let's ask can michael barron, political analyst for the "washington examiner" and fox news contributor you, give us a reaction to sharron angle's comments and what she said to me a moment ago? >> governor, she is obviously not the smoothest candidate out there. but she is making some arguments against harry reid that have really resonated with the voters inness -- voters in nevada and nationally. mr. reid is the leader of the democratic party in the senate and he supported all of those moves and he's now in the position of having supported a lot of policies that are unpopular. and they have not produced good economic results that the president and his economic advisors predicted. >> mike: we have a map that highlighted state of tea party candidates and we want to zero in on nevada. tell us which of the counties does a candidate have to win there to win the senate seat? >> julie: nevada is a state in the middle of the desert. the key county is clark county. that includes las vegas and rapidly growing su push of north las vegas, and henderson. harry reid hometown of search light. 70% of

they passed a health care bill that may not be as michael barrone says the most unpopular legislation they said, we'll run against george w. bush. well, in ohio mr. portman is about to be elected senator who was a close aide of george bush. let's run against wall street. well, in ohio, mr. kasich is leading in the race for governor. he worked for lehman brothers. none of these standard lines of theirs have worked. >> we were just talking about. you just mentioned the word fringe. i asked senator mcconnell about some of these tea party candidates who may be going to the senate. and you've just written this article, "extreme makeover" whose subtitle is "the midterm elections could send the most militantly conservative class of new senators in at least the past half century." what will that mean? >> well, it's going to be -- i think it's going to be a stronger infusion of conservative energy and more uniformly conservative energy than we saw even in the class of '94 or 1980. there are a range of views among this class, we looked at the 21 republican senate challengers with the best chanc