barney frank, sean bielat come users to -- in b.c.. how are you voting?i think that alcohol causes issues -- >> how about you? >> yes. >> repeal of the affordable housing law. how would you vote? >> i would have to look. >> how about you? i think rental housing is important and this is a way to get rental housing. >> number three but the sales tax from six a quarter to 3%, yes or no? >> some people said we would vote for it and put it up again. i think that is a terrible idea. if it is vote for something if you have to stick with it so i would rather see no in the first place and if you make a change to without defining the voters. >> sean bielat? >> yes. >> we only have a minute left. i promised 30 seconds to say goodbye to the voters and you can see that to the camera. you go first barney frank. >> we have to reduce the deficit and stimulate the economy and there is one way and that is by substantial rethinking america's over extensive military capacity. mr. bielat says we have to pretend the arms race among china, japan and south korea. we've got to be

. >> reporter: his opponent is a previously unknown 35-year-old ex-marine named sean bielat. >> the climate is certainly in our favor. we have got momentum. the money is coming in. >> reporter: he's been able to outraise frank this month, thanks to help from national conservatives. people like glenn beck have bashed frank for years. >> what's wrong with you, massachusetts? >> reporter: bielat is using the money to post mocking web videos like this. so you think you have a target on your back? >> oh, i know i do. the tea party has said i'm their number one opponent. >> reporter: frank thinks his response, campaigning with the likes of bill clinton, should be a model for other democrats. the latest poll here spokes he still has a 12-point lead. >> i would rather very much the failure if some of my democra c ic colleagues in the past to fight back. >> reporter: frank is fighting with his wallet, so he has a chance to keep his voice in washington. john berman, abc news, massachusetts. >>> and still ahead on "world news," they are rolling out those airport scanning machines in the busiest air sp

republican opponents sean bielat has a new ad making fun of frank for dancing around the issues. ♪ ♪ can i finish the sentence? unlike barney i don't need to dance around the issues. >> from big city boston to big district in illinois made up of large to medium-size cities south of chicago. steve brown looks at how attitudes have changed in the past couple of years since the former senator became president. >> with the number three democrat, congresswoman halberson told it like it is. >> if this was easy, anybody would do it. it's not easy. i've been down before. >> her uphill re-election bid in the illinois 11th congressional district against challenger kinsinger may come down to one group of voters. >> we have advantage with independents because they're people who are out of work. >> darkening the oval next to community of choice. >> polling data suggests one in four suburban voters describe themselves as independents. >> i voted for obama. i don't know why. >> the president won the independent vote in 2008 and carried the suburban chicago district, but a lagging economy has change

i was with sean after the first radio campaign ran and supposed to tout frank in the reform bill, instead was an attack on bielating, i'm glad he's getting my name recognition. >> paul: a mea culpa on the fannie mae and fren. >> he resisted saying he thought the republicans motives were bad, affordable housing and he also, by the way, followed his opponent in saying he wants to repeal a provision of obama care, 1099 provision that would massively increase paper work on small businesses. >> paul: let's talk, matt, i want to ask you about the race s sus sustek and catching up on some of the class war themes, blaming wall street and so on, running against the rich. any traction there? >> well, i was at a dinner the other night and democratic donors and he claimed in his internal polls he's up by 3%. no other poll shows him anywhere near 5%. i mean, the fact of the matter is, tomby sounds reasonable to a lot of voters and addressing the issues they care about and the issues that turn some of them off to him are not part of this race. >> paul: all right, thanks. when we come back the democrats' assault and corporate