andrew cuomo is going to beat rick lazio. andrew cuomo is going to beat paladino.em. >> and, of course, chris in the next 24 we'll be watching president obama going to new jersey. but that does it for us, for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." i'm going to have a bumper sticker. i m a not a witch. author of the new book "disintegration" and tamron hall as a look at what's up next. >> so christine o'donnell is not a witch. but will her strategy work? this sensitive appearance, the pearls, the soft music, is she onto something? and as andrea mentioned, carl paladino also trying to soften up his images. we're going to talk to an expert on messaging. four weeks until the midterm. plus this story is absolutely outrageous. not sure if you saw chief olbermann last night. a house burned to the ground because the homeowner hadn't paid $75 in fire protection fee. the mayor of the town not backing down despite national outrage. micha michael smerconish will join me with his reaction. >>> and should a product that increases your risk of cancer be allowed to promote can

this is why they were ostensibly behind rick lazio.hey knew paladino was going to do this. >> he's becoming the joe peshy candidate. >> this is a strange crowd. >> that's your comment, dave, not mine. let me say this. this guy is making charges and saying, i have dirt in my box here, i'm going to release it at the appropriate time. what kind of talk is this, i'm going to take you out, i have dirt on you in my box? this guy is running for franklin roosevelt's old job. >> got to love new york politics, chris. rough and tumble. >> thanks, chris cillizza, david corn. forget the peshy references. >>> right wing hysteria. a campaign by the cdc, center of disease control to get americans to eat healthy is somehow, you'll love it, socialism. the word again. there you have it. socialism, trying to make us a little healthy by our own food decisions. your watching qult "hardball" on msnbc. >>> back to "hardball." now it the "sideshow." first up, the food police are coming. that was the rallying cry for republican congressman paul broun of georgia

. >> reporter: and in new york conservative carl paladino taking out former congressman rick lazio.the right is giving democrats hope at the mid-terms. >> there are going to be seats that we're going to win in november that six months ago we frankly were pretty sure we were going to lose. >> reporter: nearly five months after an oil rig exploded in flames, spewing millions of barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico, government officials announced the well is officially dead but remained cautious about the future. >> we still have a lot of work to do regarding the cleanup on the marshes and the beaches and looking for subsea oil, but this is a significant step forward. >> reporter: cement pumped into the well over the past few weeks has hardened, permanently sealing it. no oil has leaked from the well since mid july. and hurricane igor pounded bermuda after weakening to a category 1 storm, splintering trees and knocking out power to thousands of residents despite dodging a direct hit. 15-foot waves and winds in excess of 75 miles per hour lashed the island, but no major damage was rep

this is why they were at least ostensibly behind rick lazio because they knew pal dean know was going. >> the joe pesci candidate. >> strange crowd. >> the joe peschi comment. >> that's your comment, not mine. this guy's making charges and saying things like i got dirt in my box here. i'm going to release it at the appropriate time. what kind of talk is this, i'm going to take you out? i got some dirt on you in my box? franklin roosevelt's old job. >> rough and tumble. >> thanks chris, david. forget the pesci references. they're dangerous. up next more right wing hysteria. a republican congressman says a campaign by the centers for disease control to get americans to eat healthy is swhou you'll love it socialism. there you have it, it's socialism to try to make us healthy by our food decisions. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. words alone aren't enough. my job is to listen to the needs and frustrations of the shrimpers and fishermen, hotel or restaurant workers who lost their jobs to the spill. i'm iris cross. bp has taken full responsibility for the clean up in the gulf and

rick lazio, paladino opponents among republicans was taken off the ballot. he was on the conservative line. had he stayed on it, it would have split the vote a little bit and might have had an effect in a close election. he's now off the ballot and it looks like it's not close anyway. >> bret: four weeks is an eternity in politics. and what looks like a blow-out in the making, rick snider is up by 21 points thanned is the average of recent poll over the democrat. michigan has a high, high unemployment rate there. >> i don't think any democrat thinks they have much of a hope. michigan is like new york state. michigan is interesting because it's one of the states in the midwest, we could have put pennsylvania in the same category and ohio. these are important, very important region for democrats. the great lakes region. where they built the presidential hopes on the electoral votes. looks like one democratic governor after another is falling. >> snider is interesting candidate because he is running as a businessman. he was a successful businessman. he's not un

. >> well, you have the give him credit, because he crushed rick lazio in the republican primary. >>lican primary, because that is where the tea party activism was happening in the republican party. we should have probably seen that coming, because rick lazio also has been around a long time and also some baggage, so all of the passion in the republican party came from the tea party, but now you are talking about new york. jonl is rig john is right, no real republican infrastructure there, and not only that against him, but it is a democratic state and very, very tough hill to climb. >> my home state new york. >> i know, buffalo. >> thank you very much. candy will be back sunday morning at 9:00 on "state of the union" and john at the top of the hour with much more on this. >>> and you can see the delaware debate between christine o'donnell, and chris coons right here on cnn. i will moderate that debate on october 13th. >>> we will check the taday's t stories. flooding from new england with risky rescues. >>> and the opposition party says it may not be able to live a choice. sweat eve

in new york, rick lazio got beat by carl paladino. dan maes won. david brady got beat by allen west. when outside candidates are beating establishment candidates over and over and over again, it sort of blows up the party machinery. blows up the establishment. the republican party has not had much of a say this year on who is representing the republican party on big ticket races. that begs a very unlikely question. was the republican party the machinery that was keeping folks like this out of national races? did we just lose the delusional person thinks he's a secret agent but he really isn't filter that we didn't know we needed until we lost ours? joining us no is msnbc contributor, my friend, eugene robinson. great to see you. >> you, too. >> that's not real politics. these are real tigss running for real office. >> they are. they could win. they could be representing actual u.s. citizens in the u.s. senate or as governor of a great state and you know, you used the word delusional. i don't know if that might not be fairly mild about some of this

relative political unknown carl paladino beat out long time republican former congressman rick lazio, a guy who has run for statewide office before in the primary last month, now paladino faces this man, andrew cuomo in the governor's race. carl paladino joins us now. carl, a lot of people were surprised when you knocked out rick lazio in that race, he is, as i said, a guy who has statewide recognition t. he has run before, but according to the latest ciena poll, you are not doing so well against andrew cuomo, the democratic nominee, 56 percent for him, according to this poll, 32 pours for you, do you believe those numbers? >> well, you figure it out. the three days before the primary, they had me down one point and i won by 26 points, so tell me if ciena is credible at all. i don't think so. they've had the -- the polls have had me anywhere from 30 points down to six points down, so i just don't trust my of them. sort of getting to be a joke. jon: you say you are not a poll tirks you're a builder. do you think that's an advantage this time around, the fact that you haven't run for of

former new york congressman rick lazio was beaten by an unknown businessman named carl palladino, whod a jewish speaker to hitler, unfavorably, and endorsing a plan to turn prisons into dorms. to teach welfare recipients about hygiene. and he is known for forwarded racist joke e-mails and video, of a woman having sex with a horse to his friends, for which he got in a lot of trouble -- like lincoln never e-mailed his friends a video of a woman having sex with a horse. and in delaware, former republican governor mike castle was defeated by sarah palin favorite christine o'donnell. nobody knows what this woman does for a living, if anything. all we do know is that she's gone on the record to oppose masturbation. for real. this is -- this is from 1996. it's a documentary that aired on mtv. christine is the attractive young lady you'll see next. >> my name is christine o'donnell. i'm the president and founder of the s.a.l.t. it stands for the saviors al alliance for lifting the truth. >> masturbation is a selfish act. and it's a lustful one and we are to walk with pure hearts, not lusting

washington that almost seemed to be the message they were sending with nominating him instead of rick laziois in several congressional districts. it matters the substance. political science we say you can't beat somebody with nobody. let's hope that that's true. let's hope the candidates who are in fact without important content, in fact can't beat conditions who are, regardless of party. >> thanks to both of you. jonathan, thanks. >> thanks, chris. >>> and democrats are also -- wait a minute. speaking of ads you knew this was coming, "saturday night live" couldn't wait to spoof christine o'donnell. take a look at some skits from saturday night's show. >> this november 2nd, vote for christine o'donnell aka, the enchantress, i'm not a witch. if i am, do you really want to cross me? >> delaware republican senate candidate christine o'donnell blamed recent trouble on unfair coverage in the liberal media. the liberal medias used two favorite tricks on her, record and play. ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes [ dogs barking ] ♪ i'm on my way ♪ another day ♪

this is why they were ostensibly behind rick lazio. they knew paladino was going to do this. >> this is a strange crowd. >> he's becoming the joe pesci candidate. >> that's your comment, dave, not mine. let me say this. this guy is making charges and saying, i haveirt in my box here, m going to release it at the appropriate time. what kind of talk is this, i'm going to take you out, i have dirt on you in my box. >> got to love new york politics, chris. rough and tumble. >> thanks, chris cillizza, david corn. forget the pesci references. >>> right wing hysteria. a republican congressman says the campaign by the cdc, the centers for disease control to get americans to eat healthy and somehow, you'll love, it socialism. that word again, there you have it, socialism to try to make it a little healthy by our own food decisions. [ male announcer ] if you have type 2 diabetes, you struggle to control your blood sugar. you exercise and eat right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a

this is why they were ostensibly behind rick lazio.y knew paladino was going to do this. >> he's becoming the joe peshy candidate. >> that's your comment, dave, not mine. let me say this. this guy is making charges and saying, i have dirt in my box here, i'm going to release it at the appropriate time. what kind of talk is this, i'm going to take you out, i have dirt on you in my box. >> got to love new york politics, chris. rough and tumble. >> thanks, chris cillizza, david corn. forget the peshy references. >>> right wing hysteria. a campaign by the cdc, center of disease control to get americans to eat healthy is somehow, you'll love it, socialism. the word again. socialism, trying to make us a little healthy by our own food decisions. onth, five years after you do retire? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions. we really are here to help you. they look back and think, "wo

rick lazio apparently has a low opinion of you. who's your base who's going to help you get things done if you win and go to albany. >> my baseball bat is the people. the people. i have been speaking to the people for the last few months. that's why we had that huge plurality in the republican primary and that's why we're going to have this mandate coming to us from the entire electorate. it's the people and nobody wants to listen to the people. these rulers in albany who have been feeding at the public trough for so long, they don't want to change. >> you have admitted to sending a series of e-mails that people have found highly offensive, there was language and words that were very offensive. there were character zragss, even of president obama and michelle obama that many found highly offensive. you said that showed bad judgment. you're saying that now when you're running for governor, you didn't when you pushed the send button on those e-mails. >> they want an answer as to why an debris cuomo took a bribe. >> they want to know

you won and basically beat rick lazio because of the tea party anger.. here it is. >> there is no place in new york for tea party politics. that point will be made clear this november. [ laughter [ laughter ] >> that's part of the -- andrew cuomo, we are starting to find out what he really is about. he doesn't get it. those are your rank and file democrats and republicans and conservatives. >> eric: well, you saw your reaction. >> what a disrespectful comment for god's sakes. these are, these are the people of the state of new york. the man doesn't even know who he is asking to represent. how can we take an attorney general who during his turn, all right, the state of new york government has been the -- has been the worst government, the most corrupt government in the history of the state of new york. now he wants to tell us he will be governor. he has been the chief prosecutor during the entire period of time. >> eric: some say, you know, the tea party is too extreme, it's too radical. some of the positions are not in line with mainstream america. >> t

. >> that's fascinating, because around the table we were comparing it to the rick lazio ad on the groundint about that. also, that ad is just not accurate. if carl paladino wins, those women aren't going to jail. nobody is going to jail in new york state. there is a privacy right, not only the constitution, but in new york state. that would never happen. same with vermont. >> most people that talk about no exceptions and all this kind of stuff, they're just talking like that to their base. all ads are like that. both sides run ads that are partly true. >> you think democrats should run these types of ads? >> i don't think you ought to spend a lot of money on them. they are effective if you choose to do that. i prefer not to use that kind of campaign sale. >> what do you think about nationalizing the election by taking a crazy statement o'donnell says in delaware, a crazy statement sharron angle might have said in nevada, a crazy statement somebody else may have said somewhere else, is that the democrats' best hope, just to say i don't care who the republican is running in your race, look