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Reid on the Ropes in Nevada

Barbbtx said:
He's running. As close as the race is, his 1% could maybe win it for Reid.
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I dont know why any one isn't supporting the guy who dare even I say, seemed to make sense when he talked and had real issues on the table and ready to discuss. Instead the left is arguing that the right is crooked for trying to persuade a candidate to drop out with intent of political favors, and the right saying the left is done for. Actually. All of this is pretty stupid. I've come to realize no one cares to think sensibly. Either side is all or nothing. And if your none of those, you ruin it all. And don't tell me that's what the tea party is. The tea party is comprised of neoconservative, bible belt christians, whites, oft ill informed (obama is a muslim and radical christian or obama is responsible for fixing the economy but better keep his nose out of the economy) individuals. And people who talk about the constitution as if they read it, let alone understand it. With that said, do I think the government spends too much money? Yup. On Defense, and politicians salaries. And NASA (that should totally be a private enterprise worthy of making $$$$). Do I think the government is too big? As long as the expansion is to shelter our freedoms and liberties. Do I notice something like a larger outrage against a mosque in NYC than a "pastor" who wants to burn holy books. Yup.

Yeah I'm liberal. I'm progressive. I'm socially accepting of absolute equal rights whether to civil liberties, unions, or discourse.

I am not a liberal. I am not a progressive, nor am I a poster for those former mentioned rights. I am a fan of common sense through and through. There is no sense in protesting a mosque in the United States. Seems counter productive. If Muslims disapproved of us wouldnt they be protesting our churches. Wouldn't they be the ones burning bibles. I would if there was as much of an overall lack of tolerance toward my religion. Which is none. Which means I am incapable of running this nation. Because I don't beleive in a book. A rewritten, retranslated, recycled book. Actually because I have that point of view. Many people can not take me seriously. While I can sit through grace without laughing at the fact a bunch of people are sitting in a circle mumbling at air without mentioning it. The second many find out of my "unsaved" status, I can not be taken seriously.

Enough. Enough trying to talk sense into any one. Even the ****ing people who agree with me. My mouth is closed. My fingers rested. Time to ****ing take a break.
 
The situation as i see it is this.

Reid has faked his way throght life uo until know.

Harry night be a nick gut to friends and relatives, hell he night be some young person favorite uncle.

I have no clue, but what I do know is America is waking up to the reality that Liberalism/Socialism/Marxism as practiced by thet Trifecta of Doom, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, is not he answer to anything.
 
Barbbtx said:
It was just a gut feeling, but then I found I'm not alone. If not Harry, then liberals who want him re-elected.
Hannity was just reporting the latest poll.
Who's not taking responsibility? She said what she said.
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CNN reported that Ashjian surreptitiously recorded the meeting and passed the tape along to Ralston. Reid's camp and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pounced upon the news and emailed around summaries of the conversation. Angle's lawyer has claimed that the meeting was a "set-up" by Ashjian, whom various local Tea Party groups in Nevada have accused of being a liberal plant.

This slur is a recurring one in Tea Party politics, and third-party candidates have threatened to siphon votes from major-party rivals in multiple states this year.


Sharron Angle's Third-Party

Problem - Nicole Allan - Politics - The Atlantic
Fake Nevada Tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian was sued by the Independent American Party in March. The suit challenged Ashjian’s membership in the Tea Party of Nevada. He was also charged with felony theft for passing a bad check in Las Vegas this spring.
This weekend Ashjian released a tape of a recorded private conversation he had with Sharron Angle. Angle complained about the Republican Party during the conversation and asked Ashjian to remove himself from the ballot. Ashjian refused and released the tape of the private conversation to the liberal media. Ashjian is currently polling at 1% of the vote. Angle and far left minority leader Harry Reid are tied.
This afternoon Ashjian lashed out at the “racist” Tea Party Express and the Republican Party saying he would not endorse Angle or Reid in the election.

Gateway Pundit
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I don't care how many people have "GUT" FEELINGS, as such things are meaningless too often influenced by personal bias. What I care about is actual evidence. Got any?

And yes, she said what she said. So it doesn't matter one bit who she said it too, or what the purpose for taping it was. You say stupid ****, you're responsible. Party alligence doesn't matter one iota.
 
Is Reid Corrupt... follow the money

Governor Donal “Mike” O’Callaghan replaced Nevada Gaming Commission Chairman Peter Echeverria with Reid in mid-1977, in the midst of the new Chicago Mafia move into town spearheaded by Agosto. As chairman, one of Reid’s first acts was to approve the sale of the Hacienda hotel-casino (now the site of Mandalay Bay), controlled by a Chicago Mafia front company called Argent Corporation, to former lounge musician Paul Lowden. Reid approved the sale despite objections from the state’s Gaming Control Board alleging the involvement of Lowden with hidden associates from a company based in San Diego. Also in 1977 Reid and the Nevada Gaming Commission initially approved the deal that allowed Agosto’s associates to skim funds from the Tropicana for two years before Reid decided to “kick the mob out of Las Vegas”. In 1978 Reid’s commission approved applications for new Reno and Lake Tahoe ventures by the Del E. Webb Corporation, named for Del Webb, a Phoenix construction contractor whose Las Vegas buildings had been used by Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky for skimming funds. After the use of Reid’s name by Agosto and his associates was reported by papers in mid-1979, Reid and the Gaming Commission approved transfer of control of the Tropicana from Agosto’s group to the Phoenix-based Ramada hotel chain, which had been founded with initial investment input from Webb.

By 1980 Reid had been cleared of Agosto’s allegations by the Carter Justice Department (then also in the process of bringing about virtually no successful prosecutions in Billygate, Koreagate, ABSCAM, BCCI, or the investigation of cocaine use by Treasury Secretary Hamilton Jordan). Since then Reid has received contributions from various donors connected with the gambling industry, including:


Reid has received contributions from various donors connected with the gambling industry, including:

--Moe Dalitz, associated with the Cleveland mob, the Desert Inn, the Stardust Resort & Casino, and Rancho La Costa.

--Irwin Molasky and Merv Adelson, who partnered with Dalitz in developing Rancho La Costa but deny any criminal associations.

--Morris Shenker, an attorney associated with the St. Louis Mafia, Meyer Lansky, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Dunes Hotel.

--Paul Lowden, who after purchasing the Hacienda in 1977 from Argent Corporation purchased the Sahara Resort and Casino in 1982 from Del Webb.

--Ed and Fred Doumani, associated with the Tropicana Hotel, the El Morocco casino, Agosto, and Joey Cusumano, former lieutenant of Chicago Mafia representative Anthony Spilotro; Agosto’s infiltration of the Tropicana was facilitated in 1975 when the Chicago and Kansas City Mafia families conspired to block a Teamsters Central States Pension Fund loan to the Doumanis; when Argent Corporation’s gambling license was revoked in 1979 Argent initially agreed to sell its holdings to the Doumanis; later in 1983 the Doumanis loaned funds to the now-bankrupt Agosto.

--Bart Rizzolo, who along with his son Rick Rizzolo operates the Crazy Horse Too strip club; associated with the Doumanis and Joey Cusumano.

--Kirk Kerkorian, owner at various times of Caesar’s Palace (built with financing from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund), the Flamingo Hotel (sold in 1970 to the Hilton Hotels Corporation, partly financed in the 1940s by Henry Crown, who also financed Chicago mob associate Jacob Arvey, and later associated with mob lawyer Sidney Korshak), and the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (built on the heels of Kerkorian’s acquisition of controlling MGM shares from Edgar Bronfman, son of Lansky bootlegging associate Samuel Bronfman; Bronfman’s son Edgar Jr. has also been a Reid contributor).

--Steve Wynn, a casino developer who used profits from a 1970 deal involving Howard Hughes and Caesar’s Palace to purchase the Golden Nugget; described in a Scotland Yard report as a front man for New York’s Genovese Mafia family.

--Joseph Alioto, a San Francisco politician related to Milwaukee Mafia boss John Alioto; alleged by informer Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno to be associated with San Diego Mafia boss Frank “the Bomp” Bompensiero, a charge Alioto denied; implicated in the Koreagate Congressional bribe scandal.

--Tony Coelho, a corrupt former Congressman who in 1997 at the time of his donation to Reid was involved in a business venture with El Rancho, a Las Vegas casino formerly run by Ed Torres, an associate of Meyer Lansky.

While receiving donations from such sources, Reid has remained associated with the two attorneys involved in the Justice Department probe of Agosto’s allegations, Jay H. Brown and Oscar Goodman. Brown has been a regular contributor to Reid’s campaigns since 1982, and his law firm Singer & Brown lists Reid as a reference in one online profile. In January 2006 Reid and Goodman--now the Mayor of Las Vegas--discussed the possibility of Goodman running for Senate, with Reid describing Goodman to the press as “a very, very strong candidate”. Meanwhile Goodman had recently created a local scandal by throwing a party with a guest list which included Joey Cusumano, legally barred from Las Vegas casinos for his ties to the Chicago Mafia. Goodman’s open association with Cusumano was called by former Las Vegas FBI chief Bobby Siller “an embarrassment to the state, an embarrassment for Las Vegas and an embarrassment for gaming”. Another former Las Vegas FBI chief, Joseph Yablonsky, said of Goodman, “'Mob lawyer' is a title Goodman has relished and promoted over the years, although it's contradictory to his sporadic and inane denials that organized crime exists in the United States. The 'boys' in Chicago, Kansas City and elsewhere must be elated about their guy in Vegas. They're probably thinking 'we'll have some political juice there again.'”


Mr. Cleanface’s Dirty Laundry: Harry Reid’s Mob Money
Cosmopolitician: 1001 Reasons To Fire Harry Reid | HarryReidVotes.com
 
in this particular climate it is probably NOT hurtful for an insurgent outsider to question the wisdom of the national establishment of her party

reid has been from the get go in a huge amount of trouble in the silver state

that a sitting senate leader can't get over 50% in a single popularity poll in months, experienced pols perceive, is profoundly problematic

part of what's going on here and across the nation is pollsters, perpetually vexed by the difficulty in determining exactly whom constitutes a "likely" voter...

that is, IF the enthusiasm gaps measured for months independently by gallup, rasmussen, cnn, ppp and just about every major surveyor are indeed on the order of 20+ points for republicans...

none of these pollsters is modeling its samples along lines so unprecedentedly skewed

late undecideds, always prone to come down against incumbency, are far more so when the known candidate is as extremely well known as poor, over-hassled harry

of all the closest senate races, all currently catching fire---CA, WA, CT, WV, DE---this, the silver state seat, is still by far the most likely to go red

hispanic interest, it has been reported today for the 4th straight day (by various sources), is seriously and very strangely swinging

Hispanics lose zeal to turn out vote for Dems - Washington Times

for instance, the dem candidate (suzanne denish) to replace bill richardson, the most corrupt gub in the country, in albequerque, is currently desperately trying to revive her dying bid by promising to YANK ILLEGALS' DRIVERS LICENSES!

in NEW MEXICO!

the DEM FOR GUB!

what do you think THAT means, portends, foretells?

are you following west virginia?

sitting governor joe manchin is collapsing vs 3 time loser for state office, john raese ("ray-see")

cap and trade is huge in west virginia, think appalachia

obama is loathed in the mountain state, under 30% approval

manchin has been a successful governor, he's popular, and there's a natural and totally expected impulse to leave manchin in the mansion

mine owner and media mogul raese's bumper stickers---NO RUBBER STAMPS---are ubiquitous outside the sycamore lined environs of charleston

manchin is scrambling madly to get away from obama

he proudly supported obamacare until it passed but now vows he will try to REPEAL all of it except for pre-existings

"kill the rest, start with what we agree on"

same with the stimulus, same with cap and trade

he was for them before he was against them, he's running as republican-lite

manchin was served a pair of subpoenas LAST WEEK concerning a hiway project in morgantown from where the gub originates

also from morgantown is manchin's chief of staff, mr puccio, a real estate developer named in the filings

a pickup in west virginia offsets, should it go down, a loss in delaware

in connecticut, wwf'er linda mcmahon is closing her gap

in a highly publicized debate 2 days ago, she turned to mr blumenthal who lied about his nam service and asked him simply---how do you create a job

the dem's dithering rejoinder is LOL material coast to coast

Video - Dick Blumenthal Stumped On How To Create A Job - National Right Side Politics | Examiner.com

the wrestler's comeback---govt, govt, govt---expresses with pith the perspective of almost every normal mom and pop, in times like these

her comfortable familiarity with the topic of job creation stands in dramatic contrast with the wonky wordiness of the ag, the awkwardness expressed on his face as she lays out her recipe in 30 sure seconds of certainty says it all

this election is about the economy, it's about jobs

even our hispanic neighbors and friends have IMMIGRATION as only THEIR fifth highest priority

all this gossipy witchiness and tea party infighting is really taking your eye off america's ball, you need to know

by the way, the head of the nevada tea party yesterday QUIT his position over the dirty tricks, secret taping of the much abused ms angle

'Tea party' head resigns over tape - Washington Times

mr james endorsed the whack job

party on
 
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Reid is a truly sad example of everything that is wrong in America today, and those who continue to support him and of course Obama point out just how poor our entire education system has become.


Every damn day there are glaring examples of the lack of ability of so many, mostly Liberals to use critical thinking skills or basic minimum intelligence to think out their positions before they show their posteriors and post a response that in no way relates to the issues in question, because they go straight to the name calling and te obfuscation. (Even though they have earthly idea of what obfuscating even means)

I am pretty sure thee will now be a rush to the dictionary to find the meaning of the word "obfuscation."

I love all Americans and from now on I will ibe sure to nclude even those less fortunate mentally challenged massive numbers of Obamaniacs in my prayers.
 
j-mac said:
I shall look forward to all the liberal whining on Nov 3.


j-mac
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It won't be whining (at least with me), just head-scratching in awe and wonder why struggling poeple continue to do the bidding of an Australian Billionaire who wants to own us all.
 
Obamanator said:
Is Reid Corrupt... follow the money
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Welcome to DP.

Now come back when you have some links to legitimate source.

Harry Ried is well liked and respected on both sides of the aisle.

Of course they don't tell you that on Teabagger News.
 
hazlnut said:
Welcome to DP.

Now come back when you have some links to legitimate source.

Harry Ried is well liked and respected on both sides of the aisle.

Of course they don't tell you that on Teabagger News.
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Nevada, on the other hand, hates him so much that they're willing to vote in a crazy cat lady, apparently.

This country is ****ed.
 
So, what do we have in Nevada? A race between an asshat and an assclown. Who give a damn who wins? They both suck, but leave it to the hyperpartisan Democrats and Republicans to bash one of the dumbasses and support the other one.

What's my take on this? I hope Angle wins, not because she is any good (she sucks bad), but because Reid is the incumbent, and I want the Dems to lose the Senate. That is the only reason, and Angle still sucks.
 
UNDECIDEDS, the only parameter still to be determined, are breaking almost two to one in favor of REPEAL of ahab obama's signature accomplishment, health care, according to the hill's heavy analysis posted today

POLL: Dislike of healthcare law crosses party lines, 1 in 4 Dems want repeal - TheHill.com

UNDECIDEDS traditionally very strongly break AGAINST incumbency, which only makes sense when you think about it

the point, and the tie in to this thread---do NOT expect the remainder in the middle to mark their ballots for leader reid

he's been in huge trouble for a year, and it's getting a lot worse, very swiftly

stay tuned
 
rcp, which is very cautious and moves gubs and senate seats very reluctantly TODAY ceded the silver state to the party of lincoln

RealClearPolitics - 2010 Election Maps - Senate No Toss Ups

with west virginia and wisconsin presumably bagged for boehner, the shift of nevada leaves the senate TIED, 50 to 50

give us patty murray or richard blumenthal and CONTROL is OURS!

how do you think UNDECIDEDS are ultimately gonna fall out amongst the evergreens, a race currently TIED?

seeya in november

people like the perspicacious prof are tickled pink with perky anticipation

worry
 
Deuce said:
Nevada, on the other hand, hates him so much that they're willing to vote in a crazy cat lady, apparently.

This country is ****ed.
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I know, what's up with that?

I think the right has succeeded in associating his name with everything that is wrong with big Gov. He's a moderate, pro-gun democrat... go figure.

Look at the partisans on this thread that really know nothing about Reid except what they found on some far-right clearing house.
 
Deuce said:
Nevada, on the other hand, hates him so much that they're willing to vote in a crazy cat lady, apparently.

This country is ****ed.
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Not going to happen. Most Nevadans, while not liking Harry Reid, like Sharon Angle even less. Even die hard Republicans that I know will hold their nose and vote for Reid over Angle simply because she is bat**** crazy or they will not vote at all.

Sue Lowden stood a far better chance against Reid. In the end, the Republicans snatched defeat from victory by putting Angle against Reid.

I will vote for Reid simply because Angle is worse. Times like these make me wish there were term limits so that another Dem could take Reid's spot.
 
My Way News - AP-GfK Poll: Working-class whites shun Dems

more trouble for dems on the ropes

working class whites, those famous reagan democrats, who left the gop in 06 and 08, are coming home

by a margin of TWENTY TWO PERCENT, 58 to 36, white voters without a college education, who comprise FORTY PERCENT of the american electorate, are returning to their roots

how is any candidate who is currently tied or within the margin of error gonna prevail in three weeks and four days when independents, undecideds and blue collars are breaking away by almost two to one, when hispanic interest in this election has been essentially cut in half?

when will you stop making your microscopic little arguments and see what's going on around you?

how can you have a party when no one's having any fun?
 
liblady said:
unfortunately, not for nevada.
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You mean, the state with among the highest unemployment rates and the worst deflation in housing value in the country?

Yeah, they'll miss him. LOL
 
Erod said:
You mean, the state with among the highest unemployment rates and the worst deflation in housing value in the country?

Yeah, they'll miss him. LOL
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Well, only a moron would think it was his fault...
 
hazlnut said:
Well, only a moron would think it was his fault...
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Like many tea party and conservatives today, they see government as the answer, that government controls everything and are therefore responsible for everything that happens.

:neener
 
nevada leads the nation in unemployment, bankruptcies AND foreclosures, a terrible trifecta

Nevada Homes Foreclosures

the hispanic heart is like obama's in afghanistan, NOT IN IT when it comes to this election

undecideds are breaking like a tidal wave of woe against anyone associated with obnoxious, oblivious, obtuse obama

nevada 3, dina titus, the environs of vegas, one of the 4 most closely watched contests in the nation, heavily hispanic---an omen

working class whites are two to one red

keep watching, it's all so FASCINATING!
 
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