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By Anjeanette Damon (contact) 
Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010 | 2 a.m.
Sharron Angle
Sue Lowden
Sun archives
- Obama presses his influence for Democratic candidates (10-23-2010)
- Democrats play their ace in the hole — Obama (10-20-2010)
- Harry Reid blasts Sharron Angle for not denouncing ‘don’t vote’ ad (10-19-2010)
- Will ad campaign urging Hispanic voters to stay home work? (10-18-10)
- Little new in Harry Reid, Sharron Angle debate to sway undecided voters (10-15-2010)
- Can infusion of cash buy an edge for Sharron Angle in Senate race? (10-14-2010)
- Senate race exposes fractures in Republican Party (10-13-2010)
- Deep-pocket Super PACs pumping cash into Nevada Senate race (10-10-2010)
- Advocates : Sharron Angle ad could increase Hispanic turnout (10-8-2010)
- Harry Reid accentuates the positive in final campaign push (10-7-2010)
- Harry Reid is right at home in a tough fight (10-3-2010)
- Harry Reid inching ahead of Sharron Angle, new poll finds (9-25-2010)
- Voter registration closes Saturday (10-1-2010)
Sun Coverage
A few weeks before the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, front-runner Sue Lowden’s campaign got a phone call from a Republican involved in a past campaign against Sharron Angle. He had a sage piece of advice.
“Watch out,” the Republican warned. “Angle breaks late, and she outperforms the polls.”
The advice came a little too late for Lowden, who lost in a surprise landslide to Angle.
In six weeks last spring, Angle went from trailing Lowden by more than 20 points in the polls to winning the election by 14 points.
It wasn’t the first time she had pulled off a surprising last-minute rush of momentum. Although Angle had failed to win in the past, her last two primary campaigns foreshadowed her unexpected win this year.
Three months before her 2006 primary match against former first lady Dawn Gibbons and U.S. Rep. Dean Heller for the 2nd Congressional District, Angle trailed her two opponents by double digits.
By the end of the campaign, she had wrestled the match to a near tie with Heller, losing by just 421 votes.
In 2008, Angle trailed her Republican opponent Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio badly in early voting. On election day, she nearly outperformed him.
Each of Angle’s major primary campaigns had dynamics that contributed to her ability to break late.
In 2006, the Club for Growth funded an expensive television ad campaign for Angle in the waning months. In 2008, Raggio spent heavily on a ground game that bested Angle’s grass-roots support.
Still, Republican operatives who have run campaigns against Angle say not to underestimate her last-minute momentum. Through her years in conservative politics, she’s built a devoted grass-roots base that will turn up at the polls no matter what, they say.
“In all of her races, for whatever reason — and there have been different reasons — she peaks late,” said one Republican operative with experience running a campaign against Angle. “She peaks at the perfect time. But it’s also hard to say whether it’s going to translate into a general election trend.”
Some indications exist that Angle could be developing a late break in her bid to oust Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Public polls have remained in a statistical dead heat, although most indicate Angle is a few points ahead.
Angle has launched into what could be an effective closing argument: Reid has enriched himself during his time in office. (It’s a dubious claim. Reid’s wealth — earned during his time as a lawyer and through land sales — has declined since he took office.)
And given the accelerated period Angle had to build a general election campaign means whatever momentum she might achieve will come late. She had just weeks to put together a team to raise money, develop a media strategy and organize a ground game that will get motivated Republican voters to the polls.
It’s in stark contrast to Reid, who has spent years carefully building a strategy and who has kept together an extremely disciplined staff to methodically carry out that strategy.
But perhaps two factors could play against a repeat late-breaking performance by Angle.
First, the number of undecided voters in this race is minuscule. And of those who have chosen a side, the majority say they aren’t budging from that position.
So, even if Angle were poised for a last-minute run, she doesn’t have a whole lot of voters left out there who might swing her way.
That’s different from the Republican primary this year. Polls in the weeks before the election showed about 13 percent of voters were still undecided.
Second, the U.S. Senate race has been fought for more than a year. Voters are beyond saturated with campaign messages, meaning Angle’s closing argument may not penetrate.
Still, if past elections are an indication, Reid will need to significantly outperform Angle during early voting — which ends Friday — to mitigate any last-minute break Angle may have Nov. 2.
So far, Democrats have maintained a slight turnout edge over Republicans in terms of raw numbers in early voting. But it’s slight.
And that’s little indication either candidate is making for a surprise last-minute surge.
Recount, anyone?
The only poll that counts is the result tabulated on Nov 2nd.
After all the pundit analysis, it will come down to "It's the economy, stupid."
We put Obama, Reid & Pelosi in charge and they made the economy worse. People are losing jobs and homes and there's no end in sight.
It's time for a change!
Poor JanK...
She has fallen prey to the insidious invaders from OUTSIDE NEVADA that are spreading LIES & MISINFORMATION through a MASSIVE SPENDING CAMPAIGN funded by Karl Rove & the Koch Bros...
WILL YOU BE BOUGHT, TOO???
http://www.americancrossroadswatch.org/i...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gDsBPOkP...
How many big, fat, greedy mitts ARE THERE using Sharron Angle as a HAND PUPPET???
Time for Reid to go and OPEN Yucca Mountain waste storage. Vote Sharron Angle!!!!!!!
WILL YOU BE BOUGHT, TOO???
If so, stop in at a Harry Reid campaign office...
What did Harry say was his top 2 agenda items? Cap and trade and immigration amnesty. Oops not amnesty. They will have to learn English and pay a $500 fine.
Cap and trade will both kill jobs and per Obama "skyrocket" all of our utility bills. Who wants their utility bills to be 4 time higher? All Dems who vote for Harry
Here is my favorite Sharon Angle clip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxPDZCOu...
Harry Reid's top two priorities should be the economy. Doesn't Harry ever listen to the people?
Harry Reid and the Obama administration need to be held accountable for their lack of leadership in improving the economy.
If Harry Reid and the Obama administration would have paid attention to the economy instead of spending two years trying to revamp our health care system, unemployment in Las Vegas might be 15% today...
If Harry Reid and the Obama administration would have paid attention to the economy instead of spending two years trying to revamp our health care system, unemployment in Las Vegas might NOT be 15% today...
Harry Reid says he is the most powerful member in the Senate.
One could not tell by the inexcusable and staggering 15% unemployment in Las Vegas...
Recount hell. If people in Nevada wake up in time from an extended slumber they will find there is no choice but to re-elect Harry Reid. There is no choice here. Angle is nuts. She's being financed by Rove (a man destined for prison) and his wealthy cohorts. She's a puppet for Palin & Fox who can't tell the truth about anything.
Angle lives in the 17th century, where her thoughts and ideas come from. We can't fix 30 years of Republican destruction in 2 years and we'll never fix it with loons like Angle, Palin, O'Donnell, Bachman, and the other baggers that will further destroy whats left.
Vote Democratic, vote for Harry Reid, and vote. Sitting home on your hands is a vote for Republicans who sincerely want American to become a third world country.
Harry Reid or a lunitic fringe? Shouldn't need a recount should we?
Tea Partiers think they will have less gov't regulation, but it is corporate America that will rule America, crushing individual rights. Excessive charges for gas, material goods are the hidden tax. Angle's website shows her support of coal and oil, but no mention of renewable energy, as opposed to Reid's extensive efforts to develop renewables in NV. Hence the funding her campaign receives from Big Oil.
While Sharron Angle has minimized damage from the recent Oil Spill, saying this is an isolated event, and isn't likely to happen in the future, this article and map shows millions of gallons of oil spilled from 542 reported pipeline damages during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/1...
opinion/main4275167.shtml
Save our soldiers by bringing them home from Bush's war for Middle Eastern oil by reducing dependency on foreign oil with renewables, rescue our economy (which crashed as gas prices skyrocketed) by reducing oil company profiteering.
Great quote:
"Harry Reid, it's not your job to create jobs," Angle said. "It's your job to create policies that create the confidence for the private sector to create those jobs. And they have lost confidence because of things like Obamacare"
Sharron Angle will take this state in the right direction. Stop listening to the lunatic left and their cries of "crazy!" Is it so crazy to want to reform the VERY broken social security system? I don't know about you, but I want my kids to have their social security in a SECURED account, not some "trust fund" that the govt. constantly raids.
How anyone, ANYONE could even consider voting for that crook Harry Reid is beyond me. Talk about crazy.
Oh, and let's discuss the sweet deal Reid made with Anderson Dairy.
Sweet only for his buddies at Anderson, that is. The rest of us? Again, Harry gives us the middle finger: his legislation in favor of one Nevada business ended up jacking the prices of dairy products for Nevadans. Yup, during the worst economic downturn this state has ever seen. Harry Reid succeeds in making sure that bartenders, waitresses, dealers and maids pay inflated prices for milk, butter and other dairy products.
HOW can any of you consider voting for this man???
"Angle lives in the 17th century, where her thoughts and ideas come from. We can't fix 30 years of Republican destruction in 2 years and we'll never fix it with loons like Angle, Palin, O'Donnell, Bachman, and the other baggers that will further destroy whats left."
The real loons believe, that they live in a democracy.
The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations.
But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that open in 2014.
While it's too early to proclaim the demise of job-based coverage, corporate number crunchers are looking at options that could lead to major changes.
"The economics of dropping existing coverage is about to become very attractive to many employers, both public and private," said Gov. Phil Bredesen, D-Tenn.
THANKS HARRY, GREAT WORK
Simple answer is YES. People are sick of the same ole Harry Ried story. Trying unsuccesfully to convince ourselves we can't do without him. Mickey Mouse could do a better job at this point. We're sick of Reid.
On Reid's watch Nevada's economy has FAILED. 27 years and what are we left weith? BAD ECONOMIC NEWS everywhere we look. Worst in the Nation in most all categories. So what moron would want to put this loser back in office? Where is the accountability? DUMP REID!
DesetSun, and the rest of you "Harry Reid is responsible for ruining our economy!" posters are WAY OFF BASE...
You folks can repeat the lie a million times; it won't make it any truer.
Do you have ANY IDEA how much the wars are/have cost us???
Have a little look-see:
http://costofwar.com/
Just in case anyone might be interested in some basic economic facts, here are is the U.S. GDP annual rate by calendar quarters from 2008 through the latest data in 2010, 2nd Quarter, ended June 30th:
2008Q1: $14.3T
2008Q2: $14.5T
2008Q3: $14.2T
2008Q4: $14.2T
2009Q1: $14.1T
2009Q2: $14.0T
2009Q3: $14.1T
2009Q4: $14.3T
2010Q1: $14.7T
Look at the data set and ask yourselves whether the U.S. Economy deserves all the endless hot air and proposed radical surgery, or whether the endless hot air might be a major contributing cause of what seems to be slow growth.
I feel sorry for those who believe Miss Sharon is going to make any difference at all if elected. Interns in Washington have more government experience than she has. Newbee senators and the term, "clout" don't rhyme.
I really don't think they care. The Children of the Tea are just so frustrated these day's they would vote for Levi Johnston for senate if he was running. Anyone who believes the way they do has their vote. Real change be dammed.
It appears that Sharron Angle will make yet another late surge the day before the election.
First Wife, Michele Obama will be coming to seal Harry Reid's fate on November 01.
To honor Michele's appearance, Harry Reid will order all of the buffets in Las Vegas to serve only vegetables. No meat, no deserts...
That should give Sharron Angle the last minute surge in donations and votes to win the election.
Hey dippy... Nothing wrong with Pabst Blue Ribbon. I've been known to down a few Pabsts in years gone by.
Back in the early 80's, during the Jimmy Carter economic recession, Pabst started to remake Red White & Blue Beer. It was the cheapest beer around. About $3 per 12 pack. I bought several and they were not bad, but they did make you pee a lot.
Was there anything else you wanted there dippy???
Sharron Angle is just plain wrong for Nevada. Call her right now and let her know the truth.
"Call her right now and let her know the truth."
Just what is the truth?
how many roads must we walk down before we make sure that Angle gets to stay home full time and live off her husband's federal pension and health insurance? Bye bye Sharron - do her a favor and re-elect Reid - the the Repukes win the economy will completely tank
Eight False Things the Public "Knows" Prior to Election Day
Friday 22 October 2010
by: Dave Johnson | Campaign for America's Future
There are a number of things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the public expects or needs. Here are eight of the biggest myths that are out there:
http://www.truth-out.org/eight-false-thi...
How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
Please make sure that Harry Reid gets to stay home full time and live off his federal pension and health insurance.
At least in this state, we have republicans that think for themselves. Too bad those same republicans can't stay in office or even be voted for dog catcher in this election cycle.
The headline should read "can Harry Greed make a surge"..The last time I checked..... the polls show Sharron Angle leading. LOL
Dippy can have all of the teabagging he wants after erection day
ouch...
I agree with the article - the candidates are so very far apart in ideology there is no way that anyone who is voting this election is undecided...
Disney takes on the Teabaggers. Best 7 minutes of animation ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfuwNU0js...
I certainly hope that "nutbag" Angle loses and loses BIG. I have all my life voted Republican, and I consider myself a TeaBagger. Angle is NOT a TeaBagger she is a would be ayatollah who hates and betrays our Constitution and the very hard principles of the Founding Fathers.
Reid is a pig, a cockroach professional politician in the Hussein-PayLousy gang of kommissars.
I don't have to tell about Reid who will sell his a... to anyone to stay in his power position, he is disgusting.
However, Angle is a total nutcase no different from the mullahs who want to suppress all civilization and progress.
What is it she does not understand about the 1st Amendment, the copious correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, the principles of Benjamin Franklin and the abundant Supreme Court decisions.
Wake up America, we got rid of the King precisely to separate State and religion, to be able to live in a Republic without interference by the insane clergy.
Mrs. Angle, you want believe in a god that man created in his image ? Fine, yo do just that. But please keep your delirium out of affairs of State.
Mr. Reid you are for sale to the highest bidder and it obviously does not bother you to serve a master with no face, who during the campaign kept real quiet the fact that his family was moSSlem, that he attended for so many years a lair of losers who DAMN AMERICA, who kisses the A... of terrorists and in fact only support the BIG finance, see Chrysler, GM, AIG, Wall Street. Who want to allow all the trash from foreign countries in order to subjugate the Real and True Americans, you Know Mr. President Hussein, those who go to church and own guns, your own words.
The Tea Party, which I am PROUD to support had better get rid of their nuts and would be grand dragons of the KKK, Torquemada emulators, would be mullahs/ayatollahs who will stone a woman for being raped and having an abortion.
The bottom line, reason must prevail and we must get rid of the pigs like Reid and Hussein and the crazy monkey like Angle.
Bon Appetit
Mommie, what's a "dingbat?"
Honey, be nice!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/...
She is far better debater, better family person, pro job person than Reid....
so honestly, she would be a very capable and good senator....
something that Nevada so sorely needs after our current losing senator Reid who stomped on seniors, stole jobs; destroyed the economy.
Thank goodness Reid's days are numbered...and the ill and unhealthy Reid can retire. Reid's aid even acted illegally and Reid could care less. He spent time stomping on seniors, destroying jobs...
watch Harry lose