How Harry Reid Beat Sharron Angle

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In hopes of not offending Chicago, Reid is without a doubt the dirtiest politician Nevada has ever seen. He learned all of his tricks of keeping the hotel owners in his pocket while he was head of the Gaming Control Board. That is probably where he made most of his wealth. When you put together the facts that he only won in his own town by 2, that is right 2 votes above Angle, that tells the country how dispised he is in Nevada. The dirty tricks continued, complaints from poll personnel at the polling places complaining that they were seeing car after car of people with California plates leaving the polling places. On the night of the election, his pocketed hotel owners bused on county owned school buses, anyone who was going to vote for Reid, which is just about anyone in the culinary unions, they got 3 hours off and a nice buffet when they returned. They faked a circuit break at one polling station so that bus by bus could get in a vote until 9:30, well past the polling time. This human trash is leading our country into a 3rd world country and he will retire in Hawaii or some exotic place and will not give a damn. He is just plain evil. CJ

CJ Mck of NV 12:18AM November 16, 2010

I am a Democrat, but I think that we should be careful in praising the brilliance of Reid and his staff. It's so easy to turn around and point to all the "reasons" a candidate succeeds after the fact. Truth be told, this same publication would be going through all of Reid's mistakes had he lost. For example, this article suggests that Reid got rid of several likely competitors early on, but then talks about governor scandals and other indictments that Reid frankly had nothing to do with. More likely explanations: Reid had the advantage of being an incumbent and Angle pissed off the large contingency of Mormon voters in Nevada.

Chris Beckstrom of UT 10:49AM November 09, 2010

Angle and her campaign manager made a critical error shortly after her Primary win and that was to accept staffing recommendations from the National Republican Senatorial Committee ("NRSC"), the same people that had previously funded and endorsed Angle's Primary opponent, Sue Lowden. In essence, after their Primary victory, the Angle campaign substituted the advisers of the Primary loser, Lowden, for their own staff of Primary winners. Interestingly, at the same time, the NRSC was busy allegedly "helping" Tea Party darling Angle, they were also doing their best to defeat Tea Party favorites Joe Miller in Alaska and Christine O'Donnell in Delaware in favor of establishment RINOs. Unfortunately, the Angle brass didn't "get-it" and permitted the NRSC operatives to continue operating within Angle's campaign even though they were blatantly exhibiting "their true colors" in Alaska and Delaware. Angle wound-up with an NRSC selected communications director, deputy communications director, finance manager and advertising agency. The NRSC also augmented Angle's field team with NRSC personnel. These NRSC operatives were the ones that throttled her back and kept her away from the press and more importantly from the Nevada voting public. Angle's message was simple: Return to constitutional principles and cut-back the size and scope of the federal government in the areas that it was operating on an extra-constitutional basis. Reid, of course, was the beneficiary of the NRSC's mishandling of Angle's campaign.

Peter K. of NV 2:00AM November 09, 2010

I truly believe Harry won because he, single handedly, saved all us all from a nut case, the likes of which the world had never seen...!!!

Al of OH 1:46AM November 09, 2010

TAH DAH ...."Fraudmonger"!
Let's add this to, let's see ....hatemonger, fearmonger, angermonger, and birthmonger!
WAAAAAAAH-HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Asteroid Man of SC 9:04PM November 08, 2010

That's what he said!! What a hero, huh??
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/harry-reid-saved-the-world/
I think he should rule the world ...not ours, but some large empty rock in the Andromeda Galaxy!
(Haw haw haw haw haw haw!!!) ;)

Asteroid Man of SD 8:47PM November 08, 2010

Shoot R.L. Schaefer because you don’t like his message. Well I'm shooting you now.
R.L. had cause to bring up voter fraud from my 10/26/10 link:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Voting-machines-in-Clark-County-Nevada-automatically-checking-Harry-Reids-name-Voting-machine-technicians-are-members-of-SEIU-105815608.html
“A flurry of mailers and commercials helped demonize Angle as outside the mainstream. A string of high-profile surrogates, including President Barack Obama , bolstered his standing with key groups.”:
http://dailyme.com/story/2010110300000142/reid-survives-challenge-angle-nevadas-senate.html
You may ridicule Republicans for wanting secured boarders and legitimate immigration, not illegal uncontrolled mass entrance. Maybe you’re not for law & order, until it affects you personally.
You say “R.L. Schaefer is all bias, not fact”, yet you say is fact “As for the Unions, they were outspent by the shadowy right-wing corporate donors 4:1. ”. Where’s the beef. NO LINK !!!!! You are hypercritical of R.L., I don’t believe your # without proof.
I find “Pro-Democratic groups, from unions to environmentalists, have spent millions more in so-called "independent" expenditures on Reid's behalf. ”. Here is my proof:
http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/10/top_ten_most_expensive_electio_1.html
Now dig your links up, please. Otherwise you speak nonsense…
"trickle down economics." was John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Tax cuts for rich did increase the their tax liability. Rich invested and they paid more $$$ in revenue to government. Created longest BULL MARKET. Which created jobs and fattened all those with pension plans. Trickle, trickle.
Don’t take my word, here is link:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/08/the-historical-lessons-of-lower-tax-rates
Looking forward to you backing your statements/FACTS with LINKS…

Bill Hedges of MO 7:04PM November 08, 2010

He does not mince words and somewhat oversimplifies the facts. But I'd say overall, it's pretty fair dinkum.

TomW of WA 4:29PM November 08, 2010

R.L. Schaefer is all bias, not fact. Here's an opposing view. Repubs "spend a lot of time treating Latino, Blacks and Rad-Fems" as objects of hate, not as part of a patchwork nation, which the U.S. now is. And thank God for it, and for all that diverse talent. As for the Unions, they were outspent by the shadowy right-wing corporate donors 4:1. Good working people don't grow "snouts," they grow a desire to see a middle-class reemerge in this Nation where now 98% of the population owns 2% of the wealth, thanks to the scam that is and always was "trickle down economics." Everyone always accuses their opponents of voter fraud, as the Dems saw with "Houston Votes" in Harris County (http://tinyurl.com/24skudx). However, as Tova Andrea Wang, a Senior Democracy Fellow at Demos, wrote: "Also noteworthy after Election Day had come and gone was the sudden silence from the fraud-mongerers and Tea Party poll watch groups. Not a peep of one case of substantiated fraud at the polling place."

Nicky Hartzell of TX 4:16PM November 08, 2010

Reid won for the same reason that the Libs cleaned up in California. Democrats spend a lot of time and money keeping the "victim classes" scared. Latino, blacks and Rad-Fems give them 80+% of their obliging votes. Include the folks with their snouts in the union trough, add in a sprinkling of voter fraud (a Democratic specialty -" a la' Franken") and you have a combination nearly impossible to beat.
Up against that stacked deck a weak candidate, like Angle, didn't stand a chance.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 3:43PM November 08, 2010