rssHow Has Angle Kept Up With Harry Reid?
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 9:01 am
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Most Democrats and even many Republicans agree that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lucked out in a major way when he drew tea party candidate Sharron Angle as his GOP challenger for Senate in 2010. So why, on the eve of his first (and only) debate with Angle — and less than three weeks until elections — has Reid been unable to leave her in the dust?
One of the main reasons, it seems, is how incredibly nationalized the Nevada race has become, both in terms of issues and spending. Not only have many outside groups latched onto the battle to topple the Democratic Senate majority leader as an important symbolic blow against the Obama administration, but they’ve spent accordingly. The New York Times reports today that 80 percent of the money donated to both campaigns has come from outside the state of Nevada — virtually the opposite of most major Senate races — and that’s excluding the millions in independent expenditures that have poured in as well.
As far as outside spending goes, the Sunlight Foundation calculates that it totals nearly $8 million, the vast majority of which has gone either to attack Reid or to support Angle. The practical effect has been that the once-massive financial advantage that Reid enjoyed when Angle first secured the nomination was effectively nullified by outside groups like Crossroads GPS and the Club for Growth, which rushed to her aid and filled the airwaves when the Angle campaign struggled to present a public face in the early months of her campaign. Instead of being able to jump out early and define his opponent as a fringe candidate, the Reid campaign was met by a barrage of ads that blamed him for Nevada’s bad economy and Washington’s looming budget deficits.
Outside spending, in other words, gave Angle’s campaign the semblance of legitimacy when it had none. Now that she’s just raked in a record-breaking $14.3 million over the last quarter, however, she’s perfectly capable of taking the rest from here.
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Comment posted October 14, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
“How Has Angle Kept Up With Harry Reid?”
She's used the fact that Reid is an incompetent, dottering fool to her advantage, that's how. Having him as majority leader was a disaster, and I hope he loses so we can get someone in there that will actually do the job for us former Democrats who've left the party thanks to his inability to instill party discipline even for procedural votes.
What a pathetic loser.
Comment posted October 14, 2010 @ 3:40 pm
If you would rather have Angle then you were NEVER a true Democrat,and to you I say good riddance to bad garbage! And as far as Democrats not being able to instill discipline,it's impossible to get anything done when the Right wing Senators and Congressman have voted NO on nearly 100% of everything that has come to a vote.The party of NO are holding this country hostage!
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