political moments of 2010. at number five, new york senate candidate carl paladino with a reporter. >> you send another goon to my daughter's house and i'll take you out. >> you'll take me out? >> how. >> watch. >> that's paladino with a columnist whose newspaper written about a daughter paladino had out of wedlock. he lost the race to andrew cuomo and never let go of the thug image. in his hands in the concession speech, a baseball bat. at number four, the symbolism and emotion of the health care debate. house speaker nancy pelosi used a historic gavel. >> i'm carrying this gavel just given to me -- correction. lent to me by chairman dingle. it was used in the enactment of the medicare law. >> before getting to bang that gavel, tension ran high.