sue lowden led for months and looked almost unbeatable. senate majority leader harry reid started taking significant reverses. but were hopg up an opportunity for sharon angle who has been considered conservative ly pure candidate. relying on a small contingent of passionate conservative supporters for years. they have large mirrored the tea party activists. so, sharon angle got the endorsement of the tea party express and get the endsement of club for growth. they have infused her campaign with cash and gone on tv supporting her. athe same time lowden's mpaign made a lot of stumbles so you have seen her decline. >> you said these are not the most high profile republican candidates. what about their ability to attract money for theiraces given they are returning against the senate majority leader harry reid? >> harry reid probably has the biggest bull's eye on his back of any democrat. republicans are very keen t take him out not just because he is the leader but heeems extremely vulnerle. incumbent it is no sprise they will have a difficu

sue lowden led for months and looked almost unbeatable. senate majority leader harry reid started taking significant reverses. but were hoping up an opportunity for sharon angle who has been considered conservative ly pure candidate. relying on a small contingent of passionate conservative supporters for years. they have large ly mirrored the tea party activists. so, sharon angle got the endorsement of the tea party express and get the endorsement of club for growth. they have infused her campaign with cash and gone on tv supporting her. at the same time lowden's campaign made a lot of stumbles so you have seen her decline. >> you said these are not the most high profile republican candidates. what about their ability to attract money for their races given they are returning against the senate majority leader harry reid? >> harry reid probably has the biggest bull's eye on his back of any democrat. republicans are very keen to take him out not just because he is the leader but he seems extremely vulnerable. incumbent it is no surprise they

they had been worried the likely opponent was going to be sue lowden and in the end it was sharron angle. sharron angle, obviously, has energy and this is another sign of the tea party's power, particularly within the republican party, and she'll have a lot of energy behind her as she goes into the fall. but she is a more conservative candidate. she has said some things that the democrats are going to try to use to paint her as fair out of the mainstream, even in a conservative state like nevada, and i think the democrats think though harry reid is still quite vulnerable and in a weakened position, that he may have a better chance of surviving today than he did not too long ago. >> woodruff: amy, let's move to california because there are two races there to talk about. barbara boxer now knows she's going to be running against carly fiorina. as the republicanwho won the republican primary we're showing right there. what should we know about fiorina coming out of this? >> well, i think what we should know is her profile is that of someone who is a businessperson. she's going to talk a lot

that the candidate that many in the republican establishment had sumed would be the nominee, sue lowdenhas stumbled. she's had some things to say on the came pran-- campaign trail that caused her trob. in particular that one could go back toy a system of barter, for health care and as she put it trading chickens for health care. that has allowed sharron angle, who is the favored candidate of the tea party movement, to surge into the lead. now this is still a close race and there's a third candidate, danny tarkanian who is the son of the former basketball coach at unlv. but at this point sharron angle appears to have an edge. many democrats are delighted at this because they think in the long run, she would be a weaker candidate against senator reid than would sue lowden or perhaps even danny tarkanian. >> woodruff: we will see if she is a candidate and if she would be weaker. but amy we've only got a little more than a minute. i can't leave out south carolina where it just gets interestinger and interesting her. >> so you know, this race has been fascinating to watch in part because we

angle at 39% compared to lowden 28%. are you with us?> the tea party movement and how some of the more conservative right wing people like the lady in nevada, i wonder how she would fare against harry reid. >> that is a question we are keeping an eye on her campaign. sharon angle the winner. this is what it looks like from the early pictures as they await the final results from that race. she has been declared the winner. there will be two reeds on the ballot. harry gray is the senate democratic leader. tomorrow morning, in the water will join us on "washington journal." >> first of all, i want to thank you for c-span. i think it is wonderful you are able to get on their and say what you think about what is the one on. this election out there in california, these two candidates for governor, i will tell you. after watching them, this jerry brown it seems as though this man has some sort of chip on his shoulder. i have never met anyone -- either one of these people or heard them. in just listening to both of them, it seems as though this

so, when you look at those activities of trying to weak en sue lowden i would say he aimed at sharon angle. >> tune in f the june 8 primartuesday. >> wheat take you live to the pentagon the for a briefing from a rock commander general ray odierno who will be talking about the security situation there. the drawdown of u.s. forces with an august deadline looming. >> welcome. thank you for joining us. it is always my pleasure to welcome back to the briefing room, general re your dinero. he is the commander of u.s. forces in iraq. he has been there since september of 2008. i am sure he will ask him about that, to. -- too. true to his promise, he is back in town. he will take your questions. general, to apply for joining us today. -- thank you for joining us today. >> i have a fancy prepared statement. i just wanted to start out by saying the election results were certified on the first of june, which in my mind, is an extremely important step in the political process in iraq. it has taken longer than we would have liked. frankly, they went through the process the way their constitution d