WA: Rasmussen: Rossi (R) makes a comeback against Murray (D)

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I have some vague impression that Rossi started a more focused media barrage. Did he?

The GOP "thinks" this could be their #51 (they are diverting resources away from California) to fully fund the effort.

Good for them that they've realized that Fiorina doesn't stand a chance. I like Angle and DioGuardi the best out of the Republican candidates in marginal states (which isn't saying much since I hate McMahon and Fiorina and don't care for Raese or Rossi), but I can understand that New York's media market is a money pit. However, couldn't the RNC run ads a lot cheaper in Nevada than in Washington?

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Angle, however warped, would be 1% of 1/2 of 1/3rd of the power apparatus in Washington.  By herself she can do very little damage.

I brought this up before when somebody else said this, but a single backbench senator (Jim Bunning) was single-handedly able to hold up the payment of unemployment benefits for about a week, despite opposition from pretty much all of his colleagues, within and without his party.  A single senator still retains significant (potentially harmful, as in this case) power.

On a personal note, although I'm no fan of Harry Reid, I do not want that teabagger representing me in the Senate.

Comparing what Angle could potentially do for a week to what Harry Reid has done for the last four years is ridiculous.

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I have some vague impression that Rossi started a more focused media barrage. Did he?

The GOP "thinks" this could be their #51 (they are diverting resources away from California) to fully fund the effort.

Good for them that they've realized that Fiorina doesn't stand a chance. I like Angle and DioGuardi the best out of the Republican candidates in marginal states (which isn't saying much since I hate McMahon and Fiorina and don't care for Raese or Rossi), but I can understand that New York's media market is a money pit. However, couldn't the RNC run ads a lot cheaper in Nevada than in Washington?

The situation in Nevada is actually slowly drifting in Angles favour.

The logic, twisted though it may be, is basically as follows.

A) - Angle is a crazy lunatic.
B) - Reid is a mindless tool of Obama aiding and abetting the destruction of the nation.

A) is less dangerous than B)

Angle, however warped, would be 1% of 1/2 of 1/3rd of the power apparatus in Washington.  By herself she can do very little damage.  Harry Reid has actual levers of power that can hurt people.

Reid's numbers are actually mindly trending downward, he is now averaging about 45% in the polls (versus Angle at about 44%) which means Angle likley wins on election day.

I would agree that the direction is in Angle's favor, however based on polling, the magnitude seems to be at a snail's pace. Unless the undecideds break heavily toward Angle (which isn't impossible), then it will probably continue to be a close race, in which a few bucks could be the difference between winning by ~1000 votes and losing by ~1000 votes.

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I brought this up before when somebody else said this, but a single backbench senator (Jim Bunning) was single-handedly able to hold up the payment of unemployment benefits for about a week, despite opposition from pretty much all of his colleagues, within and without his party.  A single senator still retains significant (potentially harmful, as in this case) power.

Comparing what Angle could potentially do for a week to what Harry Reid has done for the last four years is ridiculous.

That's a matter of opinion.  I don't consider Reid to be as bad as you do, and has the added advantage of not being a teabagger.

It's not a matter of what intensity of hatred you have for Harry Reid (personally I'm not a fan of funding the wars, SCHIP, the bailouts, "stimulus", medical industry oligopolies, bogus financial "reform", etc. and that's just the things that Reid has accomplished, not to mention the attempted cap and trade, DISCLOSE, and Internet censorship bills), but it is simply a fact that regardless of how much supposed influence Angle would have as a freshman senator, Reid has much more power as the Senator Majority Leader. To suggest otherwise is ludicrous.

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Then it appears you misread my initial post.  I was simply refuting The Vorlon's assertion that Angle would have very little power on her own.  I said nothing about Harry Reid until you brought him up.

No, Vorlon's assertion was that Angle would be less dangerous than Harry Reid. You have yet to refute that.