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reporter: in four hours time ron paul will make the announcement of the exploratory committee in iowa, where he finished fifth in the caucuses in 2008. jenna: based on that dedicated group, mike, what are the expectations this time around for how congressman paul is going to do? reporter: well, it s pretty interesting, because he s going to be coupled in with the more mainstream candidates right now and that has a lot to do with the timing of why he s making his announcement right now. we re about nine days away from the first gop debate. this is a fox news debate to be held in south carolina. by forming the exploratory committee, ron paul qualifies for that debate. that s going to put him in the same forum as the more mainstream candidates and one of the things he said as he announced his announcement on sean hannity last night is that he s going to be looking to see the kind of reception he receives to make his decisions about moving forward jenna. jenna: it will be interesting, ....
She either sticks to that position or renounces it. she can t have it both ways. time and again the gop establishment is put in a position to defend a tea party candidate that crosses over. the nrc had to do it with engel and huffington post says it s baffled by the rand paul fence proposal. paul is in a dead heat in kentucky against jack conway. how is that possible? it s all msnbc s fault that he got a bum rap i was told. this is exactly the issue. rand paul has views that are really out there. even if the electorate, even the kentucky electorate which is conservative, are exposed to them, they re going to recoil. the strategic minds understand that. dick armey, for instance. they understand that they re cultivating people who come from really, really extreme ideological places and trying to make them into mainstream candidates. for this patina of reasonableness that hung around the tea party for the first six months, that scrubbed that away. ....
She either sticks to that position or renounces it. she can t have it both ways. time and again the gop establishment is put in a position to defend a tea party candidate that crosses over. the nrc had to do it with engel and huffington post says it s baffled by the rand paul fence proposal. paul is in a dead heat in kentucky against kon way. how is that possible? it s all msnbc s fault that he got a bum rap i was told. this is exactly the issue. rand paul have views really out there. approximate if the electorate, even the kentucky electorate which is conservative, are exposed to them, they re going to recoil. the strategic minds understand that. they understand that they re cultivating people who come from really, really extreme idea logical places and trying to make them into mainstream candidates. for this patina of ....
Sharron angle. the margin is down from early june. scott rasmussen is joining us. scott, good to see you. let s start off with this. this is a woman, angle who was supported by the tea party ahead of the more mainstream candidates. there was concern within the republican party that she was not going to be able to get sort of a widespread, enough support in order to beat harry reid. how is it looking? right now she has an edge but she and reid are unpopular, up 49% of the unfavorable position of the reid and same says about angle. number one, intensity of opinion negative opinion is stronger about reid. on top of that, health care and other issues they are working out well for republicans this year and also the fact this is not the great year to be a ....