big players in the primaries but what happens november 2nd. democrats are almost rejoicing about this. after o donnell won in delaware, the chairman of the democratic senatorial candidate said tonight mike castle became the eighth republican establishment candidate to be upset by a party in complete turmoil. instead delaware republicans chose an ultra right extremist out of step with delaware voters. they ll try to paint these candidates backed by the tea party too out of the mainstream for those moderate and independent voters. those in the middle who off determine howe elections are decided. paul, we appreciate you as always, buddy. way to keep going strong. know it s been a long night for you. thanks so much. one minute a normal quiet day, the next a huge explosion triggers a raging inferno. at first there was total confusion for firefighters who were rushing to last week s natural gas fueled blaze in san bruno, california, right outside
martha: carl cameron live in the state capitol, dover, delaware. wow, this was an interesting night, talk to me a little bit about how things look on the ground, because the g.o.p. in delaware says they will not back her and they said, you have sarah palin, you don t need us. reporter: right, well, listen, the national republican senatorial committee last night said they were not going to give her a dime and it was going to be up to sarah palin and the tea party express to fund christine o donnell and they said, today, look if she gets momentum we ll see what happens and the republican national committee said we congratulate her and have two victory offices in delaware that will help all the republicans a candidates and she can benefit from that but they will not come up with more money for them and they don t have that cash to spend in the r.n.c. anyway and to say delaware republicans were stunned by this might be a g.o.p. establishment spin and the truth of the matter is, it has be
committee that helps republican senate candidates says they will not give any money to o donnell. no financial support for her. and that is part of the big part of the story. bill: sure is. and moments ago, martha, republican leader mitch mccom said he will support o donnell. dana perino is former white house press secretary, fox news contributor with me in new york. good morning to you, always good to have you in person. last night tells you what? that turnout is more important than ever, and certainly, on the tea party from the tea party standpoint, they burned out a turned out a lot of people, but it wasn t just tea party republicans. and i think that we ll need to do analysis to see where that all came down, but interesting to me that she didn t just win by the hair of her chiny chin chin. she ran away with it. bill: also from a guy who s been a stalwart in politics in the state of tkelsz. he s never lost a race and she s never won a race. bill: that s true, she s now, wh
find independents line up with conservatives, and republicans running for office, far more than they do with democrats, right now. i think that christine o donnell is likely to be the almost in that question, if tea party conservatives have been a positive in almost every situation she s likely to be the almost. but look where we where the enthusiasm and the energy is and in wisconsin last night, the gubernatorial race, scott walker won and he ll be facing tom barrett, a democrat in wisconsin governor s race, and the loser of the republican primary, mark newman won 237,000 votes. which was 27,000 more votes than the winner of the democratic primary was, and it wasn t a competitive primary but gives you an indication, as to where the enthusiasm is, in a state like wisconsin which is purple and has been trending blue. bill: we ve seen that in state after state. a point to make there, stephen, thank you, and mary ann marsh, thanks as well, a lot to talk about, and we have been asking our
this very, very closely, and i think he could be right. i always thought that the republicans taking back the senate was a long shot, but that said, she won handily last night, turnout could be a big deal in november, the democrats don t have a big person that they don t have a big national candidate they re pulling for, so if she works hard, she could potentially rule it out. i don t rule out her possibly winning but i think it will be harder. bill: one more point she made earlier today, was that there were as many independents registered to vote for november as there are republicans in the state of delaware. dana, thank you for coming in. okay. bill: dana perino here. martha has more. martha: here s a little backtkpwropbd on crist ano donnell, she worked for the rny in the early 1990s, records did show that in 2005 she failed to pay $12,000 in federal taxes. she was on record as saying that matter has cleared up so that s one that will be continued to looked into. in 08 she ran