putting his name behind the businessman tim burns. and special interest should stay away and let tim and his opponent go toe to toe and let the best person win. reporter: let me ask you something, forget about politics. think about decisions you made in your life when you were really mad. it s about 80% chance you made a mistake. reporter: but getting mad can motivate people to vote and in arkansas, another key state to watch on tuesday, incumbent democrat senator blanch lincoln faces anger from the left and right about the vote for the health care bill and lincoln needs to get more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff, she may not be able to do that tuesday and in pennsylvania, five term senator arlen specter faces a challenge from congressman and retired admiral sestak who is essentially calling specter a fake democrat for switching parties and sestak has
point, jim demint has said publicly, i would rather support someone who is going to lose, but supports my principles, than support someone who doesn t agree with anything that i believe makes up the republican party and see that person win. that s a very different philosophical approach than people at the national republican senatorial committee. they say look, we ve got to get the person who fits the district or the state who can win because it s the whole reagan 80% friend is not your 20% enemy. jim demint doesn t see things like that. he is not alone. it s why jim demint who has become a national figure, who agree with him. but chuck said two races reporter: it s a minority of the electorate. which is what they re running on p.m. you saw a report a minute or two before you guys came on that most people are identifying themselves as unaffiliated. could it be that they re going to be turned off? look at all the guns in virginia yesterday in the parade. i would think it would h
and he s getting aggressive. he s going against the leadership of his own party. in colorado in indiana, in particular. in a couple of other places. where he s endorsing in some cases a candidate that has an almost no shot, probably indiana, to a place in colorado where he may create an environment where the democrats suddenly have an easier time holding that colorado senate seat than they would otherwise. so i think there are some wings and i think jim demint where there s some case where he sees himself as a sort of conservative leader. and perhaps he s got national ambitions. and i think some of that is playing out in some of these places as well. chris, just to add to chuck s point, jim dement has said publicly, i would rather support someone who is going to lose, but supports my principles, than support someone who doesn t agree with anything that i believe makes up the republican party and see that person win. that s a very different philosophical approach than people at the na
get beyond the chaotic mess that washington has become. and second, i think it hurts republicans. i am a ronald reagan republican. i believe in the 11th commandment, don t fight other rather republicans because that helps barack obama. focus in a positive way and let the best person win and let s all get together to debeat obama. greta: how are you going to community to mitt romney? are you going to make a formal are you going to make a phone call or send a note or email? leave a tweet? greta, you know his campaign watches your show. so we just communicated with him. of course, he knows what i m saying. he has lots and lots of highly paid consultants. many of them are assigned just to watch what we are doing. i am sure they have reported to him. if they have not, i am sure a reporter will ask him, is he prepared to back up his ads by showing up in iowa and being
get beyond the chaotic mess that washington has become. and second, i think it hurts republicans. i am a ronald reagan republican. i believe in the 11th commandment, don t fight other rather republicans because that helps barack obama. focus in a positive way and let the best person win and let s all get together to debeat obama. greta: how are you going to community to mitt romney? are you going to make a formal are you going to make a phone call or send a note or email? leave a tweet? greta, you know his campaign watches your show. so we just communicated with him. of course, he knows what i m saying. he has lots and lots of highly paid consultants. many of them are assigned just to watch what we are doing. i am sure they have reported to him. if they have not, i am sure a reporter will ask him, is he prepared to back up his ads by showing up in iowa and being