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Danny Tarkanian Launches Group to Attack Harry Reid
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDanny Tarkanian, the conservative candidate who recently lost his primary bid for U.S. Senate in Nevada to Sharron Angle, has launched a new 527 group with the sole intent of attacking Majority Leader Harry Reid. The organization, called Harry Reid Votes, Inc., launched its website on Tuesday afternoon. I'm told the group will have no staff and that all the money donated will go directly to taking on Reid. The group plans to go on radio this week through November, and will air TV ads in September and October. Tarkanian, the son of famed UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, began the ...
Charlie Crist, Arlen Specter, Artur Davis: Can Centrists Survive?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailySo far, 2010 has been an eventful, and sometimes perilous year for independent-minded politicians -- and would-be party kingmakers. This dual lesson keeps being relearned in primary after primary, all over the country, and in both parties. The evidence ranges from the unhorsing of Sen. Robert Bennett of Utah to the rejection -- first within the Republican Party then in the Democratic Party -- of iconoclastic Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. The rebuff of Rep. Artur Davis in his bid for governor of Alabama is part of this story. So is the intraparty knife fight that Sen. Blanche Lincoln ...
Tea Partiers Swap Nasty E-Mails in Nev. Senate Race
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS (June 7) -- A long-brewing feud between tea party factions over Tuesday's Nevada Republican primary election has boiled over into bitter e-mail exchanges in which activists are lambasting one another as "turncoats" and "representative of a liberal mentality." The dispute pits representatives of the Tea Party Express, the national group that has endorsed Sharron Angle to be Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's fall opponent, against Nevada activists who resent outside groups trying to influence an election in which several of the leading candidates have laid claim to tea party ...
Primary Voters in a Dozen States Will Shape the Midterm Ballot
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyVoters go to the polls on Tuesday in 11 states and a single congressional district in Georgia in a series of primaries that will help fill out the November lineup in what is shaping up as a memorable midterm election year. The choices they make in this week's races will help determine the identities the Democratic and Republican parties present to voters this fall, when control of the House and Senate is at stake. The most crucial contests Tuesday are statewide gubernatorial and Senate races in South Carolina, Arkansas, Nevada and California. The rest of the Tuesday calendar, looking at the ...
Nevada Senate: It Could Be Tea Party Favorite Sharron Angle vs. Harry Reid
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyNevada Republican Sharron Angle is on a roll. The former assemblywoman is surging in late polls of the state's three-way Senate primary battle. She has backing from the deep-pocketed Club for Growth and grassroots Tea Party Express. She even made Joe the Plumber's short list – one of only seven candidates he endorsed this year out of more than 150 requests. "The other 143 or so were just worthless," the Everyman of Campaign 2008 explained on a Tea Party Express fundraising radiothon the other night. Angle, he said, is the genuine article: "She was conservative before conservative was ...
Sharron Angle in Lead for GOP Senate Nod in Nevada
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyState Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, the come-from-nowhere Tea Party favorite shooting for the GOP nomination to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has a significant lead heading into Tuesday's primary, although the number of voters still undecided has edged upwards, according to a Mason-Dixon poll conducted June 1-3 for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Angle leads businessman and former college basketball star Danny Tarkanian 32 percent to 24 percent with onetime frontrunner, former state GOP chair Sue Lowden, at 23 percent. Three other candidates share 7 percent, 2 percent of voters ...
Brian Sandoval, Sharron Angle Lead for GOP Governor, Senate Nods in Nevada
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe frontrunners in Nevada's GOP primary races for the gubernatorial and senate nominations are former federal judge Brian Sandoval, who is seeking to oust incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons, and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle, who has forged ahead of onetime frontrunner Sue Lowden, according to two new polls. One of the polls conducted May 31 - June 2 by Daily Kos/Research 2000 shows neither of the Reids running for office this year -- Harry, seeking re-election to the Senate, and son Rory, bidding for governor -- looking particularly strong heading into the general elections in most of the ...
Controversial Tea Party Pick Remakes Race to Face Reid
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS (May 28) -- Out-of-nowhere candidates blessed with tea party endorsements who suddenly steam into contention in hard-fought Republican primaries are hardly news anymore in this topsy-turvy election season. Yet in Nevada, where Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is up for re-election, there's a peculiar twist: The national Tea Party Express' endorsement of former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle in the GOP contest has moved her from also-ran to front-runner in six short weeks. But it's also ticked off in-state tea partiers who resent having outsiders meddling with their ...
Tea Party-Backed Candidate Surges in Nevada's GOP Senate Primary Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyDemocrats and the news media have been having a load of fun with Nevada senate hopeful Sue Lowden's suggestion that one way to tackle health care costs is to barter with doctors, like bringing chickens to them in return for care, but her bigger concern in the race for the GOP nomination appears to be a surge for a Tea Party-backed candidate, according to a Mason-Dixon Research poll conducted May 10-11 for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Lowden, a former state GOP chair, was widely seen as the frontrunner in the contest to oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and she still leads the field ...
GOP's Lowden Is Frontrunner in Race for Harry Reid's Seat
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFormer Nevada GOP chair Sue Lowden has a big lead in the race for her party's nomination to face Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and, in a general election race, she is leading Reid by 8 points, according to a Mason-Dixon Research poll conducted April 5-7. In the Republican race, Lowden leads businessman and former college basketball star Danny Tarkanian by 45 percent to 27. Three other candidates poll 5 percent or less each and 16 percent are undecided. The margin of error is 6 points. For the general election, Lowden leads Reid 46 percent to 38 percent with 5 percent for would-be Tea ...
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