the presidential election and i think a lot of that was due to just these extreme stances that sharon angle was taken so much show that it inspired voter outreach to come from different states people really working hard to get the vote out in nevada in hopes of you know defeating sharon angle there was a lot of tea party support for her but i think people from different states pitched in the unions were a big help in las vegas where there's a big service sector a lot of latinos and lower income people working there so in that instance there's very extreme extreme campaigning that was very anti latino actually hurt her but we had to look into the neighboring state in arizona where we also have a very extreme candidate the governor brewer there and she won very handily in that instance let the males were not able to overcome that extreme anti let the you know sentiment now what about you know if we look at examples like in nevada there was a right wing ad that was urging latino voters actually not to go out and vote because the obama administration had fulfilled you know whatever promises the

el senador reid, acaba de ganarle a sharon angle con el 9o% del voto hispano.e hacer, que por cierto, muchos republicanos, no sÓlo no ha tratado de hacerlo, sino han sido los que han bloqueado cualquier intento de reforma migratoria. >>lo que ha hecho el senador reid es empezar una pelea, empezar una bronca con los republicanos, echarle la culpa, ganar tÁcticamente el voto, pero perder estratÉgicamente en lo que se refiere a inmigraciÓn, pero parece que no le importa, porque lo que le interesa son los votos. la reforma migratoria se perdiÓ cuando los democratas ganaron las dos cÁmaras. Él cancelÓ el debate siendo lÍder del senado. o sea que los demÓcratas ya estaban en una posiciÓn de poder. >>pero digo, repito, me quedan 3o segundos, los que no estaban dispuestos a votar a favor de una reforma migratoria, esos tres votos que le faltaban, eran de los republicanos. >>no... aquÍ tambiÉn lo menciona, que es una cosa muy sencilla que tampoco se habla de esto. los demÓcratas decÍan que la reforma migratoria era anti-trabajador y anti-familia. los republicanos dijero

he came out as soon as sharon angle won the nomination and hit her from day one. the other interesting thing on this race is that there are a lot of ways you can vote against her. tomorrow in nevada there are nine places on the ballot, including "none of the above." sharon angle will need everyone to vote for her, and not just against kerry reid. host: how big a deal will it be? guest: it will be a knocking off of a giant. it will be a good night, especially for republicans and what they are anticipating, this will be knocking off the cherry. next host: phone call, good morning. -- host: next phone call, good morning. caller: i am sick and tired of having the polls try to announce the elections before we have had them. i think we should all lie to pollsters. guest: [laughter] it would make their job tougher, and there is already a lot to do that. these auto dial polls were you do not actually have a live kolster on the other and asking you questions. a lot of people say they need to rethink the polling industry. the other interesting this, i only have a cell phone

. >> harry reid fended off sharon angle in a very tight race there. >> but there was other notable republicanains in the senate. in indiana, dan coates won. >> in ohio rob portman has won that state's open senate seat. >> and republican candidates kelly aot won in new hampshire and marco rubio the senate race in florida. tea party hopeful christine o'donnell lost in delaware. >>> president obama called reporters to the white house to discuss the mid-term election results. >> we will carry the president's address live here on abc7 tomorrow morning at 10:00. >> and the president will no doubt give tonight's event a positive interpretation in the morning. but this is certainly a very rough night for the democrats. >> it sure is. we are hearing this was really the biggest mid-term loss since 1938. political analyst bruce cane is here to break down what is going on. >> in california we should keep an eye on some other congressional races. it is not just the mcnerney seat. it is the central valley and orange county. if this wave is as large as we are seeing across the country, it might sweep these

tea party is great for the radical right wing part of the republican party you know people like sharon angle ken buck in colorado carl palatino here in new york but it's been bad for moderate republicans you know people like charlie crist in florida lisa murkowski in alaska because of that it's going to destroy the republican party long term there's no path to fifty percent of the electorate in states and districts for any of these tea party candidates in a normal election year so it's going to ultimately be bad for them but let's face it it's done what organizations like freedom works in american prosperity intended to do with the tea party and that is rebranding a dead republican party image it's done that very successfully you know republicans were only at twenty percent favor ability after the end of the last election so from that standpoint it's been a success but it's going to come back to bite them when you think about that phil i mean because a lot of people would say this is we've seen these movements before this was the way to ditch the bush legacy ok because a lot of these ideas a

sharon angle, joe miller, comic relief on the east coast and california, although some did give in.now you've got the cats that are running around. it's going to be up to the republican leadership to heard them. isn't it in the best interest of the republican party to maintain the gridlock with the biggest prize being to defeat obama? >> let's not do that. [laughter] >> i mean again that was the point that i was making before was while the tea party -- the tea party is fueled by failure in washington. and so the more -- the greater the perception of failure in washington, the more gas that you put in the tea party tank, the danger and so, you know, on the surface, if you are a republican, that's great. the danger, however, is having that tea party wave actually then come crashing down on every establishment republican. orrin hatch in europe. just a few years ago, the notion would have been absurd. lindsey graham in south carolina. there are going to be -- they are always going to be the element. the better element on the right that are just angry. but what really fueled the tea part

think you know keith olbermann and rachel maddow probably secretly in a bunker somewhere going the sharon angle plume he's at will give us two years to the next presidential election please when you know and besides if the if the democrats do in i don't want to kill himself i would like him and going back to maybe tongue kiss while wearing muslim garb i think i'd like to see that. you know you arizona i think i'd like to see this thing a little what do you think glenn back right away to. you can be some of the one of them or at least predictable of them all what do you think he's going to say tomorrow or even tonight. well you know with going back it's lucky because no matter what happens the world is coming to an end and we're doomed if we don't turn to him and have him point us to a higher power so luckily for going back no matter what happens if you know if jesus comes back and rains down forgiveness and hands. which is to everyone and says peace is overcome he's going to be like this is the worst thing that could have ever happened so luckily for him there's no there's no way it's going to

he came out as soon as sharon angle won the nomination and hit her from day one. the other interesting thingn this race is that there are a lot of ways youan vote against her. tomorrow in nevada there are nine places on the ballot, including "none of the above." sharon angle will need everyone to vote for her, and not just against kerry reid. host: how big a deal will it be? guest: it will be a knocking off of a giant. it will be a good night, especially for republicans and what they are anticipating, this will be knocking off the cherry. next host: phone call, good morning. -- host: next phone call, good morning. caller: i am sick and tired of having the polls try to announce the elections before we have had them. i think we should all lie to pollsters. guest: [laughter] it would make their job tougher, and there is alrdy a lot to do that. these auto dial polls were you do not actually have a live kolster on the other and asking you questions. a lot of people say they need to rethink the polling industry. e other interesting this, i only have a cell phone, and i

sharon angle, joe miller, comic relief on the east coast and california, although some did give in. now you've got the cats that are running around. it's going to be up to the republican leadership to heard them. isn't it in the best interest of the republican party to maintain the gridlock with the biggest prize being to defeat obama? >> let's not do that. [laughter] >> i mean again that was the point that i was making before was while the tea party -- the tea party is fueled by failure in washington. and so the more -- the greater the perception of failure in washington, the more gas that you put in the tea party tank, the danger and so, you know, on the surface, if you are a republican, that's great. the danger, however, is having that tea party wave actually then come crashing down on every establishment republican. orrin hatch in europe. just a few years ago, the notion would have been absurd. lindsey graham in south carolina. there are going to be -- they are always going to be the element. the better element on the right that are just angry. but what really fueled the tea par

. >> whether it's rand paul and sharon angle who got votes from people who don't agree with what they would do. you think a lot of people voted for him who don't want that to happen, but want them to move forward? >> i think people voted for candidates who couldn't win, but i think people voted for candidates like rand paul because they were enormously frustrated with washington, and wanted something to change. kentucky is a republican state. that was not a change for kentucky. i don't think tea party voters are saying we want you to go to washington and be gridlock. there's regional differences too. when i went to kentucky with rand paul cheering gridlock and they were excited about that idea. you don't hear that in the suburbs of philadelphia. they are people who either say, you know, we're tired. we don't like the process of health care, or the special deals of health care, but they want, again, to reform washington. you know, it's interesting. there was a piece last week with two people interviewed almost exactly in the same spot in nevada and one said i want gridlock and no more

but sharon angle has managed to capture a lot of the disaffection here in this state because the economy has fallen so hard, so fast, and is in a really still a precarious situation. the glimmers of hope that you're seeing in other states around the country you're not seeing here. >> woodruff: ray suarez reporting for us from las vegas from harry reid's headquarters. ray, thank you. >> lehrer: thank you, judy. o to hari with more results. >> sreenivasan: thank you, jim. we just wanted to take this opportunity to show viewers a few of the nail-biter races that are so close here. let's start with the pennsylvania senate race. we're talking about representative joe sestak, the man who beat arlen specter in the democratic primary. he's trailing by about 4% to republican pat toomey. we're going to switch gears to the illinois senate there. alexei gee newell yaus... alexei giannoulias is trailing 2% to republican mark kirk. in colorado, the tea party-back insurgentandidate ken buck th republican is 4 and michael bennett the democrat is at 50%. that is about 25% of the precincts reporting. we'l

what about sharon angle?christine o'donnell and they're apparently thinking about runs. >> i know christine o'donnell has run three times now. she had that mess with bill maher. i thought she was attractive at the end of that campaign. she closed that game 19-10 and i don't know about another house seat or senate run out there. i would think this lady has a future in tv or politics. >> tv or politics. >> tv. and lotes let's leave it at that. christine o'donnell should not do that to herself. if she does, she's certifiable. >> there's a lot of certifiable people in this building. >> unequivocal statement. >>> well, you never expect senator john mccain and snookie to be best buds, would you? they have a twitter relationship going on. they joined forces over president obama's proposed tanning tax and now it's going beyond politics. the senator tweeted birthday greetings to the mtv's "jersey shore" girl and snooki tweeted back, thank you, johnny. she said xoxo. hugs and kisses. by the way, notices the typo in tha

now for goodness sake, you don't have to be a supporter of christine o'donnell or sharon angle to recognize the vibrancy, authenticity and power and potency of the tea party movement. >> host: utility and anecdote in your book about rush limbaugh, the radio show host, and mr. steele of the rnc. can you tell us that anecdote again and say what you think it means? >> guest: my sense is what anecdotes' really means is the political class, the political leadership doesn't have a clue about what this movement is really about. one of the things scott points to quite frankly and he should talk about it is that the republican leadership is as alienated from the tea party movement as is the democratic leadership. >> host: could you repeat what happened with mr. steel and mr. rush limbaugh? >> guest: they had entirely different views of the republican owners of the tea party activists. mr. limbaugh would like to think of himself as the leader of the movement. mr. steele republicans and it isn't going to work. republican voters believed that michael steele and republicans in washington are out of touc

>> reporter: harry reid is struggling against tea party conservative sharon angle. the first lady made her pitch for reid personal. >> i am proud to be here supporting him today. now harry's not just a great leader, harry is a good man. >> reporter: democrats in washington say they're nervous today for three term incumbent senator patty murray. >> i need your help and support to make sure i'm back there fighting for you, for middle class families. >> reporte >> it's kind of crazy that people understand and get it. >> reporter: back home in delaware, the vice president's on defense. >> rock these folks. don't let this happen. >> reporter: joe biden found a warm and fuzzy way to warn against voting republican. >> folks, these are a different breed of cat, this is not your father's republican party. >> reporter: while in west virginia, democrat joe manchin has tried to appear much more conservative. and bill clinton seemed to approve. >> i told joe on the way in, i can't figure out why the tea party hasn't endorsed him. >> reporter: and president obama has taken a more

. >> i think this is the first time since world war ii that sharon angle has been a candidate. [laughter] again, if there is a way of a mother does not need to be a big enough wave in the house for republicans to take a control theire. a big factor to me is cap and trade. >> you may be looking at a lot of people looking at christine o'donnell and say, we would've had the senate. >> let's suppose you are all correct and the senate may be goes republican or maybe not, but very close, and let's suppose the democrats lose the house. what would the white house say? they were misunderstood? it was not their policy to go to local elections? or will they say, yes, we had to change? >> i think they will say that the country wants change and the country wants us to work together and the country want deficit reduction and so does the white house. and they will say, on these issues, we can work together, immigration, anergy, afghanistan, health care implementation, and we will come up with ideas on how to reach out to republicans to make those deals and try as much as possible to put the o

meanwhile palin backed senate candidate sharon angle in nevada is running strong.s tomorrow setting the stage for palin to run for president? this last week she seemed to open the door to 2012 with a curious comment to entertainment tonight. >> if there's no one else to do it, of course i would believe that we should do it. >> so there anyone in the republican party that you can say right now if he or she gets in, i'm out? >> there many he or she's out there who have the time tested truthful principle within them that they want to allow america to grow upon. >> reporter: palin saying she would do it if nobody else would was instant fodder for "saturday night live." >> that's not how you run for president, that's how you offer to baby sit. >> reporter: now according to a recent politico article, some republican strategists are concerned about palin running in 2012 and say she's too polarizing and she would likely lose in a race against president obama. >> meredith, thank you, as we have said, it's been a long and grueling campaign season, no one knows that better th

. >> i think this is the first time since world war ithat sharon angle has been a candidate.laughter] again, if there is a way of a mother does not need to be a big enough wave in the house for republicans to take a control theire. a big factor to me is cap and trade. >> you may be looking at a lot of people looking at christine o'nnell and say, we would've had the senate. >> let's suppose you are all correct and the senate may be goes republican or maybe not, but very close, and let's supposehe democrats lose the house. what would the white house say? they were misunderstood? it was not their policy to go to local elections? or will they say, yes, we had to change? >> i think they will say that the country wants change and the country wants us to work together and the country want deficit reduction and so does the white house. and they will say, on these issues, we can work together, immigration, anerg afghanistan, health care implentation, and we will come up with ideas on how to reach out to republicans to make those deals and try as much as possible to put the onus on rep

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> final results in the senator reid sharon angleult, 58 0% to 45%. anshe is associated with the tea party to express. i want to point out article in "the wall street journal." there is a " by the national coordinator for the tea party patriot. that is in "the wall street journal" this morning. we have more time for more of your phone calls. we will begin with vincent in california. what is the name of yorktown? -- of your town? caller: [inaudible] host: interesting. what is your comments about election 2010? caller: when they were in power, everything the democrats " will work, they said no to it. thank you. silver spring, md. on the republican line. richard, good afternoon. caller: i have been following the races since late last night. this morning i looked at "the washington post" but and i went to the governor election, and and i noticed that prince george's county, it is predominantly african american population. i noticed 88% of the vote went to martin o'malley the same thing happened in baltimore city. host: what is your point

but some of the other candidates with the tea party label, sharon angle, ken duck, christine o'donnell, had a more difficult time and were not able to succe succeed. it will be interesting to see if there is a tea party caucus. i think they have strong positions. the rhetoric was not compromise, negotiate, look for solutions. it was we need to stop washington from push being the agenda they are pushing. to the degree they push that you will see stalemate. guest: on mike's point, i think democrats probably made this mistake early on and continued to make it throughout the campaign and some of them are still making the same mistake. thinking the tea party is a mondolithic block of voters tha moves from one candidate and one issue. i don't think it does. i think it is a reform element within a center-right electorate and the candidates with the tea party support that did well and won did so because they won the big middle as well as activating their base on the key issues that were animating the electora electorate. the ones that didn't win that support didn't focus on winning the debate

in nevada, where sharon angle said that they look like asians, harry reid walked away with 60% of thee. speaking of george bush, he was on a 04 yesterday. she was trying to get him to opine on president obama. he would not bite. >> i want to treat my success of the way i would have been treated. i do not want to opine on every issue. he has a tough job. he will have plenty of critics and he does not need me criticizing him. >> know, we do not want any opining. washington state, it is now official. the good patty murray is in for another six years. >> i am grateful for this opportunity. i want to thank all of the voters. i want to thank those that were gracious and called me to congratulate me. i want to thank him and his family. i know what a sacrifice it is. >> that kid in the background. >> that was her opponent. >> the president had fun at the beer summit years ago and he will have another summit at the white house on november 18. >> i have already called mitch mcconnell, john boehner, harry reid and nancy pelosi and invited them to a meeting here at the white house in the first we

they are responsible for christine o'donnell and ken buck in colorado and sharon angle in nevada.those characters were all rejected. in every single case when the republicans won a senate seat except in the rand paul case, the margin was considerably smaller for a tea party kind of candidate than it was for a regular. rob portman, dan coatz, but the regulars across the board finished far better off, and you can even put marco rubio in there because he got less than 50% of the vote as well. i think jim demint should not have been a happy camper yesterday, and furthermore his colleagues mostly hate him, and i think that the, you know, he will have more troops than he had before, but he, you know, his conservative caucus in the senate is not all that big, so the same applies to sarah palin i think. i think she's a phenomena, i think she's a rock star. i think she's, you know, attracts cameras wherever she goes, but she's a joke. even within her own party the idea that she would be the presidential nominee among vast majorities of ordinary republicans is just unthinkable. she's got a

sharon angle is not there and christine o'donnell and ken buck will not be there. people coming in the gop are essentially in what they already have. the caucus is broke up in little factions there's the conservative jim demint where the tea party candidates might align themselves. there's a very small moderate section, and it's going to be curious what people like ron johnson from wisconsin, how he will vote considering he's from a very democratic state, so will he join that moderate faction? but the result of the republican caucus is follows k -- kyl and it's just more of everybody. the same issues they had before will persist. one objection in the senate if it's on a specific issue is no different than ten objections. they still have the run the same traps for each person that objects. it's going to be a charge because they are 100 ib dependent contractors, and i think there's going to be a point where you look at the fights on the floor or the committee hearings versus the final vote. the tea party republicans will tell you that on 85% of the issues, they are a

sharon angle is not there and christine o'donnell and ken buck will not be there.people coming in the gop are essentially in what they already have. the caucus is broke up in little factions there's the conservative jim demint where the tea party candidates might align themselves. there's a very small moderate section, and it's going to be curious what people like ron johnson from wisconsin, how he will vote considering he's from a very democratic state, so will he join that moderate faction? but the result of the republican caucus is follows k -- kyl and it's just more of everybody. the same issues they had before will persist. one objection in the senate if it's on a specific issue is no different than ten objections. they still have the run the same traps for each person that objects. it's going to be a charge because they are 100 ib dependent contractors, and i think there's going to be a point where you look at the fights on the floor or the committee hearings versus the final vote. the tea party republicans will tell you that on 85% of the issues, they are al

christine o'donnell, she lost, sharon angle lost, when you look at all of that and you balance it outre does her influence stand at this point? >> i think her influence is deep and wide in the republican party. she got the tea party going and she in turn got the republican party going. even though she lost some big ones like christine o'donnell who if some republicans had won delaware they would be taking over the senate right now. her good friend nikki haley where there's a republican primary in 2012 is going to be residing over that state. >> palilinpalin's influence is very much there. how much do endorsements really matter? remember when the kennedys came out and endorsed barack obama over hillary clinton early on, there's a question of how much does endorsement really matter? >> does it move the party too far to the right? >> that's going to be determined in congress. the story now is going to be whether the republican leadership, whether mitch mcconnell in the senate or john boehner in the house can take the energy of the tea party. we don't know the answer to that question. it'

american public did repudiate some of the tea party but especially some of the notable ones like sharon angle and joe miller and the comic relief on the east coast and california. some did get in. you've got these cats that are running around and it will be up to the republican leadership top herrd tyhem. better for the democrats to rally their support? >> the tea party is fuelled by a failure in washington. the greater the perception of failure in washington, the more- you put in the tea party tank. if you are a republican, you think that is great. the danger is that having that the tea party wave come crashing down on every establishment republican. people like warren hatch is looking at a primary challenge in utah. a few years ago, that notion would have been absurd. lindsey graham in south carolina. there will always be that element on the right better just angry. what really feels the tea party move in and david energy was all of the people who were not the ideologues are partisans. they were just angry and those people need to be spoken to and their issues and concerns need to be addres

still won two-thirds of hispanic and hispanic say, michael bennet and especially harry reid we're sharon angle backfired on her. the african-american voters state pretty strong at 90%. young people, 57% are college educated white women wavered. i will come back to that. still in the high '40s. their turnout was down. the rest of the white electorate so, by that i mean blue collar white men and women, and college educated white men, all of which tended to be pretty skeptical of government moved sharply to the point where the exit poll, republicans won 60% of all white voters. in the history of the exit poll for congressional races which goes back to 1982, no party had a gut to 60%. not even in 1994 among white voters. only twice before had any party got that high i, 1974 and 1964 for the democrats. the erosion was greatest among the blue-collar voters who had been skeptical of him since the beginning, and have been hit hard by the recession and also tend to be dubious that government is going to do anything to make their lives better. democrats only one in 4% of those voters. the white-collar v

sharon angle lost against harry reid which seems almost impossible. before the election, i wondered -- mitch mcconnell is in an enviable position because it is enviable to be in the minority in politics because you can tell the people everything that the other party did wrong and you're not responsible. why mitch mcconnell want to be the majority leader with a 51- seat majority when they will call them out whenever they tried to compromise is an interesting factor. there is no question, the party base always wants to be heard. you can't sit in what happened the last couple of years amongst liberal activist democrats. the legislative accomplishment -- i'm not sure a new -- i'm not saying they are good about bubba got all these things passed, the stimulus, the health care overhaul, financial regulation and get many people in their activist based said this was not enough. where is the public auction and health care? the financial regulatory bill is full of loopholes. republicans say that they have to be more reasonable. the only one was more than half th

senate majority leader harry reid was challenged by republican sharon and go. -- sharron angle.really appreciate you staying until we were able to do what needed to be done. i want to tell you that i just broke with his senator reid. i congratulated him. i want you to know that i am so proud of you. this was never about me. it was always about us. [applause] here in america, we are a country of the people, by the people, and for the people. we, the people, have been awakened over the last 20 months. it has been an incredible journey. it has been a journey from being asleep to being awakened to constitutional principles, and to a love of country i have never seen the kind of patriotism that i have seen displayed over the last 20 months. you are incredible and i am so proud of you. i want you to see that i am still smiling. is because i still believe in american exceptional was some. you are the example of that. so many of you came to me and you said you had never been involved in politics until now. well, i am glad you got involved because that is what freedom is all about. you c

it looks like christine o'donnell in delaware and sharon angle in nevada have made it possible for the democrats to hold the majority in the senate and i have been watching some other coverage of the race in colorado, and they said that the a.p. had reported a 30,000 vote may be given to the republican there as opposed to giving it to bennett by mistake. and that was on cnn. and they said that they're going to take a while to clear that up. so that might be of significant importance in that race in colorado. host: thanks for the call. jan brewer winning, the republican governor and succeeded janet napolitano. and in hawaii, congressman neil abercrombie, democrat currently ahead in the early polls, the results coming in from the "star advertiser" in honolulu. next is marie joining us from sugar grove, north carolina. caller: hi, steve. good morning. i'm used to seeing you on "washington journal." i'm a "washington journal" junkie. host: we may just stay until the "washington journal" and keep it going all night. caller: i'm semiretired and am able to watch more than when i worked full t