greatest assault on our freedom in his lifetime. russ feingold on the other hand, he is running ads in this campaign touting his vote for health care reform. so you couldn t have a better contrast when it comes to that issue, kyra. jim, thanks. talk about being fed up with washington. that s been quite if theme this election season. savvy politicians are definitely seizing on it. we ve seen unknown candidates just coast through the primaries. we ve also seen some of them lose momentum. big time. candy crowley, our chief political correspondent and the the host of cnn s state of the union joining us from washington to talk about this. candy, there s definitely been this romantiromanticism, yes? yes. and honestly, they re reinventing the wheel here. in many ways races have always been about i m not that guy. i m not the guy who that be there stealing your money, raising your taxes, whatever it
he hadn t been to washington, d.c. until he started running for the senate. sort of an extraordinary side note about ron johnson. and he is not only pumping his own money into this campaign, speaking of ron johnson, he s also getting the help of those third-party outside groups that we have been hearing so much about, that the democrats have been complaining about in the last couple of weeks. a new study just came out from wesleyan university saying that the senate race here in wisconsin is the biggest and most we ve seen in the last month in all of the senate races around the country. even more ads for the senate race here in wisconsin than in nevada. just another example of just how much trouble russ feingold is in here in wisconsin. a lot of those ads that are running are against him. 20 states will get to keep their fight alive. a florida judge issues a rule
he said it was a low blow. he said it was unfair. and he gave plenty of evidence, came to life and hit back. these two, despite their low energy appearances, they did have starkly different visions of what government should do in our lives. he believes government should help create jobs here in nevada, which has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. she says it s up to the private sector. that s where this debate really turns. early voting begins tomorrow. neither one of the folks delivered a knock-out punch. neither made a major gaffe. now it s up to the formidable ground to see who gets more vote. now let s talk about the senate race in wisconsin. russ feingold is fighting for re-election. jim, you actually had interaction with sharron angle, before we get to that. i did about a month ago. had a chance to briefly talk to
buried secrets with them. and bill o reilly and the ladies for the view. you ll fwget the full exchange. i promise. happy friday, everyone. i m kyra phillips. you re live in the cnn newsroom. 18 days until midterm elections. washington s balance of power at stakes and imcoupncumbents find their jobs on the line. senator reid voted 300 times to raise our taxes. he voted for poor public policy like stimulus and bailout. and he voted for unconstitutional bills like obama care. these ideas of my opponent are really extreme. harry reid, the top democrat in the house facing a withering challenge from sharron angle. the tea party darling is seizing on the voter anger. time is running out and tempers are running hot. he is benefitting tremendously in this campaign from millions of dollars of these ads, and i am not. i don t want them. you say you don t want them. will you call on them to stop? i have no control over that. that s their right to free speech. will you as
wrongly decided? i absolutely said, when i stepped up to the podium as an advocate, i thought that the u.s. government should prevail in that case and the statute should be upheld. i wanted to make a clear distinction between my views as an advocate and any i might have as a judge. i do think citizens united is settled law going forward. no question it s precedent and entitled to all of the weight that the precedent usually gets and i want to make clear as with any of my cases as an advocate, citizens united or any other case i argued, i m approaching the cases as an advocate from a perspective of first the united states government interests and also it s a different kind of preparation process. you don t look at both sides in the way you do as a judge. i got that. i got that. i don t have any problem with that. all i m saying is that we ve had arguments right here in this committee that this is it a terrible case that upset 70 years of precedent, and i ve heard all of th