10/23

Love-hate relationship with Washington plays out in Nevada politics:
The West has long been torn between attacking and cozying up to the federal government. Now Harry Reid and Sharron Angle have picked sides in that fight.

10/18

Interesting.

erbose Jon Ralston goes strangely quiet
Posted by Sherman Frederick
Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 at 10:51 AM

Jon Ralston and the Las Vegas Sun changed the first headline published on his column last Friday from:

"Reid lost the debate to Angle"

to ...

"Thoughts on the Reid-Angle debate".

Now, Jon's Sunday column headline was changed after publication from:

"Jon Ralston is aghast, still, at Reid’s inability to control debate"

to ...

"Will Angle win by revising history, slandering Reid?".

The Sun's and Ralston's bias for Reid couldn't get much clearer than that. Who knows how many other headlines and content are revised day-to-day to booster Reid's flagging campaign. You'd have to actually read a Ralston column all the way through to know that, and who among us willing to do that? All we really know is that you usually can't shut Jon up about anything. After getting called out on this, however, he remains strangely quiet.

10/17

LVRJ does profile pieces on Reid and Angle.

Angle: Unpopular, but well-intentioned.

Reid: living the high life in Washington spending other people's money.

10/15

Debate reviews:

T.A. Frank of The New Republic says:
If your campaign is based on portraying your opponent as loony, then why give that opponent a chance to look reasonable? Lyndon Johnson never debated Barry Goldwater. Then again, I’m no political strategist. And neither, I’ve come to see, is Harry Reid. So let’s focus on what matters now: that a debate was held in Nevada last night between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican challenger Sharron Angle. And its upshot was—sorry, folks—that Angle improved her chances.

10/7

Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, today endorsed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in his difficult re-election bid against Republican Sharron Angle.

Raggio's Endorsement here.


What does Bill Raggio's endorsement of Harry Reid mean?
Ralston: It means he may get a threat to his leader's position in 2011. It means he really doesn't like Sharron Angle. But it probably doesn't mean he got Reid a lot of votes he wouldn't already have won over. The GOP caucus for Reid already is set - publicly and privately - and that group could well sway the election. But I doubt too many folks will be swayed by Raggio's endorsement.

It also plays into Angle's theme that she is not of the Establishment, but that, too, was already known and those voters are with her already. This is all not much more than noise at this point, although I bet it was a gut-wrenching decision for Raggio. He would never have endorsed Angle but the safer move would have been to sit it out.

It is a measure of how much he dislikes Angle and how disastrous he apparently believes she would be - based on his statement.

9/29 - 10/6

-Reid criticized for Andersen Dairy by Ponderosa Dairy.

-James Carville told POLITICO, “She’s running the worst campaign in the country, and she could still win.”

Harry Reid is not saying "I'm a good choice" he is saying "I am a better choice than"

"Let's make a deal Reid" - now Angle is offering sweetheart deals to Ashjian

POS poll: first time Reid has been ahead outside the margin of error since the primary.
Testimonials raising positives or Angle (with Ashjian and Autism) ?

10/3

Ashjian-gate

Reid mini-gaffe.
David Brody asks Reid: "Can you think of a greatest living American?" His response: 2 dead Senators.