"Angle rakes in donations in Nev. bid to beat Reid
NEW YORK — Sharron Angle of Nevada, a US Senate candidate, has raised $14 million in three months in her bid to oust Harry Reid, the majority leader.
The cascade of cash Angle took in between July and September is a worrying sign for the Democratic leader, who is locked in a dead heat with the Republican challenger.
And because it IS NOT CORPORATE CASH!
See: Raising money on the fringe
Angle was once a little-known former legislator whose come-from-behind victory in the June primary made her a national Tea Party movement star.
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Related: Tea Party Takes Angle on Harry Reid
Reid better rig those machines.
"Angle has Reid on tenterhooks in Nev. race" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | October 14, 2010
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Clad in cowboy hats and boots, waving American flags, and hoisting signs with slogans such as, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention,’’ some 150 Tea Party movement enthusiasts greeted Republican US Senate nominee Sharron Angle in this dusty frontier city.
At the entrance to the rally Monday next to Pony Express Pavilion, 70-year-old Judy Vanover waved a sign: “Axis of Evil: Obama, Reid, Pelosi.’’
Such outrage and enthusiasm have placed Harry Reid, the most powerful Democrat in the US Senate, in danger of losing his seat to Angle, a petite grandmother and former schoolteacher.
For Angle, it has been a remarkable journey. A former member of the state Assembly, she won an upset victory over the Republican establishment candidate in the primary, even as she was being written off by some observers as unelectable because of the depth of her conservative views.
Those are the elites that are part of the establishment -- and you can see why I like Angle, right?
She wants to eliminate the Department of Education and Environmental Protection Agency and phase out Social Security.
Those positions sound like Ron Paul's.
Since then, Angle has done anything but fade away.
Her quest to unseat Reid in Nevada, which has the nation’s highest jobless and foreclosure rates, has become a powerful vehicle for anger directed at President Obama; the Senate majority leader, Reid; and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A poll this week suggests that Angle is pulling ahead of Reid, 49 percent to 48 percent.
In a fair election she wins going away. As is common in most American elections, the undecided independents usually fall the way of the challenger -- and with the current anti-incumbent attitude out there it is even worse.
In a testament both to Angle’s political staying power and to the Republicans’ view that unseating Reid would be one of their greatest feats in the midterm elections, her campaign announced this week that she raised $14 million in the past three months alone.
“I’d say that for Nevada, that shatters every record,’’ said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Then the money story is HUGE!
Reid, a 24-year-incumbent, appeared a little unnerved at a campaign rally this week, acknowledging the anger but asking voters in a Las Vegas high school gym to stick with him....
Even HE KNOWS, readers!
“Everyone has to be patient. We’ve done some really good things, but we have so much more to do.’’
Oh, we have RUN OUT of PATIENCE a LONG TIME AGO!
We gave you FOUR F***ING YEARS and a FILIBUSTER-PROOF MAJORITY and we couldn't even get a good single-payer health plan!
It is a message that he and other Democrats have sounded for months across the country, but polls have indicated it’s not working....
Yes, at this short hour before elections in AmeriKa MOST PEOPLE have MADE UP THEIR MINDS!
The two will face off tonight in their first and only debate, and with the polls so tight, analysts say, the event could be a pivotal point in the race.
The race has already been one of the most contentious of the midterm elections, with both sides unleashing millions of dollars worth of attack ads. Angle has accused Reid of voting to give sexual offenders Viagra and illegal immigrants tax breaks. Reid and groups supporting his candidacy have asserted that Angle voted against background checks for sex offenders volunteering with church youth groups.
In perhaps the most memorable ad, an outside group supporting Reid suggested that if Angle is elected, a nuclear accident will occur and threaten millions of Nevadans because she supports a nuclear waste processing site near Las Vegas.
Yeah, but it is OKAY if DEMOCRATS play DIRTY, ever notice that?
Political scientists say the candidates are focusing so much on each other because they are not natural campaigners on the issues.
“Neither of the candidates is particularly likable,’’ said David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Angle garnered national headlines this year for saying insurance companies should not be required to cover autism or routine mammograms. She also has said that government entitlement programs such as unemployment benefits have spoiled Americans.
Then the banks and war-profiteers are rotten as hell.
Reid has come across as stiff and socially awkward at public events. At a fund-raiser last month, he called Kirsten Gillibrand of New York the “hottest’’ US senator.
WTF is with MISOGYNIST Democrats, huh?
See: Jerry Brown Just Lost the Governorship of California
Last year, he apologized for saying in 2008 that Obama could become the first black president because he is “light-skinned’’ and has “no Negro dialect.’’
Also see: Harry Reid Hates Hispanics
And he's a racist, too.
Damore said Reid spent “a great deal of time and money’’ earlier this year trying to re-introduce himself and his accomplishments to voters here in Nevada, but his favorability ratings remain low.
Which means HE IS DONE!
I'm getting the feeling the polls are being a bit generous to Mr. Reid.
“Realizing that, he went negative on her, and it’s been nothing but negative ever since,’’ he said. “She’s done the same.’’
In this case it looks like she is just defending herself.
For some reason, it is more acceptable to go negative when you are a Democrat in this county.
At the rally in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Reid fidgeted on a stool, rarely smiling, as former president Bill Clinton extolled the virtues of current economic policies and said it would be “unbelievably negligent’’ to vote for Angle instead of Reid.
Reid KNOWS he is DONE!
As for Bill Clinton, I'll spare you the description of where he can stuff the campaign rhetoric.
Go away, Bill. You had your time and its over.
“So far he’s been treated to this unbelievable abuse by people saying: ‘I don’t care . . . I’m going to vote against Harry, I’m just mad,’ ’’ Clinton said. “But . . . if you forget about politics any time in your life, and you make an important decision when you’re mad, there’s an 80 percent chance you’re going to make a mistake.’’
Unless it is LEADING PEOPLE into WARS based on LIES!!!
As the more than 1,000 people filed out of the Valley High School gym after the rally, a Reid campaign worker urged them to take lawn signs to put in front of their houses. There were not a lot of takers....
That's why Harry is so glum.
Nevada’s unemployment rate is 14.4 percent, well above the national average of 9.6 percent.
This election shouldn't be close at all.
Expect a wider-then-expected margin of victory for Angle, folks.
And more than 13,000 homes in Nevada — one in every 84 — received foreclosure notices in August alone, according to RealtyTrac.
Also see: FORECLOSURE FRAUD & $45 TRILLION DOLLARS
And Harry helped allow it to happen.
At the rally in Carson City, Angle hammered hard on the economy.
That is why she is on top and likely pulling ahead further as I type.
“We know that the simple solutions are these: We just have to cut back on the spending, pay back on the debt, and take back our economy by repealing some of the most awful policies that our nation has ever seen in the last 20 months,’’ Angle said to boisterous applause. “I need your help . . . The nation is counting on us.’’
Screw the debt if it is going to banks. I didn't borrow that dough, and I didn't authorize the government to borrow it on my behalf.
And the first awful policy that needs to be addressed is the continuing occupations and wars that must end.
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So who won the debate?
"Angle, Reid spare no courtesy in Nev. debate
LAS VEGAS — In a crackling campaign debate, Republican challenger Sharron Angle attacked Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, last night as a career politician who lives in a fashionable Washington condominium and has voted to raise taxes 300 times. The four-term veteran called his rival, backed by the Tea Party movement, extreme and accused her of distorting his record.
“I have never voted for tax breaks for people who are here illegally,’’ he said, rebutting one of the allegations Angle has made in their close, caustic, and costly campaign for the Senate.
Angle played the aggressor from the opening moments of the hourlong debate, at one point taunting him to “man up, Harry Reid,’’ as she urged him to concede that Social Security faces financial difficulty....
It was the only joint appearance of a campaign that has pitted the embodiment of the Democratic establishment against a challenger who was little known outside Nevada before winning the nomination in an upset.
For Angle, 61, a former state lawmaker, the encounter was a chance to counter Reid’s monthslong attack on her as an extremist who is bent on destroying Social Security and other government programs....
Harry has been giving her a beating, huh? No wonder he is falling behind.
Angle jolted Democrats in the state and in Washington when her campaign announced it had raised $14 million in the three months ending Sept. 30.
They are going to get another jolt on November 2nd.
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