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Big spending for precious few votes
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
With fewer than 50 days until early voting begins, we have to face the sad, awful truth about the U.S. Senate race: We are not going to have a break from now until Nov. 2 from a campaign stunt (ex-first lady Dawn Gibbons for Harry Reid today) or a news release (Tuesday was all about “the war is lost”) or both candidates and their surrogates on the air. Most amazing about all of this: How few people remain undecided in this contest. All of this money, all of these man-hours for a two-month campaign now directed at a few thousand people. Ain’t America great?
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harry will spend $25 million on commercials in the next two months telling us how bad Angle is and now nothing bad is is fault. Blah, blah, blah.
It won't work dingy! Your time is up.
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Smart Nevadans will vote based on the over-all facts - and the big FACT is Harry Reid has done more for ALL Nevadans than the entire Nevada State Republican Party COMBINED!
What's Ensign done for you lately? How about Gibbons? Just do the old plus/minus comparison and Harry WINS!
Harry Reid put Nevada on the national political map - and we need him as the Senate Majority Leader now, and more than ever before!
I'm a smart Nevadan and I will NEVER vote for Harry Reid. The guy is responsible for this state's mess. Reid is an idiot. 24 years as this states' senator and the jerk tells us we need him. Folks, Harry Reid lives fat and happy in the Ritz Carlton in Washighton, DC on our dime while Nevada is the worst in the nation in many categories now under the Obama, Reid, & Pelosi "Hope & Change". We the people have lost under their "leadership". It's time for our crooked senator to be terminated as his arrogance towards us prevents him from seeing the reality here. Novemeber 2, 2010, we deserve better!
DessertSun: "The guy is responsible for this state's mess."
Really? So you're saying Gov. Gibbons and the other local and State officials, including Sharron Angle, had no part in "this state's mess"? Not so smart.
Well it should make everyone feel better that the government passed a law that removes restrictions on the campaign contributions corporations can make to a candidate. You thought politics was a backroom and corrupt system before? Just wait til BP, Walmart and Fannie and Freddy are deciding for THE PEOPLE who should run in preliminary elections. Goodbye "for the people; by the people"...hello corporate-run America.