In 2010 the Republicans had a brilliant opportunity to humiliate the Democrats by defeating their Senate leader, Harry Reid. This is one of the screw-ups when you can't blame Republican primary voters. At the time Reid's approval rating was below 40%, so it was hard to see how he possibly could win. Immediately following the primaries, the Republican candidate Sharron Angle was leading Reid by double digits! The failure of her campaign is entirely on her.
Angle was a Tea Party hardliner who decimated the Republican Party's chances of taking Nevada. During the campaign she said some crazy things, and as people looked deeper you found out that this wasn't a new thing. During the campaign she was notorious for avoiding the press, much to Nevadans' annoyance. Considering her experiences when talking in public, it's not surprising. She claimed that it was not her job to help Nevada. Seriously. She also claimed that the towns of Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas had been taken over by Sharia Law and said that she opposed unemployment benefits. In 2009 she mocked covering autism in health insurance and claimed that the 9/11 terrorists came from Canada! Yet in my view her most outrageous remark came at the expense of Harry Reid. The quote is:
"I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
This sent shock waves through Nevada as people saw that comment as an attempt to get someone to assassinate Harry Reid! Angle's crazy comments proved too much for the people of Nevada and Reid won re-election, beating Angle by 6%.
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| Sharron Angle messed up a certain Republican win source: www.alan.com |
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