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In what can only be called a serious case of buyers remorse, nearly 70 percent of those who claimed to be supporters of Nevada’s Sharron Angle said they wished they had a different candidate.
From Huffington Post:
As noted by the Review-Journal’s Laura Myers, two thirds of Angle’s backers wished another nominee had been selected. According to Myers:
Some 68 percent of those surveyed said they would have preferred if a candidate other than Angle had won the GOP primary. Among them were 71 percent of Republicans, 71 percent of nonpartisans and 64 percent Democrats.
Of course, the news isn’t great for incumbent Harry Reid, who is viewed unfavorably by 52 percent of the states voters. But at least he has a vast majority of his own voters saying they wouldn’t have preferred another Democratic nominee.
Reid has surprised many by pulling even in the race to save his senate seat, through a combination of good campaigning and an opponent who seems quite susceptible to gaffes. But, as the Washington Post was happy to point out in a recent The Fix post, Reid is still on the edge of being able to pull a comeback, and even offered a full gameplan of how Angle could manage to finish him off, should she choose to take more control over her public persona. And the most important is tip #5:
Get (slightly) better as a candidate: Every Republican strategist knew that Angle was a work-in-progress when she won the June primary. Most underestimated just how much work she needed, however, and how resistant she would be to changing. Angle will never be a fully polished candidate on the stump — and she might lose some of her base appeal if she was — but she also can’t win if she doesn’t work on basic elements of the campaign: her stump speech, her interactions with reporters and, especially, debating Reid. Voters in Nevada want a reason to throw Reid out but, to date, Angle’s rocky — to be kind — campaign hasn’t done much to convince undecideds that she is a viable alternative.
Can Angle ever figure out how to walk the line between feeding the Tea Party base and not alienating most of her voters in the process? I’m sure the Reid campaign will be watching to see.
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If Harry Reid wasn't in charge of the senate, I would agree with you. Given his big chair, his "scumbagliness" takes on a whole new meaning.
Yes, Sharon Angle is a nut, but at least she won't be running the senate if she gets elected.
I am sick of extremists on BOTH sides. We need some good moderates in office.
So you read what Paula P has to say. She wants Harry Reid out of the way so badly, she's willing to jump from the frying pan into the fire. Shows to go you what dumb Americans will do to paint themselves into a corner.
Ain't nobody gonna hold a gun to their heads and force them to vote for her. If they do vote for her (sans gun), they're conceding to the idea of a madwoman on board to do her bit for the impending downfall of this country.
I feel their pain, I am wishing we had a 'real' Dem running here in western NC...I don't think I can bring myself to vote for our 'blue dog' Heath Schuler...UGH. The GOPer running against him is a rightwingnut...but Heath votes with the GOP anyway, then just calls himself a Dem.
Nevada voters now have a deeper understanding of the old maxim, "Be careful what you wish for...".
I live in Nevada and WILL vote for Angle....any one is better than Harry Reid. She is crazy but anyone just to get Reid out, he's old and screwed up and hasn't helped Nevada, we don't want him...anyone but HARRY! Sorry folks!
'get slightly better as a candidate'?!! This itself is crazy. It indicates an acceptance by the writer that candidates in the U.S. are not real people but actors in a performance calculated to win voters. If you all forget about accepting these performers and demand reality you might end up with a government that represents the wishes of the people. The article as a whole reveals that the voters are following a party that they have habitually supported and are not going to change that no matter what charlatan of crackpot gets up and asks them to vote for them. It is a completely irrational voting habit that can only lead to disastrous leadership. I wish I could say that this type of voting behaviour and falsified political persona is peculiar to the U.S. but here in Australia we have just had an inconclusive elction because we had to vote for either of two groups of people whose defining characteristics include bland similarity and willingness to present promises they have no intention of fulfilling, in order to appear to be what the voters want. And we too have voters who will not change their lifelong voting habit no matter what is in front of them. The challenge to us is to demand reality and get lies out of national leadership.
Lunatics- first she's not crazy enough for you- now she's too crazy...You are all crazy.
Well the frothing at the mouth tea baggers should hav e listened, but that is their problem talk but do not listen, so now they have a crazy lady and boy is she ever crazy.
Tery G. and Danielle K. said exactly what I would have written. Toni C., you are hilarious.
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