Harry Reid Holds Narrow Edge In Nevada: Reuters - Ipsos Poll

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Reuters

By REUTERS
Published: August 3, 2010
Filed at 3:21 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, one of America's most powerful politicians, holds a narrow edge among likely voters in his re-election bid in recession-lashed Nevada, a Reuters-Ipsos poll said on Tuesday.

The struggling U.S. economy is paramount in voters' minds as they look ahead to the November 2 election in Nevada, with 74 percent citing the economy as their top concern, the poll of 600 Nevada voters done July 30-August 1 found.

And Nevada's high jobless rate of 14.2 percent and rising home foreclosures and bankruptcies appear to be taking their toll on Reid in his attempt for a fifth six-year term. Seventy-one percent of registered voters said the state is on the wrong track.

Among voters who said they are likely to vote, Reid held a 48-44 percent lead over Republican challenger Sharron Angle, much narrower than the 52-36 percent edge he had over her among registered voters.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/08/03/news/news-us-usa-elections-nevada.html?ref=news

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Sharron Angle is a wacko.

[jaysunb]

1. "Among voters who said they are likely to vote"

Among voters who said they are likely to vote, Reid held a 48-44 percent lead over Republican challenger Sharron Angle, much narrower than the 52-36 percent edge he had over her among registered voters.

Think maybe there is a message here for ALL Democrats..... :shrug:

[totodeinhere]

2. Other polls have it closer than that.

http://www.rgj.com/article/20100802/NEWS/8020322/1321

A second statewide telephone survey this month by Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KLAS-TV found 43 percent support for Reid and 42 percent for Angle. Six percent were undecided.

[activa8tr]

3. Lots of unemployed Republicans are getting disgusted with Sharon

and holding their nose to vote for Reid, but at least they will vote.

[Doctor_J]

4. Yet there are many DUers who think that teabaggers are hurting the Repukes

wake up, people - they're coming.

[DarthDem]

5. Angle's Done

Unelectable. Reid always comes back when he looks like he's toast anyway, and probably would have against Chicken Lady or Little Tarkanian (lordy, what a field of Gooper candidates!!!), but against this imbecilic loon, he's going to win in a walk.

[opihimoimoi]

6. The odds favor Reid....He SHOULD WIN in a walk...but sometimes wackos prevail: IE Bush

[DarthDem]

7. Dumbya Didn't Win :)

n/t

[opihimoimoi]

8. but...he was 8 yrs in oval office