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Subscribe to RSSLame puns aside, the new Nevada Senate Mason-Dixon poll, showing Sen. Harry Reid with a 44%-37% lead over Sharron Angle, made waves today on both sides of the blogosphere.
Conservative Red State's Neil Stevens isn't happy about the poll, but tells conservatives to read it with a grain of salt: "The 44 for Reid is slightly higher than his trend in recent months, but is not unreasonable," Stevens wrote. "The 37 for Angle, though, is abnormal. If we look back at the Real Clear Politics trend, Angle has only been below 40 twice: once in a fraudulent Research 2000/Daily Kos poll, and again in an earlier Mason-Dixon/Las Vegas Review-Journal poll."
He continued: "I certainly don't blame Democrats for feeling good about this result, but I would caution Republicans not to get too worried until some other pollster shows Angle dipping quite that far."
NRO's Jim Geraghty is less sanguine about the poll, but also takes refuge in Reid's number: "The only silver lining for fans of Angle is that Reid is only at 44 percent, one point over his previous high. That's still pretty lousy for a well-known incumbent."
HotAir's Ed Morrissey also asserted that the more important number (and one that doesn't bode well for the Reid campaign) is his still-low percentage, rather than the margin between Reid's and Angle's ratings.
"Even though [Angle] bled voters in almost every category, they didn't go to Reid. He's still only getting 44% of the vote, far below the 50% threshold an incumbent needs to be safe in this climate. For the moment, voters don't have to pull the lever for Angle, and she has three months to define herself rather than allow Reid to do it for her. If 56% of the voters don't want Reid, that shouldn't be a difficult sell for Angle, but she has to step up her game now and avoid any further mistakes."
Liberal blogs read an entirely different set of tea leaves, with Daily Kos' Jed Lewinson writing that Reid isn't "out of the woods yet," but "if he continues to run the kind of campaign he's run and Sharron Angle continues to run the kind of campaign she's run, there's no question but that he's going to end up the winner." More: "Between Angle's general craziness, her extreme right-wing economic views, and her campaign's general incompetence, it's not hard to see that she's got virtually no path to victory, especially given the campaign team that Reid has put in place."
BalloonJuice's DougJ made a similar point: that Angle's out-of-the-mainstream views will turn voters off by the time they head to the polls: "Angle isn't a run-of-the-mill winger; her old website sounds like it was written by a third-grade teajihadist, e.g. 'pay back the deficit', 'Sharron Angle will work toward making a basket of commodities (metals, oils, etc.) as a basis for maintaing the value of the U.S. currency'. Current intelligence suggests that Angle writes many of the comments on Ben Smith's blog."
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What was interesting to me was how the Fix tried to push a story that was not there, so he had to pull back from it.
http://reddogreport.com/2010/07/is-the-wapo-trying-to-fix-the-nevada-senate-race/
You got it.
Angle wouldn't have lifted a finger to save 22K #Nevada jobs at CityCenter, watch the NEW TV ad http://bit.ly/c4wmC7
The lame pun is pretty good! lol
I think watching from a living room sofa as legislation is being put together can seem truly ugly to us. And naturally polls will move during the process, generally down, because of the makeup of the Senate. What we saw was pretty damn depressing - getting healthcare legislation especially was a hot potato for a year.
But if you step back for a moment when all is said and done, the Democrats should be happy with what Senator Reid has accomplished. Don't forget, he was the one in the hot seat for most of 2009.
He's a good man, something that can't be said for too many Senators.
Pat,
He has done a lot of good and we should acknowlege that. Looks like Angel may be self-destructing.
Two ways to look at this:
As quoted in the article: "If 56% of the voters don't want Reid, that shouldn't be a difficult sell for Angle."
OR
As quoted by me: "If 63% of the voters don't want Angle, that shouldn't be a difficult sell for Harry."
Maybe they should worry more about nominating extremist nut jobs like Angle for GOP candidates than they do about the polls. In Nevada, Republican voters had a choice for their Senate candidate between Sharron Angle, who suggested "2nd Amendment remedies" to conservatives who don't like the way elections turn out, and the Chicken Lady. I almost feel sorry for them.
Ha Ha Scary Sharry Angle is losing to Harry Reid and is losing support as her clueless mouth turns off voters once they learn what a crazy bag lady she is. BalloonJuice is correct that her old website read like a third grader's teajihadist list of crazy ideas, but then so does every tea bagging prancing pansy's. Watch how the tempest in a teapot crowd of conservative christian liars turns off the electorate come November and the Democrats retain control of Congress because real Mainstream America won't vote for America hating conservative domestic terrorists bent upon destroying our Secular Democracy.
Watch as Moron Rant Paul's poll numbers drop the closer the election comes as he's barely able to get ahead of Jack Conway. The Facist Racist Teahadist Paliban is turning off real Mainstream Americans and the people of Kentucky will have a message for Moron Rant Paul that he should just go away.
I do not care for Reid, you do not lie to the public and do back door deals when you are suppose to be "transparent".
America would not have been aware of those deals had it not been for the senator who said "you lie"
The representatives, whether democrate or republican, work for the people, not against, and the nasty deals are something I will never forget.
For your information, it was REPRESENTATIVE Joe Wilson who disgraced himself by shrieking"You lie!" at the President of the United States during a formal address to Congress. Like most deluded wingnuts, you can't even keep simple facts like that straight.
It has become known to Nevadans that Angle is a fool. It only gets worse for her from here.
And she looks more foolsih the more she says! I did a lot of research and have a lot of links in an article I did, it's really interesting to research her from before she became the Republican nominee and what she is saying now. I question what she would actually do if she is saying two different things, which will she pick if she's elected? Many of her claims of accomplishment are questionable if you look closely at them, oh but why would the sheep do that, lol~
Sharon Angle appears to be sincere about her proposals to bring Nevada and the country back into the realm of fiscal responsability. If all her ideas arn't quite up to microscopic inspection, at least she is on the right road. She will be a freshman senator with little power, but, if her intentions are in the right place and she votes according to her convictions, she will be miles ahead of the train-wreck of a senator we have now. She definitely has my vote.
Even her Republican colleagues in the Nevada legislature couldn't stand Sharron Angle. They said she voted "no" on everything for no apparent reason. In the U.S. Senate, she's likely to put a hold on every piece of legislation before it. She could bring down the federal government and America all by herself. She's a one-woman train wreck.
Come November, we will see how successful Reid is. At the unprecedented rate, that the good people of Nevada are losing their jobs and their homes, I'm pretty sure Howdy Doody could beat him.
Well, Howdy Doody isn't running. He'd be a more reasonable candidate than the wooden-headed puppet the Republicans nominated to take on Reid.
Yeah, and if you do not agree with her and the tea baggers she exercise the 2nd Amendment Option.
Well Houston, it sounds like you agree with me that Howdy Doody could probably beat him. Any "reasonable candidate" could beat Reid right now. He's h-i-s-t-o-r-y.
I think you mis read what Houston was trying to say: He would prefer Howdy Dowdy over Sharon Angle!!!!!
I take just plain Doody over her!
Tom W,
I can only say one thing about your remark; It's short, eloquent, apropriate, and to the point:
DAYUM!!!!
If you ever listen to Sharron Angle, she has an air about her that whatever she says is true BECAUSE SHE SAYS SO... sorta like No Joe's posts.
The 'Doody' line is a CLASSIC.
One little problem with Neil Steven's assessment--Sharron Angle is no longer running only for the GOP base. You can sell far right to the right but once she became a senatorial candidate, she can't sell it to moderates or democrats. In the age of instant media access, anything she said previously, and she said some pretty crazy things, can and will be sliced and diced. She also has not done well in regular media interviews. The only people watching her interviews on FOX are the ones who would vote for her anyway.
Pay careful attention to the fact that Senator Harry Reid did his utmost to emasculate E-Verify and weaken its ability by only serving it as a voluntary program. E-Verify on a permanent basis would have offered no options, but to follow this law in removing illegal labor from any businesses. He was also involved in softening the 287 (g) local policing arrest and detain of illegal aliens instead of making that federal program mandatory. He has also shown his contempt for the 9.5 percentage rate of unemployed and underemployed Americans, as he along with his band of Brothers and sisters is out to award the population with another Amnesty. Whether they pay a fine, including paying back taxes, learn English and being placed at the back of the legal immigrant line--its still --AMNESTY. What amnesty or what immigration reform means? The last Amnesty was a travesty of the "Rule of Law" We are still paying for the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. When this law was sanctioned, it was supposedly contained employer enforcement?
The law was ignored and millions still came to America, drawn by jobs. Only a permanent, federally mandated E-VERIFY in the workplace can begin to remove illegal workers out of America by ATTRITION. The 3 million who were legitimized turned into about 6 million, along with the "Chain migration" so that immediate family members could join the original sponsor. The guarantors signed a declaration that those they sponsored wouldn't become a welfare liability. This didn't materialize and the chain migration family members, ended up a taxpayers problem. The same law that we inherited to stay any more new illegal arrivals, has been absolute BS. Since 1986 we are still being invaded by millions?
The census Bureau Dr. Robert Groves director didn't even deny there could be over 18 million illegal people squatting here, whereas the Liberal press still insists that we are only co-inhabiting with 11 million or so. Americans have been articulated that the fence is near completion--this is more BS. This isn't even the actual fence as originally enacted into law as of the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Underfunded, it was cut to one fence, instead of two equivalent fences.
What is coming is plain unadulterated--AMNESTY and nothing more. That you the taxpayer will inherit the huge costs, and even when this does come to a head--MILLIONS MORE WILL STILL KEEP COMING, WHEREVER BY LAND, SEA OR AIR. It’s imperative we remove all those pro-amnesty, anti-sovereignty lawmakers, before November. Start with Sen. Harry Reid, who has a large proportion of illegal workers and families living in Nevada. Because of the dire consequences of illegal immigration growth, we must be careful to watch who is voting in the mid-term elections. Nevada has the welcome mat for foreign nationals that have infected the entertainment and construction industry, with a state fighting massive deficits.
Arizona, on the other hand cannot continue to subsidize the illegal aliens who have congregated there, with a police force that is unable to contain the spreading crime wave. Across this nation absentee ballots are easily compromised and illegal immigrants may try to vote keep corrupt incumbents in Washington. Now is the very time to warn you’re federal, state representatives that you as a voter in watching their every move. Call to determine where they stand on what is sadly called Immigration Reform at 202-224-3121
Casca - care to cite some examples of where Sen. Reid watered down E-Verify? Can you cite examples of the 'coming plan' where there is going to be AMNESTY?
Inquiring minds want to know. My first impression of this post is that is conjecture with NO PROOF whatsoever. If you can provide some proof of what you say, then we can evaluate this posts content.
Its the beginning of the end for Angle and the rest of the tea party wackos, no matter how hard the "liberal media" tries to dress the tea party up as beef, it still tastes like chicken ( pay your doctor with a chicken )