Sharron Angle may talk to the media (after Election Day)

Sharron Angle has dodged the media through much of her Nevada Senate run—whether by skipping out on her own news conference in July or ditching reporters waiting to speak with her on Monday.

But Angle, an anti-establishment Republican boosted by the tea party, indicated Wednesday that the cat-and-mouse game with the media may end if she beats Democrat Harry Reid on Tuesday.

Conservative talk show host Heidi Harris told Angle that she believes the press is "not on your side" and then asked the candidate whether the relationship might change if elected. (Audio available on the Huffington Post.)

"Well certainly it will be, because as you know, the lamestream media or the left-leaning progressive press are really very much in Harry Reid's camp," Angle said. "They promote him as much as they can, and certainly that's not their intent when they come to interview me."

"Of course not," Harris said. "Right."

"It's not to promote me," Angle said.

"Right, they don't," the host said. "Right."

"And I'm hoping that as we get into this once I get elected senator," Angle continued, "that they will be much more civil and we will have a very civil discourse."

The Republican candidate has been blunt about her press strategy before, once telling Fox News' Carl Cameron that the media should be her "friend" and ask only questions that she wants to answer, while permitting her to promote her website during interviews for fundraising purposes.

Angle follows in the tradition of Sarah Palin, another politician who has effectively stirred up supporters by bashing journalists. Like Palin, Angle routinely decries the "lamestream media" and speaks mostly with either Fox News or sympathetic conservative talk radio hosts.

However, Angle did reach out to one prominent liberal commentator this week: She sent flowers to Joy Behar boasting about how much money she raised after the "The View" star's anti-Angle outburst.

(Photo of Angle-Reid debate on Oct. 14: AP/Julie Jacobson)