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She raised about $1 million for the democrats while in new york. this campaign season, it s been especially nasty. senator john mccain is among those launching some pretty personal attacks against other senators, something that s been taboo inside the senate in the past. so we asked jon karl, what gives? reporter: in nevada, sarah palin help ed the tea party express kick off a 19-state bus tour to election day. i can see november from my house. yes. reporter: she started with a novel new attack on the president s stimulus program. porkulous, stimulus. yeah. shovel-ready projects my astroturf. yeah, right. we knew what they were shoveling, and it wasn t asphalt. reporter: palin may be a divisive figure to some republicans, but in an exclusive interview with nightline s terry moran, john mccain heaped praise on his former running mate. i couldn t be more proud of ....
Tells nightline s terry moran, o donnell and tea party hopefuls across the country are a force to be reckoned with. we take christine o donnell seriously. i think it is a mistake to not take them seriously. reporter: polls here in nevada indicate the same. a mason-dixon poll showed sharron angle two points ahead of harry reid. alex stone, abc news, las vegas. key part of the obama health care overhaul is under threat. from a federal judge s ruling. the ruling says a legal challenge to the new law can go to trial. at issue is the requirement that citizens must buy health insurance but a similar lawsuit was dismissed in michigan last week. both cases could go to the supreme court. the search has been called off for an american tourist murdered along the border with mexico. investigators in mexico now say they have stopped searching for david hartley s body in a lake along the border to develop better strategies. the case, though, is just one ....
Apologies. this shouldn t have happened. took too long but makes me feel better that the apology is finally coming. reporter: secretary vilsack suggested he offered sherrod another job but she had to discuss the offer with her family before accepting. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. coming up later, the man who sparked the controversy. nightline s terry moran tells us more about conservative activist andrew breitbart. a competitive cheerleading it not a official college sport on title ix. jernd equity law. the women s basketball team brought the suit after the team was eliminated and replaced with a cheerleading squad. the judge said the cheerleading may one day qualify but right now it is too underdeveloped and disorganized. closing arguments start next week in the rod blagojevich corruption trial. the defense rested yesterday without calling a single witness, including the former ....
as it should. they have agreed not to file charges or name anyone involved in the whole ordeal. they just want the jewelry back. so there it is. what a collection of jewelry. and still ahead, hillary clinton, the exit interview as she prepares to step down friday as secretary of state. what s next? nightline s cynthia mcfadden asks, will she be the one to finally breakthrough that glass ceiling? stick around. we ll be back. ....