CNN’s Candy Crowley: Angle Over Reid Would Be “The Biggest Pick-Up” On Tuesday

What’s up with candidates like Joe Miller and Sharron Angle avoiding the press?

We talked to CNN’s Candy Crowley on Mediaite Office Hours yesterday about this, the magnitude of the Nevada Senate race and more.

“Anything that has tea party associated with it is going to be analyzed over and over again,” said Crowley of the Nevada Senate race. “So yes, this looks to be the place where they could make the biggest pick-up. Although, I would argue Alaska is pretty huge too.”

As for the candidates avoiding the press, Crowley said this is nothing new:

Look we see that with President Obama. That there are friendlier places to go than the quote ‘mainstream media’ so they get to pick and choice, because everybody’s had a mea culpa at this point, and it is not all that unusual that people who are new to this are saying, ‘no we’re not going to talk to the media.’

As for the right – “the Tea Party in particular, Republicans in general, tend to think the media swings way left, and they tend not to want to go into that kind of forum, so they now have friendlier forums they can go to,” said Crowley.

She also talked about CNN’s election night plans – and the Matrix! – and that esoteric topic of ‘Will Sarah Palin run in 2012.’ Check out the full interview below:

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