I got the impression that Angle won the GOP Primary then did something close to nothing for the next three weeks which allowed Reid to paint her with the “extremist’ brush and other filth while these trashy charges remained unanswered. Angle did very well on fundraising and in the debate, but I believe it was a mistake to for her to talk about excluding some reporters from a victory party (this gains no votes that aren’t already there and it makes the candidate look small; you’ve got to be magnanimous and like Reagan, laugh with them which will irritate the media even more). I really don’t believe in the vote fraud/machine tampering claims — if there was such a discrepancy it would have emerged with the voter exit polls which were on target. I do believe there was extreme voter intimidation by the Reid campaign, outfits like the casinos (I will never patronize Harrah’s or MGM again) and their allies in the “labor” union movement. But there is an advantage in having stumbling old man Reid (he looks even older and more physically decrepit than his age would indicate) and the dingbat Pelosi as the “new faces” of the Dem congressional party. They are obviously the presenters of an out of date, discredited ideology that is producing ridiculous levels of unemployment in states such as Reid’s Nevada (14+ percent) and Boxer’s California (12+ percent). One thing we have to insist on is NO bailouts for California or any other state with profligate spending and unfettered public employee unions.
I think it's worse than that.... during about the same time, she made a series of remarkably stupid gaffes that played right into Reid's strategy.