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"Reid’s future in Senate seen as precarious
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid’s chances for six more years in Washington may be like tossing dice in a casino, even if he has made headway against Republican challenger Sharron Angle in a state with the nation’s highest rate of joblessness.
The four-term Nevada senator holds a slight lead over Angle in the latest polling, in part because of her unsteady performance since winning the June primary and because of Democratic ads portraying her as an extremist. Video of Angle scurrying away from reporters has mixed with television commercials of older voters upset about her call to phase out Social Security and Medicare.
But an internal memo obtained by the Associated Press says Reid has “a serious problem’’ with voters frustrated with the economy and “receives a great deal of blame.’’ The July 15 memo is based on polling research conducted for Patriot Majority, a union-funded group that is running TV ads against Angle.
And if your friends know it's over (barring rigged machines).... !!
The race is wide open, the memo concludes, despite Reid’s improved standing and voters’ alarm over some of Angle’s positions....
Yeah, the WHOLE NATION has this TURN THEM OUT feeling and the HIGHER up the LADDER you are the FARTHER the FALL!
Nevada’s unemployment rate of 14.2 percent is the highest on record in the once-booming Silver State and well above the national average of 9.5 percent. A record number of home foreclosures also has rocked the state, as has a decline in tourism during the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Voters fault the party in power for the stubborn economic downturn. In Nevada, that’s President Obama, who won the state two years ago, and the Democrats who control Congress, led by Senate majority leader Reid.
Republican Woody Stroupe, 72, a Las Vegas retiree, said Reid and Democrats in Washington are failing to deal with runaway deficits and illegal immigration. He wants a conservative in the Senate who will support lower taxes.
Reid is struggling to find a convincing message on the economy, particularly one that will resonate with independents and moderates who probably will decide the race....
Reid has made a massive development on the Las Vegas strip a foundation block of his reelection drive. One of the senator’s early campaign ads featured an endorsement from
But Angle says private projects must succeed on their own. That reflects her general position that government should cut regulation and keep its distance from business. “I’m not in the business of creating jobs,’’ she once said.
The way the MSM has savaged her tells you a lot.
Angle is trying to transform her mom-and-pop primary campaign into a multimillion-dollar general election operation, but Reid still holds a commanding financial edge: $9 million to her $1.8 million in cash on hand....
Money tells the story.
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