By far the most interesting segment of the day was on "To the Contrary," in which the host Bonnie Erbe had video clips of interviews that she had done with California's two U.S. senate candidates incumbent democrat Barbara Boxer and her opponent former HP CEO Carly Fiorina who is the republican candidate.

What Erbe did was to ask each other them the same questions but in individual interviews, and then edited them together so that, alternatively, one answered first and then the answer of the other was shown. It really showed the differences between the two clearly, and it seemed they talked more candidly than they would if the other were there.

I was suprised at just how far to the right Fiorina is. And, she made one huge mistake that I think will come back to bite her in the but, and that is, that she admitted that she had layed off a bunch of people as HP CEO. Boxer had accused her of not only laying off HP workers, but of moving those jobs to 3rd world countries. Boxer said that Fiorina did create jobs, just not in the U.S.

Fiorina responded that Boxer didn't under business, and those were the kind of tough decisions that you have to make in tough times. Man, I never would have admitted anything like that if I were Fiorina. But she did admit at least to having layed off the folks. But it seemed that she was admitted to the who allegation, and that is damning to her.

There was a lot of discussion on a number of shows about Christine O'Donnell and her victory in the Delaware republican primary. Except for Pat Buchanan, all of the prognosticators, democrat and republican thought that O'Donnell would not win the general election. They must know that there is a lot yet to come out on her. As I wrote before, there are probably some damaging video tapes out there, and I'm sure they will start showing up on TV ads.

Bill Clinton was on Meet the Press. He has a really great skill of talking like he's just a regular person giving it a totally objective assessment of what is going on, which he is really skillfully playing hard ball politics. Really, I don't think there is anyone better at it in the U.S. And, a lot of the times, he's right.

I don't know if Erbe's idea of the separate but equal interviews is her idea or an old idea that she was copying, but I think it is a good way to get to know the candidates. I hope others take up that mantle and start giving us other dual interviews of various congressional races.