Why Angle Lost

And don’t get me wrong. I imagine there was vote fraud in Nevada. But IMO vote fraud alone isn’t enough to explain the margin of defeat for Angle. I saw what the Dem GOTV efforts did in NE Philly - I was there all day and saw strong turnout at polling places, and NE Philly has more Dems than pubbies. Those were real-live persons streaming into the polls.

I know not everyone votes a straight ticket. These problems exist in places like Oregon, Washington, and California where most of the state is red but highly populated areas are blue. Senators are voted by the total number of people in the state, House members are voted by the total number of people in the county. That's one of the reason we have a Republic and not a Democratic society. This system helps keep in check each side. It is also a reason, for all it's faults, we should NOT do away with the electorial college. And it is also one of the reason the Democrats will be nervous next year when the governors start drawing up new congressional districts.

But that being said, doesn't it seem odd that 1/4 (110,000) who voted in Clark county voted ONLY for the House seat but did not vote for the Senate seat? In this case, if you can stuff the ballot box in the Senate race, or eliminate 110,000 votes, you can determine the outcome of the Senate seat. Especially in such a hotly contested race. This is far more difficult to do county by county-but not if you control 2 or 3 counties. I'm not a seasoned pollster but I would think, given the percentage of unpopularity with Harry Reid in the other counties, there would not have been such a wide swing for Reid in Clark county. What happened to these votes?

This is a statistical anomaly.

yet he ran another milktoast campaign

I said the same thing about Fiorina and Whitman here in CA.

Right fro the start, their commercials were to nice and not tough enough. Both manage to get at least 1 hard hitting ad aired but, it was too late, IMO.

I waited the entire cyce for someone to light a fire under these two.

We’d have to look at the previous Reid election for a better sense of the voting patterns in Clark County. I agree it appears odd, but I’ve seen stranger. And it could also be that the Reid camp managed to get out their votes without emphasizing the rest of the ticket - I know that the Toomey and Corbet GOTV calls also mentioned the Congressional candidates, but knowing Reid, he was so desperate that he was only pushing himself to save his own skin, the rest of the Dem ticket be damned.

Rinos do not see much wrong with their friends across the aisle.

It was not until the Tea Party came along and Palin began heckling that the GOP heard anything harsh about the rule of leftists.

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