LOS ANGELES | Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle sees her campaign as a battle to stop Washington's Democrats who want to expand entitlement programs and "make government our God."

In an interview with a Christian radio network, Mrs. Angle describes her effort to oust Majority Leader Harry Reid as a religious calling in "a war of ideology, it's a war of thoughts and of faith."

Mr. Reid, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have pushed "entitlement programs built to make government our God," says Mrs. Angle, who has called for privatizing Social Security and Medicare for younger workers...