have a generation now that owes a debt to us. and that's unfortunate because we were given prosperity by the greatest generation. now, what are we to do for the next generation? >> michael steele speaking in anaheim, california, and giving a really rousing speech there. it's going to go on for a little bit here. we want to get a break in. you're not going to miss any of it. sarah palin is coming after him. we'll carry it all live on cnn. don't go away. >>> back now to the republican rally in california and michael steele. >> tells us when what have i do done today re-elect the men and women in

then look at the obama, pelosi, reid job destruction program being bigger taxes, bigger bureaucracy, bigger red tape. here's the big thing, when congress, the democrats, voted to leave town without settling the tax question, they guaranteed that every american business is living in uncertainty. therefore, they've crippled job creation for the next three, four months. i don't think they even realize -- everywhere i go businesses say to me, how can they have this health bill? how can they have this financial regulatory bill? how can they have this confusion overtaxes and expect us to create jobs? obama is extending the recession by the destructiveness of his failure. that makes them the party of food stamps. >> sean: it sounds like you are parting together your closing argument here. the president is the one that launched what was supposed to be for them, this massive class warfare debate, which is he talked about millionaires and billionaires and attacked big business. this was all gonna lead up to this vote on extending the bush tax cuts. they leave town without the vote, which i thi

just point out what it is they did to support obama, pelosi, reid and i that i says it all. >> sean:ee you. we appreciate you being with us. >> thanks. >> sean: coming up, liberals continue to insist the economy is getting better. unfortunately, grim numbers speak louder than their lip service. what will the new jobs data mean for democrats in mean for democrats in november? when my doctor told me that my chronic bronchitis was copd... i started managing it every day. i like to volunteer... hit the courts... and explore new places. i'm breathing better with spiriva. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd... which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. i take it every day... it keeps my airways open to help me breathe better all day long. spiriva does not replace fast acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. stop taking spiriva and call your doctor right away if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, have vision changes or eye pain... or have problems passing urine. tell your doctor if you have glaucom

. >> we need a correction to the obama-pelosi-reid agenda. [ applause ] and the people of pennsylvania have a great chance to deliver that correction. >> reporter: hitting speaker pelosi and other congressional democratic leaders is popular with the republican rank and file. >> i am voting against all the democratic leaders that we now have in washington. the democratic leaders in congress have been rubber stamping everything that obama wants. >> reporter: president obama was in california trying to rescue embattled democratic senator barbara boxer. the president headlined a large rally on the campus of usc, delivering his now familiar standard stump speech one liners against republicans. >> these folks drove the car into the ditch. >> reporter: this campaign has become a broad referendum, not on any single person, but government itself. >> there are things that people are pointing out that the democrats could have done better, but i feel like, you know, overall in terms of the big picture, i think they're doing what they can. >> reporter: in the most recent poll, more people, 50%, sai

pelosi. retire reid and their whole band of merry followers and we get back on the right track. now -- what do you think that we should do with the congress that shoved european-style health care down our throats and takes over private industry and shoves aside the mom and pop small business interests in america and ultimately erodes the american entrepreneurial spirit and work ethic we try to teach our children? they do all that and yet they can't answer the question, where are all the jobs. what do you do? you fire them and it's nothing personal. you just replace them with those who will do the job, right? well, if you help the common sense conservative candidates across california and our 49 states, a couple of week frs now, we will have taken the gavel away from nancy and we will get on the right track. now, i'm here in california and we're traveling across the country to help the rnc and help the gop because this election is so important. you wouldn't be here today if you didn't know, too, that america is at a turning point. we're at a tipping point. people know something h

. >> if we had pelosi, reid, and obama there, if the republicans keep the house, you're going to have a tea party war with the republicans and the tea party guys want to take an ax to the budget and the republicans are going say, hold on. >> forget the tea party. what about the new entrance to the house of representatives? they aren't all tea party. there will be others, too. are they going to be satisfied? >> everybody is going to be influenced by the tea party man >> okay. >> and don't get the house, there will be a blood letting in the republican party as well because they blew this fantastic opportunity. if we had divided government, maybe the two parties will come together and inject into this economy what is needed and that is big infrastructure projects. infrastructure banks. >> i will bet you that infrastructure will be on the agenda and the republicans would go for it. >> exit question. will voters expect positive changes in the economic outlook as a result of the november election? pat buchanan. >> if the republicans win, they will expect them, but they will be disappointed.

that includes nancy pelosi and harry reid. c the country, they mention pelosi. some mention obama, in particularly conservative areas. but overwhelming, nancy pelosi's numbers are worse and republicans are trying to link democrat candidates to pelosi more than president obama. in a way this midterm cycle is shaming up to be a refer referendum on pelosi and reid. >> interesting analysis there. thank you. decision 2010 this sunday on "meet the press." the senate showdown in colorado. david gregory moderates a debate between michael bennet and his republican challenger ken buck. that's sunday on "meet the press", of course on nbc. >>> now to the nor'easter hitting the east coast now. the storm is unleashing heavy rain and winds up to 40 miles per hour in parts of the east coast. new york and new jersey experiencing bad weather with flooding in some areas. in parts of new england, snow is covering the ground. you're looking at the latest pictures for vermont and the weather channel's jim kcantore s live now. it's hard to complain.

. >> pelosi and reid and debts and deficits. that's why the republicans made a terrible mistake. party of no was winning. here's the things we are going to do. put a target on their back. interrupted their own momentum. >> they should have stood aside and let it be a referendum on the democrats. instead, they put their extreme proposals out there. >> well, the candidates around the country are running on the extreme proposals. you're right. >> self-identified conservative, listen to this number. the largest conservatives are the majority. 42% say they are conservatives. 20% say they are liberals. >> the key, john, is conservatives don't agree with each other except on getting rid of obama and reid and pelosi. if the republicans say on that, they win. if we get into, did we? >> the biden blame game. >> there's some on the democratic base, not the core of it, that are angry because we didn't get every single thing they want. and so those who don't get -- didn't everything they wanted is time to buck up here. >> before he said buck up, he said something else. stop whining. wait a mi

. >> pelosi and reid and debts and deficits. that's why the republicans made a terrible mistake. the party of no was winning. here's the things we are going to do. put a target on their back. interrupted their own momentum. >> they should have stood aside and let it be a referendum on the democrats. instead, they put their extreme proposals out there. >> well, the candidates around the country are running on the extreme proposals. you're right. >> self-identified conservative, listen to this number. the largest conservatives are the majority. 42% say they are conservatives. 20% say they are liberals. >> the key, john, is conservatives don't agree with each other except on getting rid of obama and reid and pelosi. if the republicans say on that, they win. if we get into, did we? >> the biden blame game. >> there's some on th democratic base, t e core of it, that are angry because we didn't get every single thing they want. and so those who don't get -- didn't everything they wanted is time to buck up here. >> before he said buck up, he said something else. stop whining. wait a min

you fire pelosi, you retire reid and their whole band of merry followers and we get back to putting america on the right track. >> president obama is taking some time awful campaign trail today after a busy five-state swing, but he won't put his feet up for long, he is slated to visit five more states before election day. >>> on the heels of that let's bring in associate editor and columnist for the hill and joanne reed, editor of reed report.com and political columnist for the "miami herald." form for you both, good to see you. >> good mornings, alex. >> ab, there are signs that president obama is sharpening his message recently? taking on a mocking term when talking about the gop s that a conscious decision by the white house? all concern it had might be a little too late? >> they are always concern it had is too late if they are reading the polls that we are reading and we know that they are, but this is a conscious decision, alex, because they are hoping to actually try to fire up the base and anger partisans on the left side of the democratic party who are disappointed with the adminis

. >> this week on pelosi-reid, our guest is a says it supreme court justice stephen breyer. >> justice stephen breyer, if a young person came to you and said he liked reading your past and i want to be with you become, " would you advise him to do? >> i would like it to pay attention if you are reading about me, and i was like you to read about why the court is important to the public. for personal abies, i get that question. most of us do. and they are worried about their lives. i can understand that. the good guys and i got from david manning, dean of stanford, had a similar time in my life. he said, i need to tell you. you will not have the information that you would like to have when you make your career choices. we all make choices and we just have to choose. we do not have every information or piece of information we would like. but we make decisions. as long as we stay away from ridiculous decisions, there's no way to save what is better. you make your choice, what your career you would like to start out in, maybe who your family -- and in your life will build around your choice

they are trying to distract the american people from the record the pelosi, reid, obama. >> i think it was three years ago i had this conversation with sally quinn. washington has been buzzing about this for a while. this is the first time they were talking about inside the white house and, again, the white house is denying it. let me play for you what sally quinn said back in the summer. >> i do think that she would be in place very effective as vice president, if they made the move after the midterm elections, hillary could go right into campaign mode and start taking on the tea party crowd. >> joann, tea party crowd. a lot of people said she would help with minority vote and the youth vote. are there areas in which politically it would make sense if barack obama is in trouble, does she help him? >> well, i think, first of all, that assumes that things are static. where we are today where barack obama stays where he is going to be two years from now. >> a big window of opportunity here. if they make the switch, they have to make that decision. >> that is not something i can so them d

at 12 weeks all vital organs are present and working, yet obama, pelosi, reid and norton advocate killing these babies at any time for any reason by abortion. >> if you're a viewer sitting at home and you see an ad like this come on your television, you've got to be saying to yourself how did this get on tv. >> well, the answer is that she's a candidate for federal office and under federal law candidates for federal office are entitled to buy advertising time on broadcast stations and broadcast stations are obligated to sell it to them. >> reporter: can they change the ad in any way or maybe block out portions of it? >> no. broadcast stations as part of their obligations are obligated not to censor the ad in any way. >> reporter: can they decide when to run it perhaps maybe at a time late at night when children aren't watching? >> several courts have actually spoken to this issue particularly in the context of sometimes very graphic abortion ads and what they have determined is it's the federal law that gives federal candidates access to broadcast stations is intended to give them access

this election will push us back toward the center, but it's because people know that the obama/pelosi/reid policies have been far left. >> house, senate, what goes republican? >> i'll be surprised if the house doesn't have a republican majority. i think it's harder in the senate. we'll probably make big gains in the senate. for my particular line of work, i think we'll have 30 republican governors. >> 30 needed in the house, 10 in the senate for republican control. let's talk about some of the issues, governor kaine. health care for one. you said democrats would be nuts if they try to create distance between themselves and the democratic party, democratic leaders and president obama. in fact, back in march on this program, i had asked you, what would be the fallout from passing health care? this is what you said. >> governor, at what cost will victory be achieved? >> david, this is going to be great for democrats. i've been on the ballot seven times and won seven races. i would love to be running on this. this is going to be a big win for the american public and every democrat everywhere w

washington is not leading us anywhere but towards that obama, boxer, pelosi and reid won't follow what the american people are telling them to do, care is proof of that. >> she also criticized the stimulus bill. >> still knowing what was in that stimulus package, knowing where some of the dollars have done are atrocious, now we have the president finally admitting, oh, there's kind of no such thing as a shovel-ready project. yeah. yeah. well, now we know what it was what they were shoveling, it wasn't asphalt. >> even appeared to take a dig at michelle obama, the first lady, alluding to comments that michelle made on the campaign trail in 2008 where she said "for the first time in my life i'm proud of my country." >> people said during the campaign that they had never been proud of america until -- until that time? had they not met anybody in uniform yet? >> palin's sweep through california will end with a fund-raiser and rally in anaheim on sunday. more on palin later in the show. >>> president obama's continuing his push to energize the youth vote before the midterm elections. yester

you fire pelosi and retire reid. >> pelosi did not appear with the president in this rally. >> women has made such enormous strides. >> it's been a week the president has been concentrating on women voters. they voted overwhelmingly back in 2008 but many have been sitting on the sidelines. >> a lot of women voters make up their minds and pay attention very late. we have seen a dramatic shift in the past two days. >> now in oklahoma governor's race, republican candidate claimed in a debate that being a mother distinguishes her from her single democratic opponent. that drew boos from the audience and some say it crossed the lanes ever line. >> my experience, being a mother and having children and raising a family. >> politics in 2010 midterm elections is a winner take all blood sport. women are in this election using all their tools including gender and use it against other women. >> women are coming back home to their party. all races are tightening but with less than a week before the election, it still appears according to the experts that the republicans will gain control of the ho

reid and mitch mcconnell. it's a choice between nancy pelosi and john boehner. and it's almost impossible with only a month to go and they've been doing it for maybe a month to fill up the tank as much and -- but it's worth reminding americans that every election is a choice. if you have to run against the ideal, if it's a referendum, every one of us will get beats. nobody will get elected. we'd have nobody in office because there's no such thing as the perfect public servant. the choices you make in politics are like the choices you make in life. you look at the facts as best you can and you make the best available choice. >> that's part of a long interview that we did today for an upcoming documentary on the former president. >>> coming up congressman james clyburn said yesterday on "hardball" that if republicans win the house they'll use subpoena power to try to delegitimize president obama. republican congressman darrell issa called us and said that congressman clyburn was being, quote, paranoid. up next i'll ask issa what republicans are actually planning.

. >> you fire pelosi, reid and band of merry followers as we get back on the right track. >> how willlls? . >> we've got a flood. hits the road, the nose the angels start second guessing where they tread. ♪ cl 1-800-steemer > >> president obama's health care reform law forcing everyone to buy insurance by 2014 or face fines. but many people say that's unconstitutional. and in virginia in fact they're taking the issue to federal court tomorrow. the attorney general of virginia argues that congress exceeded authority by imposing an individual mandate and he join us this morning from d.c. good morning to you, mr. attorney general. >> good morning. >> tell us what you will argue when virginia takes its case to court tomorrow? >> there are two basic constitutional points. one is that the individual mandate you mentioned goes beyond the power of the government under the commercial clause. normally they try to regulate commercial under the commercial clause and here they're trying to order you and me to go buy something, in other words, to get in the stream of commerce and that's never ever

they have obama, reid and pelosi. here in nevada, we have reid. >> reporter: republicans nationwide would love to beat the senate's most powerful democrat, helping angle raise a staggering $14.3 million in the last three months. reid had already amassed more than $19 million. a lot of that money pays for the attack ads filling the airwaves. angle blames reid for the state's high home foreclosure and unemployment rates, both the worst in the nation. reid takes angle as a dangerous extremist, even featuring her hometown's republican mayor. >> she's wild, she's wild. and with the wild ideas she has, we would never get anything done. >> reporter: the race is complicated by another tea party candidate on the ballot. in a line for none of the above. an option analysts say could help reid. >> those are people who are generally against the incumbent and would vote for the challenger but for some reason they decided the challenger is so offensive they're going to vote none of the above. >> reporter: democrats are pulling out al

. >> nancy pelosi and harry reid have taken us in a direction so far to the left that i cannot even recognize some of the things we are doing any more. >> rubio has a strong lead over charlie crist. front runners and the underdogs, democrats and republicans alike, all know a lot can happen between now and election day. >> it was another successful year for the baltimore marathon, with the most runners ever. two new faces to go to the title of winner and the grand prize. >> a big birthday for baltimore on saturday. the marathon turned 10 years old. 22,000 runners showed up for the party. a 24-year-old kenyan, david rutoh, got the best present of all. >> i was sure that i would win because i was strong in finishing. >> the eastern european women continued strong, with 32-year- old olena shurkhno taking first place for the females. she worried about the windy conditions and last year's winner nipping at her heels. >> i was a little bit nervous. >> the first place purse this year was $23,000, making this race one of the richest in the nation. but for the rest of these runners, the back of the pac

. >> i want you to know how happy i am to be invited to the barack obama, nancy pelosi, harry reid and charlie crist farewell rally. >> reporter: the third straight poll shows rubio with double-digit lead. charlie crist is at 33%. and kendrick meek, 28 points behind rubio at 18%. >> this is a referendum on who we are going to be over the next decade and century. if america continues to be exceptional and unique or is it going to become like everybody else? >> reporter: polls show moderate crist elected as a republican continues to split florida's democrats. the newspaper "florida today" now endorses crist and campaigning at a high school homecoming rally he told us he still has time. >> i'm very hopeful. of course i am. i think that is going top happen. i think if people want a hard right candidate, they can pick marco rubio. >> reporter: al gore who lost his bid for the white house in florida returned thursday night to campaign for meek. emphasizing meek's strategy, trying to convince democrats not to as they said throw away their votes on crist. >> it's an old charge in politics, tha

. >> reporter: democratic leaders such as nancy pelosi, harry reid and van hollen are leading charge on freeze on foreclosures to protect the little guy from the big bad banks. other democrats are joining in. >> we need a combination of a freeze potentially. also, we need to sit down with the banking industry, because it's absolutely imperative we keep people in their homes. >> reporter: several state attorneys general are also pushing a freeze. >> seeking moratorium on foreclosures that have been tainted by the process. >> reporter: the white house recognizing it could slow down the economic recovery has doubts. >> i'm not sure about a national moratorium because there are, in fact, valid foreclosures that probably should go forward. and paperwork is proper. >> reporter: nationwide, there is no rush to foreclosure. the average time from the first missed payment until foreclosure is 478 days, more than 15 months. increase from 302 days five years ago. if it slows down further economy will move at speed of molasses which is why the white house rejects the call from the democrats and s

want this to be a bad election on everything you have heard about barack obama n obama, nancy pelosi and harry reid. so the reason he is doing this is not just to hurt them but to say what they stand for. it's a choice between nancy pelosi and john boehner. it is almost impossible with only months to go and they have been doing it for maybe a month to fill up the tank as much but it is worth reminding americans that every election is a choice. if you have to run against the ideal, if it is a referendum, everyone has to get beat. nobody would get elected. we would have nobody in office, because there is no such thing as the perfect public servant. the choices you make in politics are like the choices you make in life. you look at the facts as best you can and you make the best available choice. >> each and every nice, chris matthews delivers your daily dose of information. don't miss "hardball" weeknights at 6:00 and 7:00 only on msnbc. >>> in california, the drama facing the candidacy of meg whitman is reaching hollywood portions. she as denied she knowingly ememployed an illegal immigrant for a de

. >> i don't work for nancy pelosi or harry reid. >> reporter: but it is still uphill for democrats. independents were the key to the republican takeover of congress in '94 and the democratic takeover in '06. right now they're leaning heavily republican. >> if republicans are going to get a majority that's where it's going to occur. >> nobody's saying we're going to pick up see the. people are saying let's just hold down as many democrats as we can. >> reporter: and in this climate, less bad seems to be about the best democrats can hope for. katie. >> couric: all right, jeff greenfield, jeff, thanks. and still ahead here on the cbs evening news, everybody in the world has a story. steve hartman way bag lady who is making a small fortune. but uppings in, fallen heroes. they were friends in life. now their families find peace knowing they're together again. >> couric: all too often, american deaths in iraq and afghanistan get reported simply as numbers. but as we know, they're so much more than that. each and every casualty is a unique individual with a family and a story. today, an ex

. >> obama and boxer and pelosi and reid, let's respectfully suggest they get out of the way. >> sarahalin brings her tea party message to bay area voters but none of the candidates she's backing show up. >> and there's a new hitch in san jose's plan to build a stadium for the a's. the redevelopment agency may not have the money to buy the land. >> 5:30 this friday morning. happy friday. thanks for joining us. >> i'm kristen sze. caltran's crews will work all morning to repair a cracked steel beam on the san mateo bridge. there's behind schedule which means the far right westbound lane will be closed again for this morning's commute. crews have been working on the wishbone y-joint under the bridge. it took longer than expected to fabricate two planks. they're drilling holes on each side to make sure it doesn't spread. >> the steel beam is attached to the girders. they support the deck itself. so there was no danger of any sort of imminent catastrophic but this is not an unimportant part of the bridge either. once we found it we knew we had to take care of it. >> the crack was found tue

. >> nancy pelosi and hairy reid did write the bills that became health care and the stimulus what. difference does it make rahm emmanuel is leaving now? >> look at all of these guys. you had peter ortzag leaving, christine roamer, larry summers, what characterized these guys is that they were liberals but they were brought in, a lot of them viewed as moderates and a lot of them had done good work on things they were supposed to reign in this president and have been side lined by the political team in the white house. this made a lot of decisions that are aimed at, instead, getting enthusiasm among the base. it's not been focused on smart economic policy or smart domestic policy. >> does it matter now that emmanuel is leaving? did he have impact on policy? >> well, people have two views, people say he was there making the argument. you know? >> he was argumenting for incremental health care reform that didn't pan out. and for that you shouldn't have the terror trial for in manhattan that. didn't work out, either. >> most, like i said most of the guys have been side lined. the argume

. >> president obama, nancy pelosi and harry reid have taken us in a direction so far to the left that i can't even recognize some of the things we're doing any more. >> rubio has a strong lead over republican turned independent charlie crist. but front liners and underdogs, democrats and republicans alike all know a lot can happen between now and election day. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >>> speaking of some big political names, the clintons are in the bay area this weekend. bill clinton is due to lead a rally for jerry brown and gavin newsom tomorrow at san jose state university. he's also scheduled to be at a fund-raiser tomorrow. yesterday hillary clinton gave a speech in san francisco to the commonwealth club. she wasn't campaigning, though, rather talking about how technology is changing a world and the bay area is leading the way. >>> hundreds of emergency volunteers from across san francisco came together today to practice what they've learned. the volunteers spent three hours practicing skills such as search and rescue, caring for injured victims and setting up staging

because what obama, pelosi and reid have created for us is a blueprint of things that don't work in thisountry. they don't work to get our economy roaring back to life. reagan give us a way of thinking that does apply to what is right and what has worked, because his way of thinking, which we need to apply today, was based on some common sense reagan principles that were based on time-tested truths. simple things he believed in because they work. that's lower taxes, less government intrusion and overreach. smaller, smarter government, and remember the national security policy. back then, as michael steele spoke of, that national security policy was lived out by your native son and his good brother, jeb and g.w. the national security policy of we win, and they lose. now, the momentum is with us. but now is not the time to let up. now is the time where we dig deep. now in these last ten days is where we work extremely hard and we exhaust ourselves. and it feels good to exhaust ourselves to know that we are going to do all that we can to get that vote out, to drop the literature, to make th

nancy pelosi and harry reid did write the bills that became the stimulus.t difference does it make that rahm emanuel is leaving now. >> we were all wrong, paul, you weren't alone. look at the guys that are leaving, it's not just rahm emanuel, you had peter orthozag and christine romer, larry summers. what characterizes all of these guys, yeah, they were liberals, but they were brought in, a lot of them were viewed as moderates and pragmatic and done good work on things and supposed to rein in this president and kind of keep him in check and they have been side lined by the political team in the white house and instead made a lot of decisions both like david axlerod aimed at instead getting enthusiasm among the base and it's not been focused on smart economic policy or smart domestic policy and i think that-- >> does it matter now that-- then that emanuel's leaving? did he have any impact on policy? >> well, people have two views, some people say at least he was there making the argument. you know, and i was-- >> he was arguing, for example, for incremental

>>> sarah palin was out on the trail ripping the reid, pelosi, obama axis of evil telling them to getof way. >>> and a historic walkout on "the view" as whoopi and joy up and leave on bill o'reilly's views on islam.

the mariott in orlando just down the street from disney world, they thoroughly bashed obama, pelosi and reid. 2,000 republicans as well as tea partiers and independent conservatives turned out to see palin in person. despite being criticized for nat raising as many millions of dollars as the democratic committee has, michael steele was enthusiastic received by the crowd as he revved them up for the head lynner, that being sarah palin, who emphasized the-under genesis of the last ten days. >> it ain't over until it's over. we can't be thinking we have it in the bag. we can't get cocky about this. we have to leave the dancing to the stars. [laughter] >> that, of course, reference to her young daughter on the show "dancing with the stars." florida's governor race practices the tight -- perhaps the tightest. statistically tied with rock scott spending 60 million, and in the closely watched senate race, marco rubio leads comfortably, on average 20 points ahead. rubio revved up at the crowd at the beginning of the rally, stressing how he sees the election as critical. >> will we be the first gener

. >> i don't work for nancy pelosi or harry reid. >> reporter: but it is still uphill for democrats. independents were the key to the republican takeover of congress in '94 and the democratic takeover in '06. right now they're leaning heavily republican. >> if the republicans get a majority, that's where it's going to occur. >> people are saying, let's just hold down as many democrats as we can. >> reporter: and in this political climate, less bad seems to be about the best democrats can hope for. jeff greenfield, cbs news, new york. >>> the search has been called off for two american balloonists missing off of italy since last week. the italian coast guard ended its search in the adriatic sea on monday. they've been using a robotic vehicle to scan the seabed for the hot air balloon and its pilots, richard abruzzo of albuquerque, new mexico and carol davis of denver. >>> there is hopeful news from chile this morning about those miners trapped underground for the past two months. chile's president says drilling has gone faster than expected, and they're getting close to pulling the 33

after month this entire year, you have democrats who went out on the ledge supporting this obama-pelosi and reid agenda and coming home to their districts and they're being met with a lot of resistance. and the fact that harry reid now, a couple weeks from the election is going to hope that this none of the above option will put him over the edge, strong how that anti-democratic agenda sentiment is in the country. >> jason, do you think sharron angle's comments might hurt her on election day? you said that to our producers. >> yeah, i think they will. i think frankly in a race this close, i think the republican party has to be nervous that disenfranchised voters will go for the none of the above options given her positions and comments. she has these remarks about belittling autism and talking about how sharia law is spreading across the country. she said controversial positions as a state legislator, including voting against mandatory mammogram treatments for insurers, which turned out voters and on one hand, she has rallied against federal involvement in health care, even though her and her hu