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BY MALLORY PERRYMAN

Some are name-calling...others are finger-pointing...but one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on this Sunday...they’re both going to control Congress come November 2nd.

Both parties are confident-- but obviously one party, is wrong. Here’s White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on NBC’s Meet the Press.

ROBERT GIBBS: “I think come election night we’ll retain control of both the House and the Senate.

DAVID GREGORY: “You believe that?”

GIBBS: “I do believe that.”

Another White House-er concedes, the GOP is going to gain ground...but senior Obama advisor David Axelrod says on CNN’s State of the Union, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

DAVID AXELROD: “The Republicans are going to have more seats in Congress whether they have control or not. We’re hoping with that comes a greater sense of responsibility.”

But on Fox News Sunday, Republican Senator John Cornyn says after November 2nd, it will be the President’s job to meet the in the middle...or as Cornyn would have it... the “center right.”

JOHN CORNYN: "If the President's going to maintain his ideological stance and try to jam things through to support the left in America, when we're still a center-right country, then we're going to -- we're going to say no."

On that same program, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill says, in the GOP, the center is disappearing.

CLAIRE MCCASKILL: "Some of the candidates that appear poised to win for the Republican Party are very extreme...It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

On ABC’s This Week, panelist Meghan McCain echoes the idea that the GOP is veering off to the right. McCain isn’t a fan of quote “extreme” Tea Partiers, especially Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell.

MEGHAN MCCAIN: "My problem is that, no matter what, Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business....I just know, in my group of friends, it turns people off because she's seen as a nutjob."

Extreme candidates were a subject for Fox News Sunday’s weekly panel as well-- with host Chris Wallace asking conservative analyst Bill Kristol if he thinks the “personal attack” strategy is working for Democrats.

BILL KRISTOL: “I think the Democrats would be better off just running straight issue campaigns against the Republicans. They want to cut Social Security, they want to cut Medicare, I don’t think that’s entirely lost its oomph...this year I think the country is in an issue-oriented mood. I don’t think the personal attacks are working very well.”

And of course, Sunday hosts couldn’t avoid a political question that seems to always inspire vague and uncomfortable answers-- tax cuts. Here’s The Huffington Post.

“On Sunday's ...shows, both Republican Senate candidates Carly Fiorina in California and Ken Buck in Colorado struggled to give specifics about how they would reduce the deficit while also supporting expensive extensions of the Bush tax cuts. Although journalists ask Republicans this question almost without fail in debates and interviews, candidates and lawmakers still consistently stumble over it.”

Here’s a snippet of the lengthy exchange between Fiorina and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about the issue.

CARLY FIORINA: “You know Chris with all due respect, you’re asking a typical political question.”

CHRIS WALLACE: “There is going to be a huge explosion of entitlement spending, and you call it a political question when I ask you to name one single entitlement expenditure you're willing to cut.”

On Meet the Press, same story. Host David Gregory moderated a debate between Colorado Senate candidates Ken Buck and Michael Bennet. When Gregory asked Buck how he would lower the deficit AND extend all Bush tax cuts, which would cost about $700 billion, Buck said he would quote “cut spending” and “grow the economy”..but again, no specifics.

Buck’s tax cut comment wasn’t what grabbed headlines though. National Journal’s The Hotline declares...

“Buck stumbles in debate, opens door for Bennett”

Partly because of this comment, where Buck compares homosexuality to alcoholism.

DAVID GREGORY: “You don't think it's something that's determined at birth?”

KEN BUCK: “I think that birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically, you have a choice.”

A recent Rasmussen poll shows Buck and Bennet are virtually tied in their Senate race. To see results for all the latest national polls, check out CNN’s election center--right here.