Angle calls Harry Reid a 'a whack job, marginal candidate'

Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R) spent Thursday doing a round of conservative talk radio interviews.

She was heard on Rush Limbaugh's show and also spoke with conservative talkers Lars Larson and Heidi Harris.

But Angle has been dodging reporters from traditional news outlets since winning a resounding victory in Tuesday's primary.

Her lack of availability following her big win prompted Las Vegas TV reporters to stake out her campaign headquarters Wednesday.

A crew from KLAS-TV got a couple of questions in before Angle was whisked away by her staff.

Asked what she was doing to reorganize her campaign to prepare for "massive national attention," Angle smiled.

"You want me to tell you my strategy?" she said, bursting out laughing. "You're so interested in that, but these guys right here are so interested in my job and my home."

She left promptly afterward for Reno.

Angle was more accessible to a conservative talk radio host.

"You've been called a 'niche candidate.' A quote, 'whack job,'" KXNT host Alan Stock asked her during a half-hour interview Wednesday. "What are they talking about?"

Angle began rattling off a list of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) more infamous statements.

"I feel like I'm more mainstream than the fellow that said tourists stink. This war is lost. Light skinned, no Negro dialect. Can I go on and on about what I think a whack job, marginal candidate sounds like, and that's Harry Reid. And that's why we need to fire him. He is so out of touch with mainstream America," she said.

A Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters taken Wednesday had Angle earning 50 percent support while Reid picked up 39 percent. The remaining 11 percent is split between undecided and some other candidate.

Reid is certainly running like's he behind. He released two new TV spots Thursday and had an evening rally with Bill Clinton in Las Vegas.

—Eden Stiffman contributed to this post.