Angle in Nevada. I don’t know if that proves or disproves your point.
My opinion is Angle lost because she did not have a good ground game. I don’t know if you can blame the establishment for Angle losing in NV. But you have got me thinking at 12:30 AM.
Trying to defeat Reid in a mega union town like Vegas and somewhat Reno was always an uphill battle. The Rats were not going to lose that one no matter what. Look at the spending and cheating Reid had to do to hold that.
DE was a different story. If Rove kept his mouth shut, let COD battle it out, she had a good shot. She slapped Coons around in the debates. He is a weak candidate with a higher than average chance of losing next go round if we have another principled candidate.
The hatred of Rove at FR is that we take enough sh#t from the left and their media lapdogs, to have one of “ours” piling on is unacceptable. Hence, he will take the blame for this loss and be thoroughly distrusted.