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For the first time in a very long time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has a significant lead in his re-election bid. The latest Mason-Dixon poll for the “Las Vegas Review- Journal” shows Reid with a seven-point lead over his Republican opponent, Sharron Angle.
Mason-Dixon (7/12-14)
Reid 44
Angle 37
Other 4
Undecided 10
None of these candidates 5
This new lead shows real movement for Reid, who has been neck and neck with Angle for months. There is little doubt that Angle’s modest slide in the poll is the result of weeks of stories about her outside-the-mainstream political views and statements. From the “Review-Journal”:
“He’s had five perfect weeks,” said Brad Coker of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, which conducted the survey. “The race has been all about her, and he’s been doing a good job of pounding her.” [...]
That is the best Reid has done against Angle this year in a series of Mason-Dixon polls. Previously, the two had been locked in a statistical dead heat with Angle finishing just ahead of Reid in February, 44 percent to 42 percent, and in June, 44 percent to 41 percent, and Reid finishing just ahead of Angle in May, 42 percent to 39 percent.
Reid is still not especially popular in the state, and if the election were purely a referendum on him, he’d likely be in more trouble. Fortunately for Reid, Angle continues to express views that brand her as a right-wing extremist, giving the Majority Leader the opportunity to depict her as a fully unacceptable alternative. This could allow Reid to pull out a slim plurality victory. The Senator has a huge campaign war chest, which he can spend trying to make sure every voter in the state knows all of Angle’s most unpopular views.
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Reid’s reflex Angle?
Obtuse Angle, Sharia bin al Make-Lemonade-Mullah Mangle, taking The Stupid to new depths.
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Congratulations Harry.
Good work.
You’re running against one of the whackiest nut jobs to ever run for U.S. Senate, who keeps on almost daily giving any voter with an IQ over 2 a reason to avoid her like a plague, and have managed to open up a lead of a few points.
I bet your staff is busy high-fiving each other right now.
Amazing, really.
Keep up the good work.
Asshole.
Teabaggers continue to make what should be non competitive seats very much in play. Even in Texas, Goodhair is in real trouble. If the stupid, wanking Republicans had nominated Hutchinson, Bill White wouldn’t have a chance.
Crazy scum and pathetic scum, these are the kinds of choices the two parties are giving us and why we need to either stay home or vote third parties.
I was speaking to a cohort today (normally a VERY RELIABLE sort) who assures me Goodhair will win.
Is he missing something? What is it that makes you feel he’s in trouble?
I’m very intrigued now.
Last week I would have agreed with you, now I’m not so sure.
Angle doesn’t seem to realize that we settled the question of fluoride in the water many years ago. I wonder if she thinks it a fascist plot.
Bill White is statistically tied with Goodhair but leads him in the money race by a lot. 3.1 million.
I didn’t know that. I like it a lot. What’s the word down there?
The “Scozzafava Effect” continues; the Teabaggers will continue to be rejected by the electorate.
Like I said: Bill White is raising more money and has more money. Perry went total nutjob in his primary with Hutchinson and he wasn’t very popular to begin with. I think he’s jumped a teabag shark.
Somewhere Molly is smiling.
Trust me, only the very tiniest percentage of people who voted for Kinky last time will line up with Goodhair. Sure he peeled off a lot of Democratic votes but he did best among unaffiliated voters.
I hear through the grapevine that White’s strategy is to wait until August or September and then start buying ads that highlight some of the teabaggery things Perry said on his way to the nomination. He’ll have plenty of material to work with.
“Goodhair is in real trouble.”
Amazing isn’t it. I crossed over in the primary to vote for Hutchinson. Anything to get rid of Rick. I couldn’t believe how she got slaughtered.
Texas: Fixin’ to go purple by 2016.
Texas is purple now. It’s never been as red as people make it out to be. Ann Richards wasn’t all that long ago and Texas was reliably Democratic all the way until the huge influx of people from the rust belt in the seventies and eighties.
Hutchinson was the last Republican I voted for in either 1992 or 1994, (I can’t remember which) but I couldn’t bring myself to support her even over Perry. I voted in the Democratic primary.
Can’t Texas Resident Decider Bush step up and pull the election into Gov. Goodhair’s column? Decider’s not that busy these days.
Bush isn’t any more popular here than in any other state I’m afraid.
Reid,
If you win in Nov. do something that show you were a boxer and have a pair
change the filabuster ruler in the Senate and get rid of it together and let get things done for the people.
Careful what you wish for. No filabuster when the GOP is in charge is potentially scary. The Dems need the filabuster to bend the GOP to its will.
……oh wait.
That easy just don’t let the GOP back in control
It’s a moot point. There won’t be any change to the filibuster rule as long as Reid is majority leader.
Eli is upstairs!
Well, Which Is It?
Dammit.
It seems increasingly likely that we might get the nightmare scenario for progressives: Republicans take the house, Democrats hold the Senate with one vote (Traitor Joe/Coathanger Ben…) and Harry freaking Reid stays as majority leader.
The one small ray of sunshine in this election that I was looking forward to was getting rid of the worst “Democratic” majority leader ever. Not that the clowns lined up to replace him would be much better, but it is a pretty low bar right now. It’s sad that the teabaggers couldn’t even nominate someone who could at least pretend to be sane for five months or so.
Cloture requires 3/5 of those present to vote in favor. Does anybody have a sense of the sentiment in the Senate for changing the filibuster rule, or even doing away with the filibuster entirely? Is even 1 Senator publicly in favor of change or abolition?
Oldfatguy nails it:
Here’s Reid, the Senate Majority Leader with enough pork-barrel-clout to refloat the Titanic, scrambling for his political life against an opponent who just may believe that the earth is flat. What a victory when he beats her!
The White House photog could get historic shots of Obama on his knees in the Oval Office, genuflecting to a portrait of Herbert Hoover.
We. Are. Fucked.
I do not want to get rid of the filibuster. I promise you; we’re going to need it.
What Obama should have done, was ram the damn thing down their throats with pressers every other day, about the people who were responsible for our problems, blocking the salvage operation which he was so emphatically hired to create.
Two weeks of forcing them to the mattresses, and there would have been a political firestorm. They would have caved like lizards.
Now, they own his “centrist” ass.
The real obscenity in all this is that Obama’s been spreading cheek for 17 months and can’t even get a damn reach-around from the assholes on whom he’s done such great rehab.
“It’s sad that the teabaggers couldn’t nominate someone who could at least pretend to be sane, for five months or so.”
Best line of the week…hands down! :o)
People! You know what? Daring the repubs to filibuster might STILL work…
But he’s got 14 weeks to find out, and the repubs are succeeding at making the mid-terms a referendum on nothing but Obama.
Operative phrase, Mr. Preznint: Shit or get off the pot.
Is it possible that Ms. Angle lost ground because she was admitted to the Nevada Institute for the Criminally Insane?
Curious.