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Excellent Analysis!

Add in voter fraud and pressue from casino owners on their employees to vote for Reid also made a difference.

The Republican candidate should have won this race easily.
That said, remember the Republicans did not the presidence in 1856. We are remaking the Republican party, we will make mistakes. But 60+ seats in the House 6+ in the Senate and 680+ seats in the various state legislatures is a good start!

Ya forgot to add “overwhelming voter fraud”

I don’t know a lot about Nevada except that it is basically 2 large cities and a whole lot of wasteland. Drove from Vegas to Reno once and there isn’t a lot to fight for there.

Angle is a problem if there were just as conservative a candidate who could have won except for some mishap. As for me, I’ll not ever vote for a rino again. Better a known enemy, than a traitor in your midst.

So, the only other issue is a better conservative losing in the primary to a lesser conservative. If that “better” conservative lost simply because the “lesser” conservative ran a better campaign, then I’d have to say that the “better” was not really “better.”

If the better lost the primary because he got in late, was a virtual unknown, or became ill, etc., then I’ll regret the Angle race. I do think she squandered an awful lot of time.

And then there’s the question of fraud. Perhaps Ronald Reagan himself could not have defeated tampered electronic voting machines.

We’ve GOT to get rid of those things.

Well, that, and possibly quite a bit of vote fraud.

You have to remember the Democrats wanted at least some degree of symbolic victory, if not the real thing, so they did all they could for Hairy Reed and Don Cuomo while leaving many lesser entities WITHOUT CAMPAIGN FUNDS or technical support (meaning, voting machine fixers, etc.)

Democrat triage was public information!

You talk about a FAIL, that was a FAIL.

When you lose the House, you have just lost control of appropriations and taxes.

There is nothing wrong with blasting the media as long as you stay on message while you do it.

Example:

“It does not help the economy of this state when you ask biased and inflammatory questions. Let’s get back to what matters to the people of this state. That is my focus and it should be yours. I don’t think the unemployed people in this state appreciate it when you ask me about witchcraft.
Now, here is what I will be doing when I get to Washington...”

The inevitable campaign post-mortems from those “who just weren’t listened to or respected enough.”

Something else that Harry had on his side. 12% of his vote was from the Latinos and over 90% of their vote was for him. He has been promising them the “Dream Act” during the last few weeks of campaigning.

These were due to her getting off the message that the economy sucks and it’s Harry Reid’s fault.

On the other hand, this didn't work too well for Alvin "DeMint caused the recession" Greene.

Very, very good analysis.

BUT while the Angle campaign may not have been decisive, by making Harry worried, Dem contributors were forced to divert valuable extra resources to him that might have helped other Dem candidates win.

Sort of like Nazi Germany having to take anti-tank guns away from the Eastern Front to use against Allied bombers.

So, a Pyrrhic victory for Harry?

The next war was World War II. That war was won by overwhelming the Axis powers by logistics, not strategy.

Good article, with good military analogies. Where it breaks down is in this statement. If Hitler had not attacked Russia and had to divide his forces, he would have been able to repel any invasion of Europe, no matter the logistics brought to bear against him.

1) There were some in the GOP helping Reid.

2) There were some in the GOP huring Angle.

3) Vote fraud
"Angle Lawyer Requests DOJ Investigation of Reid Campaign, Harrah’s
UPDATE: The (proven-corrupt) Department of Justice declined to comment on the matter."

"Voter Fraud Alleged In Crow Wing County (MN)
he saw what appeared to be staff members of a mental health facility
fill out a client's ballot and tell another client who to vote for during absentee balloting."

"Minnesota GOP Reports 'Unacceptable' Problems With Counting Machines
.... multiple complaints about failing tabulation machines at polling places around the state.
.... complaints about machines in Duluth, Olmsted County, Lakeville,
Faribault, Mendota Heights and Eagan."

"George Soros And The Margin Of Theft
: Tuesday's results overcame many instances of orchestrated vote fraud, but not all.
Now the court cases begin, aided and abetted by the
Secretary of State Project funded by a Hungarian billionaire.
There will be recounts and court cases, and that is
where a state office — the secretary of state — comes into play."

"Angle Camp: Not so fast
Reid never got above 46 percent of the vote
and tonight he gets 51 percent? Ashjian and "none of the above"
got less than 3 percent combined. Something fishy is going on."

"Looks like fraud in spades in Nevada
In the last two weeks 95% of the polls had Angle winning .5 to 3.5%.
Reid is up by 5."

"Union Accused of Voter Fraud Involving Mentally Handicapped
Authorities in Crow Wing County are investigating possible voter fraud
involving people with mental disabilities …. a large group of mentally handicapped
people were told whom to vote for by mental health staff members and that staff filled
out the ballots themselves without the disabled voters close by."

" (Rochester) Offering Voters "Rides to Polls" (Coalition of Black Trade Unionists)
They told people to call the Rochester, NY office of the
COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS for these free rides,
and also said that the information is up on their website."

"National Organization Warns of Illegal Immigrant Voters
On October 28, WSBTV and the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported
that their recent comparison of jury duty records and voter registrations
found hundreds of non-citizens registered to vote and hundreds actually voting!"

"Vote Fraud Woes Already Mar Mid-Term Elections
some Nevadans who have tried voting early for Republican
Senate nominee Sharron Angle instead have seen
Democrat Harry Reid’s name appear on their electronic voting machines.

•Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry and Genesis Robinson,
his campaign manager, face voter-fraud charges. In an apparent re-election tactic,
they allegedly completed 92 absentee-ballot applications with the names
of Floridians who never requested them or who had moved away.

•Bucks County, Pennsylvania officials are investigating 500 apparently
fraudulent absentee-ballot applications. Also, the Pennsylvania Voter Assistance
Office sent citizens letters encouraging them to apply for absentee ballots.
No such office exists."

"New Black Panther Seen At Polling Place [same polling place as 2008]
PHILADELPHIA - Fox 29 News spotted Tuesday a member of the New Black Panther Party
standing outside of a local polling place where voter intimidation was reported two years ago."

Diane Sawyer: “A few busloads of people can change a Congressional election”
George Stephanopoulos runs through the generic ballot numbers in the final WaPo/ABC poll
and sees a nine-point flip from registered to likely voters, for a final 4-point Republican lead.
Diane Sawyer then suggests how easily that, er, some folks could change the elections:
“A few busloads of people can change a Congressional elections.”"

"Tsongas told to move away from Tenney polling station
Clerk Christine Touma-Conway said Tsongas, who is running
for reelection against Republican Jon Golnik, went to the
Tenney School to greet voters. While she was there, she was shaking hands
and greeting voters inside the 150-buffer zone that is set by law to keep
campaigners and candidates away from the immediate vicinity
around polling places, Touma-Conway said. Also this morning, Tsongas went to the Timony School to donate baked goods.... "

"Nevada Union Illegally Coordinating with Reid Campaign for Votes
Crum reveals emails between Reid’s office and the union folks
telling them to force their members to get to the polls, setting up bus trips
for that purpose, and even sending a spread sheet file identifying workers who
had and had not voted and for whom they voted. This is all clearly illegal."

"(CT) Hartford and Bridgeport Polls Run Out Of Ballots
Not good. Hartford and Bridgeport are the two largest cities in Connecticut
and are where most Democrap vote fraud occurs."

"Angle Lawyer Requests DOJ Investigation of Reid Campaign, Harrah’s
National Review Online ^ | 11/2/2010 | Katrina Trinko
“The posting details and documents an orchestrated effort by
Harrah’s … to intimidate and coerce Harrah’s employees to vote for
Harry Reid for the United States Senate, to track whether or not employees
had or had not voted and to pressure supervisors to ensure that
the employees reporting to those supervisors were voting.”

"Former F.E.C. official on Reid strong-arming: ‘I’ve never seen anything so blatant’
There are two issues. The first is illegal coordination.
The Reid campaign is specifically asking a corporation with the help of a union to get voters"

"Harry Reid’s Son Oversees Suspect Election Machines In Nevada
Rory Reid, the son of Nevada U.S. Senator Harry Reid,
is in charge of the voting machines that were reported
as malfunctioning and are serviced by the SEIU."

"Sharron Angle's political team has accused Harry Reid of "stealing" the Nevada senatorial election
Free Republic even posted pre-election polling data versus actual returns"

"Harrah’s Bosses Put Squeeze on Employees to Vote in Pro-Reid Effort"

"Team Angle alleges voter intimidation by Reid campaign"

"Angle Accuses Reid Of Bribing For Votes"

"Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members"

"Harry Reid's Son in Charge of Nevada Voting Machines Used in Fraud" and related posts "

"The Scandal of Military Voter Disenfranchisement
About 2,500,000 men and women in the Armed Forces are of voting age at the present time.
Many of those in uniform are serving overseas, or in parts of the country distant from their homes.
They are unable to return to their States either to register or to vote.
Several sstates with late primaries applied for and received waivers for 2010,
and agreed to extend the deadline for the return of ballots mailed in from overseas.
In Illinois, the problem was not a late primary. Indeed, Illinois held its 2010 primary on February 2, 2010.
But 35 of 110 Illinois counties seriously missed the September 18 deadline.
One of the late counties was St. Clair County, home to 261,000 people and to Scott Air Force Base.
The U.S. Department of Justice is responsible for enforcing the MOVE Act,
but it seems not to take its responsibilities seriously
DoJ entered into a consent decree with Illinois that does not solve the problem. ”

The GOP is terrible at GOTV effort. I would say they have No effort.

The GOP in Indiana is just awful. Theu usually never offer much support unless a RINO like Lugar is running.

This seems to be a problem in many states. Sonething needs o change if we are to win the big ones.

Isn’t it interesting that every arm chair quarter back would have had the candidate up by double digits with a flawless run up to the election? Never any mention of how anything the conservative candidate said would have been twisted to mean something different then what they really meant. No mention of the GOP leadership wetting their undies when their carefully programmed for leadership candidate lost to a candidate who foolishly thought we should adhere to constitutional principles the people actually chose.

They somehow fail to mention that the leadership of the GOP is so stuck on the power hungry “my turn” mentality and inside the party power struggle that they really don’t care about the people. If they really did care the experienced handlers would have been sent to assist the Angle, O’Donnell, Miller, and other campaigns with all the power of the Party behind them. But no, The candidates that truly wanted to clean up the mess in Washington were shunned by the Party, vilified by the press no matter what they said, and still today fight by themselves to hold out for victory.

Arm chair quarter backs are about as useful as the south end of a dead horse facing north. Most of the time they only stunk up the place while they are alive and aren’t adding anything to the good of the cause now.

For later read.

Immigration

this strikes me as mostly self-serving and irrelevant campaign consultant clap-trap.

here is the real story from my relatives in reno: harry reid came from behind on the last day because of two actions angle had no way to oppose: (1) his furious ground game (gaming industry support, union arm twisting, free food, free taxis to get out the vote, and on and on).

and (2) because most of the nevada republican establishment were actively knee-capping her, resulting a significant enough portion of rank and file republicans not turning out and/or voting against her for reid.

in other words, reid won because he had a ground game and sharron angle was denied one by her own party. reid won because the much of the republican establishment was actively working for reid (check the endorsement for reid by the repub mayor of reid, for example).

It’s interesting that Sandoval ran so far ahead of both Reids, Rory and Harry, and that there were quite a few more votes cast in the governor’s race.

Angle lost because of voter fraud pure and simple. It is unbelievable that practically the whole state could turn Republican and Harry Reid keeps his seat. Even Harry’s son lost!!!

The conservatives need to quit pussy-footing around the issue.

I call BS. One can not explain the result in any way other thna fraud. Aparently most are unwilling to say so, but how else do you go from “up 4%” to a 6% loss in ONE DAY. With SEIU running the machines there is no doubt what occurred in Nevada and why the GOP lets it pass is beyond me. The FIRST investigation the New House needs to begin is into this election. IMHO

She didn’t explain herself very well. The Reid debate, both of them came across like kids at their first High School debate.

And Angle was very deceitful, and transparently so, when asked to back up her statements about Reid giving Social Security to illegals. I would have found greater comfort in her character if she had just said, well, maybe I got a little carried away, or something like that, instead of saying, Absolutely, I will back it up, and then not giving a single shred of an argument to back up her claims, and going on about saving social security for the old people.

I mean, this is the kinda crap we are trying to get away from, right?