I'd guess the Hairy Reed forces had a good idea on the Governor's race and shot for that ~ and missed. For some reason they deleted entirely too many Angle votes ~ yeah, that goes on ~ votes are eliminated by whatever means necessary.
The whole Nevada race has the earmarks of exceedingly widespread cheating.
So far noone here in NV has found evidence of vote fraud on the scale it would have taken to really make a difference.
Angle’s misstatements and bloopers combined with the tight relationship Reid has with the the buisness community here and in LV resulted in her loss. It did not help her to tell pregnant raped women to ‘make lemonade’ of their situation, nor the veiled threat to use the ‘second amendment’ if she lost at the polls. Her campaign was amateurish.