pennsylvania is referred to as pennsylvania and pittsburgh with a "t" in the middle. erie, the greater pittsburgh area and the eastern part of the state most notably around philadelphia. loretta from pennsylvania, republican line with terry madonna. caller: hello? host: you're on the air. caller:ok. my comment is i think obama should be impeached for allowing the ambassador, after requesting help three times and being denied. they were told to stand down. you cannot say the president did not know about it. they are dancing around this issue. i think this should be made in national issue. i'm very disappointed in him and hillary clinton, her being a mother and a woman. i think it's just disgusting. host: you had a chance to rest the president the question on this issue, what would you ask? what is your question? caller: why did you have those guys murder? that would be my question. why? i want to know why he did not send help in when he could. he cannot tell me he could not. host: terry madonna, on this issue generally in foreign policy, how is that playing out in penn

he has got to win pennsylvania or ohio. if he wins pennsylvania and the president were to lose my stay, i think he loses the presidential election. everybody could see that. pennsylvania in a sense, one way i think about this, becomes the firewall for president obama. it becomes the ultimate fire wall. the real question is, if what happens in virginia, which is very close, florida looks like it is tilting a little toward romney, it is like a chess board. what do republicans have to think about -- by the way, they have tens of millions of dollars that they probably can i use in other states which they could dump into pennsylvania. if they could miraculously when a, that would change the dynamic of the presidential alexian and probably lead to irani victory. -- a romney victory. i want to remind my fellow people that to vote is a sacred duty and we have to come out in force in this election. host: thank you for the call. on that point -- guest: turnout has mirrored the national average. we're all looking at that -- some of us

today pennsylvania. bobby jackson keeping track of the sunday morning programs that can be heard on c-span radio. >> good morning. on today because the network tv talk shows, campaign 2012 and hurricanes and the leading the discussions. at noon it is "meet the press." john kerry said from ohio. wisconsin republican scott walker. -- john kasich from ohio. also former republican presidential candidate newt gingrich. on fox news sunday, chris wallace will talk with senators mark werner, mark udall, rob portman, and wisconsin republicna ron johnson. the chair of the republican national committee, obama senior campaign adviser david axelrod, ted mcdonnell, and strickland. at 4:00, "face the nation" will be speaking with john mccain and rahm emanuel. brought to you as a public service by the networks and c- span. you can listen to them all starting at noon eastern. you can listen to apps on your blackberry, android, or iphone or go to c-span.org. >> you are watching live one of 10,000 homes that they are tryin

in pennsylvania in this election. you can. listen. >> thank you for calling the pennsylvania department of state bureau of commissions, elections, and legislation. press one for english. [ speaking in foreign language ] press one for information on pennsylvania's new voter i.d. law. press two for -- [ bleep ] >> hello. all pennsylvania voters will be required to show a photo i.d. before voting at a polling place beginning with the november 2012 general election. all photo i.d.s must be current and contain an expiration date unless otherwise noted. >> so that was our scoop last night. our bad scoop. because what you just heard there from the state of pennsylvania is not the law. but it's what the state of pennsylvania was telling people anyway as of yesterday afternoon on the phone line that the state was telling people to call if they had any questions or if they were at all confused about voting this year. so say anybody who doesn't have a driver's license and was calling the state to find out if they can vote, as of yesterda

law in pennsylvania. tim burns, the pennsylvania democratic party chair, and katherine culliton-gonzalez. director of the voter protection program at advancement project. i just want -- i know she doesn't outrank either of you start because she's an expert at this. how important is this for the people who were trying to push this through and how important was it to defeat it in pennsylvania for this election? >> this is huge. it's a great victory. we're pleased with it. the fight is still on. we've got to defeat this in the future in other states, but we've been fighting and winning in pennsylvania, in texas, and wisconsin against these restrictive photo i.d. laws. it's a great vindication for the people of pennsylvania. who would have been disenfranchised by it. >> what's the purpose? is it ethnic, partisan? who are they targeting to keep from voting? >> well, we only need to look at the facts. there's a disparate impact on the elderly, on students, on young people, and on african-americans and on latino

senate in pennsylvania. this one hour long debate is co hosted by the league of women voters, courtesy of wpbi tv. >> this is the pennsylvania senatorial debate. today's debate is brought to you by [unintelligible] with the league of women voters of pennsylvania. in alphabetical order, the candidates are democrat, bob casey. republican, tom smith. our panelists are anchor [unintelligible] and action news reporter vernon odem. moderating the debate, jim gardner. >> hello, this is the only broadcast debate in the 2012 senate race between bob casey and tom smith. here are the rules to which they have agreed for today's meeting. the format will include questions candidates from me and our panelists. a coin toss determines the podium position and order of questioning. candidates will have 90 seconds for closing statements. the candidates are here to speak about the issues that voters care about in this important campaign. gentleman, to prepare for this debate, i asked an acquaintance what he has gotten out of the

pennsylvania began off aering photo i.d. for free. i know you are concerned about voters being confused, but by some estimates, only 12,000 i.d.s have been issued. can you say the large groups of people are being disenfranchised by this effort? >> large groups would be disenfranchised and ron and the administration should be ashamed of them selves for the spin they continue to take with this piece of legislation. only 12,000 were registered because of the poor job this administration did reaching out to those who were affected. we have to remember what started this piece of legislation. the republican governor who used to be the attorney general told folks it was about voter fraud, despite what ron would have you believe. the governor, the former attorney general, never prosecuted a case. the republican leader of the house, admitted on the floor of the republican party meeting that this was about tilting the playing field in an uneven fashion to allow an inferior candidate to win pennsylvania. then they would have you believe that onl

and in pennsylvania, voters need to get this. these are elected supreme court judges in pennsylvania. so it really matters that you go all the way down that ballot. because these judges, just like other politicians, are elected officials. it's very important that people pay attention to who's on the bench. and as you've been saying who's on the united states supreme court because these kind of laws get appealed. these kinds of cases are critical to peoples' rights. >> we did that segment here recently where "the west wing" cast reunited to do a commercial about voting for judges and the importance of voting for judges and a particular judge, candidate mccormick in michigan. this is what it's about. the judges are deciding who gets to vote for president in this country. you couldn't ask them to be dealing with weightier things than this. >> absolutely. i think people tend to look at the top of the ticket. but before you get there there are a whole layer of public officials who you vote

you can see those in central pennsylvania. they are getting close. we are not thinking we will get showers in the immediate washington area. off to the north and west, out to hagerstown and southern pennsylvania, you mean see showers for you. for the rest of us, just cloud cover. not as much sunshine as yesterday. we expect you to be on the warm side. temperature at reagan national, 58. 53 dulles. bwi marshall 56 degrees. forecast highs later this afternoon on the warm side for this time of year. upper 70s to about 80. 79 in the city. 78 quantico. 77 the afternoon high out at manassas and dulles. nice looking forecast. more details on the weather coming up. we have a new tropical storm. i will show you that at 9:30 allison. back to you. >>> last night's presidential debate was the last one. for the next two weeks the candidates will hit the campaign trail to energize their base. both president obama and governor romney brought up the economy but most of the night was devoted to foreign policy including iran and other hot spots. >> you look at the rec

is still the law in pennsylvania. the judge has not ruled it to be unconstitutional although he said that it should be implemented in a different manner. because of all those things we are pleased with the ruling. >>reporter: this is a day when early voting has begun in ohio and florida. voters do need to show a voter i.d. in florida. in pennsylvania they will have to show an i.d. after this november's election. >>trace: thank you, eric, from new york. with us is the associate managing editor of the "wall street journal," parent company of this network. the deputy secretary of state in pennsylvania said a win-win for everyone. i'm not sure the republicans feel that way in pennsylvania today. >>guest: probably the republicans wanted this to go into affect and have some kind of voter identification in place before the election. the win-win comes through from the fact that this has not been outlawed in pennsylvania. you have it for later elections. imagine if the court had said "yes" and there was a close race, not what

the ad campaign is continuing in pennsylvania. so people are going to be confused even if the law was blocked by the courts saying they didn't have enough time to get voter i.d. to all the people that needed it. apparently a much larger number than the general assembly was willing to admit in pennsylvania. >> what's the way to fight that? obviously part of that is winning the legal case, but how do you win the rest of the battle? >> we had always assumed that the law would be enacted so we went to the extent of trying to find ways to get people i.d. because we were going to assume that they needed it. and frankly there were enough groups that could help in a presidential year. this now has been postponed to 2014, a gubernatorial year, and there won't be that kind of help. so we're going to continue to try and get people the voter i.d. that will eventually be required in pennsylvania. >> when you think about the levels of news awareness of all the people you have to reach, it can't be through the news media. it's an incredible effo

representative who wrote the pennsylvania voter i.d. law at the heart of today's decision. and judith browne dianis, co- director of advancement project, among the groups representing the plaintiff in the pennsylvania case. representative metcalfe, judge simpson upheld your law just not now. is that a victory or a defeat? >> good evening, ray. it is a victory but also a loss. we've suffered a loss in that the voters in pennsylvania now will not have their vote protected in this november's election through the use of the voter photo i.d. at the voting polls when they vote in person. although we still have remaining intact our absentee ballot fraud prevention measures which the judge left intact and did not touch. i think it's a travesty of justice to see once again a judge legislating from the bench, rewriting a law that the people's voice has passedded through the legislative branch and that the governor signed into law. >> suarez: judith browne dianis, is it a victory or a defeat? you wantedded this law stopped >> that's right suarez:

pennsylvania is bracing to be hit hard as well. senator, what do you know now about the effect in pennsylvania, what warnings are you getting on flooding and on the wind? >> well, andrea, i think we're just at the very beginning of it. i just left our state capital harrisburg at the operations center there where the governor and his team are the emergency management folks of the state and federal level, so i think we're just beginning to see it in the eastern part of the state. obviously philadelphia first and that region will be hit very hard. speaking to the mayor, mayor nutter, i think they're prepared and ready. this is going to be a very difficult period of time because you have both water in the eastern half of our state got hammered by flooding in 2011 in september, but in this case, we'll have both water, lot of rain, but also the real concern is with wind and downed power lines. we're all bracing for that but i think at the state level, and in communities working with the federal government, i think everyone's prepared for

law in pennsylvania. tim burress, the pennsylvania democratic party chair, and katherine cowl tin-gonzalez. i know she doesn't outrank either of you but i want her to start because he's an expert. how important is this for the people who were trying to push this through and how important was it to defeat it in pennsylvania? >> this is huge. it's a great victory. the fight is still on. we've got to defeat this in the future in other states, but we've been fighting and winning in pennsylvania in taction and wisconsin against these restrictive photo i.d. laws. it's a great vintcation for the people of pennsylvania. >> what's the purpose? is it ethnic, partisan? who are they targeting? >> well, we only need to look fe facts. there's a disparate impact on the elderly, on students, on young people, and on african-americans and on latinos. that's why we're winning. we're fighting back and winning. >> bill clinton, who is very good at making things simple, as we know, he's done it again this summer, he said this

showers up in pennsylvania this morning. want to take you toward southwest pa, not far from somerset. some of these may get right along the mid34-d--- the maryland-pennsylvania border. mid-40s in gaithersburg. leesburg 46. also 46 in manassas with 5 burke and vienna. it's 51 andrews. 47 crofton. 52 down in prince frederick. and 52 also in newland. bill checking in with me this morning. outside on our michael & son weather camera, another quiet morning with high, thin clouds giving us great visibility. they're up 20,000, 30,000 feet. dew points in the 40s now. a little more moisture in the area. the bigger picture shoation the showers and even a rumble of shundzer back from -- thunder back from indiana and pennsylvania all the way to new york state. we won't have too much in the way of problems except for the passing high clouds from time to time especially north of d.c. this afternoon the mix of sun and clouds. looking nice with highs well up into the 70s. for wednesday again a few passing clouds but overall another nice day

>> well, i think if you add pennsylvania -- if you take away pennsylvania from the president's category, you're taking away 20 electoral votes. so you're going to need to win both ohio and florida, even though florida is bigger than pennsylvania. you have to put together big states to replace another big state. you can't just put it together with the scenario of new hampshire and iowa, nevada. you have to replace a large state with a large state. and so, you know, you could take the math and maybe put north carolina in the president's category, but overall, i think if the president is losing pennsylvania, he's going to lose almost all the other swing states, because those are much easier, i think, for republicans to grab. >> it will open up more scenarios for mitt romney, and right now the president has more scenarios to get to 270. nathan gonzalez of the rothenberg political report, thank you for stopping by. >> no problem. thank you. >>> the "reno gazette-journal" endorsed romney. yesterday "the denver post" came out for president obama. and in utah, the salt lake tribune endorsed pre

he joins us out of hearing for, pennsylvania. what now do we expect? >> well, sandy will be right -- winding down and then moving off to the northeast. the pressure has failed to risen 40 millibars, and what that means is that the tightness of the store is beginning to sort of be relieved year, and while we still have a significant strong wind across the great lakes and across the very heavy snow in the mountains of west virginia, these will also be winding down over the next couple of days. the worst of the storm is over. of course, know it's a matter of cleanup. the arguing that spilling over as to the cause, let me explain to our viewers that it is either stunning ignorance or stunning deception to blame this on global warming. simply go look at the maps of the 1930's, 40's, and fifties, especially the 1950's with ten major hurricanes of the eastern seaboard and you will get your answer as to where we are in the overall climate cycle. it happened before in this happening again. neil: what made this a unique? and dennis just about put to bed, but i k

for cancer research and other projects in pennsylvania. to the end, he just did not apologize for that. >> and the response has been just overwhelming online and people writing in to cnn talking about him. and you talked about what a moderate he is. looking back, people will say he worked on both sides of the aisle. that angered people on both sides of the aisle. he was not apologetic about it. and even with don't ask, don't tell people were upset with him. we need more like him in washington. >> reporter: well, you know, he was a breed that didn't and does not currently exist that much anymore. and it's true on both sides of the aisle. moderates on the democratic side have been defeated by people more partisan this their own party. going back to specter, one of the more interesting things to note here is his service on the judiciary committee. for the 30 years he was in congress, he was on the judiciary committee the entire time. that's how he made his name. at times he was the chair, he was the ranking member, and you remember back in 19

the pennsylvania -- pennsylvania of course one of the swing states and you know, this has been one of these steamrollers, this voter i.d. law thing and as you know, the supreme court a few years ago upheld voter i.d. laws in indiana. how, i don't know. because it's been described as a solution in search of a problem. there is no such thing as significant in person voter i.d. that justifies the adoption of these laws. pennsylvania, of course, is only one state that was moving ahead with these laws. this is big. it means that as many as 700,000 voters may not have to fight this kind of disenfranchisement this time around. >> eliot: as i said, texas -- it was found unconstitutional. >> texas. wisconsin. florida has faced this. >> eliot: florida in terms of early voting. so what had been a concerted effort on the part of the republican party to jam the laws through state legislature may in fact fail. kevin, give me your perspective on this. are they going to quit and say the courts have turned us down? >> it from my perspective i've been an organizer during voter education registration si

voter id which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania done. so at least the republican strategy to rig the election in pennsylvania has fallen short unfortunately there are several other states where similar efforts by republicans are still rolling along and ultimately this issue will likely be settled by the u.s. supreme court the near future a court whose right wing members have already ruled five to four that americans do not have a fundamental right to vote that was in bush v gore joining us now from our l.a. studios is brad fried founder and publisher of the bread blog bread live dot com brad welcome back tom good to be back thank you for joining us and good to see you my friend does this decision effectively kill this voter i.d. law in pennsylvania till the election yes and no and i hate to be confusing about this because it needs to be clear and this judge this republican judge i believe purposely made a ruling here that was not particularly clear so here's where we are for this november the photo id restriction will not keep anyone fro

law in pennsylvania but only for this election. what the judge in pennsylvania said is that for this election only, he is blocking this controversial voter i.d. law in pennsylvania. remember, there are a lot of other states that have voter i.d. laws. the reason the judge is doing that in that state is there's not enough time, he says, between now and november to get protections in place to assure that people who want to vote don't lose their ability to vote. so the state right now is cut off from implementing or enforcing the controversial part of the voter i.d. law through the november 6th general election. this is not necessarily the final word, though because an appeal of this decision has already been predicted. the judge issued this injunction, pretty much after being told by the state supreme court this was his only choice because the state views voting as a fundamental right. the other thing, ashleigh, that has to be said at this stage is it's a little complicated that the judge appears to have left open the door a little bi

which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania. done. >> jon: but hey -- (laughter). -- this is just between us chickens, right? huh? i mean, when the mics and the cameras go on pick a lock, you know what i'm talking about? pick a lock. what's that red -- okay, so it's on. as it turns out, the voter i.d. laws ostensibly set up to stop nonexistent inn-person voter fraud have the residual effect of disenfranchising and suppressing actual eligible voters. disproportionately of the minority, poor, and elderly variety or, as they are sometimes known, democrats. (laughter) of course, that law has been challenged in the courts and we are expecting a ruling -- (laughter). all right, just roll the ruling. >> we have breaking news right now. a judge has issued a decision in pennsylvania's controversial voter i.d. law. >> jon: all those without voter i.d. must gay marry whilst on medical marijuana during the first trimester! there, i (bleep)ing settled everything! (cheers and applause) it's all done! (cheers and applause) all right. what did