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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gives a victory speech during a Democratic election party Tuesday at Aria.
By Anjeanette Damon (contact) 
, Karoun Demirjian (contact)
Published Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 | 8:40 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
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At the Polls: Voter Choices
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The Sun exit polled voters at three polling stations throughout the valley to find out who voters were choosing for the hotly contested Senate race between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle, the Governor race between Rory Reid and Brian Sandoval, the 3rd District Congressional race between Dina Titus and Joe Heck and the 1st District Congressional race between Shelley Berkley and Kenneth Wegner.
Victory for Harry Reid
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will return to office after beating Tea Party-endorsed Republican challenger Sharron Angle in Nov. 2 midterm elections. Watch highlights of Senator Reid's acceptance speech and moments from the Democratic celebration as it finally wound down Tuesday night at Aria Resort and Casino.
Harry Reid's victory speech
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Harry Reid gives his acceptance speech after winning the race for U.S. Senator.
In a signature display of tactical prowess and tenacity, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s methodical and at-times Machiavellian campaign plan, years in the making, allowed him to survive an anti-incumbent wave Tuesday, in which his party lost control of the U.S. House and left him with a thin majority in the U.S. Senate.
Reid not only overcame the lethally-low approval rating that had pundits locally and nationally declaring his pursuit of a fifth term hopeless, but also successfully inoculated himself against the fervent Tea Party movement that had found a champion in Republican challenger Sharron Angle.
“Yes, we did,” Reid told a cheering crowd at Aria on the Las Vegas Strip, where Democrats gathered to watch election returns. “Today Nevada chose hope over fear.”
Yet Nevada voters showed little enthusiasm in returning the quintessential incumbent to office.
“Harry Reid always seems to find a way to win,” GOP strategist Greg Ferraro said. “He never wins big and he never wins pretty, and the rumors of his demise are always greatly exaggerated. He always finds a way.”
This time around, Reid’s path to re-election began with a sustained investment in party infrastructure, continued with a varied effort to clear the field of formidable opponents and culminated with the domination of his opponent.
By Tuesday, voters may have remained disgusted with Reid and unhappy with his pursuit of a Democratic agenda, but — thanks to Reid’s $20 million effort to define his opponent as extreme and dangerous — their disgust with Angle ran deeper.
“I can’t believe she was even on the ballot,” said Alice Hatfield, a Las Vegas Republican who voted for Reid. “Doing away with Social Security, Medicaid, privatizing the VA — no way. Harry needs to go, but there’s nobody on the ballot to replace him.”
Aware that his leadership position would increase the negative opinion of him among Nevada voters, as well as saddle him as a top national target, Reid began working as early as 2005 to build a campaign organization to withstand the political forces that would align against him.
He identified top Republicans who posed a significant danger, and helped to land them important appointments to keep them out of the race, such as the federal bench in the case of then-Nevada Attorney General and now Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval or the Ways and Means committee for U.S. Rep. Dean Heller.
Add to that a decimated Nevada GOP, and Republicans failed to field a single formidable candidate, and instead had a crowded primary of B-listers.
Again, Reid’s campaign prowess kicked in, leading to the defeat of the more moderate front-runner, Sue Lowden, and clearing the way for Angle, who was easier for him to define and marginalize.
However, Nevada’s economy continued to collapse, and the typical midterm antagonism for the party in power evolved into outright hostility, nationally and at home.
Against that backdrop, Reid’s path to victory seemed more than uncertain. Angle quickly rallied after her primary win and set about raising more than $14 million, which she used to pummel Reid on the economy and immigration.
But even with ideal circumstances for an upset, her effort fell short.
In a reflection of the bitter destroy-the-opponent-at-all-costs ad war that characterized the race, many voters interviewed at polls across the state said they hated both choices. Reid’s campaign seized on that dynamic, driving a wedge between Angle’s fervent base and moderate Republicans, who found her unacceptable.
“I’ve watched Sharron Angle and she’s nuts,” said Reno Republican Richard Hill, who voted for Reid.
In a telling statistic, 3,000 more Republicans than Democrats voted early in Angle’s home Washoe County, but Reid still trounced her in early voting returns.
Many Angle voters saw their ballot choice more as a protest of Reid’s policies than an endorsement of Angle’s views.
“I’m not 100 percent Sharron Angle, but I am 100 percent against Harry Reid,” said Joseph Gomez, a Reno retiree who cast his vote for Angle.
“I’ve been in this state 35 years and I’m sick of Reid,” said Zach MacDowell, a Las Vegas Republican who voted for Angle. “He shut me down when I worked at the test site, and I think Yucca Mountain should be up. That’ll bring a lot of jobs to Nevada.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid poses with his wife, Landra, as he gives a victory speech during a Democratic election party Nov. 2, 2010, at Aria.
Similarly, Reid voters seemed more convinced by the Democrat’s effort to cast his opponent as an extremist than his argument that Nevada could use his seniority.
“I voted for Reid reluctantly, because he’s a henchman for Obama,” said Lawrence Levine, a Las Vegas Democrat. “Nevada had a real problem with the two candidates on the ballot. Angle revealed that she’s no kind of leader.”
Hispanic voters proved key to Reid’s victory.
Despite earlier polling data that indicated Hispanics would skip this election, exit polls showed they accounted for a record 16 percent of total voters.
That turnout was likely backlash to an ad aired by a Republican operative explicitly telling Hispanics not to vote, as well as inflammatory ads from Angle’s campaign that used images of Hispanic youth dressed as gang members.
Xavier Caballos, a Mexican immigrant and Las Vegas Democrat who voted for Reid, said Angle had tried to make people like him look dangerous.
“That was the final straw,” said Gilberto Ramirez, a Reno concrete worker who recently obtained his citizenship and voted for the first time. “She was depicting me as a gang member. I served seven years in the Marine Corps.”
Reid’s political career has been as much a history of close scrapes as smooth landings.
He lost his first U.S. Senate race in 1974 by 600 votes. He won his 1998 Senate re-election against John Ensign by an even narrower 428 votes.
Even his closest friends admit that Reid is, and always has been, a terrible campaigner. But even his sharpest critics don’t necessarily question his dedication to the state of Nevada.
“We really respect Reid for the way he stood up to the big gangs years ago,” said Don Cooper, a Las Vegas Republican who voted for Angle. “But the last few years he’s gotten too liberal. I wish to heck Angle had not run, but it’s the least of two evils.”
Other voters, however, said Reid’s leadership role distracted his attention from the state.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid celebrates with supporters after a victory speech during a Democratic election party Tuesday at Aria.
“I just don’t think we can stand any more nonparticipation in our state,” said Steve Zielinski, a Reno Republican.
Reid’s career has spanned many sea changes in Washington, and the erstwhile senator has adapted to become a product of his environment, especially as he rose through the ranks of his party to take over its top post.
Today, being a “centrist” sometimes means being a spoiler, but as far as the Democratic Party goes, Reid has a history of being close to its center. Historically, he broke with his party to support gun rights, the death penalty, missile military spending, and take a staunchly anti-abortion position.
But as he moved through the ranks, Reid began to embrace some of the more liberal policies of the Democratic Party. Perhaps most marked was his shift on immigration policy. He opposed the 1986 bill that granted amnesty to undocumented immigrants in the United States; but in 2007, he led the effort, working across the aisle with Republican senators like South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham and Arizona’s John McCain, and pulling out every arcane legislative strategy he could to push a comprehensive bill through.
As leader, many say Reid epitomized how to run a caucus in difficult times. He was tough enough to demand party loyalty for certain votes, but smart enough to know when things were a lost cause. He played his hand, persuasive or punishing, behind the scenes for the most part, letting other senators rise and fall in public.
But even as Reid changed with the times, in his congressional role, he remained at heart a senator of the old guard, which means being governed by one golden rule: state first.
In recent years, his clout as majority leader has helped him further causes in Nevada’s interest. It was due to Reid’s influence, for example, that so many stimulus dollars and government loan guarantees were steered to Nevada to ensure that the newest wave industry in the United States — renewable energy — would get a special edge in the Silver State.
But there’s no question what Reid was most passionate about as a local issue: the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Sharron Angle is joined by her husband, Ted, while delivering her concession speech at the Republicans' election-night party early Wednesday at the Venetian.
Reid, not one to seek out the limelight, made his mark on the issue during his first year as a senator, when he attempted to stage a filibuster of the annual energy appropriations bill to keep it from designating Yucca as the country’s only nuclear waste dump site. The “Screw Nevada” bill eventually passed, but 27 other senators joined Reid in voting against it.
Today, he is credited with steering the Obama administration through every administrative step possible toward finally killing the controversial project.
Reid’s turnout efforts focused strongly on the Hispanic community, a key swing demographic in Nevada elections. Early polling suggested Hispanics wouldn’t turn out because of frustration with the economy and a lack of movement on immigration reform.
Meanwhile, Republicans launched an effort to convince voters that choosing “none of these candidates” would help Reid — a message that seemed to penetrate.
“We just don’t have a very good choice,” Steven Zielinski, a Republican who voted for Obama in 2008, said shaking his head. “But (none of the above) would be a non-vote. You might as well vote for Reid.”
Excerpt from Reid's speech Tuesday night:
"Today Nevada chose hope over fear. Nevada chose to move forward, not backwards. Nevada made this choice because we know it's not about us versus them. It's about every Nevadan, all of us, in this together.
"Today you made possible what many called impossible and I'm grateful you did, not for me but for the future we all share as Nevadans.
"It's always been my honor to represent the state, to serve the state and to fight for the state and to fight for each of you. And friends, I'm not finished fighting. In fact, tonight I'm more determined than ever.
"You see I've been in some pretty tough fights in my day. They've been in the street, in a boxing ring, and in the United States Senate. But I have to admit, this has been one of the toughest. But it's nothing compared to the fights families are facing all over Nevada right now. This race has been called but the fight is far from over.
"The bell that just rang isn't the end of the fight. It's the start of the next round.
"I know that a lot of Nevadans feel like they've been counted out. But you know I know what that's like. I've taken on powerful forces ... I've run into some tough elections no one thought I could win. So I know what it's like to have the odds stacked against you. I know what it's like to take a punch. I've taken a few but more importantly I know what it's like to get back on one's feet. My story and this night prove that difficult isn't synonymous with impossible.
"We're proof that a test is tough only if you're not tough. My career and this campaign have been driven by a simple belief. If a poor kid from Searchlight can make it, anybody can make it.
"Everyone in Nevada deserves a chance. Everyone in America deserves a chance. Nevada is going to recover. Nevada is going to prosper, and Nevada is going to lead. We're going to bounce back stronger than ever. I've never counted Nevada out and I'm not about to start right now. I think you know that about me.
"Tomorrow morning there will still be too few jobs for too many people. There will still be too many foreclosure signs in too many front yards. There will still be too many kids in crowded classrooms. And too many students wondering how can they afford college.
"But your hard work, and it's been really hard, has given Nevada a chance to believe again that tomorrow isn't impossible."
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Will the Nutbag man up enough to give a concession speach? Or will she climb back in the bottle?
I read, Sharron, that you attributed some women's horrible experiences to "God's plan." Well, if you lose tonight, can we chalk that up to God's plan?
Fox News just called it for Sen. Reid.
Hey Heidi Harris... HAHAHAHAHAH.
"A Republican operative even aired an ad explicitly telling Hispanics not to vote."
Looks like it all doesn't matter, now doesn't it?
@gaskin
I doubt it since she runs from the media. Hopefully we never hear from the nutbag again.
Tax Cuts!
Tax Cuts for the rich!
"Tax Cuts!
Tax Cuts for the rich!"
Nope, sorry. Angle lost. The middle class win.
NBC calls it for Reid. Congrats to all sane people in Nevada.
Watching this race is like teetering on the edge of an abyss ... I hope that if Mr. Reid wins he takes seriously the divided nature of the electorate and does his best to build a consensus to govern rationally.
Thank God.
You people are idiots. Enjoy your 14% unemployment and growing, Good Job Harry!
I thought the talk radio crowd Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, Rush Limbaugh were saying for the last two years that Reid was going to lose?
Sherm and the Bonanza Road Boys look they have been kicked by an Arkansas mule. If I was their boss back in Razorback Land, I would fire the entire editorial board for crappy editorials.
To think Sherm thought making hay out of the "war is lost" crap. It was like John McCain trying to win on the surge crap. With Iran gaining influence in Baghdad and the Iraq War cost approaching a trillion dollars (I thought you people were against spending?) most people think the War in Iraq was a waste as well as Afghanistan.
To quote Heidi Harris of Beasley Broadcasting "time to take out the trash!" Thank you talk radio teabags, the "Chicken Lady" probably would have won or Tark.
The casinos were busing their workers and telling ("really twisting arms") them to vote for Reid.
So he is going to run the Senate with 49-50 Dems, 1 Socialist and Lieberman for the next 2 years and then probably become the minority leader for 4 more years and because he is almost a walking corpse he will retire after that.
Mr Powerful Reid.....you go old man.
THANK YOU TEA PARTY!
We couldn't have done it without you.
Congratulations Sen. Reid on your re-election!
This is a great day for Nevada. We dodged a crazy bullet here. Sharon Angle would have been the worst thing to happen to Nevada since they elected Jim Gibbons.
Thank you Nevada for once again proving the polls wrong. When will they start to call cell phone people? Remember the RJ polls had him down by 4% in the last poll.
I'm very proud of you, Nevada! You made the sound decision. Kudos!
Major victory for Nevada!
I hope Harry works out for you. I'm sure his 25th year will be the one that his leadership takes hold and helps the State of Nevada.
how can one take seriously the comments from one named puttie tang? Angle got beat bad...Hope she will man up and give a concession speech.
Wait just a minute now! Angle is likely to force a recount. She's going to say each Latino and Asian voter were counted twice!
good job......i truly hope all of you get more of what you voted for....unemployment,foreclosures,and decreasing home values...i usually come once a year but i am changing in 2011 and going to the islands now....enjoy the vote for harry....
Congratulations, Harry Reid & Nevada! Sanity has prevailed. Now, let's get to work on putting America first! Yay!!!
Thank you teabaggers. If you hadn't nominated a batsh#t crazy candidate like Angle, this would not have been possible. I congratulate you.
well even though there were a lot of red state winners, at least NV will stay sane.
My guess is that the masses will realize the Repubs haven't got a clue about this economy and in 2012 Obama will win again.
Harry Reid, Democratic Majority Leader of the United States Senate was re-elected tonight. Suck on that all you Reid haters.
@cooldude1
Get real. If you are so compelled to change your vacation plans because Nevada votes for the only sane choice, well see ya.
I ask the lib koolaid drinkers this question.
Why did all the big corporate casinos go in big behind Reid and essentially crack skulls to get their employees to vote for him?
What do they get out the deal to support Reid?
I don't quite get that.
Guess what, Silent Sharron..... NO ONE wants to talk to you now and no one wants to hear anything you have to say now. You have been rendered irrelevant. Go along your merry way, maintain your vow of silence, and do us all a huge favor: disappear into obscurity.
The republicans have won the house so if there's an increase in unemployment it's on them and I want to see a bill from the house on making abortion illegal come Jan.
OMG-- Proud to be a Nevadan at last!! Could not have forced myself out of bed tomorrow if lunatic Angle had won. But the state is doomed with pretty boy Sandoval at the helm. Obama is toast in 2012. Election of Harry Reid and Governor Moonbeam in CA have restored my faith in humankind.
Long live HARRY REID!!!
Sharron, since you happen to be the first Nevada Asian legislator, here's a word for you to chew on: SAYONARA! :-))
I wonder if the banned media was asking for a invitation to the water boarding at the angle camp.
Thank God Harry won! I've been scared to death today about an Angle win. Sharron Angle got exactly what she deserved: NOTHING!!!
This is a sad day for Nevada.
Well it's not always "Bubble gum and Birthday Cakes some times it's Alligators and Rattle Snakes"
Grats to the Dumbocrats to reelect this fraud and liar. Watch Nevada going down the drain even further. You got the Senator you deserve.
I personally want to thank the Teabag Party for their assistance in electing Sen. Harry Reid to another six-year term. We Democrats couldn't have done it without your incredible, unimaginable idiocy.
____
And on this thread a few persistent baggers showed up each and everyday to crow about their crazy candidate and the demise of our US Senate Majority Leader.
To those deranged, loony baggers I also say thanks. They are:
Lady Gogo
JanKKK
BleakFuture
LarryVegas aka Lady Gogo, pjoke, and more aliases then you can shake a stick at.
Plus many many more teabaggers who are no longer with us today.
But most of all
CONGRATULATIONS, SEN. HARRY REID !!!
You are STILL Da %#&!@in' Man !!!
There should be a Justice Department investigation into the pollsters, particularly Mason Dixon and Rasmussen. They are racist organizations, in my opinion, who skew data to please Fox News and right wing news outlets.
It is clear that many people are cellphone only as well, and only respond to twitters and emails, etc. not voice calls.
Maybe Angle will run on a ticket with Palin. A perfect batsh*t crazy ticket. Imagine the circus those rally's would be.
Just goes to show that Nevada does have the dumbest voters in the country..
casinokid....just like Obama said unemployment would not go above 8% under his watch yet it has not gone below 9.5%....yeah....great hope and change. You would think with all that power the jobs would start flowin....but we still have rising unemployment....idiots..congrats on Reid you deserve him. He'll change his ways now after he saw the massacre tonight. The Dems in the Senate up for re-election in 2012 will be leaning a little more right to save their asses. Maybe you should watch something else besides msnbc.
Nevada without a doubt retains the stupidest state in the Country award. Just remember Nevada, it's you who has to live here... Whats the unemployment at, the foreclosures, the crime, the education system?
I wish you all the best of luck because this state is going to need it.
You were already a joke to the country but at this point now people are boycotting this state! Yup, a boycott is already in place. Good luck with that!
I don't want to hear any complaining from Nevada at this point, you all get what you deserve.
Reid wins. It's done. Good job, Nevada!
I'm wondering if Angle will speak tonight? Will she give a speech? Will she allow the media to cover it?
Why should she say anything now?
One word for Ms. Angle.
Loser!
well, we tried. Sue Lowden where are you? write in campaign might have worked. This just confirms the nations viw that Nevada is a backwater, rube filled 3rd rate town. hope you dimwits are happy with a guy who will now serve THRISTY SIX years in the senate and accomplish jack squat. enjoy your unemployment and welfare. hope his term ends abruptly
Nevada is going down the drain while Reid was busy ramming Obummercare down people's throat. And for that the dolts the pass for voters in Nevada reward him with reelection. A truly sad day for Nevada. At least his failure of a son got blown away by Sandoval.
The Republican controlled House has caused the high unemployment in Nevada. Heller, along with his fellow teapots Republican who control the House, has done nothing to deal with Nevada's high unemployment.
Governor Gibbons should be sued by the Nevada taxpayers to pay his own medical bills. He is against government health care and should pay his own way. Also, the humane society should investigate what he was doing with that horse and if the horse was harmed by improper training methods.
For the first time in my adult life, I'm REALLY proud of my state.
@KCNTJC
I don't watch msnbc or any other TV news for that matter and also Reid is not my Senator I live in Alabama and now it looks like Obama can tank the republicans with his veto pen.
I know Mr. Reid and have a great deal of respect for the man he has helped me a small business man on two occasions which he did not have to do so I feel honored to support him.
@ sgt rock....hmm maybe 22000 jobs? go to bed you wont feel better tomorrow.
BTW where is ANGLE's concession speech? Man UP Sharron ANGLE concede!!!!!!!
take note harry and the demonrats...this WAS NOT a vote FOR red harry, it was a vote against angle as a person.
a harry reid victory brought to you by unions and corporate, dc fatcats. congrats you dumbass nevadans. I'm stuck is this armpit town for one more year, then Im GONE
Whew--As a new resident of Nv. I hated the thought of being embarrassed by Angle and her antics. Congrats Harry--I'm proud of my vote and think our best days are still ahead thanks to your seniority. After all like it or not that's the way our government operates-- on seniority. No matter what Angle tried to do she would have changed nothing.
My prediction: Angle will now go after Ensign's seat.
But how about this for brilliant commentary?
"Just remember Nevada, it's you who has to live here". Thank you Captain Obvious. Most Nevadans are already quite aware that we HAVE to live in...Nevada.
"A boycott is already in place". Thanks. Please, just stay away.
Maybe government-hater Crazy Angle can parlay her 15 minutes of fame into a midnight call-in talk show on a low-watt Elko AM radio station ... for extra income to supplement her husband's BLM government pension.
good job nv...more unemployment and foreclosures. can't wait to start picking up property from you idiots at pennies on the dollar in a few years
This nation is coming out of the recession now and the republicans take back the house at a great time for them to claim that they turned it around, I hear these people here on this blog saying it's going to get worse but when it doesn't they will be the first to say "Look what we did we got us out of it" so tell me now is it going to get worse with the republican house or is it going to get better because you cant have it both ways.
I'm obviously disappointed by this, but I take consolation in the fact that the Republicans have won the House in a landslide, picking up over 60 seats.
Congratulations Senator Reid, you have retained your seat, but I hope you recognize from the House change that Americans want to go in a different direction than you have been heading in.
For everyone else, look at the Modern Whigs. :) ( http://www.modernwhig.org )
Here's a good article for you morons to read. Also look up Barney Frank and how he said Fannie and Freddie were too big to fail, and how they forced banks to lend to idiots that couldn't pay a light bill or force billions in law suits. That's the only reason we're in this mess.
National debt increased 42% under Democrat controlled Congress
January 26th, 2010 11:45 am ET.When the Democrats regained control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 -- that's $8.67 trillion.
In the three years Pelosi and the Democrats have been in charge, the national debt has grown to $12,302,465,487,917.34 -- that's $12.30 trillion.
Since Pelosi and the Democrats regained control of Congress $3,631,869,244,944.30, or $3.63 trillion, has been added to the national debt. That is a increase in three years the Democrats have controlled Congress.
The Democrat controlled Congress gets the credit for the soaring national debt because under the Constitution, Congress controls the purse strings:
Article I, Section. 8.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
After losing the Massachusetts Senate seat that was long-held by a Kennedy, the Democrats want us to think they are concerned about their profligate spending. President Obama is talking about a so-called spending freeze on a relatively small portion of next year's federal budget, and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is talking about trying to toughen budget rules to make it more difficult to run up the deficit.
The Democrats are willing to freeze "discretionary" spending starting next year because they increased the spending on this portion of the federal budget by nearly 10% this year. And at the same time the Democrats talk about controlling spending they are trying to increase the limit on the national debt by another $2 1.9 trillion.
The Congressional Democrats have adopted President Obama's governing technique of saying one thing while doing another. This attempt to be on both sides of an issue, to have both it ways, has become one of the two prime directives of Obamaism. The other is blame Bush.
Republicans, I suggest that you do not visit Las Vegas this year. Union, union, union!
I want a concession speech from Mrs. Angle!!!
C'mon Sharron, MAN UP!!!!!!
You know, I've been dropping 10-20K in Vegas for years. Guess I'll be hitting the Carib. from now on. Enjoy your unemployment and foreclosures.
I'm not thrilled with Harry Reid winning but at least it's better than getting stuck with Sharron Angle.
Sgt. Rock = sorehead
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the secondary market they don't make loans! They buy them from the first market.
Me and you can not get a loan from Fannie Mae or freddie Mac.
"Blown away by Sandoval"? Sandoval won by the same margin of votes that Harry beat Sherron. I guess that means that Angle was "blown away" by Reid. A bunch of black hair dye and a pretty smile do not a governor make. Thankfully Sandoval will be a figurehead and the State may yet be salvaged by the people who do the real work of running it. We will have a governor who literally cannot string three words together without a speech writer or teleprompter. Have you ever seen this guy Sandoval at work as a judge? Pathetic.
That's odd -- didn't GOP polling outfit Rasmussen show Crazy Angle winning easily by 3%?
Hmmm ...
Let this be a lesson to you TeaBagger/Republicants. Just because you believe a thought in your peabrains is true, DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!
Thousands of sportsbetters put money on their "LOCK" only to discover there's no such thing.
Sharron Angle was LOCK. Yeh, right.
@bubbadog1
I heard Atlantic city has some decent joints...good riddance.
@Sharon Angle
I want a concession speech!!!!!
@lifeizzzuhhhbeach...you saw the results in the House right? possible split in the Senate??? Ok...It looks like we won and you will continue to lose by keeping that jack ass. I live in Texas, thank God......so you can STFU.
I love it. Who would actually BRAG about dropping 10-20K in Vegas?
In your faces, teabagtards! Look at what your arrogance, mudslinging, and carpet bombing the city in fugly signs and robocalls have gotten you all : nothing but the sting of defeat on the heels of overconfidence. Go back to the cave where you came from, angle and all of her supporters. You will not be missed.
We can thank the tea-baggers for this one. Reid would have probably lost to anyone other than Angle. Reid is not my ideal senator, but Angle would have been a disaster for the state.
Reid -- the most powerful man in the Senate, or a back bencher who would have been a laughing stock to both Republicans and Democrats. A no-brainer.
She lost any chance of my vote with her stance on forcing raped women to bear a child -- making lemonade as she called it. Moron.
Now we only have one embarrassment in the Senate -- Mr. Family Values John Ensign, who can't keep his zipper up.
Congratulations to Harry Reid! Nevada NEEDS you & we know you will continue to work hard for us. :-)
I hope every one of you who voted for 6 more years of Prince Harry Reid continue to enjoy your forclosures and the high unemployment. I live in Arizona and I will NOT be coming to Vegas to spend my money as long as you IDIOTS keep voting him back into office. You wanted him and you got him. I hope you enjoy him. You people make me sick. You had a chance to have real change. And you blew it!!!!!! Have fun collecting unemployment!!!!!!
I notice most of the usual right-wing posters who guaranteed Angle would win aren't commenting. Have you all just become unemployed?
How did you want your crow? Raw, rare, well-done?
Hey RobAZ! You should worry about Sheriff Joe ripping you off.
I love the soreheads posting here tonight. They actually thought the Crazy Angle had a chance.
Bwaaahahahahahahahah!
Angle doesn't seem to be making the concession call. Sheesh.
Can we get an adult with real qualifications to challenge Ensign?
Tonight is definitely a good night for Nevada! Batshiz crazy Angle can go back to her cave.
My 15 year old daughter watches one TV show per week. She saw an Angle ad on TV and asked me: "Mom, how can anyone seriously believe that Harry Reid was personally responsible for their foreclosure?" Honey, they can believe anything that allows them to blame someone else for their stupidity.
Wait... is it a forclosure? Why not forkloshur? Sheesh. The folks in the forward thinking state of Arizona must spell differently than we do.
Where is chunky? C'mon Chunky tell us what you think? The one thing in common for Chunky and Mrs. Angle is Cankles...LOL
That's what Gaskin thinks.
@Mrs. ANGLE
Concession Speech!!!! WHere is it?
Concession speech will come on at 0300 when nobody is watching.
HARRY, HARRY, HARRY, HARRY!
HARRY REID IS THE MAN!
WOW! WOW! WOW!
The middle class won tonight.
Harry had a nice, solid 5 point win.
We won't let the crazy teabaggers ruin our
country.
Nevada and the United States won tonight.
Where did all the hatemongers go? hope you did not jump out your windows..............YES WE DID!
There won't be a concession speech. Angle does not have the grace.
Go to Angles web site and demand a concession speech
If we are doomed it is because our new governor is completely inept.
Congratulations to Sen. Reid on winning his re-election.
What his re-election shows however is that Nevadans have not felt the sting of the scourge deeply enough.
In the course of the human condition one finds that civilization and preservation are the (welcome) aberrations, while destruction and decay are the rule. Nevada has, whether wittingly or unwittingly, chosen decay and demise.
The reason why on balance the Republicans won so stunningly tonight, or why the resistance to Obama has been so inflamed, is because that resistance is the voice of nature.
The human being desires self-preservation and the preservation of those he or she loves. Anything that threatens that preservation will, sooner or later, be resisted. Further: the human being would prefer comfort to privation. Not mere life, but the sweet and good life, is to be preferred.
Property is necessary for self-preservation. Property is at least in part the making of one's hands, heart, and head. Your property is a marker and result of the limited number of hours you have to yourself in this life. Without labor and property, one has nothing to defend or nothing to defend oneself with against necessity and the predations of wicked men. He who holds your bread, holds you.
Thus, attacks on property are attacks on the individual. Such attacks will be resisted, especially by human beings accustomed to acquiring and keeping their property. To give up that resistance, we would have to fundamentally alter the human condition. But this is impossible, even with coercion, though men have tried all throughout the 20th century to do just that -- with infinite war and millions of the dead to show for it.
Nature is stronger than you, than Reid, than this Congress, this President. Nature -- the resistance of human nature -- will have her revenge, in one way or another and calling it a 'teab*gger' or commanding it to, as the Leftists so eloquently put it, in the calming tone of wise discourse, "STFU", will not quite do against nature. For in due time the effects of Reid's policies will continue to sting and lacerate, for they are against nature, seeking, as they do, to take property away from the individual and to deny the individual autonomy; you will cry out for relief; and then Nature will say to you, Leftist, "I won, you lost: STFU."
Reid has won, Nevada and our Nation have lost.
PuttieTang, don't you have a local newspaper you can hang out? It might be more to your liking. Hint, go away.
NOTHING you say mean crap....YOU LOST!
"You toads in Nevada remind me of the Marxist who used a sledge hammer to put out the fire in his hair. Stupidity knows no bounds when it comes to Nevada. Hairy Reed did nothing for your state except enrich himself at your expense. The GOP house will stop any attempt by Hairy Reed to send you money to help pull you idiots out of the toilet. You are doomed and you deserve it, you pitiful Marxist boobs." - puttietang
Way too much butthurt in one paragraph, it's making me laugh too hard. What's your address? So I can send you a box of tissues. The waterworks here are intense!
LAwSX. Nice try. Seriously doubt the Republicans have any intention of "altering the human condition". And try as I may, I cannot see health care for children as a policy "against nature". However, you are clearly in possession of some seriously potent herb and I hope you enjoy it.
Aside from your atrociously cheesy renaming of dirty harold reid(see i can do it too! I must be a political genius), the entirety of puttie's pitiful post reeks is illogical, outdated 1950's communism fear tactics, and divisive drivel that needs OH SO BADLY to be shut out of our public discourse.
I thank my lucky stars that sanity prevailed and you teabagtards can go back to the bat caves where you came from.
I hope Angle makes a concession soon and isn't busy readying her second amendment remedies she threatened!
Man up, Sharron, and concede!
No LawsX, your greed lost.
Your latino bashing backfired, now all you hatemongering bigots can go back to your caves with sharon and don't come out for another fifty years....BYE
Go Harry!!!
Unfortunately, Crazy Angle does not have many options for career advancement after this crushing defeat. Still, her 15 minutes of fame lasted way, way longer than anyone imagined.
And it's doubtful she'll be able to land a gig at Fixed News like half-term Palin did after quitting on her Alaskan constituents.
So I guess this means good bye (tears ...) to the most bizarre lunatic we've ever seen in politics.
Years from now it's something to can tell the grandchildren about, like lawn darts and dial telephones. She's one for the (dark) ages, alright.
Dodged that bullet.
Second amendment remedy to the ready!!
Oh dear, I hope this doesn't mean she is going to shoot herself?
Hard to see such bullies become such cry babies..blaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,bla,bla..where's my mommy and where is crazy sharon.
Congratulations Senator Reid and congratulations to the sane Nevada voters who averted a disaster for our state tonight.
Enjoy your third world status Nevada. You and California voted for the people who are bringing you third world status and you deserve it.
We will contact all of our representatives and demand that they do not bail out Nevada and California. If they do, they are out in 2012.
We are sick of underwriting people who are not willing to take care of their own lives. That is just what you voted for by backing Reid in NV.
We will not support you any longer. Enjoy your lose of homes and income.
You voted for it.
I forgot about Heidi Harris. Take out the trash day??? Yep!
Sharron will be on the curb in the morning.
Thank you Nevada!
The fight is over.
Results: An Overwhelming Victory for Conservatives
The fight is over. The battle has been won. Although we did not reach the local victories that we wanted, proves a recent study that said Nevada was among the most stupid, having the dumbest citizens. That proved true today without a shadow of doubt.
The people of Nevada are stupid. At least those who sided with the political misfits like Harry Reid, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie and Clark County Commissioners.
But, the people of Clark County have voted and they've got their winners, but it means nothing.
Brian Sandoval will be our new governor. Laurie Bisch will still be a better cop to us than the current misfit.
But Conservative won across the nations. Although there have been pockets of well-established Liberals holding their forts, they are useless and mean nothing.
Nancy Pelosi has lost her job. She's gone. She's worthless and will be of no value or treat to anyone.
Barrack Obama has has his teeth pulled. He will go down in history as the worst president of the United States of America. He's virtually finished as meaningful politician, not that he ever was one.
Harry Reid, although he won by a slim margin, he won by deception and dishonestly as he always had been. He won with the help of a Ultra-Liberal rag, the Las Vegas Sun spreading fear and propaganda among the people, especially seniors. Harry Reid may be a winner in Clark County, but that is the only place he is a winner.
Wow, hate to burst your bubble ( I mean delusion) but some of us who campaigned and voted for Harry Reid are non-union professionals. How do you know that the person you are calling a Marxist tonight is not the very same person you will visit tomorrow to beg for a refill for your Oxycontin for "back pain"?
Harry Reid has lost his power... all of it. He is now as powerful as an acorn dropped from a tree on the ground before a deer.
Nevada is much like New York in that all of the political power remains in a single city, in New York it is New York City and in Nevada, Las Vegas.
But even with their might and their bleating, lies and distortion, Liberalism in America has been defeated.
The real losers are the local Clark County people. But then they made a choice at the polls, and they will reap the consequences of their ignorance.
But while the Las Vegas Sun rushes to the press with bragging rights that a great victory has come over Clark County and Las Vegas, especially for Harry Reid, the propaganda machine of dark voices failed to realize they are now a nobody.
As of this writing, for this election, Senate Democrats now only hold 50 seats and Republicans 47, a huge loss for Democrats and by morning Harry Reid could lose his job as Senate Majority Leader. He's certainly lost all of his power.
The House Democrats hold only 191 seats and the Republicans 244. That means Nancy Pelosi is history and no longer Speaker.
In the Governors race the Republicans mopped up, including in Nevada where Brian Sandoval won, beating out Rory Reid. Across the nation Democrats only won 18 seats and Republicans a whopping 31.
When one does the math, that means Liberals have lost Congress and are now virtually powerless.
That's an enormous change in the power structure of America. The American people have spoken and in 2012 they will eliminate the last of the renegades.
In two years, the American people will most likely kick out of the White House the worst president in American history.
And then America can get back on the road to recovery by repairing the harm those that were kicked out of office caused our nation.
HOPE WON over hate,fear,ignorance and stupidity.
We've already survived the worst president and worst 8 years in American history.
An objective observer would say this was less a victory for Reid than it was a defeat of Angle, that it was less a statement of retaining the Senate for the Democrats than it was a statement of retaining the Senate Majority Leader for Nevada.
You teabag chuckle heads, you were led down the garden path by the Svengali snake charmers of the 6 hate talk radio stations in town. These little pipsqueaks on the radio think they were something other than the carping magpies they really are, festering on the sidelines of politics.
Look at their low ratings. They preach to a choir of losers and haters. They don't see beyond their own bigoted noses.
Then there are the out of sorts cud-chewers at the Arkansas controlled newspaper. A trillion dollars spent on Iraq and what did we get? A super-sized Iran. Of course it is a lost war and the approval for the Afghanistan War is 25%. You think your endorsed dingbat would have done anything for Nevada? She couldn't even deal with a TV reporter asking her about foreign policy.
Poor channel 8 banned from a gathering of losers. And look at the "Mason Dixon" poll. If you were a Black person would you even pick up the phone for Mason Dixon? You might as well call it the "Amos and Andy Poll." Or some Frank Luntz/Rasmussen garbage. Why don't you ask for your money back? Your pollsters fed you the crap you wanted to eat.
There was no way Angle would win, that's why the Reid people went after the "Chicken Lady." Where is she anyway. Did she endorse the other "chicken Lady?" who ran away from the press?
And an objective observer would say that turning around the failed policies of 8 years of Republican rule is going to take more than 2 years.
Mr. Raza most likely has it right.
For those of you reading this comments who were thoroughly disgusted with what we had to choose from, I strongly suggest you look at what the Modern Whigs have to say.
Just imagine what might have happened if we had a candidate from that party to choose from.
The modern whig-nuts
The lazy republicans can't complain anymore, they now have the house and can't say no anymore..so the lazy bums republicans have no excuse and as I predicted Harry Reid would win tonight..the republicans would lose the house and more come 2012.
No surprise that Reid supporters show such class in "victory". Las Vegas lives up to its name as being the nation's "dumbest", voting for a man who votes against their own interests and is essentially a puppet for a President who urges Americans to stay away from Las Vegas and contribute to the difficult economy locally. Apparently, Nevadans want more economic hardship, socialist policies and overpaid government bureaucrats. Congratulations you get just what you want and you reap what you sow.
At least some parts of the country can see the tyranny that threatens this nation, as evidenced by the record gain in the House of Representatives (yet Berkeley is still there wow). Florida looks better and better...
I guess the small minds can be influenced by those negative ads. They painted Angle as a crazy person by using out of context quotes and relying on the average person not understanding the issues.
Just so you know, it's not the congress's job to create jobs, but to provide policies that allow businesses to prosper and grow.
Social Security is not sustainable, phasing it out and moving to other things is needed and will eventually happen.
Mismanaged companies shouldn't be rewarded with special favors by politicians (e.g. saving city center). They should go under and let another well run group take it over on penny's on the dollar (all those people would still end up with a job only with a better managed company). We'll see how long until city center is underwater again.
on and on...
Clark and Washoe Counties to Sharron Angle: "Sell crazy somewhere else...we're all full here!"
Sanity rules the day, thank God... and it wasn't even close. But the fact that Angle could get over 40% of the vote should make Nevadans rather mistrustful of one another; that the family down the street nearly sent a stupid AND insane person with incredible hatred to DC is a national embarrassment.
Boy, these teabaggers are sure poor losers.
"Thank you Nevada for once again proving the polls wrong. When will they start to call cell phone people? Remember the RJ polls had him down by 4% in the last poll."
Thank you Nevada for proving, that there is no such a thing as democracy in the US, no such a thing as free press and a eloctorate who will consider this a progress and make a party.
Thesunwill got it right... although I'd say more than 'hope' it was a proven track record and genuine hard work for NV that won the day. How the state could even consider discarding the speaker, THE top job in the House, after all that he is done is simply mind-boggling. And to a nut-job! But it doesn't matter now.
After reading all these comments I see that Teabaggers are very sore losers lol ....Nobody likes you guys lol
Since when did Sherman Fredericks comment on this blog as "Cliff Harrison"?
Lets band together and support our Democrats in the state Assembly and Senate to prevent the Republicans and Governor Sandogibbons from taking more money from the salaries of Nevada middle-class families by reducing their pay or laying them off. We can't cut ourselves out of this recession.
SHARRON THE TRIBE HAS SPOKEN
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - 1 (won)
Bitter, Deranged Teabggers - 0 (zero)
Saaaaaaaaaawwwwweeeeeeettttttt !!!
O'Donnell of Delaware: "I am not a ... witch."
Crazy Angle of Reno: "I am not much of anything ... except a loser."
Guess who all I voted for ????
I voted for :
The RAIDERS to cover.....
The COLTS to cover.....
The BUCS to cover.....
The JAGS to cover.....
The LIONS to cover.....
The CHIEFS to cover.....
The SAINTS to cover.....
The BRONCOS to cover.....
The RAMS to cover.....
The TITANS to cover.....
The PATRIOTS to cover.....
The PACKERS to cover.....
The DOLPHINS to cover.....
THATS WHO I VOTED FOR !!!!!!!!
Placed 10 out of 13 including a 6 team parlay hit (9 out of 12 mix) for a nice return on my campaign contributions.
Sharron too "extreme", jobs not my problem, wake up! you lose.
And the above comments is the direct result of poor education, a system which Harry Reid is responsible for.
You act like you have won, but what did you win Nevada?
Unemployment, foreclosures, crime, education, traffic, drugs, corruption, everything about this state is horrible.
There is an old saying, if nothing changes, nothing changes. So expect more of the same. Frankly I thought you all were tired of the foreclosures, crime, education, traffic, drugs, and corruption but its clear you are not.
Reid has done all he can do, otherwise why hasn't he done it?
FYI I am neither democrat or republican nor conservative or liberal. As well I do not vote. I feel its a pointless process where the majority of the people are clueless and if ever asked any serious question about issues that matter they can never answer correctly.
As well the big victory for the Tea Party was Rand Paul but I wouldn't expect the above commenters to know anything about that.
See ya tomorrow!
Hey now,
Sharron, Rory and Dina should not feel bad at all in this close election....
They were all soooooo close, that they all finished in 2nd Place !!!!!!!!!
Poor Sherman... I'd hate to be his dog tonight.
Too bad many of the posters here found it necessary to change their screen names in order to post a diatribe about the Crazy Cat Lady's demise...
Sanity rules the day.
November 3rd, Harry Reid, Back in charge!!!
Dang, wedo...
THAT was funny!!!
This makes me so happy. I'm am so proud of our state for not falling for Angle's sick, race-baiting ads. Way to go Reid, he's on to fight for Nevada.
The Reid victory also helps me to cope with the loss of Feingold. He was truly for the American people and our civil rights.
You're welcome, Nevadans.
You know, when you vote people expect the best and sometimes receive (ultimately) what they perceive to be the worst. The worst part of this election is the anger it has brought out of every individual both participating and not in this election cycle. You voted, and if your voice was heard then that is one thing, if it wasn't that is another. One simple fact remains that we cannot be changed; Harry Reid is once again senator for Nevada.
Please don't lump all Nevadans in with everyone who voted for Reid. Whether I voted for him or not doesn't make me an idiot. And fortunately I don't have to express whether I did or not, I believe both candidates had something to bring to the table whether it stunk or not. I exercised my rights as a voter and that's what counts.
Whether you feel that you've won or lost isn't the issue, it's time to take control of our elected officials. They work for us, we put them in the offices they have been elected to and we must remind them all that we are a force to be reckoned with. We should be directing all of this energy in writing, calls, emails, etc. to those in charge ensuring that we attempt to prosper as a state and as a country. At this point, it doesn't matter who won the election because it's over. Everyone had their chance to voice their opinions and those of us who took the time out to vote were able to do so.
I've been stressing over this election for months and have had sleepless nights wondering what our future holds only to come to the realization that we (as a people) control our destiny. Our politicians must be put on notice that we run them. While I'm sure many of you feel otherwise, check the constitution. Government is supposed to work for us and not the other way around. So let's start trying to do that by joining as a group and helping our elected officials realize that. It doesn't matter which way you lean, we are all in the same boat paddling in the same direction but yelling at each other as if we all do not know where we are going. We need jobs, we need to fix the home rates and foreclosures, and we need to plug up all the government spending.
I can't help noticing the absence of LarryVegas. Where are you LarryV?
...
I guess he left for Pahrump with all his Rovian slush money.
I checked his post log. LarryV was busy today. He started work with his first post at 8:24AM. About 11 hours, and 69 posts later, at 7:37PM, he made his last post for the day.
Not much point posting after the polls close, and certainly no point in posting now.
Spend that slush money wisely, LarryV. See you next election cycle. You remind me of the safe-cracking department store santa in "Bad Santa". Made all his money in a few weeks, then spent the rest of the year drunk.
Bleat! Bleat!
I am so happy Reid won.
For a while their. I thought we might lose our position of being number 1, in so many wonderful things.
Like unemployment, foreclosures & bankruptcys.
Now we are sure to hold those rankings.
Also it is great to know we will continue to be 50th when it comes to our childrens education.
That way will have plenty of uneducated people to work for the unions & pay dues. So the union leaders can use the dues to line their pockets & to keep re-electing wonderful senators like Harry Reid.
Way to go Nevada. At least our closest state California followed suit. They are 19 Billion in debt now. Wait till the next election & see how much that number has grown too.
But not to worry good old Obama & Harry will have the rest of the nation bail them out.
After all what is a few extra taxes amoungst friends.
Angle, in her concession speech, bragged about all the money that poured into her campaign from out of state -- 94% of it she gushed. She said all those people wanted to help Nevada. Who brags about outside money from people who can't vote in the state you are running in? Who brags about outside sources trying to buy an election? Weirdo Sharron, that's who. We helped ourselves tonight, Mrs Angle, by not letting you winning a Senate seat in Nevada. Hasta la vista, baby.
Good News Nevada.
We are not going to bail you out. We won't visit your state.
You voted for the worst of the Dems and now you will get to see how that works out for you.
Third world status for Nevada. It's what they voted for and they will get it.
People in Nevada must have a death wish.
Highest unemployment and most foreclosures on houses and yet they voted for Reid.
And yet they celebrate because the voted in the guy go got them into this situation.
How dumb are the people who live in Nevada?
Voted for your own demise...just like the stupid Obama voters in IL.
Live with it.
No more money from the rest of the U.S. to bail you out.
Learn how to live with your selves and make your own money.
At the MGM and Harrahs they were trying who voted and not voted and were placing ungodly pressure on those who did not vote.
That does not sound legal to me.
At the MGM and Harrahs they were tracking who voted and not voted and were placing ungodly pressure on those who did not vote.
That does not sound legal to me.
Whiny Teabagged Republicant sore losers ... boo hoo hoo ...
Man-up! F@&%@+% losers!
Sgt Rock, it is NOT LEGAL. Get proof, witnessess and contact the Justice Department and FBI.
Skerlahdee. Your conduct and name calling and hatred is the exact reason all the kids are involved in bullying. You Liberals teach them.
Now let me guess. You are a teacher. A government worker. A retired government worker. Or you live on welfare. Or all of the above.
Bull's Eye!
Only an ignorant herd follower would say the Tea Party and Republicans lost. They WON tonight. They re-took the House and dominated the Governors races and are only four seats shy of re-taking the Senate. But keep drinking your Kool-Aid and following the herd while bleating.
What a freaking joke. Nevadans...hang your heads. America is completely ashamed of these results. You allowed a corrupt freak of the progressive party (no, that is not a good thing, duh...?)to continue his putrid ways.
How many votes did he steal? How many illegals voted? Disgusting.
Wise man of politics says:
"Voters need someone to vote FOR not just someone to vote against...."
Will Reid take anything from the fact that 1/2 of his state not only voted against him, but did so in a blistering fashion evidencing enormous disrespect for his voting record?
Roger Sherman in 1787 forged the Connecticut Compromise to make sure the U.S. Senate voices would loudly and forcefully speak for the rural, less populated parts of American society so they would not be "out numbered".
In Nevada (and a few others states) we have exactly the opposite: the polarization of our political parties has gotten so extreme and Senators re-election efforts now so skew whom they think their "political base" is that, as of today (again) Nevadans have a guy who neither speaks for nor represents 1/2 of Nevada as its U.S. Senator.
Blame modern politics where people go to Washington and think they're supposed to stay for life. Instead of representing what the people in their State believe in, they become part of a broader power base and their survival and re-election comes at all costs.
Roger Sherman and the founders in America would cringe in digust if they saw this as the model of the modern U.S. Senate.
Won't be visiting Nevada anytime soon. Won't be visiting any Nevada based gaming venues in the Midwest, South, or River based properties. Have already seen the "Boycott Harrah's" signs in Tunica.I thought Mississippi was the least educated populace in the country. Congratulations Nevada for now holding that distinction.
The lesser of 2 evils..
Libby and rebelbigjohn why don't you go to Harrah's and get married? You seem like a match made in heaven.
And CliffHarrison, did you not get enough bullying in from grade primary to grade 12? Do you really need to continue it well into your adult years? If only I COULD live on welfare and be happy, I would do it just to spite you. I'll settle for teaching political theory at a state college near you (who knows, your kids might end up in my class someday...and I'll 'indoctrinate' them with the liberal ideas of Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill. You'd better send them to BYU).
It's a beautiful day here in Nevada!
So glad Angle didn't win. Are we now going to hear about election fraud from the losing side?
I thought it was just the leadership that was corrupt in Nevada, now, i see its many of the constitutents. Thugs & thieves thicker than blood.
Nevada & reid deserve more, take pelosi to.
Get ready for more of the same,Nevada.
Hey Cliff would you like some cheese with that wine? For months all we've heard from the Tea Partyers is things like "Send Harry back to Searchlight" or "Dump Reid" yet when push came to shove the man who has always had the best interest of Nevada on his agenda won. Why? Because he knew his voters, he knew people would support him based on what he did to fight against Yucca Mountain and the mining industry, throw in saving all the jobs at City Center and MGM. Getting all that Federal money to improve our roads and build the new terminal at McCarron.
I always expected Reid to win but I never anticipated he'd get 50% of the vote. I didn't vote for him because I knew that none of these candidates was more a vote against the crazy lady then it was for Reid. All you need to do is understand that Angle lost about 15% of the Republican vote in this state to understand why she lost. Throw in her borderline racist comments and commercials towards Latinos and you see why Nevada stood up to her fear mongering and voted Reid in for another 6 years.
The GOP in Nevada screwed up big time, their fatal flaw was thinking that "A ham sandwich could beat Reid" an actual comment I saw on a bumper sticker. The reality is maybe a ham sandwich could have beaten Reid but their candidate and all of her hate and extreme agendas couldn't. What an absolutely crushing defeat for that party in this state to go from double digits leads in polls before the primary to losing by 5% speaks of an epic fail. Had they just not picked somebody who was so far to the right we'd be celebrating a new Senator for our state. Maybe they'll learn from their mistakes but I am happy to say on 11/03/2010 that I am proud of Nevada for not allowing that crazy lady to represent us in Washington DC.
More government is obviously desperately needed by the masses. Maybe a "green" job will come your way. Don't count on it.
One of the Mama Grizzlies (Sharon)hasn't been seen or heard. That in itself is telling the real kind of person she is when she lacks the grace to admit defeat.
"I thought it was just the leadership that was corrupt in Nevada, now, i see its many of the constitutents."
The old snake is quite inventive in its ways.
Thanks a lot, you pitchfork-waving "true conservative" loons in the Nevada GOP. Because of your abject stupidity in nominating the weakest candidate you could have possibly nominated in Sharon Angle, we will now have to look at Harry Reid's ugly mug in the US Senate for another SIX YEARS! This race should have been a walkover for the GOP. When will you absolutist, litmus-testing morons learn that ELECTIONS ARE WON AT THE CENTER, NOT AT THE FRINGE!?!?
So once again, thanks a bunch from the rest of America, you f@$#@* idiots.
Crazy NEVER wins!!! Angle and O'Donnell are prime examples!!!
Angle to go back to depending on her husband's fed pension!!!
Lap Dogs everywhere celebrating!!
Here in Boston it is good to see another person in the news who believes America owes us immigrant everything. Harry Reid will make sure that all illegals like me get averything they want. I wanted a house and Mass. gave me free housing, a car, cell phone, food stamps. I was even put at the front of the line for my apartment because America owed it to me. Now Harry can make surew all the other (il)legal immigrants get the same thing. Now America, I want to be president, like my nephew Barak and I want it NOW!
Thanks for wising-up Nevada!!!
"When will you absolutist, litmus-testing morons learn that ELECTIONS ARE WON AT THE CENTER, NOT AT THE FRINGE!?!?"
Crazy NEVER wins!!!
For this reason there wasn't any election.
All one has to do is read the comments here by the Cons (Cliff, Serf, Rock, Libby, gogo posting under 5 different names, etc.) to see why they lost. The will of the Nevada people have spoken. The hateful, spiteful, racist teabags do not represent our state. But that won't stop them from claiming their views represent the 'will of the people'. LOL.
Got to love the teatards collectively screaming 'boycott'. Less than 5 mins. after the race was called some kook was on here saying his company called and is pulling their convention. Or the moron declaring his annual tourism dollars are going to the Caribbean. LOL, you just can't make these clowns up.
And Cliffy boy, yes the Reps had a very good day. However, the reality is the teabaggers lost more than half of their races, and the biggest teatard nutjobs - Angle, McDonnell, Rossi, Buck, Miller, Paladino - all lost.
Once again, thanks teabaggers...Reid couldn't have won this election without YOU! The Senate would have turned Red today were it not for YOU! Man that's gotta burn.
Congratulations Harry Reid!
Thank you Nevada!
Rasmussen polls: to please your rightwing masters, you've totally undermined your credibility. Almost all Democrats did better than the polls reported they would.
A comment from an other newspaper:
"The tea party mentality has just about destroyed the GOP ..."
The powers in be have just about destroyed democracy (or whats have been left of it).
Hows that lesson you taught the media Angle? At least now they will leave you alone.
@jayhawkinATL:
Crazy sometimes does win. Look at Bachmann and Paul.
Casinos did it by threatening their workers. Shame.
Here comes that stupid train to Victorville. Follow the $$$.
http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/2...
Wow .... so much projection from the right wing on this thread; so much disconnect; so much cognitive dissonance.
And to those who are screeching about never coming here again, well, first, I doubt any of you ever DID come here. Second, no one really cares. Third, if you're of the mind to not visit a state (any state) because of who its ELECTED representatives are, then perhaps you need to take a look at yourselves and try to understand just why you are such shallow, simple-minded, dare-I-say ignorant people.
To those who "hope" that Reid "now works with the opposition", were you all "hoping" that the republicans were going to work with the democrats when they controlled both houses of Congress? Somehow I doubt it. More disconnect.
Finally to those out-of-staters who feel compelled to grace us with their "informed opinions" of us: Sorry you're so unhappy with the person we elected. Perhaps you'd all care to let us know in which state(s) you reside so we can comment on your choices for elected office and grant you the wisdom of our opinions of you. Just a thought.
chrisgold: National Review? Elizabeth Crum? Seriously?
Wasn't there a Michael Weiner link you could have provided?
Now for sure Las Vegas gets the steel wheel train to nowhere. Way to go!
He got 50% of the vote. That means 1 out 2 people in the room didn't vote for him. He has no real support other than Unions and Casinos. He was losing until he pressured casinos to charter shuttle busses to the polls. That is sad. Nevada will continue to go downhill I'm afraid. Think they will raise casino taxes now?
http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/2...
Thanks, teabaggers! You idiots are the greatest.
"And Cliffy boy, yes the Reps had a very good day. However, the reality is the teabaggers lost more than half of their races, and the biggest teatard nutjobs - Angle, McDonnell, Rossi, Buck, Miller, Paladino - all lost."
You forgot to say, that Rubio would lose too, if Clinton managed to take down his democratic opponent out of the race and get the polls closer.
The GOP got teabagged big time!
But not to forget:
"For the first time in my adult life, I'm REALLY proud of my state."
"This is a great day for Nevada."
"It's a beautiful day here in Nevada!"
And people will party ...
"The GOP got teabagged big time!"
I dare to predict, thats it's the other way round, because now it's clear what you're about.
Actually SgtRock, you are lying or just listening to someone who's lying. I know that Harrah's was not "placing ungodly pressure on those who did not vote". They were offering employees the opportunity to vote and providing transportation to employees who needed a ride.
There's a word you need to look up in the dictionary: Voluntary.
Now that this is all over, I wonder if all the people that said they would leave Nevada if Sen. Reid won re-election will "Man Up" and leave?
Well, Sharron, it looks like it's time for you to make lemonade out of a lemon situation!
Good-bye and good riddance!!!
Not once... but FOOLED FIVE TIMES. Ya can't make it up. Obama's socialist lap dog lives to try and do more damage than he already has. This move will cost the state dearly in tourism dollars because the majority of the country has come to hate Dirty Harry.
No - it's the beginning.
Vegas has turned into San Fransico! They vote and keep voting for those liberals that ruin thier city. People are laughing at Vegas today and many won't be visiting in the future.
The ONLY winner today in Vegas are the corrupt thug unions.
... of the storm.
Glad to see that enough people in Nevada were thinking clearly.
No biggie. By the looks of the old geezer, I would be surprised if he can finish another term..
Nevada has once again lived true to its title of dumbest place in the US. Welcome to four more years of nation-leading unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, etc.
Haha Patricia absolutely owned this thread... nice job Patricia.
I love the people who point out that Reid ONLY got 50% of the vote. I didn't realize we changed the laws of elections that said you needed to win a certain percentage, he got more votes then Angle and that's all that matters. Did you guys cry in 2000 when Bush only got 47% of the vote? Probably not because you voted for him. Why don't you point out that about 15% of registered Republicans didn't vote for Angle?
I can see the Tea Whiners still haven't gotten off their racists soapboxes. They lost so obviously it's because of the illegal aliens that voted. Forget the fact that Angle mocked Latinos and told them to not bother voting.
I'm glad to see that Reid winning in Nevada has soured the party by the Tea Partiers. All we heard for months was how Angle and the Tea Party Express were going to retire Reid. Better put the champagne on ice.
In the case of Reid, make that six more years of misery for Nevada.
"No biggie. By the looks of the old geezer, I would be surprised if he can finish another term ..."
No biggie. Democracy as such is a decadence form of goverment (though it's hard to grasp for the deluded masses) and it will be replaced in a future not too far away.
It seems that Republicans have grasped defeat from the jaws of victory.
I saw this posted elsewhere:
"They see their own state fall into ruin, move someplace better, and yet retain the voting habits that help speed their previous state into ruin."
And after reading the letters to the editor for the past 17 years, I have to agree. We WERE "someplace better" now, we're not!
And it looks like we won't be for at least 6 more years.
At least we're not "someplace better" anymore, so hopefully the people who keep ruining their own states will go elsewhere when their ideas to better their state{s} cause them to seek greener pastures!!!
Teabaggers lost the Senate seat in Colorado too.
Good job, teabaggers!
To Cliff Harrison:
I take exception to you saying the people of Nevada are stupid. Just because the Republicans have a majority in the House it does not mean they can pass the Tea Party agenda. The House can pass all the bills they want and without Senate concurrence, they will die without becoming laws. The Democrats in the Senate can filibuster Republican bills too! And the final road block to all Republican bills, President Obama. He can veto any bill and the Republicans don't have the 2/3rds majority to override. Will the Republicans do the right thing and pursue tax cuts and try to improve the economy and to cut spending or will they waste all their time trying to overturn healthcare reform and failing and trying to have Constitutional amendments making English the official language, banning abortion, and banning flag burning . Also, you are assuming that Harry Reid won't be the Senate Majority leader. Remember, the Republicans won big in 1994 and in 1996, Clinton was re-elected. If the Republicans can offer up a moderate candidate in 2012 they could win back the White House but I doubt they will, they will offer up someone like Sahara Palin and lose again. President Obama has a long way to go to be a worst President than George W. Bush. I didn't notice G. W. out stumping for Republicans this elections cycle. Probably because the Republicans did not want the voters to be reminded of Bush's failed administration!
The teabaggers didn't lose anything, because the powers in be will lose their power in the end.
Are you the only one left who doesn't get that calling us "Teabaggers" only strengthens our will?
I didn't name call. No need when I pointed out what I observed.
Like cussing, name calling diminishes you, not me.
Sharron Angle: get lost. Sharron Angle supporters: crawl back to whatever hole you crawled out of.
The revolution starts here.
My GOD, 50% of you people in Nevada are VERY, VERY stupid!
Thanks teabaggers for helping to reelect Sen. Reid.
We couldn't have done without having Crazy Angle on the ballot, the most unelectable candidate in Nevada history.
Thanks again!
It was God's plan that Angle would have her butt handed to her!!
Sgt. crawl back under the Rock, the Reid the ADULT is STILL IN CHARGE!!
Teabaggers...resume your 'baggin somewhere else!!
Yes we are dumb for voting for somebody who isn't going to allow our state to become a waste dump for the nation's nuclear waste and ignoring the fact that it was only 90 miles from out backyards.
Yes we are dumb for voting for somebody who has allowed our mining industry to prosper even in these tough times.
Yes we are dumb for voting for somebody who saved countless jobs at City Center and MGM/Mirage.
I just we're all all dumb in Nevada, thank you for pointing that out DemsRDumb.
No one is aware of God's plans, but God is the best of the planners notacon.
"Americanman:They were offering employees the opportunity to vote and providing transportation to employees who needed a ride."
There were early voting sites at every mall and grocery store in this town, for 2 weeks! Who needs a ride to go vote??? Get real.
They were paying them while they voted? My boss didn't offer me a ride, or say, "hey go vote on my dime." Why are they tracking who voted and who didn't? Why are they spending thousands on busses, but can't keep people employed? Why is the Reid campaign emailing the casinos/unions and offering to call people if it will help? Smells bad to me.
Does the writer understand the term "Machiavellian?" I think not.
"amyshulk; rejoice in the fact that being called a teabagger is the only adjective that the LV sun will allow us to call you."
LOL Good one dipstick!
Why be disturbed about it? Teabaggers are called teabaggers because many of them hang teabags from their hats during those KKK-style hatefest rallies. If other connotations are derived from the name don't blame the messenger.
To all the Reid nay-sayers, get over it !
Senator Reid won and so did the great state of Nevada...
By KCNTJC
Nov. 2, 2010
10:44 p.m.
Recommend @lifeizzzuhhhbeach...you saw the results in the House right? possible split in the Senate??? Ok...It looks like we won and you will continue to lose by keeping that jack ass. I live in Texas, thank God......so you can STFU.
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Your governor wants to secede from the Union. Maybe Sharron might move there -- could probably win something in a state more suited to her extreme ideology and kooky positions.
For the past 10 years my wife and I have made about 5 - 10 trips a year from the east coast to Las Vegas (just got back last Saturday). As a result of the re-election of Harry Reid I will not be spending any more of my money or time in Nevada. Any place full of so many fools that support Harry Reid is a place I just don't want to be.
If you didn't like Ms. Angle, fine - vote for Mickey Mouse - but you people have re-installed one of the biggest problems this country has back to the senate. You deserve your job, bankruptcy and forclosure problems.
P.S. Note to Harrahs & MGM - I won't be spending any more money at your properties either.
amyshulk:
{{Are you the only one left who doesn't get that calling us "Teabaggers" only strengthens our will?}}
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You guys named yourselves, (that moniker was on some of your nascent signs), and even strung tea bags around your hats at your rallies. Don't get mad at the rest of us just because you didn't know that tea bagger had a double meaning.
So because I agree with the platform of the Tea Party I'm to be called a racist? Is that how this works?
I don't assume those who vote for Democrats are akin to the extremists in *their* party - why, that would be like assuming ALL Muslims were terrorists, right?
If I point out I am an Independent who voted for the very 1st time because I saw nothing good, or for that matter, different, in either party until now, will you realize I'm not an extremist?
How are we ever going to get anywhere as a nation if we only hurl invectives at each other???
Nothing to cheer about, we were screwed either way.
scomat wrote:
" As a result of the re-election of Harry Reid I will not be spending any more of my money or time in Nevada..."
Promise?
Chunky says:
More great images by photographer Steve Marcus!
That's what Chunky thinks!
Number one goal of Reid, after jobs, education and infrastructure, should be the Fairness doctrine.
Obama, Clinton, Gore and Kerry won Clark county. Reid wins once again. Do the Nevada radio stations reflect that demographic? NO. you have six Vegas radio stations that represent a far right viewpoint that does not serve the population.
They also tried to suppress voters and lied about the election with their deliberately biased polls.
At least one should represent the sane, rational views of the electorate.
Well Nevada how is that 15% unemployment treating you? I just canceled my reservations to do my continuing education in your state and made reservations to spend a week (and my money) in sunny south Florida.... You had a chance to change the face and the direction of the nation. Stupid is as stupid does.....
I make 5-6 trips a year to LV. Usually spending $3,000 a trip. No more. Reelecting a snake like Harry Reid shows me what kind of character Nevada residents have. Enjoy your 14% unemployment and destroyed housing values. Morons.
@scomat
Thanks for your past support,good luck where ever you go.
"Number one goal of Reid, after jobs, education and infrastructure, should be the Fairness doctrine ..."
Number one goal should be to enjoy the day as long as it lasts, because once the game starts, they'll be finished off pretty quickly.
Great win for Mexic...I mean Nevadans. Can't wait to see those programs implemented that take from the tax producers and give to the tax consumers.
Yes LastThroes - I promise. I'll be going to Trump in Atlantic City and other non-Harrahs, non-MGM properties in Biloxi, Tunica and Atlantic City. Enjoy your unemployment, forclosure and bankruptcy.
"Reelecting a snake like Harry Reid shows me what kind of character Nevada residents have."
Comments like this shows me, what kind of intelligence you have.
Nv is in the toilet because of harry and the dems ,you can bet that we will stay in the toilet for quite a time,at least the doddering old fool will have his hands tied from now on.So all you libs really do not have anything to celebrate,yes harry won,only for himself,he will get richer,we will get poorer.
"I do want to thank the teabaggers for making it possible for the Dems to hold the Senate."
I do want to thank all the out of state commenters for the idea what the real election result was like.
I hear ya on Nixon Dennis - I remember as a kid, walking into the living room where he was talking on tv, and a chill ran down my spine and I thought "BAD MAN"!!! I think I was 8? I know it was before it hit the fan.
People are human - we seem to think that pols/priests/dr's/etc. should somehow be better than the rest of us - not possible, nor probable.
What gets me - the more extremist views of either party rarely see the light of day in legislation, yet those views are highlighted as if the moment that candidate won, we'd suddenly have no more abortion, social security, etc.
Oh wait - Reid did say he was going to try to pass The Dream Act, huh? I guess we *do* have to worry!!!
So I agree with the idea that we NEED a counterpoint to what we have now.
"Well Nevada how is that 15% unemployment treating you? I just canceled my reservations..."
Thanks for not coming, BaggerDoc. You were a bad tipper ($1) anyway.
I guess some of you in Nevada don't appreciate the money spent from us commenting from "out of state". Look back through the comments on this board.... seems to be a common theme from us "outa staters" and that is we won't be spending money in your state. I really don't care what you think but you won't be seeing any of my money any time soon. I hear Orlando is nice this time of year....
If Harry won because of the Hispanics, are they all citizens ? If so why do you call them Mexican imigrants ?
Reid didn't win, his opponet lost. Now we have to put up with the secret back door moves in the senate again just like the Obomacare joke.
sderf
If Republicans are soooo racist, why did they elect Sandoval?
Republican Brian Sandoval made history Tuesday night.....by becoming Nevada's first Hispanic governor.
Way to go Sandoval!
I guess the casinos only backed one Reid.
What a STUPID comment LastThroes. The only reason I would ever tip someone $1 (in nickels) is because the service sucked so bad thats all they deserve. Sounds like you must fit the bill since you have had some personal experience in this regard.
Viva La Mexicanos! Harry's "Dream Act" worked.
Don't hold your breath for him to act now, see you in 2015!
Reid won what exactly????
He will be the majority leader with a slim margin.
He will have to work with the Republican controlled House.
He will have to deal with moderate bills that his liberal base will go crazy if he supports.
He probably will become the minority leader in 2 years.
He has frail health so this probably will be his last term.
Hey Chris I don't think anybody referred to the Republicans as racist but more the Tea Party movement that urged Hispanics to not come out and vote or made comments that Mexicans and Asians look alike. That same element that it is claiming that illegal alieans won the vote for Reid. I don't vote along party lines and checked the person with R next to their name in many of my votes but Angle made her bed along with her backers and now they need to lie in it.
I went to all of Reid's rallies here in Clark County, and I strongly disagree that voters were disenchanted with him. The crowds were huge and enthusiastic. Angle's crowds were enthusiastic but much smaller. Most of those who voted for Reid really like the guy, in spite of what many in the media say. You don't win elections by being unpopular, regardless of how inept your opponent is. "None of the Candidates" was a very small percentage this year, and those were the ones who truly dislike Reid but couldn't see themselves voting for Angle either.
We're in a pitiful state when this jerk is the best we can do. A sad day for Nevavada and a setback for our future.
Thank God for Senator Reid, we are safe today because of him, and the sun shines brightly today here in Nevada for him! For him to have one like this in the HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT AND HIGHEST FORECLOSURE state in the US speaks volumes! Harry is a good man and Nevada is stronger today because of his win!
"HA HA I am saving all the right wing crybaby excuses posted here ..."
HA HA and i am causing an identity crisis of a certain people (the false you know what), because they'll find out soon, that they may be not as chosen, as they believe they are.
The definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome. We know what we're getting with Reid. We know what we get when we allow illegal aliens into our country and fail to enforce immigration laws. The gov employees and illegals that gave Reid this victory think they are safe, but they are fools. Just ask Greece and Europe, sooner or later you have to face the music, pay the piper, "man up" and face the stark reality that WE'RE BROKE AND REID-UNIONS-ILLEGALS are the reason!
On a bright note, funding of bills is a House thing, not a Senate thing, and this conservative victory in the House guarantees that Obamacare is NOT FUNDED in the next 2 years, long enough for the next conservative garbage sweep of our legislature. The only reason both houses was not swept away is simple. Only 1/3 of the Senate was up for re-election! Had they all been up for re-election, the Reps would have taken a 65-35 advantage by some estimates. We'll have to wait 4 years for that number to materialize. Republicans took over 80% in this election, but you won't hear the liberal media tell you that. This was a huge referendum against Obama and Reid, and the result will be TAX CUTS, NO MORE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, NO OBAMACARE, NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS! In 2 years, when the Reps control both houses and the Presidency by a veto proof margin, then we'll work on giving the illegals and unions a ticket to hell.
Angle has filed a lawsuit/complaint. Don't see it in local papers yet.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/111...
a great day. Reid won, Ralston's right, Sherm exposed for the partisan hack that he really is (as opposed to a newspaper publisher), Rasmussen and Mason/Dixon exposed for the frauds they are and apparently SargentCrock is up in arms over something.
what's that I'm smelling? that's right --- victory.
buh bye sharon.
I understand that the majority of Nevadans are insane, I've known that for quite a long time. Every time I go into a convenience store and see what appears to be a bum playing video poker I realize this town is crazy. The fact the local casino's thrive (many locals gamble) is proof the majority of Las Vegas residents are insane. The fact that over 50% of the kids in our public schools were not born here or came from parents who came here illegally and can't even speak English (making the level of education sub par) drives home the point that Las Vegas is FUBAR.
That being said, me and my ilk (successful business owner, financially secure for life, non smoker, non gambler, not sex addict, God fearing conservative, member of NRA and John Birch Society, among other things) are not going to go hungry when unemployment hits 20% in the next 2 years here. We're not going to lose our homes (paid for) or our cars. We're not going to go hungry. We will however cut back on the number of people that work for us when taxes go up to pay for Reids bailouts and other freebies. We'll make those who are left do the work of 2 or get fired. That's the reality. That's what you losers have coming for not being fiscally conservative and obeying gods laws.
Hey Sarge, or Sherm -- or Mitchell --- whoever you are. you've made some very serious allegations. perhaps you should do as suggested and call the FBI. Or are you more of a talker than a do-er. I'm thinking talker since you don't seem to get anything done other than sewing the seeds of hate.
the silver lining with the house going the way it has is that now the republicans will have to do something other than say no. they'll be held accountable for their actions --- or lack thereof. no more sitting on the sidelines whining about how no one likes you.
bwwwwwwhaaaaaaaaaa. what could go wrong Sarge/Sherm/Mitchell?
"I understand that the majority of Nevadans are insane, I've known that for quite a long time ..."
It's currently the most sane state in the US and this will improve.
"Hey Sarge, or Sherm -- or Mitchell --- whoever you are. you've made some very serious allegations. perhaps you should do as suggested and call the FBI ..."
I suggest, that there is no need to hurry and everything will resolve itself when the time comes.
scomat..enjoy the trashy Trump in Atlantic City and the pathetic hick casinos in Biloxi and Tunica. They may even give you a free buffet for you $5 blackjack action!
Real gamblers came to Vegas throughout the times that Reid was our senator, and will continue to.
Muslims go to Mecca, Gamblers go to Vegas!
Now I wonder if Harry will at least get the message. He is despised in his own state with an approval (disapproval) rating at an all time low. He had 45% of his constituents vote for someone with extremely radical agenda. Will Harry still retain his arrogance? Will he finally do something, if anything, for Nevada. Sure he saved CityCenter. He also appointed Heather Murren (Jim's wife) to a federal position. Nice scratching of the back in your commercial Jim. Murren made that commercial not for saving CityCenter but for Harry giving Heather that federal position. Harry has been horrible for Nevada. Hopefully this will serve as a wake up call. And all you liberals can get over yourselves. You ALMOST lost to a nutcase so its not something you should be bragging about. You still have to deal with the fact that half the state can't stand Harry.
When faced with the choice between bad and bad. Nevada voters probably made the correct choice. Ms Angle was neither articulate, nor intelligent. In addition she could not speak extemporaneously. Hopefully, Mr Reid will have listened to the voters and bring home some bacon for the state. MGM and Harrahs should be commended for getting out the vote. In contrast if the Sands and Wynn had done the same the results may have been closer or different.
You Nevada idiots threw away a golden opportunity to rid the State and the Federal Government of a main stumbling block to our economic recovery. What a bunch of Maroons. You know how they say you are what you eat? Well the same holds true for "You are what you vote for"!!!! Chumps
CliffHarrison obviously didn't get the results HE WANTED....Worse yet are ALL THOSE who left their ballot blank or didn't vote at all.
It seems strange to me that the Republicans just realized with this last election cycle that we have approx. 12 million illegals in this country. Who do they think has been taking care of their lawns, cleaning their pools, picking their fruit and vegetables, cleaning their homes, and taking care of their children all these years?
Congratulations, Senator Reid.
GREAT NEWS!
Darn, we were looking forward to those daily full-body massages and spa treatments.
signed,
Nevada's Prison Inmate Population
Still proud to be a Nevadan! Gibbons and Bush ruined this state/country, ruined our economy and are trying to pass it off on anybody they can. Yeah, that George Bush was a real "fiscal conservative". Thanks for the Iraq Wargasm. I know you enjoyed plowing through billions of our tax dollars , but me, not so much.
And no matter how you try to spin it, if your "party" is called the Tea Party, then stop whining when you are call a Tea Bagger. Maybe you should have picked a name for your alliance that does not sound like it was coined by a disaffected 5 year old girl. Yeah, we get it. Tea in Boston Harbor, King Georgie. Big tantrum.
I just hope there are some grownups left in Washington DC. Lead on, Harry Reid!
The private sector folks in Nevada got sold out by Harry Reid and the public and private sector unions. I wonder how that must feel ? If you are a SEIU member or a union stooge , probably pretty good. If you are the average private sector middle class guy living in Nevada, good luck selling your house or finding another job. At least you can rest assured that your tax dollars are providing a comfy living for your union neighbors !
"Now I wonder if Harry will at least get the message. He is despised in his own state with an approval (disapproval) rating at an all time low. He had 45% of his constituents vote for someone with extremely radical agenda. Will Harry still retain his arrogance? Will he finally do something, if anything, for Nevada."
He will carry the rod of iron, of the dude, that is yet to come.
Now if we could only get rid of John Ensign.
MickeyA,
As for the "fiscally conservative" statement, where were you during the Bush Admin. when his tax cuts (that failed to create jobs, by the way), Medicare Bill, and the invasion of Iraq turned a surplus into a deficit? Smacks of hypocrisy, doesn't it?
As for "obeying gods laws", you will NEVER convince me that your "gods laws" were NOT created by human nut-jobs to control the masses while getting rich off tax-free donations (while smoking crack with their gay masseuses).
The "holier than thou" tone of your post is the perfect example of how the religious right seeks to control society with everything but compassion. Ask yourself why there is so much war in the world. Could be because of religion and religious fanatics like you?
How truly tragic for Nevada. Dingy Harry is doing NOTHING for Nevada. A mormon promoting gambling, need I say more ? He is one of the major supporters of the failed Obummer policies. Must be all the Kommiefornians invading Nevada. Disgusting.
To all of the Repubs out there. Remember this all started under a Repub Congress, Repub Senate, and Georgie Boy. They are the ones who gutted the Regulations and Laws, And gave the greedy corporations the right to screw America.
Thankfully Harry is Re-elected, I just hope the Dems go for a different Majority Leader.
Congrats Mr. Reid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtcTM9zZ...
Reason TV says not much will change...
Be very wary of anyone who feels compelled to add to their list of virtues that they are "not a sex addict". Great job, sir. Cutting down your online porn viewing from 10 hours a day to 8 officially makes you NOT a sex addict.
I m a Republican who voted for Reid, i will take him over ignorant TeaHead Republicans like Angle anytime!
Now if we could only get rid of John Ensign...
*sighs*
SENATOR REID: YOU WON'T SEE THIS BUT A RACE WELL WON AND YOUR STATEMENT THAT YOU HAVE WON IN THE STREET, IN THE NEVADA GOVERNMENT AND IN THE U. S. SENATE IS THE MOST PROFECTIC STATEMENT ANY CONGRESSMAN HAS MADE FOR SOME TIME.
> A mormon promoting gambling, need I say more ?
you need to do a little more research to find out why you look like a massive boob for saying that.
Mred,
Fairness doctrine? Are you a fascist? You want to force private companies to spend their money providing a message that few want to hear? That is robbery. Look, the political left doesn't like talk radio - they can't even get their own stations on the air.
If you cant get your ideas to compete FAIRLY in an open market, you cannot use theft and coercion to force them through...ie using Orwellian policies like the "Fairness" Doctrine.
Nevada and California are the biggest jokes in the country highest unemployment, foreclosures, illeagals and corrupt unions taking control of elections. When your state finally goes under it was your choice so don't be asking the rest of the country for a bailout. LOL
I heard on PBS this morning from some person from the PHillipines that Sharon Angle wanted to eradicate the...must have been a person who has been an employee of some two bit fumigation company or who stole some Holloween decorations and thought the decorations were advertisements for some two bit fumigation company from the Phillipines.
Isn't that correct, Mr. Demirjiran
One final comment to the Sun. During this campaign you too reached an all-time low. The biased reporting and promoting of a specific party and candidate was shameful. You are not a respectable news publication. Having to read articles surrounding by a background endorsing or slamming a candidate was wrong. You are about on the same level of being respected as the National Enquirer. Your competitors over at the RJ, while their writers may lean a particular way, at least maintained some objectivity. And sure Las Vegas Sun, you have your followers who probably love the fact that you promote your agenda (Brian's) the way that you do, but the Enquirer also has followers that believe in UFOs. And your supporters are of that same ilk. Wildly biased and opinionated. Exactly what you accused Angle's followers of being except on the opposite side. So congratulations Las Vegas Sun. By blatantly pushing golden spoon boy Brian's agenda, you are now on the same level as the National Enquirer. Or TMZ. Take your pick. Either way Brian has gone too far now. Perhaps its time he really worked for a living.
"As for "obeying gods laws", you will NEVER convince me that your "gods laws" were NOT created by human nut-jobs to control the masses while getting rich off tax-free donations (while smoking crack with their gay masseuses)."
You don't have to obey to anything, but karma will convince you in the end.
"Ask yourself why there is so much war in the world. Could be because of religion and religious fanatics like you?"
See above.
"The "holier than thou" tone of your post is the perfect example of how the religious right seeks to control society with everything but compassion."
Religion is the soft way of learning.
THANK YOU NEVADA!!!
Now we don't have to boycott Vegas!!! That would have made me very sad.
WE LOVE YOU!!!
Now Reid "owes" the Unions. This is going to be interesting to say the least.
Patrick,
The reason there is no 24 hour progressive radio in the "free market" (God I love how that term gets thrown around), is that progressives are busy with real lives, like working, volunteering, raising our kids, etc. We don't have time to sit around and listen to hate radio and foam at the mouth.
For those of you who are now saying you'll no longer visit our state because of who we voted for - enjoy your vacations elsewhere. Nevada's citizen's won't be blackmailed by outside interests.
We voted based on OUR interests. No on poisonous Yucca, no on a woman who would have done NOTHING, and had NO PLAN ever of helping us at all.
I'm sure you voted in your state's elections based on what you believed was the best for your state. We voted based on what we believed was the best for ours.
Ginger McGraw,
There is no empirical evidence to suggest progressives work or live real lives more frequently than conservatives or libertarians. In fact, in the book Who Really Cares, the author finds that people who think government should be limited actually volunteer more than people who think government should do more.
The reason liberal talk does so poorly is 1) print and tv media is generally left-of-center already 2) progressives want other people to foot the bill, which is why NPR is left of center. This is also why left-of-center think tanks (especially those to the far left) don't do as well as right-of-center think tanks.
I love how the people touting how great a night it was for the GOP are going to blame Reid if things get worse. You do realize if things get worse then the people who all won last night won't go without blame either. The best thing that could have happened last night happened for Nevada, the Dems got much weaker and we won't lose our Nevada still has a senior Senator in Washington.
"In fact, in the book Who Really Cares, the author finds that people who think government should be limited actually volunteer more than people who think government should do more."
In fact, here's an actual paragraph from the book Patrick mentions:
"When it comes to giving or not giving, conservatives and liberals look a lot alike. Conservative people are a percentage point or two more likely to give money each year than liberal people, but a percentage point or so less likely to volunteer."
According to your source, liberals are more likely to volunteer, Patrick.
Yep!! Ol Harry won and my hat is off to him. Nevada lost and if Harry's Party continues on the same path. The USA is gone, Nevada watch your wallet ol Harry has his hand on it...you will see what I mean. One sorry Senator!
Progressives are living "real lives" versus ... What, exactly? That is a divisive and stereotypical statement, and the kind of thinking that keeps people down rather than lifting them up. Whenever something is painted as "us versus them" it is harmful rather than helpful.
Patrick Gibbons, you usually make rational arguments (whether I agree or not is another discussion), but your statement about NPR being left of center is simply not true. NPR presents the most objective, balanced and in-depth news programming available in the U.S. Anyone who listens regularly knows they annoy the left as often as the right.
Karl Rove and his secret donors tried to buy this election for Sharon Angle and the wise of Nevada sent Karl Rove a message. That message was that we didnt like him when he ran the Bush presidency and that our votes here in Nevada are not forsale.
Funny how no one accused Gingerlee's comments as being divisive and stereotypical and the kind that keeps people down, etc., rather James, you chose to go after Patrick.
And I just can't support your argument that NPR is objective and balanced. They are clearly left of center. Almost to the point that Fox is right of center.
"For those of you who are now saying you'll no longer visit our state because of who we voted for - enjoy your vacations elsewhere. Nevada's citizen's won't be blackmailed by outside interests.
We voted based on OUR interests. No on poisonous Yucca, no on a woman who would have done NOTHING, and had NO PLAN ever of helping us at all."
Best post I've seen today.It's funny how people keep saying I'm boycotting Nevada and Las Vegas. Guess what? You aren't coming here now so what's the difference?
Choosing Harry Reid over Sharron Angle---LV not so "dumb" after all.
notacon: coming from a city and state that produces absolutely nothing except a place for "real gamblers" and is almost totally reliant on "out of staters" money one would think you folks would take to heart the comments of people like me that have supported you over the years. Look up and down this blog at the "out of stater" comments - most agree with me.
It's pretty sad that folks # 1 in bankruptcies, # 1 in forclosures, high on the crime list and 14+ % unemployment can't see the forest for the trees.
Voting for more of the same guarantees just that - more of the same. Maybe with some effort you can be # 1 on the crime list as well. You folks sure seem to enjoy the misery -
Mr. Reid, although still Senate Majority Leader is now powerless. Every back room deal (none of which helped your economy) he made over the last 2 years died yesterday. All he can do now is bottle things up in the Senate. How's that going to help Nevada in general or Las Vegas specifically ? At least Ms. Angle had a shot at doing something good for your state or city.
Finally - you referred to "the trashy Trump in Atlantic City and the pathetic hick casinos in Biloxi and Tunica". Have you visited the Strip lately ? I was just there last week (for the last time) and it's pretty much a dump. Maybe you should visit the real world once in a while.
@Life.
If voting for none of these candidates is losing then I guess I lost.
You however, support a lifelong (five terms!) politician who does nothing but collects paychecks and negotiates back room deals so he can make even more money, i.e. the steel rail train to nowhere with Sig. He is nothing more than a puppet for Obama. Maybe Reid can get a side gig with Terry Fator since he has so much practice moving his mouth with someone else's words coming out. I heard Fator might be looking for another dummy.
This will be another major mistake for Nevada!
I DO come to Vegas. I practically grew up there coming with my parents 5 or 6 times a year, then on my own not only to PLAY (3 or 4 times a year), but did six seasons of Nevada Shakespeare In The Park when they still had AEA contracts. I LOVE VEGAS. I love the people and the community (greatest audiences EVER!!!) And I love the bang I get for my entertainment bucks!
I Mon Ami Gabi!!!
I was worried, because Angle is BSCrazyTM, and if you had elected her, I would have stayed away. But you didn't and it makes me happy. For the baggers who want to boycott, that is your prerogative. No problem. I don't think you came to Sin City anyway - it's not really your thing is it - unless you're a hypocrite. Oh about those taxes you don't want to pay? Please read this:
http://www.chimpsternation.com/forum?c=s...
THANK GOD.
To all you Reid fans, congrats on the win. Just remember when you are handed your pink slip that Good Ole Harry has you best interest at heart. No wonder that Nevada was voted the dumb state. You all will be sorry!!!!
Viva Las Vegas!
Viva Las Vegas!
Viva, viva, Las Vegas...!
On the upside, Harry Reid is like winning a consolation prize for Nevada.
The downside is that we have this consolation prize doing a 6 year farewell tour.
All the Prominent Republicans for Harry are happy today.
Giant Douche defeats Turd Sandwich!
"So, let's recap:
Wingnuts, teabaggers and Republicans have historically accused the Jon Ralston and/or the Sun of having a liberal bias.
Jon Ralston accurately predicted the outcome of the Reid-("what was her name, again?") race.
INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION: The truth has a liberal bias."
Why do you believe i am a fan of the Las Vegas Pravda?
The "out of state" rednecks have come out of the woodwork... and think we're supposed to kowtow to em' because they come out here, get drunk and play nickels at the slots...
Wooo hoooo!!!!
I guess we'll have to "suffer" without JimBob & his huge bank roll... I'll miss yer crooked smile!!!
For all who keep saying Nevada has nothing more then gambling clearly don't know much about our state which is why we're glad you don't vote for us. Yes tourism is a major part of our economy but it's mining that makes up the other part. Nevada alone produces more gold then every nation on the planet except 5. We are also the #2 silver producing state in the nation. Angle would not have iproved the tourism sector and she would have damaged the mining industry with her policies.
All you out of state Angle supporters let me ask you, if you live in say Kansas City or Fargo how ok would you be with truckloads and trainloads of the worst type of nuclear waste going down your streets through your neighborhoods by your child's school? Probably not very cool with it. After a 20+ year fight Reid won this battle for Nevada and Angle was set to throw it all away without any gain for the state of Nevada.
"No one cares. . ."
I suspect you do, cause i've got the feeling, that we'll run across each other one day.
PatrickGibbons:
Your posts today are the exact reason why people find it so hard to take you seriously when you are discussing education issues. You are just full of talking points and that's about it.
gmag39,
I would think that anyone who lives in Nevada, especially Las Vegas, wants as many of those out-of-state rednecks, as well as anyone else, as possible.
Why would you deliberately insult the very people we need?
More than ever we need a strong national economic recovery so that we can recover. Let's hope the Democrats here, after enjoying the moment, will tell Reid to knuckle down and get it going now. In the meantime, every nickel helps.
Unlike a newspaper or Internet site the airwaves belong to the government. There are limited frequencies on the main AM/FM dial. They should be divided in a fair fashion, some low-ratings know-nothing does not deserve a subsidized radio station, which is what you have in Nevada.
boftx...
Please. give me a break.
They kid, we kid; nobody's not coming to Vegas because Harry Reid is our Senator or I called them rednecks.
Lighten up, Francis!!!
boftx - Maybe the GOP should pull their collective heads out of their dark place and get over their personal vendetta against Obama. They have stated their #1 priority is making him a one-term president, instead of putting the American people and their needs first. They really have their priorities in the wrong place.
They have also said they will block (like everything else since the beginning of 2009), a jobs/infrastructure bill if it requires "spending." Well, you can't create any jobs with no money. And thanks to them, the government is one of the only employers left who actually create jobs HERE, instead of shipping them overseas.
The GOP need to stop being the party of NO, otherwise 2012 is going to be very bad indeed for them.
Not everyone in America has collective amnesia. CA is a perfect example of that. Fiorina and Whitman both went down inflames because of the damage they did to jobs in this state. WE REMEMBER. And we're not stupid enough to buy into the "take our country back" insanity.
Way to go, Harry; sanity prevails once again. Six more years, six more years! I love it! Go, Harry, go!
Enjoy the party while you can!
It's going to be getting real bad in Vegas, I'm already hearing that people from across the country won't be coming to LV and give their hard earned money to people so stupid they re-elect the very guy that is responsible for putting the country in the crisis it's in. LV could very well become a ghost town with the majority of Americans refusing to support people this stupid!
The real reason liberal/progressive talking heads radio has never been successful: Unlike conservatives, liberals/progressives are too intelligent to allow themselves to be told how to think or what to do. Liberals/progressives think for themselves; conservatives think and do what the Glenn Becks, Rush Lmbaughs, Sean Hannitys, Bill O'Reillys, etc., tell them to think and do.
tomfranklin...
Nice try, pal.
Sin City, baby!!!
Look up in the sky to the east, Tom...
It's a never-ending STREAM of people jetting in, that could care LESS about our "politics".
Vice. It's any easy sell.
As long as Las Vegas EXISTS, people will flock here.
bardgal,
I won't disagree much at all with you that the GOP House must now put up or shut up. That is one of the reasons I wanted them to take back the House.
But the same must be said of the Democrats in the Senate now. They no longer enjoy a large majority. They simply must make realistic offers to gain Republican cooperation. (And at the same time, the Republicans in the Senate must make an effort to accept such offers now that the hand has been forced.)
Reid and Boehner are both talking a good game about making an effort, let's see who follows though on it.
"As long as Las Vegas EXISTS, people will flock here."
Tell that to the 15% unemployed in this city. Tell that to the home builders and the rest of the housing market. Tell that to every casino operation on a reservation in some other State.
boftx - I totally agree!
And I can't WAIT to get back to VEGAS BABY!!! (East East L.A.) :)
Thank you, Nevada, for saving us from that irrational, inarticulate witch.
To whom it may concern(Harry or Brian)
Congratulations! Please tell me where I can apply for a full-time job in Las Vegas, even as a dishwasher? All hotel-casino didn't hire me because I don't have $5000 for human resource managers.
This idiot, tomfranklin @ 12:57, has created a whole army of strawmen. He has his hand on the pulse of millions LOL! Check it out:
"It's going to be getting real bad in Vegas, I'm already hearing that people from across the country won't be coming to LV and give their hard earned money..."
How %$@&ing hilarious is THAT?
Good job, tom. Thanks for the hearty belly laugh!
scatmat @11:18
"...comments of people like me that have supported you over the years. Look up and down this blog at the "out of stater" comments - most agree with me."
____
Memo to scatmat:
Please stay away. Our buffets never make money when you're in town.
Harry Reid is a great Senator. Nevada chose very wisely returning him to office.
Imagine, both the two largest employers in Nevada, and its employees recognize his value. Not often that happens.
Imagine the damage that would be caused if he did not get returned to office. Can you say nuclear waste less than a hundred miles from Las Vegas? Thanks to Reid, we are on track to keep that at bay.
How about the mining industry? How about green energy? The list goes no. Reid is good for Nevada.
Unlike the right wing media would like you believe, Reid is well liked and that is why he was re-elected. It had nothing to do with the lessor of two evils. There was one evil, and she is back in her cave now.
As a consolation prize Spearmint Rhino is offering half-price lap dances to all disgruntled Reid-haters with out-of-state ID.
That's the best we can do to sooth your hurt feelings. Unfortunately, Vegas doesn't have any of those lesbian bondage strip club that you family-values conservatives prefer.
Looks like God called Sharron Angle to run for Senate so Harry Reid would win.
> I'm already hearing that people from across the country won't be coming to LV
what makes you think we enjoy having ignorance in our town? hint: we don't!
stay home, PLEASE.
I'm fine if the baggers stay home. It will make it that more pleasant to have Vegas full of nice, smart people who actually care about their fellow men when I and my friends from LA CO come to town.
:)
I am so pleased to see that the majority of the involved voters in this state saw Sharon Angle for the dangerous maniac she is, and saw all the good Sen. Reid can continue to do for us.
The show begins:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/steal-nevada...
It's essential to kick the voting machines out and redisign the entire voting process, otherwise something like the above will happen again and again.
"Looks like God called Sharron Angle to run for Senate so Harry Reid would win."
Looks like God let comment the intelligent people in the Wall Street Journal and the morons here.
Once the people find out how the Angle campaign was run like, some may probably get an idea how journalism works.
Mr. Sandoval,
It has been 3 years since I read that book, but I'm guessing you pulled that off the web and it was sitting out of context when you read it.
Differences between conservatives and liberals (how defined in the book) vanish when you look at the percentage of charity as a percentage of income. When making this adjustment conservatives not only give more, but volunteer more.
I also believe the point the author is trying to make is that the left substitutes welfare for personal charity - not at all inconsistent with anti-welfare theories that welfare programs do in fact crowd out private charity.
With some digging into the electronic voting machine scam, maybe an investigation of this race could be pulled off.
Mr. Reza,
I believe NPR is left-of-center. That doesn't mean they aren't fair. I believe NPR tries to be very fair with their subject matter.
The same is true, I believe, for the vast majority of university professors. In my 6 years of university studies (3 degrees - not the Van Wilder plan) only a small group of my professors were true believers who thought it was their job to convert students. Most wanted students to arrive at their own opinions based on the empirical evidence presented by all sides (as is the job of science in general). I say this even though most everyone knows that 2/3rds of college professors consider themselves left-of-center.
In conclusion, subscribing to an ideology does not mean you can't be fair or weigh facts objectively. In other words, us reasonable people can always disagree.
Miss Sharon helped Sen. Reid more than she knew, by just being herself! If the Children of the Tea are so upset, next time they need to support a candidate who is at least half-way sane!
They may have pulled if off with a Mitt Romney type of a candidate. They endorsed the Twilight Zone and are now mad about what happened. "Don't hate the player, hate the....well, you know the rest!
"HARRY, HARRY, HARRY, HARRY!
HARRY REID IS THE MAN!
WOW! WOW! WOW!
The middle class won tonight.
Harry had a nice, solid 5 point win.
We won't let the crazy teabaggers ruin our
country.
Nevada and the United States won tonight."
teamster: You are AwEsOmE!
And the most important thing:
Anyone who followed this race closely has seen what a difference can be made by one SINGLE person; the problem with the rest is, that they just sit on their asses.
"Differences between conservatives and liberals (how defined in the book) vanish when you look at the percentage of charity as a percentage of income. When making this adjustment conservatives not only give more, but volunteer more."
Ah yes, so not a straight comparison? Got it. Let's throw some unnecessary qualifiers like "percentage of charity as a percentage of income" into the mix to throw off the statistics and whittle it down until you've twisted what is meaningful into a meaningless statistic which reinforces your prejudice.
It's a game, Mr. Gibbons. 3 degrees didn't teach you that?
Amen
Congratulation for the "victory" Senator Herry Reid.
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ksand,
I haven't read that book, but have seen some excerpts.
But I don't want to get into a numbers game. Instead, I'd to look at possible premises based simply on what merits might be present.
Why would it be unreasonable that conservatives, especially those who are part of the religious right, might be more generous toward private charities than liberals?
Liberals, as a general rule, would tend to say that government needs to help those who are less fortunate, and might feel that because their tax dollars go to this (in some cases) that there is no need to also give again privately.
Conservatives, especially the religious right, would tend to feel that not only is it the place of private citizens to support charity, but it is an obligation. This might be some of the motive as to why charitable donations were made tax deductions in the first place.
Volunteer work is another matter altogether, and I would in fact expect to *maybe* see a slight edge for liberals, if there is a difference at all. But I also think the nature of the work would have an impact on the numbers seen.
It is hard to believe that the people of Nevada are so stupid as to return Reid to office. You must be very happy with your 15% unemployment. As a travel agent with 6 offices in the state of Tennnessee, I am instructing my agents to avoid recommending travel to Las Vegas. I refuse to help your economy when you aren't willing to do anything to help yourself. Our company sends several hundred people a week on charter flights to Vegas. This will cease very soon. We will be receommending vacations in areas where the voters are responsible and help themselves.
"It is hard to believe that the people of Nevada are so stupid as to return Reid to office. You must be very happy with your 15% unemployment."
It is hard to believe what the mass media can do with people's minds. And you're the proof.
Danram said:
Thanks a lot, you pitchfork-waving "true conservative" loons in the Nevada GOP. Because of your abject stupidity in nominating the weakest candidate you could have possibly nominated in Sharon Angle, we will now have to look at Harry Reid's ugly mug in the US Senate for another SIX YEARS! This race should have been a walkover for the GOP. When will you absolutist, litmus-testing morons learn that ELECTIONS ARE WON AT THE CENTER, NOT AT THE FRINGE!?!?
So once again, thanks a bunch from the rest of America, you f@$#@* idiots.
WELL PUT SIR! You have hit the nail right on the head. This is the most truthful and accurate statement I've read from a conservative in weeks. You should run for a House seat in your district, or at least pick the candidate...or get yourself high up in the GOP and maybe 'The Grand 'Ol Party' will be a legitimate contender against Obama in 2012.
Here is a little gem, which nicely sums it up:
"Reid did not steal the election. What happened was this" The Federal Reserve stole EVERY election as they have been since 1913. They use an endless amount of paper fiat and usury to run both democrats and republicans. In 2000 they further sealed the deal by electing President Diebold and Big D. has been in charge ever since. If the people get too tired of republicans then the Fed swings the election to the democrats and vice versa. The system is rigged. So did Reid steal the election? Of course not, YOU allowed voter fraud to continue this year because no lawsuits are pushed through, no people are jailed, no violence is ever launched. You get what you allowed. So why now complain? No action and all talk means more comedy for me to observe, more folly to laugh at, and Big D is going to be in charge until the day that he/she is NOT. And that day will be lots of fun too! Smiles for everyone!"
"Anti-incumbent Fervor"?????
Seems to me the Republican incumbents had a really good night. This is typical LV Sun biased reporting. The "anti-incumbent fervor" was completely directed at Democrat incumbents.
Please try to at least appear unbiased. This is ridiculous!
Will there be a reelection in every state with a tea party candidate that lost, or stupid discussions like the above by political "experts"?
What's up with the "free" press?
Pathetic people make a pathetic society in the end - you get what you deserve.
Mr. Sandoval,
Who is more charitable? A person who makes $1 million a year and gives $5,000 to charity does he give more than a person who makes $50,000 a year and gives $2,000 to charity?
Maybe controlling for income has some value?
Lets look at other issues.
Is it fair to compare Utah education to Nevada education?
Utah is full of blonde headed white people (over 80 percent), Nevada's student population is 52 percent minority.
Could racial inequalities or issues play a role in the difference?
Controlling for racial differences (and even income) can tell us that.
Based on your logic, you believe straight comparisons give us apples to apples comparisons every time. This just isn't the case...in reality.
Goodbye Vegas Idiots! You have just sealed your fate forever, unemployment #1, Foreclosures #1, and your union allegiance will bankrupt you forever. I will never return until Dirty Harry is GONE. Peace Out Losers!!!
It's not that easy Idiotvegas (you choosed the right name), because i am 99% sure, that the comment i quoted is from an "insider".
There is an opportunity in the making which shouldn't be missed, because when this one goes off, it is possible to unseat the ENTIRE establishment.
Sharron Angle as well as Senator Reid are "useful idiots" in this game.
It's now up to you Americanos.
Patrick, you've really wandered into a garden of vapors:
Patrick said:
"There is no empirical evidence to suggest progressives work or live real lives more frequently than conservatives or libertarians."
I said:
How could such a closeted libertarian/pseudo conservative like you have any way of measuring or quantifying this? You wake up with a set of preconceived notions and search out like minded, similarly funded tripe as your Neanderthal leaning NPRI. You have the credibility of a defense attorney for OJ Simpson in a Las Vegas courtroom. We believe you say what you do, but anyone with a lick of sense knows it is bunk. And OJ is in jail.
Patrick said:
"In fact, in the book Who Really Cares, the author finds that people who think government should be limited actually volunteer more than people who think government should do more".
I say:
As usual another ridiculous stat by you. The empirical evidence is that every person has a capacity to help others and most do on a daily basis to one degree (usually unmeasured) or another. There are many people in the ghetto's of America that on a percentage of income and time outperform Bill and Melinda Gates every day. That is not to dismiss the Gates family largess. It is needed.
Patrick said:
"The reason liberal talk does so poorly is 1) print and tv media is generally left-of-center already 2) progressives want other people to foot the bill, which is why NPR is left of center.
I say:
"Liberal" as you call it radio has never been given a seat at the proverbial table. It was never necessary until the right wing hatred appeared upon the radio scene and banned free thought and expression from their shows. Right wing radio is clearly anti half of the American population, probably more like 65% of America. The ULTRA Empirical evidence shows that more than half of America is realistic (What you would call liberal) and is willing to give you your God (My God too), guns, and Hatred of gays, if you try to pretend that the airwaves are fairly represented you have the credibility of OJ's Attorney for his appeal arguing he was just at the Station casino for a hot dog and some old pals of his showed up...
...with guns.
Patrick Said:
"This is also why left-of-center think tanks (especially those to the far left) don't do as well as right-of-center think tanks."
I say:
They are both corrupt, as are the people who are employed by them. The pomposity with which you opine that think tanks have any ethical use in society is heretical to rational thought. They are used to fool, cajole, push, and propagandize your fellow human beings.
You are blinded from what should be one of the most easy things to see, the shame of those who work for those firms, the women who give lap dances at least come close to being honest. The employees of think tanks should be offshored to China, where they have sent millions and millions of American jobs.
You may prove now, if you're the pathetic existences, that you really are, or if there is something, to the "exceptionalism".
The entire exercise is just a way to say hello to the powers in be and it will probably end up in some sort of discussion later on, because as far i am aware of, there isn't anything else in the making right now.
If they take into consideration my country/city/age/name/ and especially background(& probably stuff i am not even aware of), it should be clear what the message is like.
The "anti semite" attitude in the deleted postings was necessary to get attention and now the circle is closed.
All who commented on the wackiness of the polls are correct. They should be iinvestigated throughly.
Congratulations Nevada! I am soooo glad that you folks elected the senator that YOU wanted! HOWEVER, since the election of this buffoon adversely effects me in South Carolina, I am cancelling my January Las Vegas sabbatical. I am sure that you people won't mind the loss of a little revenue, it seems that many folks in Nevada don't want to work anyway. Hence, the nations highest unemployment rate. I hear the weather is really nice in Arizona in January. Maybe, I will send ya'll a postcard. Have a great day!
Good job Nevada!! I was more interested in THAT race then the ones here in Illinois!!!
I've been half listening to some of the political talking heads the last 24 hrs and I will bet this is going to happen: The TeaBaggers who won seats will be fighting with the traditional Republican party members because the Tea Baggers think they have all the answers. Hence, the Republican party will become dvided. And nothing will get accomplished.
Second, a LOT of these Republicans who were elected, both Tea Baggers and traditional Republicans, are new to both politics AND more importantly Washington politics (the guy who won in the congressional district I live in is so qualified for the job - yeah he is a Republican and I guess he is qualified because he owns a pizzeria AND has 10 kids! But no political experience! The guy he replaced has been in office several terms, has brought jobs to the area, has fought for many things to help this area). These newly elected "freshman congresspeople" that were elected are not going to get anything accomplished the first year or so because they are basically "nobodies" right now, "lowman on the totem pole", they will have no impact to change ANYTHING they promised to their constituents. By the time they will have any impact - it will be time for their terms to end, either in 2012 or 2014 pending on the length of the term in each State. So we'll see how many get relected.
Reid may not be the best, but he's better than some broad who has no concept of the real world and how people really live (actually ALL politicans have no concept of how the average American lives in this country). Like how they consider "middle income" to have an annual income of $250,000 a year!!!!! That's some big bucks even with a two income household.
Buckofama:
It's nicer in San Diego, please keep your promise and never, never, never visit us here again. We will survive without and prosper without people who want to pout because Sharron Angle is their hero and we told her to get lost. You can get lost too.
Whoever comes in your place will be an improvement.
Bucko: Yes the weather is very nice in Arizona this time of year. Also there are plenty of Indian casinos to choose from. You and the rest of the country can hit Nevada where it hurts most, in the wallet..
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This will add to gridlock and hold down Nevada for two more years until Barry is removed.
Harry Reid is a doddering fool that has already drained social security,and he cut medicare.You dolts who elected him elected a person that only cares about his ststure and power,which by the way was taken away from him.At least his hands are tied,just keep the old fool away from sharp objects.
I believe 1/2 of the "mission" is over now - the "destructive" part (The Americanos will degenerate into a crap hole, when they don't do the right steps); the other half - the "constructive" one - is to explain the right hand occult path to the Learned Elders, once i gain the full knowledge of it (6-24 months).
Take it or leave it.
Maybe it's time to "Take the Trash" off the AM airwaves.
I love to listen to Talk Radio, but I haven't had the stomach to listen for almost a year. I don't think this election would have been as ugly if the people on the AM dial had been a little more civil.
MSNBC is reporting that Sen. Reid has begun his fight for working families not only in Nevada but throughout America and is challenging Sen. McConnell's efforts on behalf of the insurance companies to roll back the protections in the recent healthcare bill. Give 'em Hell Harry.
The Brother exposes himself here, for what he really is:
http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=569
(although he should go on, because he has quite an interesting website)
The effect of a coup d'etat, will be by the way exposing the true nature of the regime to the last moron, thus accelerating its decline.
I am always surprised at how mean and immature the comments from the left can be. You know exactly what you are doing, for example, just as the network media and the cable news-comedians do, when you refer to Tea Party folks as "tea baggers." You should all be ashamed of yourselves. That so many of the left shout so loudly about the need for tolerance from others, while engaging themselves in exactly the opposite behavior, should give the rest of the left at least a little pause. This post is not meant to highlight the destructive and unfair principles often espoused by the left. It is just a point about behavior, civility, and plain old ordinary courtesy. I would ask the majority of you on the left side of the aisle to read ALL of these posts, and then ask yourselves if this is really the group, and behavior, and attitude with which you want to be associated. As for those of you who actually wrote those posts, I challenge you all to send your own posts to your parents and ask for their thoughts.
I love Las Vegas. But so sorry to hear that you folks voted Harry Reid back into office. So I will not be visiting your city until such time as you vote out this corrupt socialist. He is a dispicable politician who needs to be retired.
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