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.
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