Probably not a popular thing to say but Angle had a lot working against her...some of it done to herself. You have to be able to come close in Clark (Vegas) and Reid bombed her in the air war on TV, going very negative. He has the service employees’ union here which is huge, unbelievable amounts of money and the Republicans needed an attractive (on TV) candidate to withstand what he could bring at the end. It wasn’t going to be Angle...she seemed like too much of a hick to the TV-centric population in Vegas.
But Reid’s vulnerability meant the Democrats had to pour unbelievable resources in here - Reid had commercials running back to back to back on every channel for months and months. There are probably more than a few Republican winners around the country who owe their victories to all the resources that Reid ate up trying to stay alive.