Election time is right around the corner and with experts speculating about the possibility of Democrats taking control of Congress in Washington, one prominent Republican is taking a hard look at the state of both parties.

Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman was in Allentown yesterday to promote her book, "It's My Party, Too." The book is about the need for more moderates in both the Democrat and Republican parties.

She says each party is focused too much on its base and the parties are not willing to work together.

Whitman : Each party now is just focusing on their base. They're only trying to appeal to the people who are already part of them. It means they get more extreme and we're not getting good policy discussion going. After people get elected, they don't want to work with one another. They don't like the other person, they really feel they're evil. And that's very bad for us as Americans.

Whitman also served in the Bush administration as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.