here political analyst rick pearson. >> in a grueling campaign for governor, one thing's certain. we all know where pat quinn and bill brady stand when it comes to raising taxes. >> we hope we can get the revenue for our schools and the courage to tell people before the election that we need the revenue for education. >> his only solution is to raise your taxes. >> reporter: but there's more to this race than taxes. both are far apart when it comes to abortion, guns, and gay rights. quinn long a populous aggressive supports gay rights and same-sex civil unions. brady a conservative lawmaker from bloomington opposes abortion in all cases. and proposed a ban on gay marriage. and on guns! law enforcement needs to enforce the existing laws. >> reporter: where do voters stand on those issues? that's what we asked. on the issue of abortion, half of voters believe the law should stay the same or have less restrictions. more in line with quinn. 41% say there should be more restrictions or that it should be illegal. more illinois residents than not oppose same-sex major. but a majority of

rick pearson joins us with the story tonight. >> reporter: it's been a whirlwind month since the last pole, especially on the millions of dollars for the attack ads. as a result, voters are having a hard time trusting a candidate. vernon english is a downtown financial consultant. he's watched the flurry of punches being thrown and he's unsure where to tur . >> have one person on the one side telling a lot of dishonest service about his service and then up the other person whose own bank went bankrupt. so there are a lot of issues of trust going afternoon. >> reporter: english is asking a question that a lot of illinois voters are asking. kirk, the businessman's bank bankrupt. and they gave out loans to convicted felons. kurt is exploiting the bank in his ads. and the bank was taken over by federal regulatetors. and the bank gave out loans to convicted felons. kurt is exploiting the bank in his ads and that is factoring in our latest pole results. guinness book of worldstill, the pole found some troubling signs for kirk. when voters asked which candidate was more honest and trust-wort

rick pearson has been following this story all day. >> he's joining us live from the tribune towers. we talked about it at 5:00, how's this going to impact the campaign? >> it provides a great opportunity for pat quinn to raise the question about how you going to manage state finances if you can't pay your bills. this is the wrong time for a candidate for governor in a close contest can really afford to have his commercials pulled off the air. >> rick, do we have a clear picture? last night a source had told me that the brady campaign apparently hadn't paid the advertising buyers. today he said the buyers were paid but the buyers didn't pay the tv stations. >> my sources are telling me that the buyers did not have the money to make the purchases of tv air time. now, some of those payments have been coming in this evening. some of those stations are going back on the air or are back on the air. this whole change of tactics they're talking about, some oh execs i talked to say this is completely unusual. this is the other thing. this change of tactic also means that what was suppose to

rick pearson joins us on the fund from the chicago tribune thank you for being with us.uest: good morning. host: the present was campaigning yesterday and spent the night in his adopted home city of chicago, trying to push the democrats for alexa genoulias. what does this tell you about the democratic party and the obama presidency? guest: it's as awful lot about the conditions that exist in the white house about this predicted republican wave when the president has come back to his home town to quell that enthusiasm gap that everybody sees for republicans. we have two very big races here in illinois. first is a highly symbolic race for his former u.s. senate race which is a very, very close race between the democrat and republican and you have a governor's race with governor pat quinn trying to combat the challenge from built brady. the governor's race is tainted by the rod but give it to impeachment and subsequent trial. it has been a democratic state. you have two races that are basically what our polling has shown in the margin of error. the white house is very much