re: Plus Reid won rural counties, so has statewide appeal.
Totally, totally wrong. I don’t know where in the world you are getting your information. Reid won only one rural county (and he won it by only 33 votes). Angle won 13 counties. Reid won 3 counties in all. http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2010/nevada/senate
You are correct in stating that turnout was a factor. I agree: unions and illegal aliens were contributed greatly to that turnout in Clark and Washoe counties.
I stand corrected. Reid was supposed to lose the rural counties by a wider margin, like 30 to 70.
I was at the Venetian at SA’s headquarters that dismal election night in 2010.