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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com lets explore that. here with me in washington, democratic pollster and strategist cornell blecher and our cnn political analyst gloria borger. ken bucks victory in the primary, jane norton was the establishment republican candidate, the favorite all along. ken buck with tea party support, erick erickson, comes out to win that election. listen to how ken buck explains why grassroots con korsorvetive like him are breath the establishment. >> i think they rea...

Washington like theyve never been here. its like this strange foreign place. heres joe donnelly. hes a democrat in indiana, conservative democrat. heres what he thinks. >> thats why i voted to hire 5300 more border agents, penalize any business that hires illegals, deport illegals who commit felonies and eliminate amnesty because no one should ever be rewarded for break the law. that may not be what the washington crowd wants -- >> wait, wait, wait, wait, the washington crowd? the washington cro...

In these primaries. cornyn has gone with the establishment republican time after time. just yesterday with norton, the lieutenant governor of colorado, who was the safer bet. demint goes with buck. demint wins. cornyn loses. so cornyns stocks down -- >> it happened in nevada, it happened in kentucky. gracen was a candidate of cornyn. mitch mcconnell, the establishment. so watch -- and i cant call a united states senator a young turk, but the new power in the senate republican conference is demin...

Know what hes a weaker candidate, hes a flawed general election candidate, hes an extremist. >> yeah, and the republicans are saying the same about michael bennett. you know, its too soon to say. i think thats ridiculous to say right now. ken bucks been a district attorney in colorado. hes quite popular amok the grass roots in colorado. if you look at the turnout in colorado, republicans in colorado turned out hugely. theyre extremely impassioned. you know, ken bucks the type of candidate we alw...

What did we learn on the democrat being side in yesterdays big primaries? the candidate backed by obama beat the candidate beat by former president clinton, in part, because the president himself got involved to help. the appointed senator michael bennett. listen here, this senator obama on a phone call, a robocall, sent to the homes of democrat voters. >> i need michael bennett in the senate so that together he and i can continue to fight for the future we want and the change we need. >> bennet...

Attacking the president. >> barack obama is the worst president in history. and my generation will inherit a weakeneded country. drug cartels in mexico. tax cartels in d.c. whats happened to america? i love arizona. i was raised right. somebody has to go to washington and knock the hell out of the place. >> rich galen, you used to work for ben quayles dad. its striking, the resemblance. >> the voice as well. >> yeah. young first-time candidate -- >> well, you know, dan ran at 26. knocked off an ...

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Colorado, which swung towards obama, looked like it was going to swing back towards republican big time, towards that traditional voting pattern. instead, democrats have a reason to celebrate. theyre looking very strong in the hall. and bennett, the best thing that could have happened to them, is to run against buck. extremists are always their own sides worst enemy. and the tea party movement has been very powerful in winning these primaries. but they always necessarily translate to a weaker ge...