Reid now hold 7 point lead against Angle

[BostonPirate]

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Reid's aggressive advertising campaign, according to the survey, has eroded Angle's support across the board. Angle's support has dropped 9 percent among men and 5 percent among women. While she still dominates among Republicans, her support has dropped by 11 percent with GOP voters. She's also fallen by 6 percent among independents, and 4 percent among Democrats.

one more seat that the repubs could have won, had they not allowed this teabagger movement to hijack their party.

after this election, the republicans are going to have to do some soul searching.

I also want to say that this is before the NAACP/ TEABAGGER spat began. Reid has been gaining momentuum for a while now in the polls.

it is still a long way till the election, but I think Angle will not recover. Angle is the gift that the republicans allowed the teabaggers to give to the democrats in the senate.

 

[CowboyBob]

The Republican party has been ripped apart by several extremist groups vying for power. Christian conservatives, talk radio and activists trying to sell books, the gun lobby, teabaggers are all struggling to influence the few actual politicians remaining in this dwarfing political party. The Teabaggers are only the latest extremist group to infect this collective.

The actual Republican politicians made a huge mistake by pandering to them for the sole reason to get votes and to attract attention to themselves. The majority of Americans are smart enough to see through this charade and Angle will be forgotten by this time next year. I can't wait for November!

 

[rareboy]

Ah look at the legacy of Karl Rove and the christian cabal now.

What wonders that Rupert Murdoch and his minions at Faux have wrought.

Who would ever have thought that the right would explode into so many fragments that the republican party may never be the same.

Too bad that these parties can't be legitimized like in other countries. Here in Canuckistan, the destruction of the conservatives was assured by the reformers and they both had to face reality to try to create an homogeneous bloc again. Unlike the Bloc, who clearly state they are only there to serve the interests of Franch Canadians in Quebec.

The more parties, the better. It makes it difficult for the cynical and clever power whores to jerrymander their way into paralysis.

Good luck to Reid, although he's long past his 'Best Before' date too.

Hopefully we'll have some more mad hatters from the tea party show up to keep us all entertained and to just give us a benchmark for what crazy looks like on the political landscape.

God I miss Ross Perot.

And Ralph Nader.

 

[BostonPirate]

And really look at the poll

11 point drop amongst republicans while independents and democrats combined only saw a 9 point drop.

You can't win in Nevada if you are against alcohol, porn and gays. Las vegas is in Nevada. Do you realize how much state income comes from the casinos?

the state makes 6.75% in taxes of all the casino winnings. In 2009, the casinos won $10.393 billion, they paid 831.75 million in state taxes. They collectively pay $7.989 billion in wages to 177,397 people.

I seriously doubt the casinos are going to sit by idly as this election goes on. their influence is going to be felt as we get closer to the elections.

http://www.americangaming.org/Industry/state/statistics.cfm?stateid=9

 

[palemale]

Sharon Angle, Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin . . . is stupidity a qualification to be a female, Republican elected official, or is it acceptable to be merely insane?

 

[MercuryJones]

Reid needs to keep campaigning like he's 7 points behind.

And let her keep talking.

 

[BostonPirate]

Reid needs to keep campaigning like he's 7 points behind.

And let her keep talking.

yup

I just read that a conservative group from out of state is going to dump one quarter million on an attack ad against Reid.

He is going to have to keep fighting as he has up until this point, and the voters are going to have to keep on insisting on clarification of her stances.... namely what they are and what they were.

 

[MystikWizard]

Excellent news.

We can only hope that the Tea Party movement makes a last ditch effort to persuade Sarah Palin to run for President in 2012, so that her defeat can squash this movement for good, and send a clear message to the Bible Thumpers, Extremists, and the Republican Party that the country is not representative of these racist inbreds.

 

[BostonPirate]

Excellent news.

We can only hope that the Tea Party movement makes a last ditch effort to persuade Sarah Palin to run for President in 2012, so that her defeat can squash this movement for good, and send a clear message to the Bible Thumpers, Extremists, and the Republican Party that the country is not representative of these racist inbreds.

apparently she's diving in the polls as well... she still enjoys a healthy popularity within the repub party, but a new poll shows she has lost alot of ground in general.

CNN says....

Among all Americans, though, Palin's numbers are upside down. More Americans view her in a negative light (47 percent) than a positive one (44 percent). What's more, only nine percent of Americans haven't formed an opinion of the former Alaska governor, making it difficult for her to correct that deficit.

 

[bike10]

Ms Angle now claims God called her to run for the Senate. We heard same claim that God called GWB to be president. Does God ever get wrong number?

 

[chuck10x]

Here's an article from Politifact on Reid/Angle and who is in the lead.

http://www.politifact.com/texas/sta.../reid-only-clearly-trailing-two-thirds-polls/

 

[evanrick]

lol....harry reid doesnt need to do any more campaigning, i think his opponent is working for him now.

i think we all knew reid wasnt in any trouble.

maybe once loony tune sharon angle loses she can go sell books to dumbass hicks with palin and coulter.

 

[BostonPirate]

Indeed a lot of pundits are commenting on the potential dangers the Tea Party poses to the GOP. Their candidates can be good spoilers in favor the Democrats. The Dems will just slip through the cracks when the GOP could have had control of Congress. The problem now is that the GOP has lost its "Big Tent" appeal. It's now mostly worthless homophobic scumbags and the people more crazy and right-wing than they are.

the teabaggers are pulling the party to the most extreme right position available, and that is popular right now, because the Rush Think is that the reason McCain lost is because he was a RINO, and as such, lost the real conservative vote.

BUT

Polls show that when these radical righties go against the dems who are now claiming the middle, they lose ground. this is a big deal in a year, a mid term congressional election of a first term presidency, that usually always sees a change of posession of at least one if not both of the houses of congress.

the teabaggers are the spoilers, and it may be that they are leveling the feild and what will really win an ellection is how well the candidate can distance himself from the beltway, which is in dissaray.

 

[Kulindahr]

I seriously doubt the casinos are going to sit by idly as this election goes on. their influence is going to be felt as we get closer to the elections.

http://www.americangaming.org/Industry/state/statistics.cfm?stateid=9

Of course they'll get involved -- politics is a form of gambling.

Ms Angle now claims God called her to run for the Senate. We heard same claim that God called GWB to be president. Does God ever get wrong number?

Okay, He called her to run. But did He call her to win?

To tell you the truth it would take a nonpartisan constitutional convention to fix it. That's really what it's come to.

First step: add to the Bill of Rights, things like self-defense, privacy, freedom of association, presumption of liberty, the "castle principle", freedom of expression, and more.

Second: put the Bill of Rights first, and specify that the government exists in order to protect and defend these.

. . . .

 

[BostonPirate]

^^^

All a constitution is, is a piece of paper. It's good for nothing if it isn't honored.

I believe the common understanding of honoring our system of constitutional laws has unalterably changed into bending the rules to play the party games.

These were the warnings Washington left, unheeded.

one thing now left behind is the senate needing fifty percent of the vote within its body to pass legislation.

Republican manipulation of parliamentary procedure is destroying the senates ability to perform it's constitutionally required duties.

The house has a veritable cornucopia of issues waiting for senate action. This gov't would be functioning properly if 40 people in the senate were denied the filibuster.

I am really becoming in favor of getting rid of it entirely.

the idea that 40 individuals can stop the work of 300 million citizens is a nightmare the founding fathers never envisioned. they naively believed that IF you ran for office in the government you would want the government to succeed. Unfortunately, Boss rush Hogg has sent out the orders to make Obama fail, and his minions in the senate are very obedient.

 

[Kulindahr]

one thing now left behind is the senate needing fifty percent of the vote within its body to pass legislation.

Republican manipulation of parliamentary procedure is destroying the senates ability to perform it's constitutionally required duties.

The house has a veritable cornucopia of issues waiting for senate action. This gov't would be functioning properly if 40 people in the senate were denied the filibuster.

I am really becoming in favor of getting rid of it entirely.

the idea that 40 individuals can stop the work of 300 million citizens is a nightmare the founding fathers never envisioned. they naively believed that IF you ran for office in the government you would want the government to succeed. Unfortunately, Boss rush Hogg has sent out the orders to make Obama fail, and his minions in the senate are very obedient.

I'd say the Founding Fathers would see the constant stream of legislation granting more and more power to the government as an utter abomination, and would applaud a provision that keeps a coalition of states from trampling the wishes of the others merely because of a simple majority. The one thing they feared about democracy is that a majority could have absolute power over everyone else, with no constraint on their power. The cloture provision would sit fine with them; if two-fifths of the states don't want something, it's probably not a good idea.

That the process can be abused is a given. But the abuse of it results merely in no government action, rather than a deluge of action that stomps on those who happen to have one less vote. The Founding Fathers assumed that the people would be wise enough to elect statesmen, who would deliberate things wisely; if two-fifths of such a group oppose something, that should be a measure of its wisdom.

And with the likes of Schumer, McConnel, Feinstein, Cornyn, Boxer, McCain, Harkin, Vitter, Lautenberg, and Feingold, I'd say wisdom is in short supply, as is support for liberty.

 

[BostonPirate]

I'd say the Founding Fathers would see the constant stream of legislation granting more and more power to the government as an utter abomination, and would applaud a provision that keeps a coalition of states from trampling the wishes of the others merely because of a simple majority. The one thing they feared about democracy is that a majority could have absolute power over everyone else, with no constraint on their power. The cloture provision would sit fine with them; if two-fifths of the states don't want something, it's probably not a good idea.

That the process can be abused is a given. But the abuse of it results merely in no government action, rather than a deluge of action that stomps on those who happen to have one less vote. The Founding Fathers assumed that the people would be wise enough to elect statesmen, who would deliberate things wisely; if two-fifths of such a group oppose something, that should be a measure of its wisdom.

And with the likes of Schumer, McConnel, Feinstein, Cornyn, Boxer, McCain, Harkin, Vitter, Lautenberg, and Feingold, I'd say wisdom is in short supply, as is support for liberty.

i disagree. they considered this and made the senate have 2 senators from each state regardless of the population just for the reasons you are talking about.

They also wanted that to be ballanced out with the house of representatives, which reflects an individual's representation based on population.

I will say that they never considered that people would make politics a career though. If they thought of that, I am sure they would have added term limits from the beginning.

 

[BostonPirate]

not abolishing the senate, just getting rid of the filibuster.

 

[BostonPirate]

It's a double edged sword.

both sides will now feel justified in abusing it

It needs to go

 

[Kulindahr]

I will say that they never considered that people would make politics a career though. If they thought of that, I am sure they would have added term limits from the beginning.

That much is true.

They didn't conceive that an honest man would really want to be in government for a lifetime.




Though maybe they got that right, after all.