9 thoughts on “A Return-Watchers Guide”

  1. Reid was losing in the early going and Angle won all counties but Washoe and Clark by a large margin… but casino bosses have lots of employees and buses. …and the unions provide the voting machines (as a programmer I can tell ya never trust a machine …er actually, the people that program them.)

  2. Ken,

    You need to learn Nevada demographics. Almost all of the folks in Nevada are in Washoe and Clark counties. So they are the only ones that count in any state wide election.

    The reality is that Nevadans know Sharron Angle. She’s been the state’s nut case for years and that is why they rejected her. Senator Reid’s seat was the Republican’s to lose and thanks to Sarah Palin’s endorsement and out of state money the only Republican that could lose to Senator Reid was nominated to run against him.

  3. This should drive TM crazy for a while.

    The GOP fourth choice? Attractive and wealthy former state Sen. Sue Lowden was considered the front-runner last spring. Though she’s no policy wonk, there was little to dislike about Ms. Lowden. Yes, she and her husband own casinos, but this is Nevada. She was a reasonably articulate conservative during her brief tenure in Carson City, until the public employee unions took her out with their usual scurrilous lies — her vote to let parents decide which shots their kids should get meant she was “in favor of childhood disease,” thoughtful stuff like that.

    So Harry loaded up against former TV newsgal Sue Lowden in this spring’s GOP primary, and … got his wish! Lowden lost! Harry got to run against the GOP’s fifth-stringer, surging out-of-nowhere former Assemblywoman and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle!

  4. Mr. James Louis Oberstar, please enjoy your unplanned early retirement. (Hell, he’s 76; should have retired frikin 10 years ago.)

  5. Titus,

    I voted for Sue Lowden in the primary and if the Tea Party express hadn’t run her over she would have won, and easily have beaten Senator Reid.

    To see what would have happened in the Senate you simply have to look at the Governor’s race and at the margin Rory Reid lost by. Fortunately Sarah Palin and the Fox/Tea Party express ignored that race so a NHR (Normal Honest Republican) won the primary.

    It should also be noted that nearly all of Sharron Angle’s support was from outside the state (including about 80% of her money). The Republicans in the state either endorsed Senator Reid or made a point of being “unavailable” to campaign for Sharron Angle, which should tell folks outside Nevada a lot. Most here see the votes that Sharron Angle got not so much as votes for her, but simply votes against Senator Reid.

    BTW no one in Nevada considers the ads Senator Reid ran to have had much effect as this is a small state and regular voters know their candidates well. What made the difference was the novice voters who having neglected voting for years who came out to vote for Sharron Angle.

    No Nevada’s senate seat was one for the Republicans to lose and thanks to the Tea Party express they did.

  6. What I get from TM’s rant is that he wants a Nevada more like California, and doesn’t care that the rest of the country’s taxpayers have no desire to bail them out in the future.

  7. To put Harry Reid into perspective, let’s look at this man, who also ran for the US Senate as a Democrat and got ~3,000 fewer votes than Reid.

    I’m glad the Senate exists to give states equal power in a legislative body. Still, it’s obscene to call Harry Reid a majority leader. Neither word in that title works with Harry Reid, regardless of what Nevada voters think.

  8. Leland,

    [[[What I get from TM’s rant is that he wants a Nevada more like California, and doesn’t care that the rest of the country’s taxpayers have no desire to bail them out in the future.]]]

    And just what does U.S. Senator Reid have to do with the Nevada state budget? Or are you confusing him with his son, Rory Reid who ran against a Normal Honest Republican (NHR), Brian Sandoval and lost by double digits? Governor-elect Sandoval made it clear that the budget cuts that the last governor has been doing will continue. Which is why Nevada doesn’t need any federal bailout.

    As usual your rant demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge about what you are ranting about.

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